Patiala: The Dalits of this district’s Kansuha village are deprived of their allocated share of common land for farming for the last more than two years, and while they await auction to take that over, the upper caste community is […]
The Department of English at Punjabi University, Patiala, under the aegis of the English Literary Society, organised a special lecture today titled ‘Towards an Understanding of Dalit Aesthetics: Texts and Contexts.’ The lecture was delivered by Professor Raj Kumar from […]
Jalandhar, Members of various Dalit organisations have submitted a demand letter to the Governor demanding that the proposed demolition of various buildings associated with Guru Ravidas should be stopped. The buildings include temples of Sri Guru Ravidas at Vikas Moli […]
Sidhwan Bet: A case has come to light in which a daily wage laborer who had gone to work in the fields was stripped naked by the farm owners and a video was made and sent to the village without […]
Sangrur, In connection with a case of thrashing of two Dalit youths allegedly by a BKU (Ugrahan) leader Manjit Singh Gharachon, the BKU (Ugrahan) cancelled its pucca morchas which were to be held from today at the residences of four […]
After immense pressure from the Dalit community and the authorities, Gharachon was finally handed over to the Sangrur DSP Manoj Gorsi by the farmer union leaders. Punjab police arrested Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Manjit Singh Gharchon on Saturday after […]
Sangrur, Manjit Singh Gharachon of the BKU (Ugrahan), who allegedly thrashed two Dalit youths, was handed over by the union leaders to Sangrur DSP Manoj Gorsi today. Sushil Goyal Earlier, Joginder Singh Ugrahan, chief, BKU (Ugrahan), had demanded cancellation of […]
Raikot, The Ludhiana (Rural) police have initiated probe into an incident in which a farmer of Burj Hari Singh village had allegedly used casteist remarks against a now former sarpanch of the same village about a year ago. Raikot DSP […]
The Indian state of Punjab shows us that caste oppression owes far more to material interests than it does to inherited religious ideologies. A movement of Dalit rural workers offers a powerful example of how that oppression can be challenged […]
Dalit woman bouncer from Ludhiana, Punjab was molested by drunk hooligans at an exhibition. The bouncer is on ticket checking duty at the exhibition. It is alleged that on protest, she was manhandled and harassed. Along with giving a written […]
