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Gurpreet Singh: Canada needs to stand up for Dalits by Gurpreet Singh http://www.straight.com/news/518236/gurpreet-singh-canada-needs-stand-dalits The Dalits, also known as Untouchables, continue facing discrimination in India and in Canada. It is high time that Canada, which claims...

Over 100 Dalits come into the Khalsa Fold... Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India http://manvirsingh.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/over-100-dalits-come-into-khalsa-fold.html In December 2012, the Akhand Kirtani Jatha held an Amrit Parchaar Smaagam in a remote area of Madhya Pradesh in India. Over 100 Dalits...

September 6, 2011 Queen of Dalits lives lavishly: WikiLeaks By Matthias Williams, Reuters - September 6, 2011 A powerful Indian politician dubbed the Untouchables Queen once sent a jet to pick up her favourite brand of sandals, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables released by...

August 14, 2011 No single solution for corruption: President ITGD Bureau | New Delhi, August 14, 2011 | 20:10 President Pratibha Patil addresses the nation on the eve of 65th Independence Day. Terming corruption a cancer affecting the nation, President Pratibha Patil on...

Dalits and the Emancipatory Sikh Religion Related thread http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/hard-talk/32867-sant-raam-udasi-punjabs-glorious-poet.html Theoretically and theologically characterized as ‘emancipatory’ Sikhism has failed in practice to do away with the caste prejudices. Raj Kumar...

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/dalits-fined-for-daring-to-drink-water-from-tap/133186-3.html?from=tn Bikaner: In a shocking incident in Rajasthan, three Dalits were fined Rs 45 thousand by a Panchayat for daring to drink water from a public tap. A case has now been registered against the accused...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed the Haryana government for the brutal killing of two Dalits and destruction of 150 houses in Mirchpur, Hissar, on April 21 allegedly by upper caste people and warned it would "take a very serious view" if such incidents recurred. A vacation bench of...

Dalits enter TN temple first time in 100 yrs V Mayilvaganan, TNN 28 October 2009, 07:52am IS| NAGAPATTINAM: For the first time in a hundred years, dalits of Chettipulam village stepped inside the local Shiva temple on Tuesday, in a historic moment brought about by government and...

In the last article, this column covered the root causes and the reaction to the Vienna death of a cult “sant”, and the inordinate and misplaced reaction by followers of a dera (centre headed by a “spiritual head”). That worshipers of a cult copying Sikh religious practice went on the rampage...

I wish to know if any one knows about the Amrit pan for the delits. I heard that some gurdwaras do not give amrit to delit at the same time. They give the delit in saparate bata not the same one used for the jatts. I maybe wrong about it. I am going to India and like to know where are these...

The Punjab government today announced a string of measures for the welfare of Dalits on the occasion of celebration of birth anniversary of Guru Valmiki. More...

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – Buddhist, Sikh and Hindu Dalit movements strongly support demands for equal rights by their fellow Christian and Muslim outcastes or ... http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=2750

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=114641 Seminar on role of Sikhs and Dalits Chandigarh Newsline, India - 5 hours ago ... January 19: ‘THE role of Sikhs and Dalits in the South-Asian sub continent’ was today discussed in a seminar organised by the Sikh Student Federation...

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=62051 Dalits made to drink urine Indian Express, India - 7 hours ago ... incident took place at Patrewal village near Abohar. All the victims belong to the Rai Sikh community. Jagir Singh said it was during a ...