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A pukka Morcha has been planned outside the office of the chief minister Bhagwant Mann on September 12th by a set of agricultural labour organizations. A most significant event in light of the mass political movement of the dalit agricultural community of Punjab. A meeting was convened by Zameen Prapt Sangharsh commitee leader Mukesh Mulaudh,where […]
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Dalit Agricultural labour Organisations of Punjab to stage protest outside chief Minister’s house on September 12th
September 9th, 2022 
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No Comments »Dalit agricultural labour denied land plots promised in Patiala
September 3rd, 2022 Awake Goy The Zameen Prapt Sangharsh commitee on August 29th lodged a sustained protest outside the District Collectors office in Patiala, under the leadership of Zonal secretary Gurvinder and Dharamveer Harigadh. Around 50 persons participated. Mukesh Malaudh adressed a gathering, stating that the authorities in villages of Patiala reverted their decision to distribute Panchayat land for agricultural […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, dalit, denied, Labour, patiala, plots, promised No Comments »Dalit agricultural Labourer Organisations launch historic First-ever Independent Rail Roko
December 17th, 2021 Awake Goy History of all sorts was created in Punjab on December 12th when the dalit agricultural labourer’s organisations for the first time conducted a rail blockade independently, without support of organisations of the landed peasantry. In total around 20000 labourers participated in 12 districts. Without doubt an event that embarrassed the ruling parties in their very […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, dalit, first, historic, labourer, launch, organisations No Comments »Punjabi novel on Dalit resistance movement gets international attention
November 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Thanks to a Vancouver-based body of literary awards, the Dhahan Prize for Punjabi Literature, Balbir Madhopuri’s Mitti Bol Peye has received this year’s award in the “novel” category. Based on the Dalit resistance movement in Punjab, the novel is a powerful commentary on the oppression of the so-called untouchables in a caste-based Indian society. The […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: attention, dalit, international, movement, novel, punjabi, Resistance No Comments »Dalit Agricultural Labourers Lay Siege To The House Of Punjab Chief Minister
September 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Under the invitation of the joint front of the rural and farm labour organizations, Ten thousand dalit agricultural labour gheraoed the house of Captain Amrinder Singh at Moti Mahal in Patiala. He was forced to issue a written letter to scrap metres on electricity bills and pay occupation of labourers cut plots in a month, […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, Chief, dalit, house, labourers, punjab, siege No Comments »United Protest of Dalit Agricultural Labour Organisations in Patiala
August 13th, 2021 Awake Goy CONFERENCE AT PUDA GROUND NEAR GURUDWARA FROM AUGUST9-11 It is truly a heart touching sight, to witness the back breaking work of a dalit agricultural labour and the manner he is still bonded in the so called age of democracy. The shackles of casteist oppression embedded for centuries, are still entrenched. Under the invitation of […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: agricultural, dalit, Labour, organisations, patiala, protest, united No Comments »Dalit families targeted in Demolition Drive Undertaken by Bangalore Development Authority
August 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Dalit families targeted in Demolition Drive Undertaken by Bangalore Development Authority in Doddabettahalli (Yelahanka Hobli, Bangalore North) In a most shocking development, officials of the Bangalore Development Authority, backed by Bangalore Police, destroyed about 10 houses of villagers of Doddabettahalli. Each and every one of the families affected were from Dalit communities. In a similar drive, about 22 houses had been […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Bangalore, dalit, demolition, drive, families, targeted, undertaken No Comments »In rural Rajasthan, Dalit and Adivasi girls fight child marriages
July 31st, 2021 Awake Goy Jaipur: Last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic raged across the world, 20-year-old Vineeta Meena’s dream of becoming a police officer seemed all but lost. Meena, a resident of Gokalpur village in Sapotra Block of Karauli district in Rajasthan was suddenly at home trying to thwart the repeated attempts of her parents to marry her off. […]
‘My Life – The journey of a Dalit Sociologist’
July 8th, 2021 Awake Goy Recent incidence in IIT Kharagpur of the verbal assault mounted by the professor on the marginalised students with proclamation of impunity from penal Action of State directs us to innumerable paradoxes in 21st Century India.It also implies that not all is well in the country who seeks to achieve the goal of Superpower in […]
Dalit-Adivasi in Uttar Pradesh and the question of land
July 1st, 2021 Awake Goy According to the 2011 census, the total Scheduled Caste (Dalit) population in Uttar Pradesh is 4.13 crore, which is about 21% of the total population of Uttar Pradesh. According to the same census, there are 61.91 lakh families of Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, which is 23% of the total families of Uttar Pradesh. Similarly, the […]
The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination
April 11th, 2021 Awake Goy Who is a teacher? In a loose sense a teacher would be anybody including Mahatma Gandhi who was not a teacher in any school or college and Ambedkar who was a teacher in a college for some time. On the other hand, only the school teachers are called the teachers in a strict sense and […]
Rehabilitate and Compensate Dalit Families in West Parganas
March 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy Post-Disaster Rebuilding Efforts Cannot Deprive Already Marginalized Communities of Protections under Law. West Bengal Govt. must ensure fair compensation and rehabilitation to all dalit families in West Parganas, prior to land acquisition for road construction The Govt. of West Bengal has acquired 43 acres of land in Samsernagar, West 24 Parganas, to initiate construction of […]
Uttar Pradesh conversion law not only anti-minority but extremely anti-Dalit also
January 4th, 2021 Awake Goy The Uttar Pradesh Religious Conversion Prohibition Act 2020 passed last year by the Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh is not only anti – minority but also extremely anti-Dalit. This law is not only unconstitutional but also infringes on the fundamental rights of citizens. Although it is designed in the name of stopping the so-called love-jihad, […]
