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The last picture details Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar's visit to the spot of the battle on 1 January, 1927, wherein he led a commemoration ceremony near the Victory Pillar celebrating the Battle of Koregaon.

Memory and meaning

For Dalits, Bhima Koregaon represents the promise of emancipation and social justice, and the recent violence against them indicates an upper-caste in

Bangalore 05/08/2008: Jayamma, BBMP contract worker on duty in Bangalore (for public eye, Divya Gandhi's story)
Photo: K Gopinathan , Bangalore.

Dalits: In a state of unfreedom

In the past 70 years of Independence, most Dalits have been continuously pushed into obnoxious spheres of work. The concept of freedom for them is whe

In this photograph taken on July 28, 2016, 34 year old Indian man Santosh Singh covers him self with a sheet near his protest site at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.

Singh is fighting a decade long battle to prove himself 'alive'. He is one of the hundreds of people declared 'dead on records' by the government in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Singh's marriage to a low-caste Dalit woman angered his relatives who allegedly conspired with local officials to declare him dead. They allegedly grabbed his 12-acre land and ancestral house in the city of Varanasi. His wife left him in 2011 citing his official 'dead' status and since 2012, Singh is staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi to prove himself alive but has run into bureaucratic apathy. / AFP PHOTO / SAJJAD HUSSAIN

Death of public reason

The continuing atrocities against Dalits, including the recent one in Una, Gujarat, and the lack of public outrage are indicative of the death of a co

Visakhapatnam, 14/04/2015: Political leaders paying tributes to the Father of the Constitution B.R. Ambedkar at his statue at Dabagardens on the occasion of his birth anniversary in Visakhapatnam on April 14, 2015.
Photo: K.R. Deepak

Equality, dignity and justice

Ambedkar did not set such concepts as democracy and modernity in opposition to each other but bound them together symbiotically so that they could gro

Sharda, who has been carrying sewage from the open gutters in Delhi all her life, cannot afford to replace her broken basket. Some Dalit communities are still engaged in manual scavenging in various parts of the country.-SANDEEP SAXENA

Power of touch

The concept of untouchability travels from rural locations to the cities.

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