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The reality of scholarship schemes for religious minorities in India

What is the status of educational empowerment schemes for religious minorities? Why did the government scrap some of these programmes? How will it widen the gap between minorities and the rest of the population?

thehindu.com/news/national/rel

#minorities #Scholarship #education #marginalisation #hindutva #uniongovt #BJP #india

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Watch: 'Violence Against Dalits in Post-Independent India Not Seen in Gandhi or Ambedkar's Lifetime'

Manoj Mitta speaks to The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta to unpack these legal battles to provide a wider lens to understand why caste based inequality endures and caste-based violence continues with impunity, despite the Constitutional guarantee of equality.

youtube.com/watch?v=PfgUZsBzQu

#interview #manojmitta #caste #dalits #casteviolence #castediscrimination #humanrights #law #inequality #marginalisation #constitution #india #books #bookstodon #Histodon #history

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Assam Delimitation Proposals That Sparked Fears of Muslim Marginalisation Are Now Final

The Election Commission of India did not further change constituency boundaries from its June draft order, which was criticised as an attempt to reduce the representation of the state's Muslim community.

thewire.in/government/election

#assam #delimitation #eci #electioncommission #muslims #scst #marginalisation #BJP #hindutva #india

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The Shattering of the Muslim Hope in India

"I see and remember the face of Faizan’s mother. I see and remember the horror and the plea for mercy in the eyes of Qutbuddin Ansari from 2002; the tears in the eyes of the lady in Karnataka, who was forced to take off her burqa to enter the school where she had been teaching for years; the faces of the Muslims who have spent their entire youth in prison because of wrongful incarceration; and the pain in the eyes of fellow Muslims, every time I see them raise their hands in supplication." Salik Ahmad writes. (Article from March 2022)

theindiaforum.in/article/crush

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This is an excellent piece by @xriskology, incorporating an interview with Monika Bielskyte on the exclusionary dangers of utopianism – whether the traditional, religious kind, or the transhumanist, longtermist fantasies of Silicon Valley billionaires:

salon.com/2023/07/29/visions-h

Where do currently marginalised people fit into these utopian dreams?

We don’t 🙄


#utopia #utopianism #longtermism #transhumanism #billionaires #dystopia #marginalisation #disability #racialisation #eugenics

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339 Lives Lost to Manual Scavenging in the Last Five Years, Govt Data Reveals

Although manual scavenging is an outlawed practice under the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation (PEMSR) Act, 2013, several die every year cleaning sewers and septic tanks.

thewire.in/rights/339-lives-lo

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Kerala: Mosque panel’s ban on youth from public meeting expose casteism

A Muslim youth belonging to the Ossan community, a marginalised group among Muslims, was subjected to discrimination by the ruling council of the historical Puthoorppally Mosque, Changanassery, Kerala’s Kottayam District.

maktoobmedia.com/features/kera

#kerala #kottayam #changanassery #muslims #ossan #mosques #castediscrimination #caste #casteism #islam #dalits #jamaath #marginalisation #india

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Discrimination against Muslims permitted through law in India, says Aakar Patel

India has developed a nationalism that is fierce, but essentially inward-focused, and of late there is discrimination against Muslims that is permitted through law, Aakar Patel, Chair of the Board of Amnesty International in India, has said.

thehindu.com/news/cities/kozhi

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Posters asking Muslim traders to leave surface in Uttarakhand

Posters threatening Muslim traders to shut shops by June 15 surfaced in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi town on Monday, amid ongoing tensions over an alleged abduction attempt on a 14-year-old girl by two men, including one from the minority community, last month, police said.

hindustantimes.com/india-news/

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India’s National Human Rights Commission At Risk Of Losing Top-Level Ranking For Second Time Since 1999

Lack of diversity in staff and leadership. Political interference in appointments. Involvement of police officers in investigations of human rights violations. Lack of cooperation with civil society. Insufficient action to protect marginalised groups. These are the reasons cited by a global alliance of human rights organisations in deferring, for the second time in nearly a quarter century, the accreditation of India’s National Human Rights Commission, for its highest rating.

article-14.com/post/india-s-na

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A Dalit scholar’s death and Brahmin dominance at India’s premier science institute

Fifteen years after a Dalit PhD student died by suicide at the IISc, students say the atmosphere is still stifling for students from marginalised communities.

scroll.in/article/1049603/a-da

#karnataka #bengaluru #iisc #dalits #brahmins #suicide #casteviolence #caste #csstediscrimination #marginalisation #india

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'Everyone Has Forgotten About Us': Hijabi Students Who Didn't Remove Headscarf

While many students have removed their hijab to be able to sit for their exams, several others refused to give in.

thequint.com/news/politics/eve

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Biological sex is not a binary: Breaking the myth that affects intersex lives

Right from childhood, intersex persons, especially those with visible variations, bear the brunt of the lack of awareness surrounding intersex identities.

thenewsminute.com/article/biol

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In the name of the people

Fortune-tellers, snake-charmers, traditional healers, tightrope-walkers and others are just some of the hundreds of distinct communities that continue to be wrongly listed in the census. This injustice has robbed them of their identity and denies them access to state privileges due to marginalised groups.

ruralindiaonline.org/en/articl

#tamilnadu #census #mbcs #scst #dalits #tribals #dnts #nts #Welfare #marginalisation #india

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Dalits and Tribals: A Budgetary Betrayal?

The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) analysis of the budget allocation for Dalits and Tribals, reveals a shortfall in funding and a lack of representation in media.

en.themooknayak.com/india/dali

#Budget2023 #dalits #tribals #ncdhr #education #gender #health #economy #labour #labor #ayushmanbharat #Welfare #discrimination #poa #caste #representation #media #marginalisation #india

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'Forcibly Removed by Rampur Admin to Make Way for Hindu Vendors,' Say Muslim Street Sellers

On January 15, close to 70 street vendors were removed from a stretch at Jwalanagar in Rampur. Muslim vendors have claimed that their slots have been given to new, Hindu vendors and that earlier Hindu vendors were allowed to return.

thewire.in/communalism/uttar-p

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