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Dalit History Month – Remembering Mukta Salve, First Dalit Woman Writer
Today in Dalit History Month we celebrate a Dalit Feminist icon Mukta Salve (also referred to as Muktabai) who was born in a Mang community. She was the granddaughter of Krantiveer Lahuji Salve, a …
Somebody Please Save Hindu Women
In the last few months, we have heard a lot about Triple Talaq, Muslim women and how to save them and mainstream media has ignored Hindu women. Is it another political stunt by BJP and Modi govern…
Dalit History Month – Grace Banu
Today in Dalit History, we uplift the voice of Grace Banu. Grace was born in Tamil Nadu into a Dalit family. Very early on, in school, she was not allowed to attend the regular hours of 9.30am to 4…
To Jyotiba, Savitribai Phule’s Love Letters
To Jyotiba, From Savitribai Phule’s Love Letters
Savitribai Phule, arguably India’s first woman teacher and a forgotten liberator, was born on January 3, 1831. With the first school for girls fr…
Dalit History Month – Ginni Mahi – Danger Chamar
Today in Dalit History, we celebrate Ginni Mahi, a 17-year-old singer from Jalandhar, Punjab who rose to fame in the last few years, especially through her hit song, Fan Babasaheb Di ( I’m a fan of…
Health Status of Tribal Women in Rural India and Health Consciousness: Present Perspectives
The Position of Indian Women is a paradox right from the Vedic period to modern times. In the present male-dominated society, women are shown in a passive role of a mother, wife, daughter and siste…
Dalit History Month – Remembering Jhalkaribai, A Legendary Dalit Woman Warrior
Jai Bhim! Happy Dalit History Month 2017! Whole April month is celebrated as Dalit History Month by Dalit-Bahujans.
“Our first Dalit history month post is about the legendary Jhalkaribai. She wa…
Telling Our Stories In Our Voices – Dalit History Month Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
April is celebrated as a Dalit History Month. Here is a note from our Dalit History Month Collective.
Our history is the resistance of peoples oppressed by Caste. Dalit History is of the Subcont…
Remembering Delta Meghwal – An Unfinished Painting
On 29th March 2016, Delta Meghwal, a 17 years old Dalit girl from Barmer district of Rajasthan found dead. Delta was raped and murdered at the college, drowned in a water tank behind the girl’s hos…
Dalit Female Cook and Mid-day Meal Scheme
It is not only about Mid-day meal scheme almost all schemes running in Uttar Pradesh deals on the basic of caste. The root cause of social injustice of caste system in the state is a rapid growing …
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Poem – I Don’t Need Your [Temple] Bells
I don’t need your bells
Babasaheb fought…
Fought for my rights as human
I couldn’t ring your temple bells
Your gods gave me just inequality
I couldn’t get water from public wells You…
Forgotten Lessons – The All India Depressed Classes Women’s Conference, Nagpur, 1942
One of the major landmarks of Dalit Movement led by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar had been the huge participation of women and their articulation for political, social and economic rights for women in genera…
Jai Bhim: What does it mean?
What does Jai Bhim mean to you?
Project Heartland – When a Dalit Female Leads
This episode tells the story of Shantuben from Hajipar village. Shantuben’s family is the only Dalit family in entire village. Shantuben’s struggle and fight against the system expose the caste bas…
Dalit History Month – Remembering P. K. Rosy
P.K Rosy holds the distinction of being the first heroine and the first Dalit heroine of Malayalam cinema.
Most accounts of her life and work are not based on actual meetings with her as she passe…