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18th July 2025
Songs of Justice with Sambhaji Bhagat 📅 Sunday, 20 July · 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM 📍 Leicester Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, LE1 1WB Join us for an unforgettable cultural evening with Sambhaji Bhagat, a renowned Ambedkarite singer, poet, and performer known for his powerful anti-caste and social justice songs. Blending traditional folk rhythms with sharp political commentary, Bhagat brings the spirit of resistance alive through music that speaks to both the heart and the conscience. Performing primarily in Hindi, his songs confront inequality, injustice, and oppression—offering messages of hope, dignity, and solidarity. Sambhaji Bhagat’s performances are stirring, thought-provoking, and deeply rooted [..]
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An opportunity to walk through…
18th July 2025
Oplus_16777216 What does it mean to live in a society where the doors look open—but aren’t? Who gets to belong, and who gets to be left outside? Join us for an unflinching conversation with cultural theorist and educator Professor Ravikant Kisana, widely known as the Buffalo Intellectual, as we discuss his groundbreaking new book, Meet the Savarnas. The book turns the spotlight on India’s privileged upper-caste millennials and how their unexamined advantages have shaped the country’s institutions, culture, and future. In this event, we’ll explore themes of caste privilege, mediocrity disguised as merit, and the quiet ways exclusion operates in [..]
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Inclusion of Caste as a Category in the Equality Act 2010
14th July 2025
As we reflect on DSN UK's response to Equality law call for evidence which was submitted on 28th June 2025, we realise more that unless caste is included as a protected category in the UK's Equality Act 2010, there is very little hope to experience equality for the South Asian Diaspora especially from India in UK. The diaspora remains to be divided based on the age old caste pyramid structure for more than 2500 years. However, Dr Elizabeth Joy feels there is hope in a few MPs like Warinder Juss (Time to outlaw caste discrimination - MP | Dalit Solidarity [..]
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You’re Invited
30th June 2025
Informal Meet & Greet with Prachi Patankar Tomorrow, 1st July 2025 We are pleased to invite you to an informal community meet and greet with renowned anti-caste activist Prachi Patankar, who is visiting London this week. đź“… Date: Tuesday, 1st July 2025 đź•– Time: 7:00 PM onwards đź“Ť Venue: Dr Ambedkar Hall At Dr Ambedkar Centre 12 Featherstone Road, Southall, UB2 5AA ( Please enter the premises via Rear Entrance ) This gathering offers a unique opportunity to engage in an open discussion with Prachi about her work and reflections on contemporary anti-caste and social justice movements in the United [..]
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DSN UK participates in NSS event in Leicester
16th June 2025
Dr Elizabeth Joy, the Director DSN UK was a panellist at the Leicester event on 10th June 2025 speaking on the work of DSN UK: the Everyday Casteism project providing a platform in the DSN UK website for people to register Caste Based Discrimination within the UK, along with Business and Human Rights focussing on Caste in the global supply chain, inclusion of caste in the EDI Charter in the Higher Educational Institutions in the UK. She also mentioned about the pro=legislation stakeholder group lobbying with the UK Government to include caste as a protective characteristic in the Equality Act [..]
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