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Black lives matter but Dalit lives don’t?
On 23 May, Angira Pasi, a 12-year-old Dalit girl, was found hanging after being forcibly married to a 25-year-old ‘upper-caste’ man who had raped her. On 24 May, Nabaraj BK, and his five friends were beaten to death and thrown into a river because Naba...
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Caste is part of the Silicon Valley ecosystem
“Dominant castes who pride themselves as being only of merit have just converted their caste capital into positions of power throughout the Silicon Valley,” says Thenmozhi Soundarajan. Last week, a landmark lawsuit against a major IT firm in the US ma...
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Indians create awareness with #DalitLivesMatter
The hashtag was first used in November 2014, shortly after #BlackLivesMatter started trending. But since May 2020 #DalitLivesMatter had more engagement than the entirety of 2019 (engagement measured as the number of posts with 10 or more replies, likes and...