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A 9-year-old girl in India has gone missing and discovered to have been cremated as her family members accuse a priest and three other suspects of rape and cremation. The crime is the latest incident against Dalits that have caused major outrage among human rights activists. ....
Madam Chief Minister: Dalit Activists Raise Questions About Bollywood s So-called Anti-caste Art FOLLOW US ON: Bollywood’s problem with the blatant appropriation and denial of caste has been going on for several decades and continues to persist in the modern era. Recently, Richa Chadha-starrer Madam Chief Minister has come under fire for the tone-deaf representation of the Dalit community in its original poster, which featured the actress with a broom in her hand and a tagline that read Untouchable, Unstoppable . Despite the film being based on a Dalit woman who rises to be a chief minister of a major state, Dalit actors are nowhere to be found in director Subhash Kapoor s upcoming political drama, many Dalit activists point out, adding that most of the individuals involved in other leading positions of the project also don’t belong to the community. ....