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These Dalits have nowhere to go
2008-04-19 18:34:00 AHMEDABAD: Over 100 members of 19 Dalit families are spending their days in makeshift camps in front of the Banaskantha District Collector?s office in Palanpur for the last seven months because they have nowhere to go. They have been … Click here to read more
By: India Today
Dalits protest against wall of separation
2008-04-14 23:22:00 Three men try to immolate themselves Click here to read more
By: India Today
Cricket(s) and Burnt Lives
2008-01-20 22:58:00 The fanatics were busy in Orissa while the nation was busy with its cricket. Cricket is an opium!
Los derechos de los intocables en la India, los Dalits
2007-09-21 17:48:00 De los mil millones de ciudadanos que tiene la India a 167 millones de ellos los consideran ‘impuros’, ‘sin casta’, ‘intocables’. Tanto ha sido que ellos mismos escogieron llamarse los Dalits, que significa los ‘oprimidos’. La lucha de los Dalits por su identidad, por su dignidad y por elementales derechos humanos se ha solidificado ...
By: OjO al Texto
Dalits
2007-08-20 15:40:00 Click on the title for an article in the Post today, about changes for Indian Dalits(the oppressed).Conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism in order to avoid the problem of caste was first proposed fifty years ago by B.R. Ambedkar's The Dalit Buddhist movement, and enters into the discussion of set-asides and affirmative action.
By: Shiva's Arms
Movement to get quota for Muslim Dalits
2007-06-18 15:01:00 Lucknow, June 18 (IANS) The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) is spearheading a movement to include Dalits from the community under the category of Scheduled Castes.
By: Latest News
Dalits embrace Buddhism in Orissa over temple entry
2007-04-14 16:38:00 Kendrapada (Orissa), April 14 (IANS) Around 1,000 Dalits in Orissa’s Kendrapda district Saturday embraced Buddhism in protest against having been denied entry into a Hindu temple by upper castes and the local administration despite a court order. About 2,000 Dalits of Keradagarh and its nearby villages in the coastal district of Kendrapda congregated at Aul village, ...
By: Latest News
A Humanist Alternative for the Dalits
2006-12-09 09:07:02 Untouchables, or achuta, perform jobs considered unfit for higher castes, which includes tanning animal hides, manually unclogging sewers and toilets, cremating the dead, and removing road-kill from the streets.International Humanist News 12/8/06The emancipation of Dalits started as an essentially Humanist movement, but as the movement grew politically, the Humanist element has been lost. It is high time the Humanist alternative be made available again to the Dalits, writes V.B. Rawat.Dr. Ambedkar's RevolutionThrough his writings on the Indian social structure, through his analysis and criticism of Hindu thought and mythology, and through the political mobilization of the masses around their problems, Dr. Ambedkar, himself a Dalit and also father of the Indian Constitution, inaugurated a social and political revolution in which the Dalits were active participants. Underlying this approach was Dr. Ambedkar's realization that political empowerment of the Dalits was possible only on ... |
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