Citizens for Justice and Peace
Rohith Vemula’s suicide: This is what Carl Sagan’s wife had to say about his death
01-Feb-2016
By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published:February 1, 2016 11:14 am “I always wanted to be a writer. A writer of science, like Carl Sagan. I loved Science, Stars, Nature, but then I loved people without knowing that people have long since divorced from nature. Our feelings are second handed. Our love is…
Rohith Vemula suicide: ABVP blames Rahul Gandhi for doing ‘politics over dead bodies’
30-Jan-2016
The student group called for a bandh of colleges in Telangana in protest against politicisation of the whole issue. By: PTI | Hyderabad | Updated: January 30, 2016 8:48 am The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Saturday called for a bandh of colleges in Telangana in protest against the “politics over dead bodies” done by…
School headmaster arrested for beating Class III girl
30-Jan-2016
Staff Reporter BERHAMPUR, January 30, 2016 The headmaster of a residential school for tribal and Dalit girls in Koraput district of Odisha was arrested on Friday for giving physical punishment and seriously injuring a student of Class III. Several other students alleged that a Class VII student had been sexually abused by the headmaster of…
MP: Villagers refuse to eat sweets touched by Dalit boy
29-Jan-2016
The duo refused to touch mithai after Sumant Ahirwar, a Dalit student brought it from a room as directed by a school teacher. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Updated: January 29, 2016 12:21 am Two upper-caste villagers allegedly refused to eat sweets during a Republic Day function at a school in Sehore district…
Fresh protests in Hyd, Delhi and Chennai over dalit scholar suicide
28-Jan-2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016 HYDERABAD/ NEW DELHI: Fresh protests by students broke out on Wednesday in Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai over the alleged “delay in justice” to the Hyderabad university dalit scholar who committed suicide, as they remained unrelenting in the demand for resignations of Union ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya. Lending further support…
Protests over Dalit suicide turn into national movement
28-Jan-2016
• 28 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • HT Correspondent letters@hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI: Protests swe pt through several top universities across the country, including Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi where classes were suspended on Wednesday as the agitation over the death of a Dalit scholar turned into a movement against caste bias on…
Rohith not a Dalit, says intel report
28-Jan-2016
Jan 28 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Bharti Jain New Delhi: A secret intelligence report has claimed that both the grandmother and mother of Rohith Vemula, a Hyderabad Central University research scholar who recently committed suicide, have declared the family’s caste as Vaddera, which is a backward caste and not part of the…
Two villagers refused to eat mithai served by Dalit student, booked
28-Jan-2016
The duo refused to touch mithai after Sumant Ahirwar, a Dalit student brought it from a room as directed by a school teacher. Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Published:January 28, 2016 12:34 pm Two upper caste villagers refused to eat mithai (sweets) during a function at a school on the occasion of the…
Dalit sarpanch skips flag hoisting
28-Jan-2016
Jan 28 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Ashish Chauhan Ahmedabad: The dalit sarpanch of Nortol village of Kheralu taluka in Mehsana who sought enhanced police protection for the flag hoisting ceremony on Republic Day af ter being threatened by mem bers of the Thakor communi ty, refrained from attending the event as he…
Dalit scholar alleges harassment at JNU
28-Jan-2016
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI, January 28, 2016 : A Dalit research scholar at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has alleged that he was discriminated against on the basis of his caste, forcing him to threaten suicide. The scholar, who wished to remain anonymous, was awarded a five-year fellowship in 2011 to complete his Ph.D from…