Archive for December, 2009
Atrocitynews Correspondant from Pune district reports… Two bright young girls from Loni-Kalbhor village in Haveli Taluka were raped inhumanly last week in daylight. The caste terror continues unabated in the Pune district. Police administration is again caught sleeping. These girls belong to poor Buddhist and Matang family respectively. Their families have been migrated from the […]
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More than half a century after Scheduled Castes were constitutionally guaranteed reservation in government services, top posts in the central bureaucracy have constantly eluded them. The figures: not one out of the 88 central government secretaries is a Dalit. On other crucial posts, too, Dalit representation is dismal: 1.52 per cent at additional secretary level […]
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Following is a piece from Economic times, Tata Group may become second equal opportunity employer after Vediocon Inc in India. Lets welcome such corporate stance after 60 years of Indian Republic formation! The well-to-do castes could realise that the previlages since ages they passed on to their generations will be source of agony and unrest […]
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A court in Rajasthan has asked the police to register a case against an influential Rajput family in Ajmer district for allegedly selling an entire Dalit family for Rs 2.75 lakh to a Tonk-based furnace factory to work there as bonded labourers. Mahaveer, his wife Sharda and their children Rakesh, Mukesh, Ghisalal, Chitar and his […]
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Thirty years after seven Dalits were massacred by upper caste Thakurs in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court has sentenced to life imprisonment five of the accused and said caste system should be abolished soon for ensuring rule of law and smooth functioning of democracy. Reversing the acquittal of the six accused, the apex court said […]
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This is the taluka where Tata Motors has parked its small car project. Nano has become a symbol of Gujarat’s pride and became a centre of attraction at the last Vibrant Gujarat investment summit in January 2009. But scratch the surface, and the scene is gloomy beneath this economic boom in the state. Bhikhabhai Solanki, […]
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em>In a splendid reply to Pravin Swami’s article “Where style has trumped substance”(dt.26 November,2009) Lalit Khandare attempts to put cause before pervert journalism and dents question on today’e upper caste writing style < (Courtsey @ Sudharak Olwe from http://tinyurl.com/yz6opd5) In an article "Where style has trumped substance" by Pravin Swami on 26 November,2009, the writer […]
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