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Indian-Americans Urge California To Veto Anti-Caste Discrimination Bill

If signed into law by Governor Newsom, California would become the first State in the United States and the first jurisdiction outside India to outlaw discrimination based on caste.

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Women’s Cricket Is Rife With Stories of Sexual Harassment. What Is the BCCI Doing?

With the kind of wealth available in Indian cricket and the lack of safeguards, there is no estimating what a more accurate number of cricketers facing harassment by their superiors—coaches, selectors, officials—may be. Women cricketers who have left the game are able to draw a clearer picture, but on condition of revealing neither their names nor the states they represented.

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The Times of India - In Kerala, Dalit man slapped, abused for winning Sabarimala tender | Thiruvananthapuram News - Times of India

In Kerala, Dalit man slapped, abused for winning Sabarimala tender

A Dalit man was allegedly attacked, abused calling caste name and spat on face in public by two persons for winning a tender invited by Travancore Devaswom Board to prepare 'unni appam' at Sabarimala temple.

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Maktoob media - Directors Pa Ranjith, Vetrimaaran support Udhayanidhi’s speech against Sanatan Dharma

Directors Pa Ranjith, Vetrimaaran support Udhayanidhi’s speech against Sanatan Dharma

"The malignant attitude of distorting the minister’s statement and misappropriating it as a call for genocide is unacceptable. The growing hate and hunt for the minister’s is very disturbing," read Pa Ranjith's post on X.

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The Wire - The BJP May End up Tying Itself in Knots By Attacking Udhayanidhi Stalin

The BJP May End up Tying Itself in Knots By Attacking Udhayanidhi Stalin

The concept of sanatana dharma was given shape by the Hindu orthodoxy in the 19th century as a movement against reformist organisations like the Arya Samaj and Brahmo Samaj, which questioned regressive practices such as sati and child marriage.

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Priyank Kharge supports Udhayanidhi, says unequal religion is like a disease

Priyank Kharge was responding to a question on Udhayanidhi’s comment comparing Sanatana Dharma with diseases such as dengue and malaria.

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SC lawyer, Hindu Sena leader seek FIR over Udhayanidhi’s remarks on Sanatana Dharma

Police complaints have been filed in Delhi by SC lawyer Vineet Jindal and Hindu Sena chief Vishnu Gupta against Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin over his remarks criticising Sanatana Dharma for perpetuating caste injustice.

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India will be a developed nation when it celebrates 100 years of Independence, and it will have no place for corruption, casteism and communalism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told news agency PTI in an interview today.

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Dalit professor at BHU accuses two colleagues and two students of assault, molestation

The professor alleged that the police filed a case over three months after the incident occurred.

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TN Kuravan families allege torture and sexual assault by Andhra police

Entire families from the Kuravan tribe routinely face arrest and torture for crimes they are unconnected to, revealing the police’s reluctance to shed their prejudice against what were earlier called ‘criminal tribes’.

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J&K: Dalit IAS officer files complaint of “harassment, humiliation” against L-G, Chief Secretary

In a major development, a Dalit whistle blower IAS officer Ashok Kumar Parmar has knocked the doors of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) against Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and chief secretary Arun Mehta for “inflicting harassment and humiliation upon him.”

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The Indian Express - Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment

Dalit teenager in MP beaten to death by men accused by his sister of harassment

According to police, the accused beat the 18-year-old to death with sticks and then damaged portions of his family’s house. The incident took place on Thursday.

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Hathras rape victim’s family seek relocation outside UP, SC seeks response of the Centre and UP government

Hathras gangrape victim’s family on Friday requested the Supreme Court for their relocation outside the state, preferably in Delhi, following acquittal of most of the accused in the September 2020 case in which the girl had succumbed to her injuries as her tongue was chopped off after sexual assault.

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Dalits' Struggle To Enter Temples Exposes Deep-Rooted Caste Conflicts In Tamil Nadu

The caste strife in Tamil Nadu’s Alampallam village echoes a larger clash over temple entry, exposing the shortcomings of the Dravidian parties in addressing the deeply-entrenched caste conflicts.

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How Tamil cinema romanticises agriculture by ignoring issues of caste and gender

With the ‘save farmers’ trope coming back to mainstream discussion after the jallikattu protests in 2017, movies once again began connecting Tamil identity to agriculture. Any threat to agriculture was seen as a threat to Tamil identity itself. Akchayaa Rajkumar writes.

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The caste of a chair

How upper castes in Tamil Nadu’s panchayats use chairs and the protocols surrounding them to discriminate against Dalit women presidents. Johanna Deeksha writes.

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Dalit boy in Tamil Nadu attacked by students in another caste atrocity incident

Hari Prasad, a student of Government High School in Kalugumalai, was subjected to casteist harassment at school when he tried to defuse a fight between two students and was later attacked by a gang in his hometown.

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Brutal attack on two Dalit teens exposes caste fanaticism among school kids in TN

The brutal attack on Chinnadurai and his sister shook the conscience of the state and the public; it has left the residents of Perundheru scarred.

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Five deaths put Karnataka Dalit village on edge, residents demand probe

Since the start of August, over 200 residents, including 44 children, have been hospitalised in Kavadigarahatti. They had all consumed the water from the village’s sole overhead water tank on July 31.

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