On 3 September, 2020 Dr. Murmu posted that examinations during the pandemic are a bad idea. She claimed that the loss of one year is nothing compared to the loss of life. To this post, a woman called Paromita Ghosh, a student…
A scavenger remains a scavenger as far as s/he is in Hinduism, irrespective of whether he continues to do the work of scavenging or not. And, when the scavenger converted to Buddhism, s/he only changed their God but the understanding of purity…
The Ghazipur landfill is going to surpass the height of the Taj Mahal in 2020. In the last 2-3 years the private companies have started to acquire the waste even without tenders because the waste has suddenly become valuable but the problem…
Two Muslim youth from Kerala were subjected to brutal custodial torture, communal slurs Report by Ashfaque EJ|Kochi|September 1, 2020 In the latest case of police brutality, Kerala police has refused to act on a complaint filed by the father of an 18-year-old…
An estimated 16 lakh migrant workers risked everything they had to make a trudge back home to Bihar during the lockdown. Those who have not yet returned to the cities are facing the wrath of the floods This is the third and…
The lack of understanding and categorising sanitation workers into one concrete system has further increased India’s sanitation crisis. The sanitation workers need to be classified and categorised within different value chains in combination with a study of existing legal framework, socio-economic analysis,…
In addition to the floods and COVID-19, Assam’s Mising tribe is dealing with yet another crisis after a bout of swine fever killed a majority the state’s pig population This story is the second of the three-part series by Dalit Camera, which…
Release on August 25, 2020 It has been more than one month since Sharjeel Usmani, National secretary of Fraternity Movement and Anti-CAA Activist imprisoned in Aligarh Jail. He was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police from his house in Azamgarh on 8th…
Honoured as Kerala’s Beloved Army for their rescue operations in 2018, Chellanam residents struggle to stay afloat amid the ongoing pandemic and floods this year By Ashfaque EJ| Kerala|August 24 As the floods ravaged Kerala in 2018, Shaji Thayil, along with a…
There is an urgent need to reclaim the anti-caste philosophy of Sikh religion, which was founded on the principles of egalitarianism and equality among all By Kamalpreet Kaur|Hyderabad|August 21 It was on the day of Baisakhi in 1936 that Bhaskaran from Kerela converted to Sikhism. For the…
