This week on #NLHafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Anand Vardhan, and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Kiruba Munusamy, Supreme Court advocate and activist.

The conversation kicks off with Kiruba explaining the project she’s working on now, researching caste. She points out how a series of Supreme Court judgements, including as recent as 2018, dealt with cases of violence against Dalits by deciding against the #Dalitcommunity and the victims.

Abhinandan asks whether the high occurrence of caste-based violence in Tamil Nadu is a reflection of the failure of Periyar’s movement. Jayashree talks about the media’s coverage of issues of violence against Dalits. She and Kiruba also discuss the 2021 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu, and the BJP’s chances. Moving on to the upcoming #BiharAssemblyelection, Anand analyses Bihar’s political history in the context of caste.

This, and a lot more only on NL Hafta, streaming now on all leading podcast platforms: https://www.newslaundry.com/nl-hafta

Timecodes:

00:00 - Introduction and headlines
04:50 - Caste dynamics in India
29:55 - Caste and the media in the Hathras case
43:26 - Subscriber letters
55:25 - Hathras case, party dynamics in the Bihar state election
01:05:22 - Tamil Nadu politics
01:18:21 - Subscriber letters
01:29:37 - Supreme Court on Shaheen Bagh
01:50:52 - Subscriber letters
01:57:27 - Recommendations

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