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DSNUK Trustee Adv Sushant Singh Speaks at House of Lords
7th May 2025
On 26th April 2025, DSNUK Trustee Adv. Sushant Singh Spoke at House of Lords on "Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Relevance in the Modern Times" on the occasion of the 134th birth anniversary (Ambedkar Jayanthi commemoration & Panel Discussion on Caste-Based Discrimination. On the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti, a vibrant event was organised at the House of Lords. It brought together lawmakers, activists, and community leaders to reflect on the enduring relevance and importance of Dr B R Ambedkar in the modern era. Adv. Sushant Singh, Dalit Human Rights Lawyer and trustee of Dalit Solidarity Network UK (DSNUK), was invited as a speaker. [..]
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DSN UK Congratulates Critical Dance Studies Scholar Professor Royona Mitra!
7th May 2025
The new monograph Unmaking Contact: Choreographing South Asian Touch was published last month by Oxford University Press. The cover design is by “Rukminee Guha Thakurta, Letterpress Studio. Critical dance studies scholar Royona Mitra (Brunel University of London) says that it has taken ten years to birth this project and its publication coincided with the unexpected departure of her beloved mother who has played an integral role in many ways to this work, as Royona says, 'in ways she will now never know'. Royona also notes that this publication aligns with "a devastating time in UK universities as we contend with precarities, redundancies, [..]
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Voicing out for options to restore reduced UK aid budget: DSN UK networks with BOND as a member
17th April 2025
DSN UK through BOND joined hands with refugee groups to call on the government to end the use of expensive contracts for housing asylum seekers in favour of more appropriate and cost-effective housing options and ensure that the freed-up funding is restored to the now reduced UK aid budget With a strong support from 107 organisations that signed on, Bond's Media Adviser secured coverage in The Times, BBC Breakfast and BBC News, LBC Radio (@08:06:00), LBC News, Times Radio, and Politico, and we have tweeted and shared via LinkedIn.
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Pro Casteism Brahmins’ Protest delays the Bollywood film on anti-caste Icons
17th April 2025
Jyotirao Phule, popularly known as Jyotiba Phule was born on 11th April April 1827 and passed away on 28th November 1890, was an Indian social activist, businessman, anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. It was he who coined the term Dalit in the 19th century. This is the only identity chosen and accepted by DALITS to represent their status and their quest for liberation. Savitribai Phule his wife was also the first woman activist who opened up education for Dalits especially women and the first woman teacher in India. It is the Bollywood film on this great couple that [..]
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