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The Dalits of Mirchpur, Haryana, came under attack in the year 2010. They haven’t been able to return to their village since but the government doesn’t appear bothered. This amounts to a violation of the SC-ST Act on the part of the government, writes Nawal Kishore Kumar

The State’s focus on Dalits may have created the rift between the two potential social allies against Brahmanism. But political parties espousing social justice have failed in addressing the question of development among the backward and Dalit castes. This has left most of these castes desperately looking for growth opportunities, and the right wing has smelt opportunity to draw these castes to itself

Using the famous giant parathas of Rohtak as a metaphor, Anil Kumar contends that only a united front of all the deprived, including the most backwards and Ati-Dalits, can fetch them their due share in the resources

The social and civil boycott of the Valmiki victims of casteist violence in Mirchpur, Haryana, violates the basic tenets of democracy, argues Anil Kumar, while underlining the ills of this pernicious practice

The pet dog of a Valmiki family barked at Jat youths and they retaliated with a naked display of barbarity. After this incident, more than 150 Valmiki families migrated from the village. Amid the din of the Gujarat Dalit movement, are you forgetting this horrific torture of Mirchpur, Haryana

When the Bhagana protestors did not get any coverage for four days, they thought that maybe, Nirbhaya got justice because of the protest by JNU students. They reached the JNU campus on 19 April and begged the students to take up their cause