Citizens for Justice and Peace
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…
Now, women seek entry into Haji Ali dargah
28-Jan-2016
Several activists belonging to Muslim women groups held placards demanding entry for females into the sanctum sanctorum of the historic dargah, which receives hundreds of devotees everyday. By: PTI | Mumbai | Updated: January 28, 2016 10:17 pm Muslim women on Thursday staged a protest demanding entry into a restricted area of the Haji Ali…
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…
BJP leader held for alleged cow slaughter in Madhya Pradesh, gets expelled from party
28-Jan-2016
The BJP expelled Anwar Mev alias Anna, who was associated with its minority cell, from the party after the police recovered beef from his house Written by Milind Ghatwai | Bhopal | Updated: January 28, 2016 10:55 am A BJP leader and his four relatives were held for allegedly slaughtering a cow at his home…
The importance of being Rohith Vemula
27-Jan-2016
Valson Thampu, Jan 27, 2016: There is something worse than nudging a young man of promise towards suicide. It is the depravity of fudging its meaning, the mockery of casting the dead into a coffin of falsehood. So, Rohith Vemula is reconfigured as a victim of clinical depression. Depression is not such a bad thing.…
Some Hindu groups behaving like Muslim fundamentalists: Akhtar
27-Jan-2016
Kolkata, Jan 27, 2016 (PTI) Claiming that some Hindu groups are now behaving like Muslim fundamentalists, eminent lyricist-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar has said barring such elements Indian society has always been tolerant. “In 1975 I showed a comedy scene in a temple. Today I won’t. But even in 1975, I wouldn’t have shown a scene in…
Dalit teachers want VC sacked to resume classes
27-Jan-2016
Hyderabad, Jan 27, 2016, DHNS: SC/ST Teachers Forum at University of Hyderabad has said their members would launch a hunger strike from Thursday demanding justice for Dalit scholar Vemula Rohit, dashing hopes of resuming classes early. “We demand the resignation of Vice Chancellor P Apparao and the interim VC Prof Vipin Srivastava to resume academic…
Two held for ‘suicide’ of Chennai students
26-Jan-2016
• 26 Jan 2016 • Hindustan Times (Mumbai) • KV Lakshmana klakshmana@hindustantimes.com CHENNAI: The district administration and police in Villupuram stuck to the suicide theory on Monday and arrested the chairman’s son and the administrator of the private medical college where three girl students allegedly committed suicide, even as the parents of the girls maintained…
Dalit sarpanch seeks police protection for flag hoisting
26-Jan-2016
Jan 26 2016 : The Times of India (Ahmedabad) Dalit sarpanch seeks police protection for flag hoisting Ashish Chauhan Ahmedabad:Even as the country celebrates the spirit of equality and fraternity on Republic Day on Tuesday , Chandu Makwana, a Dalit sarpanch of Nortol village in Mehsana faces threat to his life if he attempts to…