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Vijay Surwade may have worked as a bank manager by day – but for five decades he spent his evenings building one of the world’s biggest archives dedicated to India’s pioneering Dalit rights campaigner BR Ambedkar. His collection includes everything from documents and photos to Ambedkar’s broken spectacles and dentures,... See more

Nazrana Amjid, a school going girl, from pasmanda dalit (Sheikh in Kashmir) community shares how she is always forced to do sanitation work because her parents did the same. Caste in Kashmir. Documentary link: https://t.co/UoN27xef4J https://t.co/HVmqkQ4tMP

Many women in India continue to be engaged in manual cleaning of dry latrines, one of the most inhuman and undignified forms of manual scavenging, despite its legal prohibition. Watch how societal discrimination and systemic apathy lead to challenges in the rehabilitation of women engaged in manual scavenging, and how we can support their journey... See more

Swipe —> Jai Bhim and welcome to Mavelinadu! 💙 We are an anti-caste publication house and community space, and our first issue is titled “Debrahmanising Gender”. The desktop version of our website is available at www.mavelinaducollective.com Mobile version will be up soon! More details on... See more

“I came here to escape … but it happened here too. It’s very painful,” - Vijay Puli, dalit activist, Canada @tdsb @OntHumanRights https://t.co/GYuE3zLh7f

In BJP-ruled Odisha, members of the Bajrang Dal brutally assaulted several poor Dalit men. They were violently beaten in public, had portions of their hair shaved off, and were forced to crawl through the village on their knees. The victims were also humiliated by being made to eat grass and drink sewage water, treated in a degrading manner akin to... See more