Dalits

Missing from Bihar election and politics: What Dalits want and need

October 30, 2025 6:54 pm

Health, education, employment and dignity – SC communities in Bihar lag on all these indicators

'For spiritual development, equality': On Ashok Vijayadashami, 120 Dalits convert to Buddhism in Ahmedabad

October 03, 2025 12:13 am

The conversion took place at two venues and saw Dalits from Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Mehsana, Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Banaskantha in attendance; due process followed, say organisers.

Ban on Sci-Hub, Libgen goes against the essence of free knowledge

August 25, 2025 4:07 pm

To make knowledge free in a knowledge economy might be utopia, but at least our judiciary could take a more nuanced view so as not to further facilitate the reproduction of ‘theoretical Brahmins’ and ‘empirical Shudras’

Former JNU professor Nandu Ram, pioneering sociologist who brought Dalit studies to mainstream, passes away

July 30, 2025 8:11 am

His son, Siddharth (46), who lived with him in West Delhi’s Dwarka, said the death was caused by a heart attack following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease

Bulandshahr: Four held for running over Dalit woman for objecting to rash driving

April 25, 2025 6:09 am

According to police, the incident too place on Tuesday, where a woman named Sheela Devi was killed and four others were injured in the incident.

In Hapur, eviction notice to Dalits in PMAY homes: ‘You were told to vacate, but haven’t... standing on your ego’

April 18, 2025 8:19 am

Relocated by admn in 1986; notice says houses built on what used to be pond.

Special events, renaming scheme to PDA unity call: Parties dash for Dalit outreach on Ambedkar Jayanti

April 15, 2025 5:43 am

Mayawati called upon not just Dalits and scheduled tribes but also backwards to unite as “missionary Ambedkarites” to attain the “master key to power”

Kejriwal only plays vote bank politics to get Dalit votes, says Congress leader

January 20, 2025 9:46 am

Hitting back, the AAP, in a statement, said that its government was the only one in the country “turning Baba Saheb Ambedkar’s dreams into reality”

Amid tussle, Congress tells Karnataka leaders: Don’t make public comments

January 15, 2025 12:51 am

The development comes in the backdrop of a meeting on January 2, where Siddaramaiah was present with Dalit and SC, ST and OBC Cabinet colleagues seen to be loyal to him at the residence of Satish Jarkiholi, that stirred the pot.

Mayawati urges Dalit leaders to break ties with Congress, 'casteist parties' ahead of Haryana polls

September 23, 2024 12:46 pm

In a series of posts on X, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister accused the Congress and other "casteist parties" of using Dalit leaders only in times of trouble and later marginalising them.

'Capital is the best way to fight caste. Market and money will defeat anti-capital Marx and Manu'

June 22, 2020 6:15 pm

PM Modi arrives in Kolkata

February 21, 2016 4:46 pm

Kolkata, Feb 21 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday arrived in Kolkata to attend the inauguration of Centenary Celebration of Gaudiya Mission and Math. The Prime Minister will thereafter reach Varanasi. In the morning he will pay a visit to the Ravi Das Mandir - a temple dedicated to the mystic who holds a special place in the hearts of Dalits. He is then scheduled to visit the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) where he has been invited as the chief guest in the centenary convocation of the university.

Mayawati has done nothing for Dalits in UP: Rahul Gandhi

February 18, 2016 4:05 pm

Lucknow, Feb 18 (ANI): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has done nothing for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh and added that the latter is of the view that their plight would drastically change for the better if the Congress Party joins hands with them. Targetting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), he said both wanted to suppress the poor and the downtrodden sections of society.Before reaching the venue of the event he was to address, BJP activists greeted the Congress vice president with black flags.