DALIT VOICE
Dec, 2025
Editorial: A Voice That Will Not Be Silenced
Dalit Voice, under the aegis of the Dalit Sahitya Academy, is a revival of the groundbreaking political platform founded by V. T. Rajshekar in 1981. Once India’s largest-circulated Dalit journal, Dalit Voice became a landmark publication for its fearless stance against casteism and systemic oppression.
DALIT VOICE
Dec, 2025
Uncompromising: The Life and Vision of V.T. Rajshekar
VTR was born in 1932 in a modest rural household in Vontibettu, along the lush coastal belt of Karnataka — in the twilight of pre independence India. His mother passed away when he was still a child, and being raised first by an extended family and later by a stepmother left an indelible mark…
DALIT VOICE
Dec, 2025
Solidarity is Essential, Despite Being a Dream: An Interview with Beena Pallical
The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights emerged out of a moment of reckoning. Around 1989, there was a surge in caste-based atrocities across the country—entire villages were burned, people were killed, and Dalit communities…
DALIT VOICE
Dec, 2025
When Love Refuses to Kneel: The Anti Brahminical Revolt Against Marriage
How can marriage, that ancient chain forged in the furnaces of caste and patriarchy, still be hailed as a moral institution? When caste can hide behind sacred scriptures, when patriarchy can disguise itself as love, why should marriage…
Archival Interventions
DALIT VOICE
Dec, 2025
A Dream Come True
We will do our best to propagate the philosophy of Ambedkar, Periyar, and Lohia, and all other progressive thinkers. Genuine Marxists and Rationalists, and all those working for social change, shall count on our support in their struggles…
DALIT VOICE
Dec, 2025
In Defense of Polemics
We are often accused of resorting to polemical writing. Some upper-caste critics say we take pleasure in controversies and rarely offer “constructive suggestions.” They call us abusive, hateful, and unworthy of serious journalism. To them we must respond…
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...