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Aaghaz’s Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship awarded to a Dalit student

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By TCN News, New Delhi:Aaghaz Foundation, an organisation that has been working towards reducing drop-out rate among minorities has announced the winner of ‘Rohith Vemula...

Mayawati names new party chief for UP unit

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Lucknow (IANS): BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday effected a major shake up in the party organization, naming R.S. Kushwaha as the new president of...

Manjula Pradeep: Working tirelessly to ensure equal rights for Dalits

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By Amit Kumar For Manjula Pradeep, growing up in Baroda and attending an English-medium school meant her childhood was like any other child, at least...

Almost 60 years later, Deekshabhoomi continues to draw Ambedkarites

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By Nivedita Khandekar Nagpur (Maharashtra): Hemlata Sontakke, 60, was too young to remember the epoch making event she had attended with...

Houses set on fire; physically-challenged girl dead

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By IANS, Hisar: An 18-year-old physically challenged Dalit girl was burnt alive after she was trapped in her house which was set on fire by members of a dominant community in Haryana's Hisar district Wednesday. "Some miscreants set some houses in Mirchpur village on fire. A girl, Suman, who could not run out of the house, died of burn injuries. Her father, 70-year-old Tara Chand, is admitted in hospital with 90 per cent burns," O.P. Sheron, deputy commissioner of Hisar, told reporters, here.

Three get death, 20 sentenced to life in Bathani Tola massacre

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By IANS, Patna : A Bihar court Wednesday sentenced to death three men and awarded life imprisonment to 20 others in the Bathani Tola massacre case in which 21 Dalits and poor Muslims were killed by members of the upper caste Ranvir Sena in 1996. The sentence was pronounced by Additional District and Sessions Judge of Ara Civil Court Ajay Kumar Srivastava amid high security. The three sentenced to death are Ajay Singh, Manoj Singh and Narendra Singh. The judge convicted 23 accused and acquitted 30 men due to lack of evidence May 5, a court official said.

Poor Dalit, Muslim families in Gujarat decry failure of Modi’s free ration scheme

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By Mahesh Trivedi, TwoCircles.net Gujarat: On 30 June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his government’s free ration scheme would benefit 800 million cash-strapped people...

Congress appoints two observers in MP to placate Dalits

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New Delhi (IANS): In its bid to strengthen its outreach among the Dalit community in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, the Congress on Friday appointed two...

Mandal-II vs Kamandal-II: Social justice and Bihar assembly election

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By Sanjay Kumar & Badre Alam, "For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a...

Menon freed, says willing to serve in Sukma again

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By IANS,

PM should sack ministers, apologise for Dalit’s suicide: Kejriwal

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New Delhi : Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack the two ministers who allegedly interfered in...

Modi government spreading hatred in Uttar Pradesh: Mayawati

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Lucknow : BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday attacked the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, saying it is spreading hatred and communalism in Uttar...

After Lalu, Nitish, Manjhi also want caste census data release

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Patna: A day after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad, Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar and his predecessor Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday...

Two Dalit girls’ rape and murder in Badaun draws international flak

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By A. Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: The alleged gang rape and murder of two dalit girls on 27 May 2014 in the Katra village of Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh has been condemned largely throughout the country by every section of the society. The condemnation did not stop within the borders of the country but international organizations have also expressed their dissatisfaction towards lack of adequate sanitation facilities and growing sexual violence of women resulting into the violations of human rights in India. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appalled by the brutal rape and killing of two dalit girls in UP whereas Amnesty International has criticized the police machinery of India who have time and again found to have derelict towards registering and investigating cases of rapes of low caste girls and their lackadaisical behavior in booking higher caste culprits in those cases.

For Asit Sapkale, music is synonymous with resistance

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net 'Music for a cause' has been used, and abused by artists so often that one cannot help but become a little...

‘Sangma not representative of tribals’

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By IANS,

Kerala HC judge glorifies Brahmins; breaks constitutional protocol calling for agitation against reservations

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TCN News Shocking comments were made by the Kerala High Court sitting judge Justice V. Chitambaresh at a“Tamil Brahmins Global Meet” held at Kochi,, while...

Atrocities on Dalits following pattern during NDA rule: Congress

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New Delhi : The Congress on Thursday said atrocities against the Dalits across India during the National Democratic Alliance government's rule since May 2014...

Centre isolating Hindus, says Mamata

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Kolkata : In a sharp attack on the Narendra Modi-led central government over the attacks on Dalits in Gujarat by cow protection vigilantes,...

‘हमारे ख़िलाफ़ हो रहे अत्याचार पर ये देवी-देवता चुप हैं, तो फिर हम इन्हें...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net मुज़फ़्फ़रनगर : 68 साल के बीड़ी जयंत मीरापुर में दलितों के सबसे बड़े मोहल्ले पछाला में रहते हैं. मोहल्ले के...

Wearing slogans on sleeves: Rupali Jadhav designs her activism on T-shirts

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33-year-old Rupali Jadhav started designing and selling T-shirts in early 2020, a year after the arrest of six activists of Kabir Kala Manch (KKM). Riya...

Man kills self, family in Bihar

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By IANS, Patna : Driven by poverty, a man set his wife and three children on fire before killing himself in Bihar's Aurangabad district early Monday, police said.

The Black Coat Terrorism!

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By Mansoor Durrani for TwoCircles.net, Some leading members of India’s fascist forces publically admire Adolf Hitler. Martin Niemöller was a German national conservative and also,...

After arrests, Kerala Police take to threatening students for protesting

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By Shafeeq Alingal Kozhikode: Wafa, a first year Sociology student here at Farook College, hardly expected that she would be under constant threats from police...

Maoist mediator Dandapani Mohanty held

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By IANS,

बाढ़ : सुशासित बिहार में 250 दलित सड़क पर रहने को मजबूर

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फहमीना हुसैन, TwoCircles.net बेलसर : बिहार सरकार द्वारा विकास के दावों के बीच आज वहां गया जिले में बेलसर गाँव के दलित टोले में रहने...

Caste, Cash and Construction: The Struggle of a Dalit Student Aspiring an IIT Education...

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Iqra Farrukh, TwoCircles.net Darbhanga (Bihar): Neha Kumari, a determined young woman from the Scheduled Caste (SC) Mehtar community, dreams of becoming an architect. Her ambition is...

जातिवाद के विनाश बिना देश का लोकतंत्र कमज़ोर: उर्मिलेश

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TCN News "हम देश को लोकतान्त्रिक राज्य तो कहते हैं पर सहभागी लोकतांत्रिक व्यवहारों से परहेज करते हैं. देश नागरिक सामान्य तौर पर आधार को...

Jitan Ram Manjhi: A soft-spoken Mahadalit who was a shepherd (Profile)

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Patna : Jitan Ram Manjhi, the 70-year-old Mahadalit leader who quit as Bihar chief minister Friday nine months after assuming office in May 2014,...

Bhanubhai Vankar’s death: BJP leaders face heat in several parts of Gujarat

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Ahmedabad, (IANS): The political trinity of Jignesh Mevani, Hardik Patel and Alpesh Thakor on Saturday upped the ante against Gujarat government following the death of...

Khabar Lahariya: Making rural media a force for change

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By Rupesh Dutta, New Delhi : It was never easy for Meera Jato, 42, to confront her in-laws' taunts, deal with household hassles and start the country's first rural language weekly "Khabar Lahariya" (News Wave) run only by women. It has in its short existence carved out a clear niche for itself in the ever-expanding media space in India.

Over a lakh Ambedkar followers expected in Mhow April 14

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By IANS, Bhopal: Over one lakh followers of Bhimrao Ambedkar are expected to gather at his birth place at Mhow near Indore on the occasion of his 119th birth anniversary April 14 - celebrated as 'Ambedkar Mahakumbh' for the past two years, officials said Tuesday. The Madhya Pradesh government has made elaborate arrangements for the occasion.

Rajya Sabha disrupted over Selja’s claim of caste bias

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New Delhi : The government and the opposition locked horns in the Rajya Sabah on Wednesday when the treasury benches contradicted Congress member Kumari...

In Nanded, thousands participate in march for Muslim reservations

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By TCN News Muslim Aarakshan Sangharsh Kruti Samiti, an umbrella organisation of various political and religious groups, organised a ‘Million March’ in Nanded on...

विडम्बना : शमशान में जलाने से रोक दिया दलित महिला का शव

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर । Twocircles.net उत्तर प्रदेश के आगरा से एक बेहद शर्मनाक घटना सामने आई है। यहां दलित समाज की एक नवविवाहिता का शव श्मशान...

Why mankind being denied the benefits of civil nuclear energy?

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Ref: - India should mobilize International community to clear nuclear mess. Dear Sir

‘नीट’ में ओबीसी आरक्षण को लेकर भीम आर्मी का प्रदर्शन

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स्टाफ़ रिपोर्टर।Twocircles.net देशभर में मेडिकल परीक्षा नीट में अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग का आरक्षण खत्म करे जाने का मुद्दा अब गरमाता जा रहा हैं। राजनैतिक...

SC/STs have healthiest sex ratio in Goa

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Panaji : Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Goa lead the way as far as sex ratio is concerned, according to the...

For Honey collectors, few rewards for risking life in Jungles

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In the third of the four-part series, we look at how the Honey collectors of Sunderbans are feeling the pinch of change in...

Five-year-old Dalit girl raped, murdered in Haryana; community rises in protests

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter On the night of December 8, 2017, a 5-year-old Dalit girl was abducted from her home, raped, murdered and her body...

‘जब तक दिलीप सरोज के परिवार को न्याय नहीं मिल जाता, तब तक आंदोलन...

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TwoCircles.net News Desk लखनऊ : दलितों के बीच काम करने वाली ‘लक्ष्य’ नामक एक संस्था की लखनऊ टीम ने दलित छात्र दिलीप सरोज की इलाहबाद...

Paswan faces stiff competition, but ‘BJP votes’ may help him clinch victory narrowly

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Hajipur: As Hajipur voted on May 7, local poster of boy in Indian politics, Lok Jan Shakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan appeared to be facing stiff competition, but he may clinch the victory, even though he may not be able to register his name in the Guinness book, this time around.

Make eligibility of pre and post-metric scholarship for minority students same as that for...

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By A Mirsab, TwoCircles.net, Aurangabad (Maharashtra): The present eligibility criteria of scoring at least 50% marks in the previous year’s examination to claim pre-...

Varanasi: Dalit-Muslim unity meet held to counter hate crimes in Uttar Pradesh

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter More than a dozen socio-political groups gathered in Varanasi’s Shastri Ghat on Sunday, February 18 to develop a consensus against the...

Dalit award winner of Dutch Human Rights award is refused passport

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By TCN News

Aaghaz Foundation of India calls for applications for Rohith Vemula Scholarship

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By TCN News Lucknow based Charity organisation Aaghaz Foundation is inviting applications for its second annual Rohith Vemula Memorial Scholarship. Constituted in memory of deceased Hyderabad...

सहारनपुर : डीजीपी सुलखान सिंह ने सर्किट हाऊस में लिया जायज़ा, घटनास्थल पर नहीं...

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : उत्तर प्रदेश में सहारनपुर ज़िले के शिमलाना व उसके आस-पास के गांव में शुक्रवार को हुए जातीय संघर्ष...

Quota for backwards: Struggle for social justice

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By Ram Puniyani

Massachusetts hosts America’s first-ever Dalit art exhibition

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Organized by Adavi Myah, an art collective led by Dalit and Bahujan women, the exhibition will run for four weeks until May 30, 2022. BOSTON,...

2700 crores for dalits but just 45 crores for Muslims in Mayawati’s budget

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net,

Dalit settlement in focus of Modi’s Clean India mission

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New Delhi: Dozens of municipal workers were busy Wednesday sprucing up Valmiki Colony, a settlement of poor, once-outcast Dalits where Mahatma Gandhi once dwelt,...

Dalit, Adivasi protestors released, say they will not be intimidated

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By TCN News, New Delhi: Claiming that the government is trying to suppress agitating dalit and adivasi voices, the 30-odd dalit and adivasi activists released from police custody said they will not be intimidated and will not compromise on their fundamental rights.

Amartya Sen supports anti-rape protests, notes Dalits’ plight

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By IANS,

Court pulls up Gujarat government on tribes recognition delay

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By IANS, Gandhinagar: The Gujarat High Court has pulled up the state government for its inaction in recognising the scheduled tribes living in the forest areas of Gir, Alech and Barda.

Reservation for Dalit Muslims

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By M Naushad Ansari,

Dalit group to ‘spearhead reconstruction of Babri Masjid’

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By M. Reyaz, TwoCircles.net

Another exercise in deception

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Ref: - International Kashmir conference held at Uruguay.

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The first ever Kashmir Conference in Latin America was held on July 31, 2007 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay where eight point hollow resolution was unanimously adopted except one relevant point that isÂ 'right to self determination by people of J&K'.

Kerala to provide aid, job to Dalit ragging victim

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Kozhikode : Kerala will provide financial and other help as well as a job to K.P. Aswathi, the Dalit girl who fell seriously ill...

Under Modi, record rise in unspent funds for Dalits/tribals

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By Nikhil M. Babu In the run-up to the 2014 general elections, then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, while addressing a gathering of Dalits and...

A woman’s journey from hunger to the legislature

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By Mohammed Shafeeq, IANS, Hyderabad : From a small hut in a remote village in East Godavari district to the Andhra Pradesh legislature, Anguri Lakshmi Shiva Kumari has come a long way.

TNTJ resolution for Muslim reservation

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By TCN News The resolutions adopted at the Conference on The Rights of the Oppressed. The Conference on the Rights of the Oppressed organized by Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath on July, the 4th , 2010 at the Island Grounds, Chennai unanimously adopted the following resolutions.

Three Ambedkar statues vandalised in UP

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By IANS,

Teachers want Ambedkar on currency notes

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New Delhi (IANS): Around 50 teachers from Dalit and other marginalised sections took out a march towards the President House on Friday to demand...

How quotas help disadvantaged-caste students get higher education

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By Charu Bahri As many as 26 per cent male and 35 per cent female students from India’s most disadvantaged castes and tribes in 245...

Dadarao Patekar: Fighting for the rights of Mumbai’s Safai Karamcharis

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net It would not be an exaggeration to say that manual scavenging remains one of the worst forms of caste atrocities in...

Hundreds join solidarity march for Rohit Vemula

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New Delhi : Hundreds of students and faculty members of various universities gathered here on Tuesday and took out a march from Ambedkar Bhawan...

‘English Vinglish’ encourages Dalit girls in Bihar

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By Subhash K. Jha, IANS,

Hyderabad varsity expects normalcy to return soon

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Hyderabad : Cracks appear to have developed among students protesting over a Dalit research scholar's suicide at University of Hyderabad with the authorities claiming...

भीमा कोरेगांव में क्या हुआ और क्यों हुआ?

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कलीम अज़ीम, TwoCircles.net के लिए क्या है भीमा कोरेगांव का इतिहास और 200 साल बाद की सियासत? अब पढ़िए आगे… जब लाखों लोग जब भीमा नदी...

Kanhaiya Kumar’s family objects to Mayawati remarks against him

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Patna : Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar's family on Friday took a strong objection to Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's remarks...

AIC files amicus curie after Indian worker faces caste discrimination by a major tech...

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Commenting on the case, Ambedkar International Center (AIC) said that American workplaces must be caste-free zones. TCN News A Washington DC based organization Ambedkar International Center...

दलित युवाओं के लिए ‘आदर्श मानव ‘ बन गए है चन्द्रशेखर

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आस मोहम्मद कैफ, सहारनपुर- छूटमलपुर से 90 किमी दूर बिजनोर बाईपास के पास मीरापुर में कुछ लड़के क्रिकेट खेल रहे है,गेंद को अपनी रेंज में...

Platform formed to seek justice for victims of Bathani Tola massacre

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Convention on 15 July in Delhi Public Meeting in Ara on anniversary of Bathani Tola Massacre By TCN News

Amid pandemic, rains, residents of Ramesh Park rendered homeless

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Residents of Ramesh Park have been rendered homeless after a demolition drive by Delhi Development Authority (DDA). Most of the residents, who are either Muslim...

त्रासदी : बाढ़ में बुरी तरह डूब गया है उत्तर बिहार

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जिब्रानउद्दीन। Twocircles.net उत्तर बिहार में पिछले एक महीने से बाढ़ की भयावह स्थिति बनी हुई है। जिसके प्रभाव में आकर लाखों लोगों का जीवन...

Dalit killed for using hand pump

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By IANS, Patna: A Dalit man was beaten to death in a Bihar village by upper caste henchmen for drawing water from a common hand pump, police said Saturday.

In Ambedkar University, an afternoon of Dalit assertion and pride with Ginni Mahi

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By Pritam Singh Tinna, Twocircles.net Music events are part and parcel of every University campus, but on February 1, the Ambedkar University campus students witnessed...

As Chirang goes to polls, Santhals, Bodos hope peace is prioritised, not politicised

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By Amit Kumar, TwoCircles.net Chirang: William Tudu, a 60-year-old Santhal, is not sure who to vote for. He has been voting in the past elections...

Sikhs protest over atrocities against minorities, Dalits

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By Arul Louis United Nations, (IANS): A group of Sikhs held a protest against atrocities against minorities and Dalits in India during B.R. Ambedkar's birth...

Modi had better speak on Rohith’s suicide: Kejriwal

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New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak on the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith...

Dattu Thorat: A mechanic working to improve education levels in Shirpur

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By Shiva Thorat, TwoCircles.net Most people expect a cycle repair mechanic to do just that: repair cycles, and make a living. Dattu Thorat also does...

50 injured in police, protestors clash in Patna

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Patna : At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were injured here on Friday afternoon when police in a bid to disperse...

Tension in Ghaziabad after Ambedkar statue vandalised

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Ghaziabad : The defiling of a statue of the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar here has led to...

Una incident organised crime against Dalits: Mamata

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Kolkata : West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday condemned the thrashing of Dalit youths in Gujarat's Una and...

Discrimination against Dalit women in Ahmedabad

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(Editor’s Note: This is Case Study which is part of a new annual report titled ‘State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2015’...

Bhagana’s Dalit victims seek justice; protest at Jantar Mantar

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter, New Delhi: The movement for justice for the victim of Bhagana violence is growing day by day. On April 27, protested at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. The protesters called the dharna a “prelude,” adding that if the government and political parties fail to respond to it timely then they may witness “huge public protest” in the coming days.

Mayawati blames BJP, RSS for Maharashtra violence

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Lucknow, (IANS): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday accused the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of engineering the caste violence in...

गुजरात के दलितों से कब सबक लेंगे मुसलमान

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net गुजरात के दलितों से सबक़ लीजिए. गाय की खाल उधेड़ने के नाम पर ऊंचे तबक़े की गुंडागर्दी का किस क़दर क़रारा...

Why I participated in the Yuva Hunkar rally

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Text and photos by Siddhant Mohan, TwoCircles.net The Yuva Hunkar rally, which took place in Delhi today, saw a sizeable participation from people from all...

The 13-point system is both casteist and unconstitutional, say activists (III)

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By Atul Anand On January 31, 2019, a protest march was organized from Mandi House to the Parliament Street on the 13 point roster issue....

Three Dalit youths found murdered in Uttar Pradesh

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By IANS,

Revisiting Babasaheb on India at 70: For Dalits, there has never been much to...

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By Yogesh Maitreya, TwoCircles.net All photos by Daisy Katta August 15 has come and gone; delved into, reflected upon, and discussed at length. Yet, the familiar...

A Portrait of the Indian as a Young Dalit Girl: Part 7 – Being...

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(Editor’s note: This was first published on Yahoo.com as a single piece. We are reproducing the long form report in parts for TwoCircles.net readers.) You...

Mayawati reserves 50 percent of party posts for youth

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Lucknow : Inspired by the results that young leaders are coming up with in other political parties, BSP chief Mayawati announced that from now...

‘Muslim and Christian Dalits must also get the SC Status’

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Dalit scholar’s suicide an indictment of BJP’s Hindutva agenda, say Indian Americans

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By TCN News Washington: The Indian American Muslim Council, an advocacy group aimed at safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos, expressed shock...

The Muslim factor in 2014 Lok Sabha Polls

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By Syed Ali Mujtaba, It is high time to call off the bluff of Muslim vote bank in Indian politics. The Dalits like to vote the party that favors them, so are the Hindu caste groups, and even their Jatis are doing the same. Everyone wants to seek affiliation with the nearest similar identities and try to influence the electoral process. It’s the rule of the game of ballot box democracy and there is nothing unusual about it. In fact such designs are encouraged by the political parties who give tickets to the candidates that have significant electoral base.

Prima Facie report by Team of The Independent Peoples Tribunal on death of Rohith...

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By TCN News, Delhi: The Joint Action Committee for Social Justice had requested the Indian Peoples Tribunal to send a fact finding team to investigate...

Jitan Ram Manjhi sworn-in as Bihar’s new CM

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Patna: Jitan Ram Manjhi, a 68-year-old Mahadalit leader, was Tuesday sworn-in as the 23rd chief minister of Bihar. Manjhi along with 17 ministers took oath...

‘रासुका से तो अच्छा है मुझे मार दे सरकार’ : भीम आर्मी सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेख़र...

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : भीम आर्मी के सुप्रीमो चंद्रशेखर आज़ाद पर राज्य सरकार राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा क़ानून (रासुका) की कार्यवाही कर रही है. यह...

Lone survivor of Khairlanji massacre, Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, dies of heart attack

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By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net Bhaiyalal Bhotmange, the lone survivor of the Khairlanji massacre, died of a heart attack on Friday, January 20. For the past...

जेयूसीएस ने चुनाव आयोग की शुचिता पर उठाए सवाल, कहा आयोग कर रहा साम्प्रदायिक...

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By TCN News, लखनऊ : पिछले दिनों मीडिया में आए वीडियो पर योगी आदित्यनाथ ने आरोप लगाया कि इसके पीछे नक्सलवादी ताकतों की साज़िश है. इसके बाद वीडियो के मूल स्रोत डाक्यूमेंट्री फिल्म ‘सैफ्रन वार’ के निर्माता-निदेशक सदस्यों ने इसे उल-जलूल हरकत करार देते हुए फिल्म में उठाए गए दलितों के हिन्दूकरण, महिला हिंसा, देश विरोधी विदेशी संगठनों से योगी के गठजोड़ और राष्ट्रपिता महात्मा गांधी की हत्या में इस राजनीति की भूमिका से ध्यान हटाने की कोशिश बताया. डॉक्यूमेंट्री फिल्मकार शाहनवाज़ आलम, राजीव यादव और लक्ष्मण प्रसाद ने कहा कि योगी आदित्यनाथ वीडियो को कभी अपना तो कभी कट- पेस्ट बता रहे हैं, लेकिन हमने पहले भी मीडिया द्वारा इस बात को संज्ञान में लाया है कि इस वीडियो के मूल स्रोत को न्यायालय से लेकर चुनाव आयोग सभी को सौंपा जा चुका है. लेकिन सरकार योगी पर किसी भी कार्यवाही के बजाय मुद्दे को सिर्फ चुनावी रणनीति की तरह देख रही है. योगी आदित्यनाथ भी इस अनदेखी का पूरा लाभ उठा रहे है. इस मामले में कोई भी कार्यवाही न करके चुनाव आयोग अपनी जवाबदेही से तो बच ही रहा है, साथ ही योगी को बचाने वाले अपने अधिकारियों को भी बचाने की कोशिश में लगा हुआ है.

CPI-M plenum to stress deepening links with people: Yechury

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Kolkata : Describing the CPI-M as a "revolutionary party with a mass line", its general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Saturday said the five-day party...

Dalit icon Mayawati is focus of scholar’s research

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Prof Vimal Thorat delivers lecture on Dalit feminist writing at MIT

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‘Babasaheb Ambedkar instilled a consciousness in women who then resolved to have their children, especially daughters, educated’ By Umang Kumar for TwoCircles.net, Cambridge MA: Professor Vimal Thorat, current co-convener at the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) and former professor of Hindi at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on "Caste and Gender in Dalit feminist writing" on Thursday, May 21. The event was organized by the Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia.

Tamil Nadu police firing: toll rises to seven; Jayalalithaa orders judicial probe

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Kerala education minister orders probe in Dalit student’s ragging case in Kerala

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By TwoCirlces.net Staff Reporter Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Education Minister has intervened in the incident, where a Dalit student was ragged so bad that his kidneys were...

Even today people treat me as an untouchable: Bihar CM

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Patna : Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi Sunday revealed that he is still treated as an "untouchable" by some "powerful people" as he...

JNU students’ elections put BAPSA in the national spotlight

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter In two days time, students will be voting for representatives in the university-wide student union elections in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi....

‘Dalits still being targetted in Uttar Pradesh’

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Nationalism is core identity of BJP, says Modi

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the "nationalism" was core identity of the BJP and called upon party workers...

Send us to Pakistan, but don’t ask us to go back to our villages,...

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By M Reyaz, TwoCircles.net, Hissar/New Delhi: On Sunday, May 11, a large number of Dalit women from a village in Haryana staged a protest outside the residence of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, demanding the arrest of a village head and his son over the alleged gang rape of four minor girls. Earlier on May 5, about hundreds of them had organised a candle-march at Jantar Mantar seeking justice for the four girls who were gang-raped by a group of boys from the dominant Jat community. Police had put barricade as safety-measure and did not allow them to move beyond a certain limit.

An open letter to President-elect Ramnath Kovind: Hope you follow the Indian Constitution, not...

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By Shamsul Islam for TwoCircles.net Respected Ramnath Kovind, Namaskar, I must congratulate you for being chosen as presidential candidate of the Indian Republic by BJP. It...

In Rural Telangana, How a Dalit Women-Run Radio Station Is Changing Lives

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Mohini Kapoor, TwoCircles.net Hyderabad: Not long ago, in a corner of southern India where caste and gender boundaries still hold strong, the idea of Dalit women...

#TCN10: Some thoughts about the eventful journey

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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step: Chinese Philosopher Laozi By Kashif-ul-Huda, TwoCircles.net This month, TwoCircles.net – or TCN...

Art festival at TISS celebrates the colours of Bahujan resistance

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By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter The Mumbai campus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences was abuzz with the colours of Bahujan Art the past weekend as...

10000 KM yatra to liberate 1.2 million people from the caste ridden practice of...

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राजस्थान से ग्राउंड रिपोर्ट : जातीय भेदभाव के चलते पाली में मरने वाला जितेंद्र...

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राजस्थान् दलितों के उत्पीड़न के लिए नकारात्मक छवि रखता है। हाल के दिनों में कुछ गंभीर घटनाओं ने इसकी पुष्टि की है। यहां के...

Coalition of 100+ South Asian and American organizations oppose APPWW’s hate campaign

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TCN News More than 100 community organizations in the US have condemned Alliance for Persecuted Peoples Worldwide (APPWW) in a latest open statement over its...

Patel delegation hands over 27-point charter to Gujarat CM

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Ahmedabad: A delegation of Patidar community leaders, including BJP MP from Porbandar Vitthal Radadiya, who is mediating between the state government and the agitating...

Present goodwill of India , Pakistan & international community be utilized

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Dear Sir Normally any community which lays down the lives of its so many people does not remain without being master of its political destiny. But Kashmiris (despite sacrificing more than 80,000 people as per Nicholson's report adopted by EU's Parliament vide A6-0158/2007 on May 24, 2007) are still groping in the dark mainly due to:-

Triangular contest in Dhamdaha revives memories of caste wars in Bihar

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By Brajendra Nath Singh Dhamdaha (Purnia) : Shambhu Bhagat (48) of Haldibari village in Dhamdaha was emotional while recounting the murder of his...

TCN seeks a full-time reporter for its Dalit section

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TwoCircles.net (TCN) is a platform for the news of the marginalized communities of India, particularly Muslims, Dalits and Adivasis. For the past 10 years,...

Ex-IAS Anees Ansari elected chairman of Momin Conference

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By Faisal Fareed, TwoCircles.net Lucknow: The plight of silk weavers in Varanasi, brass workers in Moradabad and bangle artisans in Ferozabad will be raised by retired IAS officer Anees Ansari. The move is seen as the first step towards joining active politics like many of his brethren. Ansari was in news when he was suspended from the post of Agriculture Production Commissioner (APC) of the state in 2008 after his fashion designer wife Asma Hussain hosted a fashion show at their official residence.

Congress slams Haryana CM for dubbing Dalit boy’s death as suicide

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New Delhi: The Congress on Friday slammed Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar for dubbing the death of a 15-year-old Dalit boy in Sonipat...

Eight bodies go missing in Bihar graveyard

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By IANS, Patna: Eight bodies have disappeared from a graveyard in a Bihar village in one night, scaring local residents. People of Belauri village in Purnia district, about 350 km from here, were stunned Friday when they found that eight bodies had disappeared from the Sauraghat Samsan graveyard overnight. "We found that eight graves were dug up and the bodies missing," villager Ramavatar Sada said. Sada said the graveyard was used by Dalits and other very poor people to bury their dead as they could afford costly cremations.

भारत में सरकार नाम की कोई चीज़ है या नहीं?

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डॉ. खजान सिंह हाल ही में दबंगो द्वारा गुजरात के ऊना में दलितों के साथ किए गए अमानवीय व्यवहार ने सारे देश के बहुजनो को...

जज़्बात से नहीं, अब ‘अक़्ल’ से लड़ रही है भीम आर्मी

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आस मुहम्मद कैफ़, TwoCircles.net सहारनपुर : दलित अब सचमुच पहले जैसा नहीं है. पूरी ताक़त से जिस संगठन भीम आर्मी को कुचलने की कोशिश हुई...

Patan Gang Rape- Request Public hearings in Gujarat

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Submitted by dn.rath, New Delhi The Visiting Team of NCW on Patan to Gujarat National Commission for Women 4, Deen Dayal Upadhayaya Marg, New Delhi-110 002. Sub- Patan Gang Rape- Request Public hearings in Gujarat association with NCW

Geeta Bharti: A Maratha lady dedicated to singing Kirtans of revolt and presenting the...

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By Shiva Thorat, Twocircles.net Revolt came early in the life of Geeta Bharti. Born in 1943 and married her early 20s, that event was also...

How Tamil filmmaker Pa Ranjith is bringing marginalised into the mainstream

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The brain behind several hit films in Tamil, Pa Ranjith is forcing us to confront caste in all its complexities. Smitha R | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI...

Sonia raises ‘distressing rise’ in attacks on Dalits with Modi

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New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday raised the issue of "distressing rise in incidence of atrocities against Dalits" with Prime Minster Narendra...

Rectify 1.4 crore errors in caste particulars, states told

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New Delhi: Amid demands by some opposition parties for releasing the data of the caste census, the government on Tuesday said there were over...

भागलपुर पुलिसिया दमन : नीतीश कुमार के ‘सामाजिक न्याय की प्रतिबद्धता’ को कर दिया...

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TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter दिल्ली : उत्तर प्रदेश के लखनऊ में अपने पुराने पेंशन व अन्य मांगों को लेकर प्रदर्शन कर रहे शिक्षकों पर पुलिस...

Police in Uttar Pradesh beat protesting Dalit women, call it ‘minimal force’

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The police denied the allegations claiming the protesting women threw stones at them prompting them to use 'minimal force'. Afnan Habib | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — In...

Vijay Sampla – a first-time BJP MP from Punjab (Profile)

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Chandigarh : Vijay Sampla, who took oath as a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet Sunday, is a first-time BJP MP from the...

‘We’ll Keep Opposing:’ – National Protest of Dalit Christians & Dalit Muslims organised by...

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Riya Talitha | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI –On March 28, around 1,500 demonstrators gathered at Jantar Mantar to demand the inclusion of Dalit Christians in the...

Rajasthan’s Dalit women celebrate ‘liberty’ at temple

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Can marginalised students in India dream of higher education in foreign universities?

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Students from marginalized communities in India face multiple hurdles in accessing education abroad. Aatika S | TwoCircles.net NEW DELHI — Tejas Harad, founder-editor of The Satyashodhak, an...

डेल्टा मेघवाल और उसके पिता का दर्द…

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अफ़रोज़ आलम साहिल, TwoCircles.net नोखा (राजस्थान) : मेरे लिए आपने आप में एक बेहद मुश्किल काम था. मैं डेल्टा मेघवाल के पिता से रूबरू था....

Anti-beef ban march in Mumbai on Tuesday

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Mumbai: Thousands of people, including butchers, students and political leaders, will walk together in a march here on Tuesday to protest the ban on...

Tribals’ nod must for takeover of their land: Rahul Gandhi

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Raipur: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that tribals must be asked for their permission before their land is taken away from...

Betrayed by Congress, Dalit Christians should give a chance to BJP, casteism has no...

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By TCN News, New Delhi: The Christian organization Poor Christian Liberation Movements (PCLM), on 3rd April, has alleged that the Congress led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been luring three crore Dalit Christians by promising them to give the status of Scheduled Caste for the last two and half decades, but it has never been honest to its commitments.