Social Discrimination

India’s strict lockdown pushed its Dalits, Muslims and Adivasis deeper into debt

The loss of income and livelihood forced India’s marginalised groups to take fresh loans, shows a survey.

Shreya Raman, IndiaSpend.com
&
Sadhika Tiwari, IndiaSpend.com
· Sep 12, 2020 · 01:30 pm
Karnataka’s black magic law targets caste and gender discrimination, not Hindu religious practices

Though it comes as part of a long line of previous legislative reform efforts, it also marks a new beginning.

Varuni Bhatia
· Nov 28, 2017 · 08:00 am
Watch: Can a dose of obscenity and humour help counter racism? Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks so

The argument: telling racist jokes in a non-racist way is better than using politically correct language.

Scroll Staff
· Jan 12, 2017 · 05:00 pm

"We're lost between both worlds:" Sikhs and Hindus leave Afghanistan but aren't at home in India

Reports say growing discrimination and intolerance are the reasons for migration.

Scroll Staff
· Jul 05, 2016 · 10:00 pm
Facebook bursts with tales of housing bias after Muslim woman is denied flat in Mumbai

A social-media group has become the clearing house for harrowing stories.

Mayank Jain
· May 28, 2015 · 12:30 pm
How bias against Muslim flat seekers came to be entrenched in India's most cosmopolitan city

The riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992 completely transformed Mumbai's character.

Smruti Koppikar
· May 28, 2015 · 09:15 am

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Social Discrimination

India’s strict lockdown pushed its Dalits, Muslims and Adivasis deeper into debt

The loss of income and livelihood forced India’s marginalised groups to take fresh loans, shows a survey.

Shreya Raman, IndiaSpend.com & Sadhika Tiwari, IndiaSpend.com · Sep 12, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Karnataka’s black magic law targets caste and gender discrimination, not Hindu religious practices

Though it comes as part of a long line of previous legislative reform efforts, it also marks a new beginning.

Varuni Bhatia · Nov 28, 2017 · 08:00 am

Watch: Can a dose of obscenity and humour help counter racism? Philosopher Slavoj Žižek thinks so

The argument: telling racist jokes in a non-racist way is better than using politically correct language.

Scroll Staff · Jan 12, 2017 · 05:00 pm

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