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• Anglo-Indians seek Vatican intervention in Kerala church row

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Anglo-Indian MP Charles Dias has sought the intervention of the Vatican to end alleged “discrimination” against the community by the Latin Catholic hierarchy in Kerala.The Anglo-Indian community, formerly known as Eurasians, is a sub-caste of the Latin Catholics in the state.Dias, who met ...
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• From rat-eaters to flag bearers of Bihar’s anti-polio drive (With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  By Richa SharmaSaharsa (Bihar), Dec 7 (IANS) For years the Musahars have been looked down upon for being rat-eaters. Deprived, illiterate and often completely untouched by health initiatives, this very community is now helping Bihar fight its big battle against polio.It was roped in for implementation of the National ...
  10 hours ago

• India is facing both internal, external threats: RSS chief

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Chandigarh, Dec 6 (IANS) Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat said here Sunday that India is facing internal threats from various quarters and the outside world is trying to take advantage of the situation.“India is facing a big problem of Maoists and Naxalites. Unfortunately other countries have ...
  20 hours ago

• mr.tharoors high perch

  
  kufr — Authority: 113
  soumitro das nails it : If you ask a Bollywood filmmaker whether this is actually what he is defending, he will be surprised. He believes that the values he is defending in his film are universal — love, family, country, religion... The word ‘caste’ would never cross his mind. Then how do we say that ...
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• Six get life for massacring Dalits

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court has sentenced six upper caste men from Uttar Pradesh to life terms for killing seven Dalits 30 years ago.Sentencing the six men after reversing their acquittal by the Allahabad High Court, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice A.K. Patnaik said: “Unfortunately, the ...
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• Radio Pakistan blames Hindus for discrimination against all communities including Sikhs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Gurdaspur, Dec.5 (ANI): Though India is today looked upon by the world community for its democratic values and social fabric where over a billion people of diverse cultures co-exit in harmony and participate in each other’s festivals, broadcasters of Radio Pakistan are sceptical about this well-known reality. Radio ...
  2 days ago

• Dalit man shot dead for sitting on chair

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Patna, Dec 3 (IANS) A Dalit man was shot dead in cold blood by a group of upper caste men in a Bihar village for sitting on a chair to watch a musical entertainment programme at a wedding, police said Thursday.Harendra Kumar Manjhi, in his late 20s, was shot dead in Salempur village in Saran [...]
  3 days ago

• Maoist-backed tribals surrender in Orissa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Narayanpatna (Orissa), Dec.3 (ANI): Fed up of the violence, hundreds of tribals associated with the Maoist backed outfit, ‘Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh’ (CMAS) surrendered to the police in Orissa’s Narayanpatna region.The tribals were involved in agitations, and had forcibly occupied lands belonging to non-tribals ...
  4 days ago

• Letter from India: From Places of the Heart, a New Order

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Time moves on, Sathy says, and India needs to develop. But was he finds harder to accommodate himself to is the way the physical contours of his world are changing. My friend likes to talk about all the ways his world has changed. Sathy, as he calls himself, is 45 years old. He grew up the son of a local zamindar, or ...
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• Babri Masjid –The Saga of a Historical Monument

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 115
  Long ago at the shores of Indian Ocean, there used to be a country. It was an officially democratic nation whose ruler caste (whom we now a days know as Politicians) were very happy and prosperous. As the nation was officially Democratic, no one was actually puzzled against the extreme prosperity of the politicians, ...
  5 days ago

• The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoir

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 509
  By Urmila Pawar Columbia University Press At the end of her memoir, The Weave of My Life , Urmila Pawar writes, “Life has taught me many things, showed me so much, it has also lashed out at me till I bled. I don’t know how much longer I am going to live, nor do I know in what form life is going to confront ...
  6 days ago

• Untouchables

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 507
  I believe that the Untouchables are being treated horribly in the caste system and I also think that the caste system should be eradicated because of the unusually cruel and harmful punishments that are done unto them. Some examples of the horrors that are being done to the Untouchables are that they are being shot, ...
  1 week ago

• Assam scheduled caste communities living in ‘hell’: Buta Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Guwahati, Nov 30 (IANS) Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes Buta Singh has lashed out at the Assam government for failing to meet the basic needs of the backward sections of the society, saying such people were living in “hell”.“I am deeply anguished and disturbed to see the plight of the ...
  1 week ago

• sacrificial lambs for a yaagam

  
  kufr — Authority: 113
  kcr doesnt plan any major action without seeking any divine endorsement. he has to attend many pujas, visit several temples and perform a yaagam or two before he can step up to the cameras and announce his plans. the students and agitators who were beaten up by the police yesterday were mostly from the ...
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• Deadbeat Kilby: The Shame That Is Upon Us

  
  Knifefightingjesus.com — Authority: 132
  We at KFJ would love to apologize for the misactions of one of our staffers in the procreation department.  He has fathered at least 7 children out of wedlock–and that’s only on known worlds.  The really f’ed up part:  he’s not paying a dime of child support.  It almost makes us sick enough to scratch [...]
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• Debunking the Beauty Myth

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 651
  Naomi Wolf author of The Beauty Myth discusses how images fueled by consumerism are used against women.  Wolf points out that the beauty myth becomes harsher after times of political gain for women, thus distracting us from the cause of equality. As Ecclesiastes…
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• Paswan seeks ATR on welfare of Mahadalits

  
  Jai Bihar — Authority: 148
  PATNA — Accusing Nitish Kumar government of trying to divide the dalits, LJP President Ramvilas Paswan on Thursday called for Action Taken Report(ATR) on steps taken for the uplift of mahadalits in Bihar. ”Nitish Kumar is trying to divide dalits in the name of mahdalits,” Paswan told reporters. Terming as ...
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• Love isn’t in the air for now

  
  Summit Notebook — Authority: 516
  Technology giants this year have been encroaching on one another’s markets, buying up companies as they try to become one-stop shops for computing, networking and data storage, but Infosys still hasn’t jumped on the bandwagon. Infosys Technologies Chief Financial Officer V. Balakrishnan compared acquisitions to ...
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• Frontline Report: Protection of Civil Rights & Ineffective Governments in India

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 116
  Governments across the country have shown a remarkable reluctance to use the S.C./S.T. Act to protect Dalits from upper-caste violence. Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange. Four members of his family, including two women, were hacked to death in September 2006. In September 2008, six persons were awarded the death sentence in the ...
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• Bits and Bytes

  
  http://afrospear.wordpress.com/ — Authority: 122
  1.  On this date 150 years ago, November 24th 1859, Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection” . Back then it was seen as a challenge to the religious ideology and establishment of the day. I remember reading it when I was in university and I found it… well in a word: ...
  1 week ago

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