[ZESTCaste] Tribalism

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[ZESTCaste] Caste Manages Sports

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http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6theme=usrsess=1id=172670 Verify SC/ST certificates, Statesman News Service KOLKATA, Oct. 6: The Centre has asked the state government to carefully scrutinise Scheduled Caste, Tribe and OBC certificates submitted by people while securing jobs in

[ZESTCaste] A former government employee, Thirumavalvan headed DPI to help Dalits since 1992.

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=509430 DPI 2 A former government employee, Thirumavalvan headed DPI to help Dalits since 1992. He was drawn to politics by Tamil Manila Congress founder late G K Moopanar during 1999 Lok Sabha polls, when he formed a minority-Dalit front to contest

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http://www.gulfnews.com/world/India/10158520.html India English made compulsory in Uttar Pradesh schools IANS Published: October 07, 2007, 00:05 Agra: The government of Chief Minister Mayawati has ordered children in all Uttar Pradesh government schools to learn English - a move aimed at

[ZESTCaste] Book Review: Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld (Poems 1972 – 2006); Selected, introduced and translated from the Marathi by Dilip Chitre

http://www.hindu.com/lr/2007/10/07/stories/2007100750020500.htm TRANSLATIONS Taste of freedom ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM Vigorous, high-voltage, bruising poetry on the festering innards of Mumbai. There is a tough and unsentimental quality to Dhasal's vision. It crackles with both rage and

[ZESTCaste] Business and caste in India

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9909319 Business and caste in India With reservations Oct 4th 2007 | BANGALORE, CHENNAI AND DELHI From The Economist print edition India's government is threatening to make companies hire more low-caste workers Landov A 23-YEAR-OLD

[ZESTCaste] Collector for speedy disposal of atrocity cases

Collector for speedy disposal of atrocity cases http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Staff Reporter ADILABAD: In order to speed up progress in cases under the SC, ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act, review meetings should be held once every quarter at divisional level,

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[ZESTCaste] Cells to deal Dalit issues (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Immolation: Panel summons SSP (News)

Immolation: Panel summons SSP http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Tribune/400x60/0 Batala, October 5 Taking note of a news item published in The Tribune regarding immolation by a Dalit boy after allegedly being harassed by certain influential persons of his village and the police,

[ZESTCaste] Ambedkar's statue desecrated, 4 held (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit rights: NGOs say more women coming forward (News)

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Dalit-rights-NGOs-say-more-women-coming-forward/224557/ Dalit rights: NGOs say more women coming forward Tarannum Manjul Posted online: Friday , October 05, 2007 at 12:00:00 Lucknow, October 4 Call it Maya or Metadata effect. With a Dalit woman leading the

[ZESTCaste] Dalit Panthers observe Black Day (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Untouchable and unthinkable (Opinion)

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits prevented from entering temple in TN village (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Discrimination against cook continues (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Internal quotas soon, says Kumaraswamy (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Caste discrimination in SVU?

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[ZESTCaste] Creamy layer exclusion equally applicable to forward class: K Parasaran

http://www.indlawnews.com/00D05E9B90A1B45A65C7F9DEF1A363A6 Creamy layer exclusion equally applicable to forward class: K Parasaran 3 October 2007 Senior counsel K Parasaran, appearing for Centre and Tamil Nadu state defending the reservation policy of the government, contended before the

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http://www.business-standard.com/lifeleisure/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu4subLeft=6autono=300047tab=r It wasn`t the Brahmins after all T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan / New Delhi October 03, 2007 This newspaper does not pay much attention to either religion or history, let alone a combination of the

[ZESTCaste] Creamy layer not applicable for SC, ST reservation: SC told (News)

http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=508889 SC-QUOTA Creamy layer not applicable for SC, ST reservation: SC told NEW DELHI, OCT 4 (PTI) The Centre today maintained before the Supreme Court that reservation was a constitutional promise for the upliftment of the backward classes and the

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorial/LEADER_ARTICLE_When_Myths_Compete/articleshow/2423007.cms LEADER ARTICLE: When Myths Compete 3 Oct 2007, hrs IST It is tempting to read Karunanidhi's remarks on Ram and the Ramayana as a return to DMK's rationalist origins. In the

[ZESTCaste] Call For Papers: Dalit Agendas—Emancipation, Citizenship, Empowerment - Deadline: November 1, 2007

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v54/n06/dalit.html Call For Papers: Dalit Agendas—Emancipation, Citizenship, Empowerment October 2, 2007, Volume 54, No. 6 Print Issue The Center for the Advanced Study of India and the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will

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http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070028225ch=10/4/2007%207:21:00%20PM MP dalits live in shadow of terror Rubina khan Shapoo Thursday, October 4, 2007 (Shajapur) For the last two months, the dalits in Bapcha village in Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh are living in

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http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3667079page=1 'Silent' Justice Outspoken on Affirmative Action Clarence Thomas: Job Search After Law School Left Him 'Humiliated' and 'Desperate' By ARIANE de VOGUE Sept. 30, 2007— Although Clarence Thomas has written his views on preferential policies in

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits build Gandhi temple in Sambalpur (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Saharanpur resident gets Kabir Puraskar for saving lives of Dalits (News)

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[ZESTCaste] A betrayal of democracy

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[ZESTCaste] Various SC/ST organisations to begin massive campaign (News)

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[ZESTCaste] CPI(M) to launch temple entry agitation on October 4 (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits enter temple (News)

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[ZESTCaste] DU seeks details of SC/ST appointments in colleges (News)

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[ZESTCaste] State in a fix over age relaxation for jobs (News)

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-- Forwarded message -- From: sandali thakur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 1, 2007 10:27 PM Subject: Silver Jubilee National Conference of IAWS- Call for Papers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is my pleasure to inform you that the Indian Association for Women's Studies (IAWS) is

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[ZESTCaste] Gujjars to court arrest (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Fwd: Job openings at The Centre for Alternative Dalit Media, New Delhi

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[ZESTCaste] Inclusion in ST category a constitutional matter: Minister

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[ZESTCaste] Fwd: Screening of INDIA UNTOUCHED on 2nd October

on the occasion of the 138th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Nazariya Drishti-Natarani Film Club Presents Stalin K's documentary film INDIA UNTOUCHED - Stories of a People Apart Winner of One Billion Eyes - Documentary Film Festival Award. After six months traveling to Hyderabad, Pune,

[ZESTCaste] Mala employees to fight ‘victimisation’

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit students battle prejudice and violence

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[ZESTCaste] BSP MLA shielding murderers of a dalit youth (News)

http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/7594 BSP MLA shielding murderers of a dalit youth Mon, 2007-10-01 03:02 By Bobby Ramakant Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has been trumpeting the welfare of dalits, but in UP state of India where they are in power, one of their own Member of

[ZESTCaste] Periyar An Iconoclast and a Reformer

http://www.chowk.com/articles/12637 Periyar An Iconoclast and a Reformer Shantanu Dutta September 20, 2007 I woke up to the news that in an apparent reaction to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's statements on Lord Rama and the Ramar Sethu controversy, miscreants pelted stones and hurled

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http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/sep/29cotton.htm India's cotton fields: Over 4 lakh child labourers More than four lakh children, mostly girls and under 18 years of age, are involved as child labour in cottonseed fields in India, a human rights report has said. Nearly 4,16,000 children

[ZESTCaste] Does entitlement enrich?

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1124348 Sunday, September 30, 2007 3:41:00 AM Does entitlement enrich? R Jagannathan Microview One fact that has been much commented upon in India's recent victory in the World T20 Championships is the composition of the team. With several small town

[ZESTCaste] USA: The New Affirmative Action

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30affirmative-t.html?_r=1oref=slogin Application The New Affirmative Action Tierney Gearon for The New York Times Two decades ago, Frances Harris would have been a shoo-in for a place in U.C.L.A.'s class of 2011. But the political landscape changed,

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[ZESTCaste] Nepal: Dalit NGO Federation on the caste discrimination incidents in the Farwestern region

http://nepaldalitinfo.net/2007/09/27/331/ Dalit NGO Federation on the caste discrimination incidents in the Farwestern region Kathmandu, 24 September 2007. Dalit NGO Federation has submitted a memorandum to different ministries and parliament head on the caste discrimination incidents that

[ZESTCaste] Dalit massacre to be commemorated (News)

http://www.indiaenews.com/india/20070928/72506.htm India Friday, September 28, 2007 Dalit massacre to be commemorated From correspondents in Maharashtra, India, 09:30 AM IST Dalit groups in Maharashtra are to pay homage Saturday to a Dalit family massacred a year ago by a group of Hindus who

[ZESTCaste] Scindia demands action on atrocity against Dalit woman (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Khairlanji survivor is a lonely outsider as Dalit groups fight (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Is it better to be a poor Brahmin or a well-to-do Dalit?

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[ZESTCaste] Land After Thirty Years Of 'Entitlement'

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[ZESTCaste] Atrocities on SC/STs: 128 cases registered in Kadapa district (News)

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[ZESTCaste] SC/ST hostel students go on an indefinite fast (News)

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[ZESTCaste] Crown doesn't pinch

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[ZESTCaste] Dalit labourer dragged by tractor over refusal to work (News)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Dalit_labourer_dragged_by_tractor_over_refusal_to_work/articleshow/2404265.cms Dalit labourer dragged by tractor over refusal to work 26 Sep 2007, 1322 hrs IST,PTI MORENA: Refusal to plough a field proved costly for a Dalit labourer, who was allegedly

[ZESTCaste] Future of Dalits safe under leadership of Sonia: DPCC chief (News)

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/26/stories/2007092654710400.htm New Delhi Future of Dalits safe under leadership of Sonia: DPCC chief Staff Reporter Congress has always protected their interest NEW DELHI: Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee president J. P. Agarwal on Tuesday said that Dalits had

[ZESTCaste] Start admissions without OBC quota: Govt (News)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Start_admissions_without_OBC_quota_Govt/articleshow/msid-1965407,curpg-2.cms Start admissions without OBC quota: Govt 27 Apr 2007, 1319 hrs IST,PTI NEW DELHI: After days of uncertainty, government on Friday issued a directive to all Central educational

[ZESTCaste] 24 residents of same village selected as VAOs (News)

24 residents of same village selected as VAOs http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200709270324.htm Madurai, Sept. 27 (PTI): As many as 24 villagers from Dalit-dominated Pazhaya Ayakudi village near Palani in Dindigul district have been selected as Village Administrative Officers in a test

[ZESTCaste] BSF For Action Against Corporate Colleges (News)

http://www.siasat.com/english/index.php?option=contenttask=viewid=210130Itemid=63cattitle=Andhra%20Pradesh BSF For Action Against Corporate Colleges Thursday, 27 September 2007 Hyderabad, September 27: Demanding action against the corporate colleges in Telangana region for charging extra fees

[ZESTCaste] Cong plays caste card in UP (News)

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=2theme=usrsess=1id=171449 Cong plays caste card in UP Statesman News Service NEW DELHI, Sept. 25: The Congress knows that it cannot prosper unless it becomes a challenge in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. And with Mr Rahul Gandhi now in the big league, he

[ZESTCaste] 'Caste discrimination cause of suicide' (News)

'Caste discrimination cause of suicide' http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Special Correspondent 'Anti-Dalit attitude' led to IISc student's extreme step, say parents and SSD SSD inquiry found that some professors were harassing Dalit students IISc denies

[ZESTCaste] AIIMS faculty member cries caste bias (News)

AIIMS faculty member cries caste bias http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Times_of_India/400x60/0 25 Sep 2007, 0131 hrs IST ,Dwaipayan Ghosh ,TNN NEW DELHI: An assistant professor of the radiotherapy department, Dr Suman Bhasker has written a letter to the SC Commission alleging caste

[ZESTCaste] Untouchability finds new forms (News)

Untouchability finds new forms http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Bageshree S. Bangalore: The appalling practice of untouchability seems to only assume new and less obvious forms after it is exposed and causes public outrage. The situation in Kadkol village of

[ZESTCaste] Fast track courts to take up Dalit cases (News)

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070924/32/6l5fp.html Tue, Sep 25 Fast track courts to take up Dalit cases By HT Tuesday September 25, 01:18 AM WITH THE National Scheduled Castes Commission headed by Buta Singh accusing the Mayawati government of ignoring the interest of the community, principal

[ZESTCaste] Busts of Marx, Periyar, Ambedkar opened (News)

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/19/stories/2007091953220300.htm Tamil Nadu Busts of Marx, Periyar, Ambedkar opened Special Correspondent TINDIVANAM: Several leaders participated in the function organised by the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) for unveiling the busts of E.V. Ramasamy Naicker, B.R.

[ZESTCaste] Periyar echo in DMK lines (News)

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070925/asp/nation/story_8357620.asp Periyar echo in DMK lines M.R. VENKATESH Karunanidhi Chennai, Sept. 24: M. Karunanidhi's statements on Ram are not a sudden burst of BJP-baiting by a former scriptwriter for Tamil films. They are statements typical of a

[ZESTCaste] ‘Pune pact should be re-examined’ (News)

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/25/stories/2007092561650800.htm Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad 'Pune pact should be re-examined' HYDERABAD: A majority of leaders from various political parties on Monday felt that the Pune pact between B.R. Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi in 1932 on providing political

[ZESTCaste] Polls in mind, state teams rejigged (News)

http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=75619ac5-15b2-48ef-8ee0-b97dc8621f9dHeadline=Polls+in+mind%2c+state+teams+rejigged Polls in mind, state teams rejigged September 24, 2007 Saroj Nagi, Hindustan Times New Delhi, September 25, 2007 Along with revamping the AICC, Sonia

[ZESTCaste] Youths clash in police station (News)

Youths clash in police station http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chandigarh/Youths_clash_in_police_station/articleshow/2399959.cms 25 Sep 2007, 0224 hrs IST ,TNN JALANDHAR: With clashes, that shook Haryana's Gohana district after Dalit youth Rakesh was allegedly killed by Jat youth after

[ZESTCaste] ‘Dalit MLAs, MPs stooges of politicians’ (News)

http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/25/stories/2007092555190500.htm Karnataka - Bangalore 'Dalit MLAs, MPs stooges of politicians' Special Correspondent 'Those amenable to 'upper caste' interests have been given tickets' 'Budget allocation to SC/STs is regularly diverted' Bangalore: Elected

[ZESTCaste] Dalits to organize ‘Dhikkar Rally’ to mark 1 year of Khairlanji incident (News)

http://www.indiadaily.org/entry/dalits-to-organize-dhikkar-rally-to-mark-1-year-of-khairlanji-incident/ Dalits to organize 'Dhikkar Rally' to mark 1 year of Khairlanji incident Pratyush | 3 hr. ago On September 29, several Dalit organisations across Maharashtra have planned to organize a

[ZESTCaste] Police fail to address our complaints, say Dalits (News)

Police fail to address our complaints, say Dalits http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 T.S. Ranganna National Human Rights Commission issues notice to police for failure of action Bangalore: Chikka Alaghatta village in Chitradurga taluk has 300 families, of which 100 are

[ZESTCaste] Eroding tradition(Chandrabhan Prasad)

http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnistfile_name=prasad%2Fprasad226.txtwriter=prasad Eroding tradition By Chandrabhan Prasad While inventions by James Hargreaves, Richard Arkright, Samuel Crompton and James Watt are duly accredited in triggering the march of machines

[ZESTCaste] Tension in village after murder (News)

Tension in village after murder http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/24/stories/2007092457090300.htm Muzaffarnagar: Tension prevailed in Budima village here following the alleged murder of a Dalit as villagers blocked the Panipat-Khatima highway for several hours after the incident. Earlier, the body

[ZESTCaste] Nepal: DALITS, JANAJATIS AND MUSLIMS-THE MOST NEGLECTED

http://telegraphnepal.com/news_det.php?news_id=2015 NEPAL: DALITS, JANAJATIS AND MUSLIMS-THE MOST NEGLECTED TGW The Dalits, Muslims and the Janajatis were more affected by rampant poverty in the country, a three-year interim plan approach paper prepared by the Nepal's National Planning Commission

[ZESTCaste] No FIR in Dalit immolation case (News)

www.tribune.com No FIR in Dalit immolation case Bipin Bhardwaj, Tribune News Service Batala, September 23 Even after 24 hours of recording the statement of Sandeep Singh, alias Sonu, a Dalit boy, in the presence of a judicial magistrate, the police still has not registered any case against the

[ZESTCaste] Dalits still living in fear in Karnataka village (News)

Dalits still living in fear in Karnataka village http://www.indiapress.org/gen/news.php/The_Hindu/400x60/0 Staff Correspondent MYSORE: Fear has gripped the Dalits of Chikka Ankanahalli village in Srirangapatna taluk in Mandya district, who were targeted by upper castes on Friday. Eerie

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