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Act tough on teachers promoting caste discrimination in schools: T.N. Police Commission
1 month ago

Act tough on teachers promoting caste discrimination in schools: T.N. Police Commission

The Hindu  

In a bid to eradicate caste feelings in schools and bring about uniformity among students, the Tamil Nadu Fifth Police Commission has called for firm action against teachers promoting caste discrimination in schools. Stalin recently, the Commission said the School Education Department should be sensitive to the caste discriminatory practices in Government and Government-Aided Schools where the problem was acute. …

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Madras HC asks state if caste names in government institutions can be removed
1 month ago

Madras HC asks state if caste names in government institutions can be removed

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Thursday asked the state whether caste names in government-run institutions could be removed as done in the case of such appendages in the names of streets. “Now, what is it about the caste names that are used by the government for educational institutions like schools,” the judge asked and pointed out it was the …

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NCRB data collection in prisons can go on, SC clarifies in caste bias matter
4 months, 2 weeks ago

NCRB data collection in prisons can go on, SC clarifies in caste bias matter

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Thursday said its direction to delete the "caste" column apart from any caste reference in undertrials or convicts' registers in jails will not impede the collection of data by the National Crime Records Bureau. In a landmark verdict delivered on October 3, the apex court banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks …

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RSS supports reservations, says Mohan Bhagwat
10 months, 3 weeks ago

RSS supports reservations, says Mohan Bhagwat

The Hindu  

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has always supported reservations and they should be continued as along as there are social inequities in the country, asserted its chief Mohan Bhagawat on Sunday. Participating at the launch of the Vidya Bharti Vignana Kendra in Nadargul of Rangareddy district, he said he came across a video being circulated in social media, which said that …

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Editor’s Note: Let’s not use Uniform Civil Code to wipe out differences
1 year, 7 months ago

Editor’s Note: Let’s not use Uniform Civil Code to wipe out differences

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 27, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ You probably know how it feels to stand on the terrace on Diwali evenings. This constant need to mine political usefulness and electoral strategy from every gash in the nation’s body also informs the latest little firecracker the Prime Minister set off when he suddenly announced at a rally …

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MNLU Nagpur: Two Days National Seminar On "Gender Justice- Breaking Stereotypes, Discriminations And Prejudices" [15th -16th Oct, 2022]
2 years, 6 months ago

MNLU Nagpur: Two Days National Seminar On "Gender Justice- Breaking Stereotypes, Discriminations And Prejudices" [15th -16th Oct, 2022]

Live Law  

To achieve an overall development, the marginalized genders must engage socially, economically and politically on a larger level and that i s the most effective manner through which they can carve an equal space for themselves on the stage. In this backdrop, the Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur, is organizing a Two Days National Seminar on ' Gender Justice- Breaking …

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SGPC aghast over UP school asking Sikh students not to wear turban
2 years, 8 months ago

SGPC aghast over UP school asking Sikh students not to wear turban

Firstpost  

The committee president appealed to Sikhs living across the country to come together and raise voice against people who discriminate against them and urged the administration to take action Amritsar: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee has taken a strong note of a school in Uttar Pradesh allegedly asking Sikh students not to wear a turban or carry ‘kirpan’. I appeal …

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UCC can wait! First fight anti-Hindu discriminations in education and temple management
2 years, 10 months ago

UCC can wait! First fight anti-Hindu discriminations in education and temple management

Firstpost  

For decades already, you occasionally hear voices clamouring for a Uniform Civil Code in India. They wouldn’t mind meddling in the Christian law system: ever since starting as a nervous minority in the mighty Roman empire, Christians have conformed to secular laws not of their own making. The BJP has already developed cold feet about implementing its hard-won Citizenship Amendment …

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Exploited for generations, tea garden workers struggle for land rights in Darjeeling hills, Terai, and Dooars
3 years, 3 months ago

Exploited for generations, tea garden workers struggle for land rights in Darjeeling hills, Terai, and Dooars

Firstpost  

Darjeeling is a name synonymous with the most famous and expensive tea in the world. Landless tea garden workers Of all the discriminations faced by the tea garden workers, their deprivation in terms of land rights remains stark. Even today, the majority of the people living in Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars do not have the parja patta rights i.e …

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It’s curtains down on Dalit entry ban in this temple
3 years, 4 months ago

It’s curtains down on Dalit entry ban in this temple

The Hindu  

Three years ago, Krishna Mohana, a Dalit resident of a small village in Kasaragod, did something that was considered unthinkable for a person of his caste. During the annual festival of Jatadhari Devasthanam, a temple at Swarga in Enmakaje panchayat, Mohana climbed the 18 holy steps and entered the temple complex, a centuries-old right reserved for upper castes. A few …

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Mythily Sivaraman, scholar, revolutionary feminist and trade union activist, passes away
3 years, 9 months ago

Mythily Sivaraman, scholar, revolutionary feminist and trade union activist, passes away

The Hindu  

Mythily Sivaraman, veteran Communist Party of India leader, revolutionary feminist and a quintessential leftist, passed away in Chennai on May 30. Janakiammal, of the Tamil Nadu unit of the All India Democratic Women’s Association, the women’s wing of the CPI, in 1973, Mythily Sivaraman, 81, was at the forefront of many of the historical struggles and agitations the CPI launched …

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Sex under lockdown, but not friendship? The discriminations of intimacy
4 years, 7 months ago

Sex under lockdown, but not friendship? The discriminations of intimacy

ABC  

When you read the news on Victoria’s current Stage Four restrictions, there’s a small exemption that’s only mentioned occasionally. For many Victorians who live alone but don’t have an “intimate partner,” their only means of non-stranger face-to-face human contact right now is exercising, for one hour per day, with one other person — if they’re lucky enough to have a …

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Beauty bias: The racism no one is talking about
4 years, 8 months ago

Beauty bias: The racism no one is talking about

Deccan Chronicle  

If you watched the Deepika Padukone starrer Chhapaak, chances are you found yourself sympathising with acid attack victims, cringing at how society treats them. I’m short, too, which invited more unkind remarks.” Attractive advantages In his book Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful, Daniel S. Hamermesh, considered the father of pulchronomics, wrote that attractive people are more likely …

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Kolkata: Communist group protests against George Floyd killing, burns Trump effigy
4 years, 9 months ago

Kolkata: Communist group protests against George Floyd killing, burns Trump effigy

Op India  

While leftists in the USA are running rampage and wreaking havoc in several US cities, an Indian leftist group on Monday blocked the Esplanade area in central Kolkata and set fire to an effigy of the US President Donald Trump. According to a PTI report, the leftist protestors, identified as Socialist Unity Centre of India, carried flags of Socialist Unity …

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《We Are All Fighters》全网首支抗肺炎英文励志演讲视频震撼发布！
5 years, 1 month ago

《We Are All Fighters》全网首支抗肺炎英文励志演讲视频震撼发布！

China Daily  

《We Are All Fighters》全网首支抗肺炎英文励志演讲视频震撼发布！ 写在前面的话： 作为一名普通的中国公民 我深爱着我的祖国 所以当我看到 日益严峻的疫情使得 我们的国家和数亿同胞深受其害 让我感到心痛 我希望可以尽上自己的 一份绵薄之力 却不知该从何入手 我想到了或许语言 可以让我们重新燃起希望和信心 可以给我们继续战斗下去的勇气 所以我创作了这篇英文演讲稿 并且制作了这个视频 为什么要用英文来写？ 因为我希望不仅可以让国人同胞看到 也可以让其他国家那些关心我们、帮助我们， 甚至对此刻的中国不怀好意的人看到 我们有必胜的精神、历史和决心！ 如果这个视频可以给你带来 哪怕一点点的感动和鼓舞 我觉得就足够了 也希望你可以将这个视频 传播给更多的人 让我们共同携手、共同战斗 一起赢得这场没有硝烟的战争吧！ 正如王毅外长前几日 在慕尼黑安全会议上所说： 黎明，正在到来； 曙光，就在前方。 Dawn is breaking and we are seeing light coming through. 我们正面临着黑暗时刻 Some of us are stuck at home 我们中有些人不得不禁足在家 Some are stuck far away from …

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Sabarimala: SC reserves order on whether it can refer question of law to larger bench in review jurisdiction
5 years, 1 month ago

Sabarimala: SC reserves order on whether it can refer question of law to larger bench in review jurisdiction

India Today  

A nine-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court Thursday reserved order on the legal issue of whether the top court can refer questions of law to a larger bench while exercising its review jurisdiction. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said it will pronounce the order on February 10 and will accord day-to-day hearing from February 12. …

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The rhythm of caste
6 years, 9 months ago

The rhythm of caste

Deccan Chronicle  

Thiruvananthapuram: The popular notion about music is that it is a neutral art with no bias of caste, gender, class or colour. Dalit musician A. S. Ajith Kumar in his book Kelkatha Shabdangal: Pattu, Shareeram, Jathi which deals with the ideology of sound and the influence of technology on music, tries to dispel this notion. "On the other hand, the …

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On IDAHOBIT 2018, three stories that underscore the need for a perspective shift on gender, sexuality
6 years, 10 months ago

On IDAHOBIT 2018, three stories that underscore the need for a perspective shift on gender, sexuality

Firstpost  

Point of View is bringing forward many stories through a series called ‘Life, Actually’ — part of their campaign for IDAHOBIT 2018 “Hi, I’m Diti, and I identify as a transmasculine person,” says the chirpy individual looking up at the camera. Diti’s is one of the many stories Point of View is bringing forward though a series called ‘Life, Actually’ …

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Why Madras HC’s Observations on Sweepers/Cleaners/Scavengers are Disturbing
7 years ago

Why Madras HC’s Observations on Sweepers/Cleaners/Scavengers are Disturbing

Live Law  

Indian judiciary has been instrumental in expansion of the rights of people. By holding that a sweeper/cleaner employed to clean the premises is also bound to clean toilets and dresses and that he/she cannot complain otherwise, the high court has endorsed a form of “forced labour” which is prohibited under Article 23 of the Constitution. In the landmark judgment in …

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The road of change
7 years, 2 months ago

The road of change

Deccan Chronicle  

In 1994, Sanjoy Hazarika’s first book on Northeast, Strangers of the Mist: Tales of War and Peace from India’s Northeast, was hailed as a path-breaking narrative of the region. For instance, in the introductory chapter titled, ‘Disputed Borders, Divided People’, he describes the Line of Actual Control as a space where ‘in places, barbed wire fences, border posts, signs and …

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Indian Social Justice Warriors deserve to be called Mini Kim Jong-uns
7 years, 5 months ago

Indian Social Justice Warriors deserve to be called Mini Kim Jong-uns

Op India  

Gurmehar Kaur, a free-speech world-peace activist, has been accused of threatening young boys for making memes. Our Social Justice Warriors always complain about India’s tryst with social discriminations — mainly caste based. If our Social Justice Warriors are aghast with India for fighting Pakistan — a country which regularly exports terror to India — and apparently ignoring the goodwill of …

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Watch: An inter-caste marriage widens caste rifts in Kerala village
7 years, 8 months ago

Watch: An inter-caste marriage widens caste rifts in Kerala village

Firstpost  

This discrimination has not surfaced suddenly. Dalit women, in particular, counted different forms of caste discriminations they face daily. The border village of Govindapuram, in the Palakkad district of Kerala, has been in the news for the past month, following reports of discrimination by caste Hindus — both upper and backward castes. So whenever a politician or an official visits …

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Austria’s parliament bans full-face veil in public
7 years, 10 months ago

Austria’s parliament bans full-face veil in public

Al Jazeera  

The provision, part of a larger integration package, means those wearing the veil in public will be fined $166. The provision, adopted on Tuesday night, was backed by both ruling parties and means that people wearing full-face veils in public will be subject to 150-euro fines starting in October. Asylum seekers are also expected to perform unpaid public work under …

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Kovalam Literary Festival: A musician's fight to protect idea of freedom
8 years, 5 months ago

Kovalam Literary Festival: A musician's fight to protect idea of freedom

Deccan Chronicle  

Thiruvananthapuram: At 9.30 am on Saturday, T.M. Krishna will be up on a stage at VJT Hall, Thiruvananthapuram, talking about freedom and responsibility with culture critic Sadanand Menon on the backdrop of Kovalam Literary Festival being held at state capital. I don't know what nationalism you are talking about when half the people who voted in Tamil Nadu did not …

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