4 Dalits Killed in 4 Days, Activists Say Upper Castes in TN Using Lockdown as Opportunity for Assaults
4 years, 8 months ago

4 Dalits Killed in 4 Days, Activists Say Upper Castes in TN Using Lockdown as Opportunity for Assaults

News 18  

"Tamil Nadu should be declared as an atrocity state. "On an average, 100 cases are filed under SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act in a month," says Kathir. In some villages in Tiruvannamalai district, upper caste people have allegedly even placed thorns outside Dalit colonies to ensure they don't move out. These incidents, added with the general discrimination, has made life even more difficult for lower caste people, observers say. While Kathir calls for a helpline for caste-based violence, P Sampath, president of Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front, says the only way to stop discrimination is by strict enforcement of existing laws.

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Violence against Dalits continues in land that speaks social justice for over six decades, says Tamil Nadu Governor
1 day, 18 hours ago

Violence against Dalits continues in land that speaks social justice for over six decades, says Tamil Nadu Governor

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi on Monday said violence against Dalits had increased in the land where social justice has been spoken of, day and night, for the past six decades. Mr. Ravi said: “In the land of Vallalar, we read news about violence in the name of caste; Dalits not being allowed to go to temples. For the past …

40 per cent rise in crimes against Dalits in Tamil Nadu, says Governor RN Ravi
3 months, 1 week ago

40 per cent rise in crimes against Dalits in Tamil Nadu, says Governor RN Ravi

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Governor RN Ravi on Wednesday lamented that there has been an alarming 40% surge in crimes against Dalits during the past three years in Tamil Nadu, despite the pervasive noise on social justice in the state. He said the conviction rate in rape cases involving Scheduled Castes victims in Tamil Nadu is shockingly half of the national average. These …

Reading caste in a political murder
6 months ago

Reading caste in a political murder

Hindustan Times  

The murder of Bahujan Samaj Party Tamil Nadu chief K Armstrong, allegedly the fallout of a gang war, has created ripples in state politics. Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu have said the murder of the state head of a national party outside his home in Chennai points to the collapse of law and order. Tamil Nadu’s long tryst with social …

Dalit-targeted violence, a dimming of Tamil Nadu’s halo
1 year, 4 months ago

Dalit-targeted violence, a dimming of Tamil Nadu’s halo

The Hindu  

In an incident in Tamil Nadu earlier this month, a Dalit school student, Chinnadurai, was attacked by three students wielding a machete. Editorial | The failure of hope: On the Nanguneri incident in Tamil Nadu Caste pride Today, the primary role of the caste organisations, most often patronised by youngsters, is to create exaggerated caste-specific symbolisms. For instance, the Pattali …

Gujarat caste violence back on spotlight after Dalit man’s thumb chopped
1 year, 7 months ago

Gujarat caste violence back on spotlight after Dalit man’s thumb chopped

Hindustan Times  

A group of men allegedly chopped off the thumb of a Dalit man after an altercation over his son picking up a cricket ball during a match at a school playground in a village in Gujarat’s Patan district on Sunday, police said. Incidents like not giving a house on rent to a scheduled caste teacher in villages are happening on …

Caste-based humiliation in Tamil Nadu village
3 years, 7 months ago

Caste-based humiliation in Tamil Nadu village

The Hindu  

C aste-based intimidation and humiliation has once again raised its ugly head in Tamil Nadu, a State that prides itself in upholding the social reformer ‘Periyar’ E.V. On May 14, three Dalits in their seventies were made to prostrate before the caste Hindu-dominated “oor panchayat” at Ottanendal village near Tiruvennainallur in Villupuram district. The Dalits apologised to the dominant caste …

‘Purity and honour’
4 years, 10 months ago

‘Purity and honour’

The Hindu  

Tamil society today displays a weird combination of liberal and progressive values on one side and feudal and casteist mindsets on the other. Establishing caste supremacy, an emerging phenomenon among Dalits of Tamil Nadu today, can be attributed to the rise of right-wing ideology, mainly among Pallars in Tamil Nadu. “The changing professional base of other castes, including the Dalit …

Justice Still Eludes 44 Dalits in Tamil Nadu Who Were Charred to Death 50 Years Ago On this Day
6 years ago

Justice Still Eludes 44 Dalits in Tamil Nadu Who Were Charred to Death 50 Years Ago On this Day

News 18  

“It was dark, loud and extremely scary”. “At around 10 pm, almost 100 goons of landlords came to the village in police vans, armed with arson and country guns used to kill birds,” Kumaran told News18, adding that there were also a dozen policemen guarding the entry to the village. However, the Madras High Court acquitted the landlord in 1975, …

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