Experiences

The lived voice

Testimony, biography, and the people who carried — and were marked by — the struggle. This is where the community speaks.

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Blue hour photo of Parliament House , Canberra Australia. This image is an HDR composite, stitched from 4 different exposures.

Caste Doesn't Clear Customs

Australia named caste discrimination racism, built a 600-page evidentiary base, and wrote the recommendation. A government with a fresh mandate still hasn't moved.

By Editor5 min read

Our heroes

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Abhijeet Dipke

Activist, digital political organizer, founder of Cockroach Janata Party

Anand Teltumbde

Scholar, author, civil-rights activist, and management professor

Asang Wankhede

Legal scholar, anti-caste author, and poet; DPhil (Law) candidate at the University of Oxford

Ashwini Deshpande

Professor of Economics, Founding Director of Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA)

B.R. Ambedkar

Jurist, Economist, Statesman, Social Reformer, Constitutional Architect

Chinthada Anand

Pastor, Treasurer of Pastors Fellowship

Dharsika Sivapragasam

Human Rights and Legal Associate

Justice K.G. Balakrishnan (former Chief Justice of India)

Former Chief Justice of India; Chair, Balakrishnan Commission on SC Status for Dalit Converts

Mary James Gill

Executive Director of Centre for Law and Justice; human rights lawyer, activist, former legislator, policy researcher

Namdeo Dhasal

Dalit Panther co-founder, poet, writer, and editor

Pyla Kondamma

farmer, village council head, Dalit land rights activist

Rekha (Petlad, Gujarat), Dalit ASHA worker

ASHA worker (Accredited Social Health Activist), health activist

Rohith Vemula (2015 suicide and institutional humiliation case)

PhD scholar in life sciences; student activist

Saroj Meshram

Youth activist, Dalit Panthers member

Savitribai Phule

Educator, Poet, and Social Reformer

Sita Badi

Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Nepal

Sukhadeo Thorat

Economist, educationist, professor, and scholar

Suman (Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh), Dalit ASHA worker

ASHA worker (Accredited Social Health Activist)

Suman Kamble (Kolhapur, Maharashtra), Dalit ASHA worker

ASHA worker (Accredited Social Health Activist)

Surekha Bhotmange

Dalit landowner, anti-caste witness, and central victim of the 2006 Khairlanji massacre

Surinder S. Jodhka

Professor of Sociology

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