[ad_1] For Avani Pannicker, a student of Secretarial Practice from Kollam, the spacious SNV Sadanam at Bakery Junction in Thiruvananthapuram is second home. “I have been staying here for seven years now and it really is my home in Thiruvananthapuram,” she says. It has been a second home for generations of young women who flocked […]
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[ad_1] Digital drawing: People observing Dalit History Month through social media, family gatherings, tree planting, singing, dancing, discussions, visiting monuments, agitating and remembering the stalwarts of the movement. | Photo Credit: Siddhesh Gautam There are many definitions of history but for me, as an artist, dreamer, explorer and Ambedkarite, history has always been the documentation […]
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[ad_1] Adoor Gopalakrishnan addressing a media conference in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday | Photo Credit: MAHINSHA S Bringing the curtains down on a long drawn-out season of controversy at the K.R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan stepped down as the Chairman of the institute, which has been at the […]
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[ad_1] The event saw students flanked by a steady line of bicycles with caste categories of BC/MBC/SC written in chalk for everyone to see The event saw students flanked by a steady line of bicycles with caste categories of BC/MBC/SC written in chalk for everyone to see The district school education department has come under […]
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[ad_1] The death of a Dalit boy after a thrashing from his upper caste school principal has once again brought to the fore the old normal of deep-seated discrimination in Rajasthan. The victim’s family finds itself isolated as fellow villagers in Surana refuse to acknowledge a caste angle to the incident, reports Ishita Mishra The death […]
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[ad_1] America’s tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India’s ancient caste system, with Apple emerging as an early leader in policies to rid Silicon Valley of a rigid hierarchy that’s segregated Indians for generations. Apple, the world’s biggest listed company, updated its general employee conduct policy about two years ago to explicitly […]
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[ad_1] Caste-based discrimination continues in universities, State Assemblies and other spheres of society even as we celebrate 75 years of Indian Independence, Marathi writer Sharankumar Limbale has said. “There are a large number of people who remain in social slavery. Caste system existed in slums till yesterday. Today, caste-based discrimination has spread its wings in […]
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[ad_1] An Indian-American employee of Google has resigned in protest. An Indian-American employee of Google has resigned in protest. A U.S.-based Dalit civil rights organisation on Thursday accused Google of having a casteist and hostile workplace practices. However, Google has denied the allegations. “Caste discrimination has no place in our workplace. We also have a […]
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