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Govt hospital discharges Dalit victims, then reverses decision

These patients were admitted in the Ahmedabad hospital on July 26, after being discharged from the Rajkot hospital on July 25

Attacks on Dalits will have bearing on Assembly polls: Udit Raj

The BJP MP, also said the outfits will hold agitations in parts of the country

Dalits 'threaten' to show strength in 2017 Gujarat polls

A Dalit leader put forward some demands before state govt; asked his community to stop disposing dead cattle

Dalits pledge not to lift carcasses in Gujarat

This is in protest against the attacks on Dalits by upper caste Hindu activists

Mitali Saran: Until the cows come home

Hindu chauvinism may prove to be its own downfall

Opposition attacks govt over 'increasing' attacks on dalits, muslims

Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge also demanded ban on cow vigilante groups

BJP hits out at Nitish Kumar over atrocities against Dalits

BJP leader Sushil Kumar said cases of atrocities against Dalits have increased in Bihar

Issue of Dalits seeking euthanasia rocks MP Assembly

Some reports say as many as 50 Dalit families living in penury have sought permission to kill themselves

Much talk, little action

While airing his views during a recent discussion on the alleged atrocities against Dalits in Gujarat, Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury bemoaned in the Rajya Sabha that there was much "diarrhoea of words" on the issue but "constipation of action". Yechury said he believed his comments were not unparliamentary and that he was only trying to point out how members of Parliament across party lines had been speaking "voluminously" on the subject for years but governments had consistently fallen short in their efforts to improve the lot of Dalits.

For cow vigilantes, Dalits are soft target: Fact finding team

Says, Dalits are actually not involved in slaughter of cows, but are only doing their traditional business of leather

Samiti launches stir against atrocities on dalits

At least 16 houses belonging to the SC people were destroyed by the miscreants during a clash at the village

NHRC issues notice to Kerala govt on dalit sisters' arrest

Cases were registered against two politicians in connection with the suicide attempt of one of the Dalit sisters

A Dalit's legendary struggle

In The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage, author grabs reader by the hand and takes her into the world of Bant Singh, a Mazhabi Sikh, a member of the Mazdoor Mukti Morcha