Archive for November, 2012

Caste related violence revisited Dharmapuri district in Tamil Nadu after a brief lull late on Wednesday night with a mob of caste Hindus looting and setting ablaze 148 houses of dalits in three villages allegedly provoked over the suicide of a 48-year-old man from Vanniyar community, whose daughter had recently married a dalit boy. The […]


Almost after a week after entrepreneur Akanksha Rathi’s death, her parents have alleged that she had faced continuous harassment from her in-laws since her marriage in 2004 due her caste background. Akansha daughter of Mr K.P.Singh come from Lower Caste (probably Scheduled Caste ) whereas Anirudh was from Jatt Caste therefore  Anirudh’s family was against the match. However, […]