DALIT VOICE
March, 2026
India’s 2026 Trans Amendment Rewrites Rights as State Control
At stake is not only the future of a single statute. It is the question of whether the principle established in NALSA, that identity is intrinsic and self-determined, will continue to shape our lives, or whether it will be replaced by a framework in which identity must be proven, approved, and constantly subject to review…
DALIT VOICE
March, 2026
A Deep-rooted Post-Independence Conspiracy to Keep Oppressed Castes Oppressed: Anti-Conversion Laws Across Indian States
The Freedom of Religion Bill was tabled in the Maharashtra State Assembly. These laws have nothing to do with coercive religious practice. They are instruments designed to prevent the emancipation of oppressed castes…
DALIT VOICE
March, 2026
Custody, Caste, and the Persistence of Police Violence in Tamil Nadu
What makes Akash Denison’s death particularly troubling is not only the allegation of brutality but the familiarity of the pattern it fits into. Custodial deaths in Tamil Nadu have repeatedly revealed how the weight of policing falls most heavily on those already pushed to the margins, where poverty, caste, and criminalisation intersect…
DALIT VOICE
March, 2026
Judiciary of Caste: Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Constitutional Protection to Dalits Across Religions
On 24 March 2026, the Supreme Court of India delivered a judgment that held the Scheduled Caste status being limited to Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists, and conversion to any other religion resulting in its “immediate and complete loss.” Caste, for the purposes of constitutional protection, cannot survive religious conversion. The legal consequence is stark…
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DALIT VOICE
Jan, 2026
Annihilation of Caste
Ambedkar sought to transform the very body of caste, not its surface symptoms. He knew that deprivation and humiliation were political, not moral, conditions. Unless the powerless are empowered, the powerful will never treat them as equals. The Ambedkarite view holds that social equality follows political and economic power.
DALIT VOICE
Jan, 2026
Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology
Anti-Brahminism” may not be a perfect, systematic ideology, but it undoubtedly is a powerful philosophy which once moved, and still moves, millions of people—not only among Hindus in India, but others as well.
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Dalit Panther Demonstration
Bombay: Dalit Panthers staged demonstrations before Government offices throughout Maharashtra on July 27 to fight against the non-implementation of the ...
Gujrat Dalit Panthers Visit Bangalore
Rameshchandra Paramar, president of the Gujarat Dalit Panthers, and four other Panther leaders, are now in Bangalore at the invitation ...
Holy Against the Grain
Holi arrives each year with fire and colour. On the eve of the festival, bonfires commemorate the burning of Holika; ...
The Irony of Belonging to the Republic of India
On 26 January 2026, the Indian republic marks its seventy-seventh year. The arithmetic is neat; the history is not. For ...
Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology
The editorial ‘Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology’ from the original Dalit Voice run's Vol. 2, Issue No. 10 (01/03/1983) critically explores ...
Why Islam?
(Letter to Editor) Durai Anbalagan, Dalit Panthers President, Dharavi unit, Bombay: We came to know during our tour of Tamil ...
A Dream Come True
To bring out a journal of our own has been our long cherished dream. Persecuted minorities all over India in ...
A Deep-rooted Post-Independence Conspiracy to Keep Oppressed Castes Oppressed: Anti-Conversion Laws Across Indian States
On 13 March 2026, the Freedom of Religion Bill was tabled in the Maharashtra State Assembly — the eleventh state ...
Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology
The editorial ‘Anti-Brahminism as an Ideology’ from the original Dalit Voice run's Vol. 2, Issue No. 10 (01/03/1983) critically explores ...
Torture and Killings of Untouchables in India
[Testimony to delegates to the Seventh Assembly of the Christian Conference of Asia held in Bangalore, from May 18, 1981 ...
Happy News for Backwards
Here is a happy news for the backward classes. The Karnataka Arya Idigara Sangha, Bangalore, headed by H. R. Basavaraj, ...
Gujarat Dalits Win Caste War
Some people including Dalits were surprised on reading our statement in the press, hailing the Gujarat Dalits for winning the ...
Why Muslim Life is the Cheapest?
As Indira Gandhi was getting red carpet welcome in Arab countries assuring them that our Muslims are treated so well ...
Panchama-Baiting in Tamil Nadu
I wish to refer to the phenomenon of adoption of Islam by the Panchamas in Tamil Nadu which has been ...