'A separate toilet for Brahmins in Kuttumukku Mahadeva Temple in Thrissur district has raised a storm on social media. As the controversy raged, Cochin Devaswom Board (CDB) initiated a probe into the issue...'
'The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers Association (JNUTA) on Friday shot off a letter to the Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development demanding an inquiry into the "drastic reduction in positions reserved for SCs and STs in JNU". The teachers' association has also demanded action against the university administration and the Vice Chancellor for "the grave default"...'
'...Draupathi depicts the OBC reaction to Dalit politics. Anger drives the film – a sense of injustice over Dalits having gone too far just as elsewhere some Hindus feel Muslims have gone too far, egged on by political appeasement... Draupathi, the eponymous character, is a village activist. With strong convictions, she mounts campaigns against oil and gas projects and scorns corporates for ‘sucking’ out resources and cultural traditions.
Arvind Gunasekar: "...we got information about a group of men trying to destroy a building... so we tried going towards that particular location. When we reached that particular location we saw a group of men - a mob actually - trying to destroy a religious site right next to the flyover. So when we started moving towards them, we saw two policemen coming along with some ten to fifteen young men holding sticks - they were walking towards that religious site, so we followed them.
'A 20-year-old Dalit boy, Rahul Meghwal, was allegedly beaten up and his head partly tonsured forcefully by few men of a privileged caste in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district on 18 February 2020. The incident happened when Rahul had gone to meet a female friend, who belongs to an upper caste family, that resulted in an argument between the girl's family members and the victim...'
'Two young Dalit cousins were brutally assaulted by the staff at a two-wheeler showroom in Rajasthan’s Nagaur. The staff reportedly caught the brothers attempting to steal money from the showroom. The attack occurred on Sunday, and became public after a video of the violence went viral on social media. In the video, men can be seen stripping the brothers, beating them and inserting a screwdriver dipped in petrol into one of their anus...'
'An FIR has been registered against Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Surendra Singh's son and his supporters for allegedly manhandling a Dalit revenue official, police said on Thursday. On a complaint lodged by the official Radheyshyam Ram, the FIR has been registered against Hazari Singh and 10 others on Wednesday for manhandling and abusing him, Bairiya SHO Sanjay Tripathi said. All the accused have been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code along with the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the SHO added.
'On February 13, Kusuma Devi, a middle-aged housewife from Mangta village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur was in the kitchen with her 16-year-old daughter when she heard loud noises outside. She immediately said to her daughter, “Ye Thakur log hain, chal chup jaa (Those are Thakurs, go and hide).” Kusuma belongs to the Dalit community in the village. Before they could do anything, a group of men ruthlessly entered the house and started beating them up.
'The wedding procession of a Dalit man was taken out under police protection in Gujarat''s Banaskantha district on Sunday after some upper caste people objected to the groom sitting on a horse and pelted stones, an official said...'
'A day after a 26-year-old Dalit man was killed by a mob allegedly over suspicion that he misbehaved with a woman, relatives of the victim alleged caste motive to the violence. On Wednesday, Sakthivel of Karai village, while returning from work, had stopped at S Pudhur village in Gingee for relieving himself. But a woman who worked in the farmland, suspecting that he was attempting to misbehave with her, raised an alarm. The villagers assaulted him, and Sakthivel later died at his village...'
