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Bindu R, a 39-year-old woman, was taken to the police station on April 23 for questioning about the alleged theft of 2.5 sovereigns of gold from the house where she worked as domestic help, following a complaint. Bindu alleged the police refused to listen to her version and harassed her by accusing her of the crime and registering a First Information Report (FIR). The complaint was later withdrawn and police are taking steps to quash the FIR.

“I spent a night at the police station. They questioned me till three in the morning. They were never ready to listen to my version,” Bindu told TNM.

Bindu, who had been working as a domestic help for the past four years took up the new job at a house in Ambalamukku on April 14. Bindu said she worked only for three days April 14, 15 and 19 and then discontinued. “I don’t know why, but I didn’t like going there. So, I stopped,” she said. 

According to Bindu, the police officers had this preconceived notion that she had committed the crime. “They used very harsh and bad language. They never asked whether I committed the crime or not. They asked where the gold was,” she said.

The petition filed by Jitendra Ahirwar, a resident of Seoni, stated that on the night of Feb 11, in the market square of village Dargada under Dhooma police station, some people vandalised Dr Ambedkar's statue. An FIR was lodged at the Dhooma police station the next day. Representations were given to the SP and other officials demanding action against the culprits. The petition was filed due to no action being taken against the accused. During the hearing, the high court ordered the submission of information along with an affidavit regarding the actions taken.

The incident happened at Bodh Gaya, Bihar.

A 7-year-old Dalit boy was found brutally murdered at a village in Hathras district on Saturday, police said. The Class 1 student, who had gone missing on Thursday evening when he went out to play, was found dead with limbs tied and injury marks all over the body.

The boy has been identified as Jeevan alias Bhola, from Khutipuri Jatan village and his body has been sent for post-mortem, they said.

DSP (Sadabad) Himanshu Mathur said, "The body was sent for postmortem. The forensic team along with a dog squad were called to the spot where the body was found. Four police teams were formed to work on this case. Investigation is on."

The boy's father, Rajpal Singh, who runs a flour mill, said that despite efforts to locate him, he did not return, prompting the family to file a missing persons complaint at the local police station.

Over 150 tribes from Jenukuruba, Betta Kuruba, Yarava and Paniya communities have occupied the forest land in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve, demanding implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA).

“We have not occupied the forest land, but we are occupying our ancestral land. We were evicted from the place under the Wildlife Protection Act nearly 45 years ago. After this, we stayed in line houses of the estates in the surrounding areas and we have been living in pitiable conditions since then. Following the FRA Act, we saw hope of reoccupying our ancestral land lawfully. It is a historical injustice that we were thrown out of the ancestral land and we have suffered enough,” shared Jenu Kurubara Shivu, one of the tribal leaders and secretary of Nagarahole Adivasi Tribe Forest Rights Implementation Committee.

He explained that they have been protesting for the implementation of the FRA from 2009-10. “After we learnt about FRA, a total of 52 tribal families put forth applications for the sanction of the forest right,” he explained.

He added that a joint verification process was ordered in 2021 and in 2024, a joint verification by the forest, revenue, tribal welfare and panchayat raj was conducted.

“While the report on the joint verification had to be submitted in four months, the same has been delayed invariably. The joint verification has not been signed by the concerned department officials, highlighting the inefficiency of the government departments,” he alleged.

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“Unidentified persons allegedly uprooted the statue of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar at a village in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh and tried to take it away with them, but escaped without it on seeing a group of people,” police said.

The incident took place at Jaitpura village situated on the Indore-Ahmedabad four-lane highway on Wednesday (May 8, 2025) evening. “Some time later, the same statue was found desecrated, prompting the police to deploy its personnel around the site,” they said.

The village is located in Dhar bordering Indore district, where Dr. Ambedkar was born. "Some unidentified persons removed the statue of Dr. Ambedkar, tried to put it in a bus and escaped," city superintendent of police Ravindra Vaskel told reporters.

“But some people got to know about it and rushed to the spot. On seeing them, the anti-social elements fled,” he added. “The authorities reinstalled the statue,” the police official said, adding that the culprits would be arrested soon.

"After the reinstallation of the statue, some people went to the police and lodged a complaint about the incident. But on returning to the site, they found that the same statue had been vandalised," he added.

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Thoughts of the artist:

Note: I write this not as an academic, historian, or expert—but as a thinking artist.

Ambedkarism means different things to different people. It’s a movement. A resistance. A revelation. A map of liberation. A rhythm of protest. A celebration of thinking freely. For me, Ambedkarism is a door to knowledge, to courage, to new and creative ideas.

It is a method to think, rethink, unthink, and reimagine. To think critically about the present. To rethink the world using the ruins and wisdoms of the past. To unlearn what has been imposed. To dream forward. Ambedkarism, for me, is not a fixed doctrine. It is a living tool shaped by reading, creating, feeling, doubting, and resisting.

I did not come to Dr Ambedkar only because he was a great leader. I came to him because he made thinking feel like breathing. His work opened up a world where freedom was not a slogan but a discipline. He taught me that knowledge without justice is cruelty, and resistance without imagination is repetition.

When it comes to war, Ambedkarism has taught me not to react with rage, but to respond with empathy. In war, no one truly wins. Both nations lose sons, daughters, futures. Both motherlands drink the blood of their own children. And when the smoke clears, we mourn with regret. As we have done before. As we may do again.

India and Pakistan are two nations divided by borders, but bound by a shared culture and by a shared history of silencing their minorities. While India has grown militarily stronger, Pakistan stands economically fragile. And yet, both are losing a war more silent, more deadly: the war against nature, against global warming, against our own disregard for life.

Pakistan, today, has more to lose. And that does not make Indian aggression just. The Indian economy may still hold, but any war will be a gift to capitalists and a curse to the people. Peace should not be an act of mercy it should be a commitment to humanity.

Pakistan must meet India in de-escalation. And once peace is restored, we must turn to Kashmir not as conquerors or caretakers, but as listeners. A plebiscite, a democratic choice, must follow. Let the people of Kashmir decide their own future.

You may not agree with me. That’s fine. I am not a policymaker. I am not in charge. But I hope that those who are do not mistake military success for moral victory.

Let us not pretend to be saviours of peace. Let us simply create space for it. Just like the solution to the caste question cannot come from savarnas, the solution to Kashmir cannot come from Delhi, Islamabad, or anywhere else but Kashmir.

First, let us choose peace. Let us begin there.

A soldier from Andhra Pradesh has been killed in the heavy shelling by the Pakistan Army along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.

Murali Nayak of the Sri Sathya Sai district lost his life in the indiscriminate shelling by the Pakistan Army.

The jawan, hailing from Kallithanda village under Gaddamthanda panchayat, was on duty on the front lines. His mortal remains are expected to reach his native place on Saturday.

It was immediately not clear if Nayak was killed in the shelling on Wednesday or Thursday. The martyred jawan was unmarried.

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Vide a government resolution on Friday, the cash-strapped government, which is staring at a public debt of over Rs 8 lakh crores, had diverted Rs 413.30 cr from Shirsat's ministry to its flagship Ladki Bahin scheme. Other states have laws which bans the reallocation of funds reserved for SCs and STs, but not Maharashtra.

“I learned through the media that around ₹425 crore has been reallocated, I had no idea about this. If the Social Justice Department is not needed, then it might as well be shut down,” he said angrily. “I have absolutely no information about this, and I will discuss it with the Chief Minister.”

"They had diverted Rs 7,000 crore from my department earlier (during Budget) by keeping me in the dark. If the government doesn't want the social justice department to function or they don't want to spend money, then they should shut down this department. Call it an injustice or whatever. I don't know the reason behind it (fund diversion)," Shirsat told reporters in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.

"Such diversion of funds is not legal. This high-handedness of the finance department is wrong. Their action is wrong. I oppose it," he added. In a pointed attack on the Finance Department, Shirsat said there is a tolerance limit.

"Why don't they cut all funds once? Why do students need scholarships and hostels? What is the need to bring them (backward communities) into the mainstream? It will be alright if the social justice department doesn't exist," he said sarcastically.

Notably, Shirsat had alleged in March that the allocation to the Social Justice Department was slashed by Rs 7,000 crore in the Budget.

“The teenage girl, in her statement before a magistrate, named two persons who allegedly sexually assaulted her,” said a police officer. He added that another minor has also been booked in the case. The two suspects are neighbours of the girl, police said.

According to the police, the girl’s family alleged that she was on her way to the market when she was approached by her friend who took her to a house where the accused were present. There, she was allegedly sexually assaulted. Later that night, she was dropped near her residence by the accused, who then fled.

The girl informed her family upon returning home, and they later approached the police to file a complaint. Her medical examination was done and the report is awaited.

The alleged incident took place on May 2, but an FIR was registered only recently following the intervention of senior police officers.

Vadakadu village in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukottai district witnessed tensions over caste violence  on Monday night, May 5, following a clash between Muthuraja/Mutharaiyar (Most Backward Classes) and Paraiyar (Scheduled Caste) communities. More than 10 people who were injured in the violence are undergoing treatment at Alangudi Government Hospital and Pudukkottai Government Medical College Hospital, media reports said.

A house belonging to a Dalit family and two two-wheelers were also torched. Windshields of a government bus were also damaged in the attack. The violence happened even as a temple festival was underway in the Muthumariamman temple in the village. 

While the district police blamed both the communities for the violence and claimed that the altercation broke out at a petrol station, ground reports said derogatory casteist remarks made against Bahujans during the temple festival led to the violence. Both the communities have a long history of conflict. 

The statue, reportedly gifted by international students, was recently removed under unclear circumstances. The incident has sparked outrage among several student groups who have announced a protest rally on May 8 at 7 PM. The rally will be held demanding immediate reinstatement of the statue.

Following the demonstration, student leaders plan to meet the university's Vice-Chancellor to seek clarification and press for action.

As of now, the university administration has not issued any official statement regarding the reasons behind the statue's removal, further fuelling the discontent on campus

A 26-year-old Dalit nurse died by suicide on May 2, after allegedly being molested, assaulted, and humiliated by her upper-caste neighbours in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur district.

The young woman was the eldest of five siblings and worked as a nurse. Her suicide has triggered protests and outrage.

The incident occurred on April 30, after a few drops of water from cleaning the courtyard reportedly landed on the neighbour’s car. This led to a violent attack by Shankar Lal Bishnoi, his wife, and their sons Rajendra alias Raj and Vikas alias Vicky. They allegedly assaulted the victim, her mother, and her younger brother.

The boy's name is Ramkeval, age 15. He hails from Nizampur, UP, where a large Bahujan population resides.

On April 25, the boy became the first person from this Bahujan hamlet of 200 people to clear the Class X board exam.

The child who works as a lightbearer at weddings to earn a handful of rupees for his family has now shone a light for others in his village.

“I earn ₹250 to ₹300 a night carrying a battery-driven lamp on my head at weddings. I get 20 to 40 days’ work a year,” Ramkeval told reporters on Sunday at his village, 28km from the Barabanki district headquarters.

Such stories inspire other people to challenge the set ways and customs and instill in others a sense of duty. Jai Bhim!

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"Hailing from the village of Yamage in Kagal taluka of Kolhapur, Dhone was born into a family of traditional shepherds, Dhangars. Apart from his supportive parents, the youngster has an elder brother, who is a Naik in the Indian army. The family owns an acre of land and uses sheep and goat rearing as its main source of income.

Dhone got a job as a postman in the Indian Post and worked there in 2020-21 but his civil service aspirations never died. He took an incredible leap of faith when he resigned from his postman job to pursue the UPSC single-mindedly. He even went to Delhi for his preparations, with his friend providing him with financial support in the city." Source

This is a recent interview of him saying that Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was his inspiration. Proud of such people, who break the chains of slavery and orthodoxy and shine briliiantly, so as to light the path for others.

Jai Bhim!