[ZESTCaste] A low-caste Hindu turns priest (News)

2007-06-30 Thread Tarun Udwala
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070630/139/6hk77.html Sat, Jun 30 A low-caste Hindu turns priest By ANI Saturday June 30, 03:26 PM Paliganj (Bihar), June 30 (ANI): A low-caste Hindu has been appointed priest of the Ram-Janki Devi temple at Paliganj, 60 kilometers from Patna, where casteism is at rife.

[ZESTCaste] Dalit students at receiving end (News)

2007-06-30 Thread Tarun Udwala
http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/30/stories/2007063054200400.htm Andhra Pradesh Dalit students at receiving end Staff Reporter Sangareddy: Parents of some schoolchildren belonging to upper castes still stop them from having the midday meal cooked by Dalit women in Medak district. The practice of bo

[ZESTCaste] Caste cloud on AIIMS job test (News)

2007-06-30 Thread Tarun Udwala
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070630/asp/nation/story_7995946.asp Caste cloud on AIIMS job test CHARU SUDAN KASTURI A grab of The Telegraph report on allegations of discrimination at AIIMS which appeared on July 5, 2006 New Delhi, June 29: Reserved category doctors applying for jobs at the All I

[ZESTCaste] Bringing India's castes to book

2007-06-30 Thread Tarun Udwala
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bringing-indias-castes-to-book/2007/06/29/1182624168929.html Bringing India's castes to book June 30, 2007 A Delhi publisher is challenging the way people accept a racist caste system, Amrit Dhillon reports. AS A child growing up in south India, S. Anand kne

[ZESTCaste] State out to divide Dalits: Mala Mahanadu (News)

2007-06-30 Thread Tarun Udwala
http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/30/stories/2007063052300300.htm Andhra Pradesh - Kadapa State out to divide Dalits: Mala Mahanadu Staff Reporter 'Moots division of SCs in the guise of micro-classification' 'Madigas usurped 20,000 jobs meant for the Malas' KADAPA: The State Government is trying

[ZESTCaste] Dalits In News 30.06.07

2007-06-30 Thread ARUN KHOTE
*NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON DALIT HUMAN RIGHTS is an Advocacy Platform committed for Dalit Human Rights at the Grass root, National and International levels. Dalits In News aims at sensitizing Civil societies, HR Mechanisms and providing updates of HR violations on Dalits for their Intervention.*** *NAT

[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Illiterate and dalit, but a legal expert

2007-06-30 Thread Tarun Udwala
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=114159 Illiterate and dalit, but a legal expert BY TIRTHA NEUPANE SYANGJA, June 29 - He is an illiterate. Worse, he belongs to the impoverished dalit community in his rural village of Western Nepal. Nevertheless, Indra Bahadur Damai of Bichari Chaut

[ZESTCaste] Help to AS Scholar - Thanks to Mr Michael Jonas and Prof Sharmila Rege

2007-06-30 Thread Benjamin Kaila
Dear friends, Wonders are happening in Ambedkar Scholarships. We are taking up several causes and implementing them successfully. I would like to share with you that two greatsouls Mr Michael Jonas, US and Prof Sharmila Rege, India opened up their wallets to help a poor and ambitious gir

[ZESTCaste] Mayawati announces quota in police force

2007-06-30 Thread viji
Mayawati announces quota in police force http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070017238&ch=6/30/2007%207:42:00%20AM Sanket Upadhyay Saturday, June 30, 2007 (Lucknow) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has announced that 30 per cent of the state