Archive for January 6th, 2008

Caste could play a role in who represents India, writes Andrew Stevenson from Sydney Morning Herald. MANY and proud are those to make a major contribution to Indian cricket. Narayan Masurekar is not often listed among them, though perhaps he deserves a place.Masurekar was a relative of Sunil Gavaskar, born on July 10, 1949 in […]


Nineteen-year-old Poonam’s blank look speaks of the trauma she has suffered at the hands of her family. Her relatives, threw her into a canal at Tibbi, near Haryana’s border with Rajasthan, and left her to die. All because she, a Jat girl, married a Dalit boy. “They forcibly made me sit in a jeep and […]