Articles for Dalit Women

Mahakumbh-2025: Akhadas evolve to blend tradition with modernity
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mahakumbh-2025: Akhadas evolve to blend tradition with modernity

Hindustan Times  

The upcoming Mahakumbh-2025 will showcase a significant shift as the 13 prominent ancient Akhadas of Sanatan Hindu Dharma, embrace eco-friendly practices inspired by the vision for a sustainable event. Seers of different Akhadas along with officials on banks of Sangam in Prayagraj city ahead of Mahakumbh-2025 Traditionally dedicated to preserving ancient religious customs, these Akhadas will be seen integrating green …

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'Why did you fill the water before us, you Ch*m*r': Muslim women assault Dalits in Nuh
8 months ago

'Why did you fill the water before us, you Ch*m*r': Muslim women assault Dalits in Nuh

Op India  

In the Nuh district of Haryana, a case of assault by a Muslim mob on a Dalit family has come to light. It is alleged that when Dalit women were filling water from the tubewell, Muslim women started assaulting them and said that this place was meant for them to fill water. When Rajni questioned the Muslim women about it, …

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Reading democracy: 12 writers pick their favourite works on India
8 months ago

Reading democracy: 12 writers pick their favourite works on India

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : Every five years, as Indian democracy gears up for its biggest carnival—the general election—publishers fall in step with the spirit of the season. View Full Image Kusuma Dharmanna's Harijana Shatakam ‘THIS BROWN RULERSHIP’ True democracy requires a deep consciousness of humanity —Gogu Shyamala As children, we grew up with stories about independence, freedom and nationalism. View Full …

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BJP steps up efforts to make Nov 2 Dalit meet a success
1 year, 1 month ago

BJP steps up efforts to make Nov 2 Dalit meet a success

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party has stepped up its drive to connect with Dalits and the party is now looking to pull out all stops to make an impression by holding a mega Dalit meet in the state capital on November 2. This would be part of the six Dalit meets finalised by the party in the state, all attempts to …

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Dalit summit wants equitable share in resources
1 year, 3 months ago

Dalit summit wants equitable share in resources

The Hindu  

The two-day National Dalit Summit held here on August 26 and 27 has demanded that the government enact a legislation and enforce it stringently to enable dalits have an equitable share in the appropriation and use of the rural and urban common property resources. Speakers at the meet have sought protection of dalits’ rights to a standard of living adequate …

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Analysing ‘Dahaad’ and the birth of strong Dalit feminist heroes
1 year, 6 months ago

Analysing ‘Dahaad’ and the birth of strong Dalit feminist heroes

The Hindu  

Hindi cinema has waited long enough to see a Dalit character as the male/female popular hero. The portrayal of Dalit women Even a cursory review about the social location of female lead characters in Hindi cinema would demonstrate that majority of the female roles are about upper caste Hindu women. In Shekhar Kapoor’s Bandit Queen, the abject rural poverty and …

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Book Review: ‘Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader’ unveils marginalised Indian womanism
1 year, 8 months ago

Book Review: ‘Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader’ unveils marginalised Indian womanism

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 24, 2023 19:02 IST - 15 MINS READ Congratulations are due to editors Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore on the publication of their book, dedicated to all Dalit women, including Bhanwari Devi, Delta Meghwal, Disha, and Payal Tadvi, the last three being women who lost their lives due to the casteist system. Furthermore, as Meena Gopal …

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TRIBUTE | P.V. Satheesh (1945-2023): A quiet revolutionary who helped transform lives of Dalit women farmers
1 year, 8 months ago

TRIBUTE | P.V. Satheesh (1945-2023): A quiet revolutionary who helped transform lives of Dalit women farmers

The Hindu  

Satheesh showed how millets could solve the food and livelihood insecurity affecting India’s poorest and most marginalised. Much has been written and spoken on DDS’ many achievements—amongst the first to fight for and obtain land rights for women, the initiation of women-led village-level sanghas federating over 75 villages, the first to start a mobile biodiversity festival, the first to set …

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Challenging the Dominant Discourse of Universalising Violence Against Women
1 year, 8 months ago

Challenging the Dominant Discourse of Universalising Violence Against Women

News 18  

In the popular imagination, the tides of gender justice are turning. As per the National Crime Records Bureau data of 2019, 10 Dalit women and minor girls are raped in India every day. Neglect from police departments, biasedness from the judiciary and uprisings of pressure from upper-caste communities is often seen in cases involving sexual violence against Dalit women. The …

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India: Why justice eludes many Dalit survivors of sexual violence
2 years, 6 months ago

India: Why justice eludes many Dalit survivors of sexual violence

Al Jazeera  

While official data shows spike in sexual crimes against oppressed caste women, report says access to justice is limited, especially in rural areas. “When I interact with the police, they say it was the victim’s fault.” In most cases, an FIR was registered only after the intervention of NGOs and activists, the report said. “They don’t write the story completely …

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Dalits enter temple with police help amid protest in Yadigir
2 years, 6 months ago

Dalits enter temple with police help amid protest in Yadigir

Hindustan Times  

Prohibitory orders will continue in two villages of Yadigir district after a Dalit family entered a temple on Saturday with police protection to perform tonsuring ceremony of a child amid opposition from “upper” castes. The officer said representatives from the Dalit community of Huvinahalli last week approached the district administration alleging they were stopped from entering the temple by some …

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India's 'Writing with Fire' loses to 'Summer of Soul' in documentary feature Oscar category
2 years, 8 months ago

India's 'Writing with Fire' loses to 'Summer of Soul' in documentary feature Oscar category

The Hindu  

"Writing With Fire", the Indian documentary that chronicled the rise of a newspaper run by Dalit women, lost to "Summer of Soul " in the best documentary feature category at the 94th edition of the Oscars, Hollywood's biggest awards ceremony. Like the feature "CODA", the acclaimed documentary feature was a festival favourite winning both the grand jury and audience awards …

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Summer of Soul wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, India's Writing with Fire misses out
2 years, 8 months ago

Summer of Soul wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, India's Writing with Fire misses out

India Today  

Summer of Soul won the Best Documentary Feature award at the 94th Academy Awards. SUMMER OF SOUL WINS OSCAR FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Writing With Fire was nominated along with four other documentary films. The official Twitter handle of the Academy announced the same and wrote, "The Oscar for Best Documentary Feature goes to. The Oscar for Best Documentary Feature …

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Dalit Women, Pasmanda in Yogi Cabinet: This is Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas in Action
2 years, 8 months ago

Dalit Women, Pasmanda in Yogi Cabinet: This is Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas in Action

News 18  

What happened at Ekana stadium in Lucknow on Friday will resonate for decades to come. For the first time in the history of Indian politics, three Dalit women took oath as cabinet minister and ministers of state. Professor Kaushal Panwar of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, who is among the few Dalit woman professors in the country, said, “I …

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India's Writing With Fire, documentary about Dalit women journalists, bags Oscar nomination
2 years, 10 months ago

India's Writing With Fire, documentary about Dalit women journalists, bags Oscar nomination

India Today  

All hope's not lost for India, for despite Suriya's Jai Bhim and Mohanlal's Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simham not making the cut, a documentary about Dalit women journalists, Writing With Fire, has bagged an Oscar nomination. INDIA'S WRITING WITH FIRE BAGS OSCAR NOMINATION India's Writing With Fire has been nominated under the Best Documentary Feature category alongside Ascension, Attica, Flee and Summer …

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Tamil writers ‘not surprised’ at Delhi University decision to remove their works
3 years, 3 months ago

Tamil writers ‘not surprised’ at Delhi University decision to remove their works

The Hindu  

The Delhi University’s decision to remove certain works by two Tamil writers, Sukirtharani and Bama — whose works on Dalit women and their struggles have been celebrated by literary world — has caused uproar among sections of the progressive and intellegenstia in Tamil Nadu and rest of India. Speaking to The Hindu, Ms. Sukirtharani, whose works Kaimaru and En Udal …

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Minor raped. Hockey player's family abused. Operative word is caste
3 years, 4 months ago

Minor raped. Hockey player's family abused. Operative word is caste

India Today  

On August 1, a nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped, murdered and forcibly cremated by a priest and three employees of a crematorium in Delhi’s Purana Nangal area. On August 1, a nine-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped, murdered and forcibly cremated by a priest and three employees of a crematorium in Delhi’s Purana Nangal area. On the basis of Census …

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Delhi: Student organisations, activists protest against minor girl's rape-murder, demand speedy justice
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi: Student organisations, activists protest against minor girl's rape-murder, demand speedy justice

India Today  

Several activists and student organisations staged a protest against the alleged rape and murder of a nine-year-old Dalit girl in southwest Delhi's old Nangal village on Wednesday. "Sexual violence against women is a larger problem concerning a patriarchal society wherein women are rendered inferior and powerless, as objects of men's carnal desires and domination," it said. READ: Delhi rape, murder …

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How these Telangana women farmers rode out the pandemic
3 years, 7 months ago

How these Telangana women farmers rode out the pandemic

Live Mint  

Sixty-five-year-old M Mogullamma, a Dalit farmer from Telangana, is almost offended when asked if the pandemic, the lockdown and the economic slowdown affected her livelihood. As women farmers trying to make ends meet, they’ve focused on growing indigenous crops that can weather wild changes in climate, and crops with nutritional over commercial value to sustain their families first. Instead of …

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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Women rally behind Trinamool, finds CSDS-Lokniti Survey
3 years, 7 months ago

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Women rally behind Trinamool, finds CSDS-Lokniti Survey

The Hindu  

Of the various factors that contributed to the Trinamool Congress’s victory in the Assembly election, the support of women voters for Mamata Banerjee is significant. Among women, Trinamool led by a whopping 13 points over BJP Gender Voted for Trinamool Voted for BJP 2016 2019 2021 2016 2019 2021 Men 42 41 46 10 42 40 Women 48 47 50 …

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Books of the week: From Barack Obama's A Promised Land to A Foot in the Door, our picks
4 years, 1 month ago

Books of the week: From Barack Obama's A Promised Land to A Foot in the Door, our picks

Firstpost  

Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar. – MEMOIRS and BIOGRAPHIES A Promised Land By Barack Obama Penguin Random House | Rs 1,999 | 768 pages Forty-fourth US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Barack Obama details his life journey, from his earliest political aspirations to becoming the first African American US president. – NON-FICTION Professional …

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Hathras, a new phase in the caste atrocity narrative
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras, a new phase in the caste atrocity narrative

The Hindu  

The gang rape that took place recently in Bul Garhi, a tiny village near Hathras in Uttar Pradesh, marks a new phase in the eventful history of rape-as-caste-atrocity in the 21st century. Criminalising the ‘legitimate’ A provisional answer to this dilemma emerges through the notion of the caste atrocity, and a new law — the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled …

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On an Average, India Reported 10 Cases of Rape of Dalit Women Daily in 2019, NCRB Data Shows
4 years, 2 months ago

On an Average, India Reported 10 Cases of Rape of Dalit Women Daily in 2019, NCRB Data Shows

News 18  

A string of crimes against women, especially Dalit women in Uttar Pradesh has outraged the country again. In 2019, with 11,829 cases, Uttar Pradesh saw the highest number of cases of crime against Dalits, followed by Rajasthan with 6,794 cases, and 6,544 cases in Bihar. Rajasthan, as per the Bureau’s 2019 data, ranked number one with 55.6 cases of atrocities …

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Hathras Horror: Dalit Women Activists Call Out Bollywood for Not Identifying Caste Violence
4 years, 2 months ago

Hathras Horror: Dalit Women Activists Call Out Bollywood for Not Identifying Caste Violence

News 18  

On Thursday night, actress Sayani Gupta, on Twitter, likened the alleged gang-rape of a Dalit woman in Hathras to her film Article 15’s script after the Uttar Pradesh police official said that the forensic report of the victim did not confirm rape. pic.twitter.com/3FYJarQHbu— Agatha Srishtie 🌸 #DALITLIVESMATTER September 30, 2020 Srishty Ranjan, who is an influential Dalit voice on social …

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