Dalit News on the World Wide Web
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BBC
By Our Staff Correspondent
RAIPUR, NOV. 4. The police today arrested Mr. Nand Kumar Baghel, father of the State Minister, Mr. Bhupesh Baghel, for his controversial book ``Brahman Kumar, Ravan Ko Mat Maro'' that had been banned by the Government last month. He has been charged with fomenting communal trouble.
Hindu
Sanjay and Abishek, aged 11 and eight, go to a private school, speak English and dream of becoming doctors. Grinning and shy in school uniform, they are modern boys who stick pictures of film stars on the walls of their house and muddy their trousers on the way home from school, pretty much like boys of that age anywhere in the world.
Times of India

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 
EW DELHI: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has now trained its guns on the Dalit leader Ram Raj. The VHP in a press conference sought the suspension of Ram Raj, an income tax officer, for organising a Dalit rally here on November 4.
According to VHP vice-president Acharya Giriaj Kishore, the Dalit leader is organising a rally at Ram Lila Maidan that will conclude with 10 lakh Dalits converting to Buddhism.
Times of India
In 15 searing minutes, CBS cameras captured the shame of India -- the daily ritual of humiliation that millions of so-called untouchables undergo far away from the elite, who are in denial.
There was Narayanamma, who cleaned and carried human excreta -
Indian Express
most Catholics are not.(caste groupings)(Brief Article)
Author/s: Thomas C. Fox
Issue: May 4, 2001
Remnants of caste groupings plague the church in India and upset many, even those who understand its historic roots.The earliest European missionary efforts, trying to convert the upper castes, abandoned the lower castes.
National Catholic Reporter
LUCKNOW, India - Thousands of Dalits, often segregated as ''untouchables'' in India's Hindu caste hierarchy, converted to Buddhism at in a northern Indian city.
USA TODAY
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
Chennai, Dec 7: Veerappan has landed on the Net. Not in the one cast by the Special Task Force but the World Wide Web.
At www.dalitstan.org/tamil -- a website hosted by a US-based server, the Tamil Nadu Liberation Front (TNLF) has gone hi-tech with its propaganda for a `Greater Tamil Nadu'.
Indian Express
URBAN: The United Nations Human Rights Commission has said the voices of Dalits have been heard by the international community for the first time with NGOs highlighting their issue at the world meet on 'racism' here.
"The NGOs have raised what they called discrimination against Dalits in India and the issue has been brought before the international community," UNHRC Chief Mary Robinson told reporters here on Tuesday.
Times of India

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 
BANGALORE: The Karnataka State SC/ST Development Corporation Ltd and Mysore-based State Resources Centre have tabulated as many as 91 kinds of inhuman practices prevalent in different sections of the society. Some of them are barbaric. Here are a few samples:
Times Of India
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
ANAKAPALLE, MARCH 25: When the world is all set to enter the next millennium, the Dalits of Pallapu Kumarapuram in Munagapaka mandal in Visakhapatnam district have to stand away from the village well for someone to draw water and pour into their pitchers, so that they do not `pollute' the water in the well by their touch. Even at the village's lone small restaurant
Indian Express
By Daniel Lak in Chakia, north Bihar, India
Dalits, formerly called untouchables, suffer from every conceivable form of discrimination.
They cannot live with, marry or drink the same water as high caste people. But politically things are changing for the better.
BBC News
Soni Sangwan (Pharal (Kaithal), December 3)
CONVERTING TO Christianity has become the strength of the more than 400 Dalit families with which to fight social ostracism and harassment in this village where the higher castes do not even employ them.
Hindustan Times
Anand S.T. Das Raipur, September 22: Nothing in the world had prepared me for this. I had gone to Badagamada in Balangir as a curious journalist, but I came back as the owner of two children. Yes, reprehensible as the word is, owner. For, a starving Oriya family had begged me to buy Paree, 4, and his two-year-old sister Jemati so that the two children also wouldn't die of hunger. Life is cheap in Orissa.
Nation's shame: Starving Orissa family sells children (Hindustantimes)
By Narayan Bareth in Jaipur
A school principal in the western Indian state of Rajasthan is under fire for failing to act in a case of caste discrimination.
He is said to have failed to prevent discrimination against a group of low caste or Dalit students.
Caste row in Indian school (BBC News)
August 23, 2001 Posted: 1:41 AM EDT (0541 GMT)
Caste wars continue across India
PATNA, India -- A gang of men have attacked a sleeping village and shot dead six women and children of Hinduism's lowest "untouchable" class, as a caste war in India's eastern Bihar state continues.
CNN News
Dalits are discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in slave-like conditions, and routinely abused, even killed, at the hands of the police and of higher-caste groups that enjoy the state's protection. Dalit children are frequently made to sit in the back of classrooms, and communities as a whole are made to perform degrading rituals in the name of caste. Dalit women are frequent victims of sexual abuse. Over 100,000 cases of rape, murder, arson, and other atrocities against dalits are reported in India each year, but the actual number of abuses is presumably much higher.
Rediff News
MILIND GHATWAI & JIGNESH VASAVADA
ADHOI, RAPAR (GUJARAT), FEBRUARY 9: The earthquake has killed thousands, razed every conceivable structure in the nation's most prosperous state but hasn't made even a dent in the caste barrier.
Indian Express
The oppression of Dalits has been going on for over 3000 years. They are segregated in all spheres of social life: places of worship, education, housing, land ownership, use of common wells, roads, busses, etc. They are the people who have to do the menial and degrading jobs. They are considered to be untouchable.
Press releases
By Chandra Bhan Prasad
Why is it that from a population of over 205 million Dalits, roughly equivalent to the combined population of France, UK, and Germany, there is not a single Dalit with a press card in the main stream media?
mediawatch
Exactly a year back Pioneer had a lead article -"In search of a Dalit Journalist" by Mr BN Unyial (16 Nov 1996, Pioneer). His article was an eye opener even for dalits.
When a foreign news correspondent expressed his desire to meet a Dalit journalist to Mr Uniyal, the latter embarked on a casual enquiry to locate one. But his 'looking around' for a dalit journalist turned into a 'search', a futile one at that.
media
R Pridhvi Raj
VISAKHAPATNAM, APRIL 6: The upper caste villagers of Pallapu Kumarapuram have given a choice to its 12 Dalit families. They can either starve to death or leave the village.
The upper caste farmers in this village in Anandapuram have decided not to hire Dalit labourers.
Indian Express
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