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#casteviolence — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #casteviolence, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Man acquitted in the Ariyalur rape and murder is preparing for a political career

    Only one person was convicted in the Ariyalur case where a minor Dalit girl was raped and murdered. The News Minute met the family of the victim seeking justice and some of the men who have been let off.

    #TamilNadu #ariyalur #AriyalurRape #dalits #paraiyars #vanniyars #rape #ViolenceAgainstChildren #ViolenceAgainstWomen #DMK #HinduMunnani #CasteViolence #caste #india

    thenewsminute.com/long-form/ma

  2. An inter-caste marriage, a murder & a ‘suicide note’ — how couple’s tragic end unsettled Pallikaranai

    Sharmila’s husband Praveen was killed on 24 Feb. Two months later, she attempted suicide & left behind a note blaming her parents and brothers for her husband’s killing.

    #TamilNadu #chennai #CasteKilling #suicide #dalits #vanniyars #InterCasteMarriage #CasteViolence #india

    theprint.in/india/an-inter-cas

  3. TN: Caste violence makes this village’s Dalit residents demand separate polling booth

    On April 8, 2023, three Dalit residents were allegedly attacked by Vanniyars, a dominant caste group, after the trio tried to enter the Dharmaraja Draupadi Amman temple in Melpathi of Villupuram.

    #TamilNadu #villupuram #dalits #vanniyars #CasteViolence #TempleEntry #untouchability #caste #casteism #elections2024 #india

    thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/t

  4. Women’s Cricket Is Rife With Stories of Sexual Harassment. What Is the BCCI Doing?

    With the kind of wealth available in Indian cricket and the lack of safeguards, there is no estimating what a more accurate number of cricketers facing harassment by their superiors—coaches, selectors, officials—may be. Women cricketers who have left the game are able to draw a clearer picture, but on condition of revealing neither their names nor the states they represented.

    thewire.in/sport/womens-cricke

    #WomensCricket #IndianCricket #BCCI #SexualHarassment #casteism #NarendraShah #POCSO #CasteViolence #caste #WomensRights #ViolenceAgainstWomen #sport #india

  5. A Dalit scholar’s death and Brahmin dominance at India’s premier science institute

    Fifteen years after a Dalit PhD student died by suicide at the IISc, students say the atmosphere is still stifling for students from marginalised communities.

    #karnataka #bengaluru #IISc #dalits #brahmins #suicide #CasteViolence #caste #CssteDiscrimination #marginalisation #india

    scroll.in/article/1049603/a-da