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Recognition without protection: The flaw in India’s anti-discrimination logic
March 30, 2026 3:58 pm
Recent controversies over caste and gender laws reveal a common crisis — Indian law sees identity where it is irrelevant and misses discrimination where it is most real
Every day she cycles to the anganwadi, cleans up, lays out the mats – and waits, for kids who never come
February 15, 2026 9:37 pm
A Saturday meeting may finally end a four-month boycott of a Dalit cook in an Odisha village. But Sarmista Sethi is not holding her hopes too high.
13% of all FIRs in Himachal registered under SC/ST Act: NCRB data 2023
October 04, 2025 11:10 am
In 2023, out of the 229 FIRs, 204 were registered under the Prevention of Atrocities Act, while 25 were registered in conjunction with various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Karnataka school horror: We are blaming the wrong people
December 19, 2023 4:00 pm
Violence, exclusion and hierarchies are social problems. If we make just individuals perpetrators, we will not find solutions
Syeda Hameed and Martin Macwan write: Who pays the price for hate?
August 22, 2023 10:28 pm
A Muslim topper student is denied her due in Gujarat, an incendiary speech in the heart of the capital meet with no FIRs. We hope that a tsunami of our fraternity rises to drain the lethal poison engulfing our beloved country.
To be young and Dalit in a Gujarat village
June 27, 2023 8:28 am
A twirled moustache, riding a horse, playing DJ music – anything can potentially trigger a caste clash. In a Gujarat village where a youngster was assaulted allegedly for “wearing sunglasses and good clothes”, villagers sense a change, a silent pushback
Caste and access to water: The missing link
January 23, 2023 9:30 am
Recent incidents across rural India of Dalits getting beaten up to death, specifically around access to water, are now a new normal.
Fined Rs 60,000 for touching idol, Karnataka Dalit family says will only worship Ambedkar now
September 22, 2022 6:57 am
Shobamma’s 15-year-old son, who was outside when a procession was taken out in the village, touched a pole attached to the idol of Sidiranna, a prominent south Indian village deity.
Haryana: Dalit man alleges police thrashing; SHO, ASI shifted
August 22, 2021 10:39 am
Gurnam Singh, a retired head teacher, alleged that they had sought police intervention in a matter pertaining to "illegal occupation of shamlat land (village common land), but the police rather than addressing our grievance beat us up".
FIR against six for denying drinking water to Dalit officer
August 02, 2018 7:32 pm
A deputy chief veterinary officer was allegedly denied drinking water because of her Dalit identity in Ambawa Poorab village in Manjhanpur block, around 167 km away from the state capital Lucknow, on July 31.
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