Caste System

'Article 15' Maker Appeals For Help As Movie On Caste System Faces Blocks

India News | Edited by Stela Dey | Saturday June 29, 2019

Article 15, a movie about the caste system in India has run into protests a day after its release, forcing it off theatres in some parts of the country, the film's director-producer has said, opening a fresh frontier in a nationwide debate over free speech.

"Seeking Votes On Amma's Behalf": AIADMK Banks On Jayalalithaa Magic

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday April 10, 2019

Tamil Nadu's ruling AIADMK, which has an alliance with the BJP for the national election, says ideologically it doesn't believe in the caste system or religious differences and wants an India in which minorities are protected.

Workers Doing India's Dirtiest Job Say PM Modi Has Failed Them

India News | Reuters | Sunday April 7, 2019

Five sanitation workers, all from the lowest rung of India's caste system, were chosen in late February to meet a very important guest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

PewDiePie Is A Sore Loser After Losing YouTube Crown To T-Series

Entertainment | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday April 1, 2019

PewDiePie said: "India got YouTube figured out... How about next you figure how to fix the caste system"

10% Quota For Economically Weak In General Category Cleared: 10 Points

India News | Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday January 8, 2019

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

BSP Lawmaker In Karnataka Hits Out At Government Over Caste Inequality

Karnataka News | Press Trust of India | Thursday October 4, 2018

Lone Bahujan Samaj Party minister in Karnataka N Mahesh on Thursday, hit out at ruling coalition partners Congress and JD(S), alleging that their existence is based on caste system and inequality.

Ambedkar Followers Believe Artificial Intelligence Can Eliminate Caste System

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday March 7, 2018

Firmly believing that artificial intelligence can help end social evils like caste system and reduce inequalities in India by 2030, the supporters of B R Ambedkar plan to celebrate 127th birth anniversary of the iconic Dalit leader at the UN headquarters in New York next month with the theme "Artificial Intelligence for Humanity".

Listen To Your Inner Voice, Meira Kumar Tells Tamil Nadu Lawmakers

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 2, 2017

The opposition's Presidential candidate Meira Kumar today asked all lawmakers -- MLAs and MPs -- from Tamil Nadu to listen to their "inner voice" when they cast their vote in the presidential election.

Baahubali 2 Director Rajamouli Trolled For Old Post On Caste System

Monday May 1, 2017

S S Rajamouli's Baahubali 2 is busy destroying box office records set by previous films

Student Erases Mention Of His Caste From School Record In Maharashtra

Press Trust Of India | Tuesday January 10, 2017

Mumbai: A 12-year-old student from Marathwada region has become talk of his village for ‘erasing’ the mention of his caste from the school attendance record. Rohan Bhosle, a seventh standard student of the Zila Parishad school at Pargaon village in Ashti tehsil of Beed district, deleted the mention of his caste from the school attendance sheet ...

Who Is Savitribai Phule? 19th Century Pioneer Still Inspires Many

People | Edited by Bhagyashree Pandey | Tuesday January 3, 2017

Hailed as the country's first woman teacher, Savitribai Phule was also a social worker and a poet. Born on January 3, 1831, 2017 marks her 186th birth year. Savitribai Phule is credited with laying the foundation of education opportunities for women in India and played a major role in improving women's rights in the country during the British Raj. ...

'Kicked In My Stomach': Pregnant Dalit Woman Beaten For Not Picking Cow Carcass

India News | Written by Rohit Bhan | Sunday September 25, 2016

A 25-year-old pregnant Dalit woman and her family were beaten up in Gujarat on Friday allegedly after they refused to dispose of a cow carcass, police has said.

Blog: Enough Persecution. Dalits Should Stop Skinning Cows.

Blog | Ravish Kumar | Thursday July 21, 2016

Vijay Deewan, 59, says he has no caste, no religion. But on much prodding he said that his mother and father were Brahmins. For the son of a Brahmin family to take up this profession in 1982, the resolve he must have had to annihilate the poison of India's caste system is something you can only imagine. It was this that made me think that amid the ...

The New 140-Character War On India's Caste System

India News | Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post | Thursday May 12, 2016

Much like the "Black Twitter" movement in the United States, Dalits with popular Twitter handles are now routinely flexing their muscles on the microblogging site, acting as community watchdogs and highlighting issues of bias, brutality and bigotry that they say India's predominantly upper-caste media tends to ignore.

Dalit Man, Refused Water, Dug His Own Well, Says ‘All Are Welcome’

Sanjay Tewari | Tuesday May 10, 2016

Bapurao Tajne looks down at his hands, tired with blisters, with discernible pride. For 40 days, in heat that refused to move south of 40 degrees, he spent his days raising his axe to the sun, and then bringing it down. Six hours a day, over and over, the same steady motion, sweat flowing across his body. And then he found it. 15 feet below the par...