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NATIONAL CAMPAIGN ON DALIT HUMAN RIGHTS NCDHR Dalits In News Friday, July 28, 2006 CNN-IBN Dalit doc treats ills of casteism Sagarika Ghose Jaunpur (Eastern UP): Eastern Uttar Pradesh is the crucible of caste politics. But even in this viral fever of caste, there are signs of a slow fall in temperature. A hospital, owned by a Dalit surgeon, would have been unthinkable a decade ago. But today, 38- year-old Lal Bahadur Siddharth is a Dalit doctor and surgeon in Jaunpur. And he is a cure for the disease of casteism. "I had to struggle a lot to get here. First, there was a struggle against caste," says a Dalit doctor and surgeon, Dr Lal Bahadur Siddharth. When an untouchable doctor reads the blood pressure of a Brahmin, society's health is definitely improving. Touch, that great taboo of brahmanical society, becomes irrelevant in illness. "The people of the upper castes thought that come a lower caste and thus, would never be equal to them. I faced all this and yet, studied as hard to become as good as them," says Dr Siddharth. Caste is equally irrelevant for another Dalit, who is the owner of a gas agency in Kerakat. Usha Kiran is one of the many Dalits in the area who now own their own gas agencies and petrol pumps. "Only when Dalits get educated and enter business and the service sector will they become economically independent and the walls of society will then break," says 37-years-old Usha. Usha comes for a walk every day by Ambedkar's statue. And as eastern UP's landscape is slowly transformed, perhaps Ambedkar has reason to smile. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/dalit-doc-treats-ills-of-casteism/16850-3.html Dalits News Covered by ORIYA News Papers Bloodshed violence for land issue Annandapur- Daitari Das of Goudadiha village, comes under Kotopada Panchayat was brutally attacked by upper caste people (Samanath Patra, Makaradhaja Patra, Tuna Patra, Ajit Patra, Pradip Patra, Silu Patra and Naratama Patra) of his village while working in his field. The perpetrators demanded share from whatever he produces from his land, as a result the incident took place. http://www.pragativadi.com <http://www.pragativadi.com/> / Gram Sebak (Dalit) was murder in the street road Goyadhar Nayak (46), village Nilakanthapur, Chaudakulat police Chouk under Patamundai police station limits of Kendrapada District, was allegedly murdered by a retired police officer Surendranath Mohanti (60) near Gramdeboti Mondir of the village. On 27th July'06, at 9.00 a.m morning, Goyadhar was going out for some work; meantime Mohanti pursued and murdered him in the street itself, that saying him to be a witch. Mohanti has surrendered himself in the police station after committing the crime. http://www.dharitri.com/280706/story8.asp http://www.pragativadi.com <http://www.pragativadi.com/> An aged man (Dalit) was beaten to death Brajabandhu Pradhan (70) from Bhailapur village comes under Chandanapur police limit of Puridistrict was beaten to death by upper caste people of the same village on 26th July'06, at 4.00 p.m evening. On 26th July'06, at 4.00 p.m evening, Topan Samantorai, Ranga Sahu Laskhina Behera and other three persons attacked to Brajabandhu Pradhan, while he was sitting on the cloth show room of Nursingh Pradhan which is in the Bhailapur square. 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