When the two national parties are trying to reduce the 2019 elections to secularism vs nationalism, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi is adopting a ‘secularism plus’ approach in politics.
The Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s (VBA) decision to contest the Lok Sabha elections without an alliance with the Congress (...)
While the private sector is comfortable paying for the education of SCs and STs, it is reluctant to employ them.
In 2006, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) set up a committee for ‘affirmative action for SC/ST’ communities – in order to improve the representation of these marginalised sections (...)
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs has been accused of failing to brief its team adequately in a case about the constitutionality of the Forest Rights Act.
On February 13, the Supreme Court ordered state governments to evict over 10 lakh (one million) forest-dwelling families whose claims over (...)
A child drinks insecticide to quell hunger. This is part of a pattern, not an isolated incident.
Last week, The Quint reported that an Adivasi child in Ratlam district in northwest Madhya Pradesh had been hospitalised after drinking insecticide in order to quell a desperate hunger. The child (...)
Where the Congress has the chance to be really transformative is in how it addresses the Naxalite conflict. This is Rahul Gandhi’s litmus test to show if he and his party care about India’s adivasis.
After 15 years of repression, misrule and loot of Chhattisgarh’s natural resources, the defeat of (...)
A troll-army took offence to a poster held by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and then bombarded specific accounts with casteist slurs and threats of violence
On Sunday, November 18, Twitter co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey held a roundtable discussion with a group of women journalists, activists and (...)
While the nation is in the #MeToo movement’s grip, Dalit women are not speaking up against their oppressors. This is because all mainstream sectors have only paid lip service to their cause.
All the media time and reams of newsprint documenting the various #MeToo revelations in India will not (...)
The statue, viewed as representative of the practice of caste sanctioned in ’Manusmriti’, has been a major cause of discontent for nearly three decades.
Mumbai: Ten days ago, two Dalit women and a Muslim man, all in their mid-40s and associated with one of the factions of Republic Party of India (...)
Activists claim the BJP government in the state wants to divide Adivasis on religious lines and is targeting NGOs because of their opposition to the acquisition of Adivasi land by corporates.
Nirmal Hriday in Ranchi. Credit: Twitter/IANS
New Delhi: Civil society groups in Jharkhand have (...)
The task of the opposition will not be complete only by forming a political alliance
The likelihood that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will enter into political alliances with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is surely giving nightmares to the Bharatiya Janata Party (...)
The 20 adivasi (indigenous) activists have been slapped with sedition cases for publishing critical posts against the Raghubar Das-led BJP government on Facebook and for allegedly playing a prominent role in the Pathalgadi movement.
New Delhi: The Jharkhand police on July 26 slapped sedition (...)
Dalits and Adivasis are severely under-represented in Indian cricket. Adopting a quota system similar to that of South Africa will help remove structural barriers and ensure more diversity.
In the 86 years since India attained Test status, 290 different men have played test cricket for India. (...)
In ’Ants and Elephants’, Sujatha Gidla misrepresents or ignores legendary Dalit figures who built the communist movement in Andhra, distorts the struggle for Telangana and dehumanises the Dalit experience.
The shrouded lives of ‘untouchables’, also known as Dalits, in the form of life narratives (...)
The Bhim Army is part of the Ambedkarite tradition of politics; it is not necessarily a challenge to Mayawati and may in fact help consolidate the BSP.
Anand Teltumbde is a writer, political analyst and civil rights activist. He is a public intellectual who is almost allergic to identity (...)
Indigenous farmers are at the centre of the massive mobilisation of peasants in Maharashtra
“You see this hut? From here on, it is all our land,” says Kisan Gujar.
We’re in a car, and I’m driving to give Ashok Dhawale some rest. Dusk is falling, and we’re driving out of Kalwan. Also with us is (...)
Fighting the caste system is definitely an inherent part of the Dalit movement, but the anti-caste movement needs to grow beyond Dalits.
Many people confuse the Dalit movement with the anti-caste movement, often seeing them as one and the same thing. They forget that caste is not exclusive to (...)
Till the 1980s, the politician was fairly unknown outside a small circle of Dalit ideologues. But now that Dalits vote in large numbers, every party claims inspiration from the Dalit leader who Ghandi and Nehru detested
It would not be an exaggeration to say that BR Ambedkar is the most (...)
The last few weeks have seen the most venomous, militant, blatant and intransigent display of casteism by internet and tech savvy upper-castes on social media.
Since April 2, India has seems a vicious and malignant display of casteism, with a million instances of confirmation that caste is a (...)
In their testimonies to the judicial commission looking into the Edesmetta encounter, Adivasis have attempted to deconstruct narratives given by the state.
There was that moment of epiphany in the room. Karam Manglu was being cross-examined at the commissioner’s office during the proceedings of (...)
In worrying about the liberty of the privileged, the judges have forgotten that caste is anti-liberty. The caste system continue to frustrate the struggles of Dalits and Adivasis for dignity and justice.
Some incidents this past fortnight provide valuable insight. In Kerala, a man from the Ezhava community, listed among Other Backward Classes, murdered his daughter for wanting to marry a Dalit. In Uttar Pradesh, upper caste Thakur villagers have been threatening violence against Dalits (...)
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