JUSTICE NEWS: Breaking News ! हिंदी & English 25.12.16

ENGLISH NEWS

• Kanpur: Beaten, Dalit woman forced to abort

http://justicenews.co.in/kanpur-beaten-dalit-woman-forced-abort/18586

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• Eight get life term for chopping hands

http://justicenews.co.in/eight-get-life-term-chopping-hands/18583

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• Will take tough decisions, dishonest to face ruin after Dec 30, says PM Modi week before deadline

http://justicenews.co.in/will-take-tough-decisions-dishonest-face-ruin-dec-30-says-pm-modi-week-deadline/18597

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• Rahul has become a headline bandit with constant cannonade against Modi

http://justicenews.co.in/rahul-become-headline-bandit-constant-cannonade-modi/18594

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• ILS LAW COLLEGE SLAPPED WITH RS 25K FINE FOR DUBIOUS FEES

http://justicenews.co.in/ils-law-college-slapped-rs-25k-fine-dubious-fees/18588

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• Breaking stereotypes to bag KGMU merit, medals

http://justicenews.co.in/breaking-stereotypes-bag-kgmu-merit-medals/18581

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• Martyrdom of Bhai Jiwan Singh observed

http://justicenews.co.in/martyrdom-bhai-jiwan-singh-observed/18591

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• Demonetisation is immoral, theft of people’s property: Steve Forbes

http://justicenews.co.in/demonetisation-immoral-theft-peoples-property-steve-forbes/18577

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जस्टिस न्यूज़

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• दसवीं की छात्रा से गैंगरेप, एक आरोपी पकड़ा, जांच के लिए एसआईटी गठित

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/tenth-of-student-gangrape-one-accused-grabbed/12726

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• दलित उत्पीड़न व ¨डगरहेड़ी कांड ने खाकी को कर दिया दागदार

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dalit-oppression-and-turned-to-khaki-%c2%a8dgrhedi-tainted-by-scandal/12718

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• CM बादल का दलित परिवारों को तोहफा, 25 साल पुरानी मांग पूरी की

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/connnection-gift-to-dalit-families-of-punjab-by-cm-parkash-singh-badal/12721

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• बाबा की लालबत्ती का पूछने पर RTI कार्यकर्ता को पीटा

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/baba-followers-beaten-rti-activist-after-ask-for-beacon/12715

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• महिला आरक्षक से एसपी के दुर्व्यवहार की होगी जांच-पैकरा

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/police-will-investigate-the-abuse-of-women-constables/12735

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• लखनऊ में रेलवे अधिकारी की पत्नी की हत्या, नौकर गिरफ्तार

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/lucknow-city-murder-of-railway-officer-wife-in-lucknow-servent-arrested/12737

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• लॉ कॉलेज की असिस्टेंट प्रफेसर से छेड़छाड़

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/assistant-professor-of-law-college-tampering/12732

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• 49 साल से मुंबई में रहने वाले को भेजा जाएगा पाक!

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/after-49-years-mumbaikar-might-be-deported-to-pakistan/12729

JUSTICE NEWS: Latest News ! हिंदी & English 16.12.16 ( Afternoon Edition)

ENGLISH NEWS (16.12.2016)

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ü  Supreme Court refuses to interfere with Centre’s policy on demonetization

http://justicenews.co.in/supreme-court-refuses-interfere-centres-policy-demonetisation/18026

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ü  Woman allegedly raped in car in Delhi’s Moti Bagh area, accused arrested

http://justicenews.co.in/woman-allegedly-raped-car-delhis-moti-bagh-area-accused-arrested/18022

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ü  Funds axe on NGOs

http://justicenews.co.in/funds-axe-on-ngos/18019………………………………………………………………………………..

ü  Honor Killing: Five booked for assault, six months after Dalit teen’s murder in Navi Mumbai

http://justicenews.co.in/honor-killingfive-booked-for-assault-six-months-after-dalit-teens-murder-in-navi-mumbai/18016

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ü  High Court judge faces probe for ‘ill-treating’ Dalit

http://justicenews.co.in/high-court-judge-faces-probe-for-ill-treating-dalit/18014

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ü  After GPS chips, radioactive ink, the Rs 2,000 note have now ‘started to crumble’

http://justicenews.co.in/after-gps-chips-radioactive-ink-the-rs-2000-note-have-now-started-to-crumble/18011

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ü  Need normalcy soon or poll prospects will be hit: BJP east UP MPs to Amit Shah

http://justicenews.co.in/need-normalcy-soon-or-poll-prospects-will-be-hit-bjp-east-up-mps-to-amit-shah/18007

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ü  Note ban: Urjit Patel heckled at airport, enters RBI through backdoor to avoid protesters

http://justicenews.co.in/note-ban-urjit-patel-heckled-at-airport-enters-rbi-through-backdoor-to-avoid-protesters/18003

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ü  Funds crunch hits relocation of tribal families

http://justicenews.co.in/funds-crunch-hits-relocation-tribal-families/18034

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ü  Lok Sabha passes Disabilities Bill

http://justicenews.co.in/lok-sabha-passes-disabilities-bill/18029

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ü  Brick kiln owner, friend held for abducting tribal

http://justicenews.co.in/brick-kiln-owner-friend-held-abducting-tribal/18041

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जस्टिस न्यूज़ हिंदी  16.12.2016

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• पुलिस के साए में घोड़ी चढ़ा दलित दूल्हा, सरपंच सहित 71 सवर्णों को पांच घंटे तक रखा नजरबंद

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/eye-of-police-horse/12245

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ü  एससीबीसी मुलाजिमों का विस चुनाव में गठबंधन के विरोध करने का एेलान

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/n-cbc/12242

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ü  केंद्रीय कर्मियों को इस साल नहीं देना होगा संपत्ति का ब्यौरा

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/union-employees-assests-declaration-not-for-this-year/12239

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ü  महिलाओं की पिटाई मामले में डिप्टी सीएम से मिलेंगे अरुण

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/bhagalpur-samaharnalya-kand/12237

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ü  दलित को धमकाने वाले के खिलाफ पुलिस ने दर्ज किया अपराध

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/guna-mat-latest-guna/12235

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ü  लड़की को सड़क से उठा चार दिनों तक गैंग रेप, विरोध करने पर करते थे ये हाल

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/samastipur-girl-gang-raped-by-four-criminals-for-four-days-in-bihar/12251

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ü  पीएम मोदी से मिले राहुल गांधी, किसानों के मुद्दों पर की चर्चा

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/congress-vp-rahul-gandhi-meet-pm-modi-with-farmer-delegation/12254

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ü  आज से शुरू होगी भारत की पहली फुल एसी ट्रेन ‘हमसफर’, इसलिए महंगी

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/national-india-first-fully-ac-train-humsafar-statrs-from-today-with-flexi-fare/12258

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ü  आरबीआइ गवर्नर उर्जित पटेल को काले झंडे दिखाये, प्रदर्शन

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/reserve-bank-of-india-urjit-patel-mamata-banerjee-kolkata-black-flags-protests-greet/12261

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ü  दिल्‍ली में रह-रह कर अब भी सुनाई पड़ती है निर्भया की सिसकियां

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/delhinew-delhi-city-ncr-nirbhaya-rape-incidents-of-rape-not-ceased/12266

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ü  निकाले 15 साथियों की बहाली के लिए सफाई सेवकों ने डेढ़ घंटा रोका मेन रोड

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/latest-gardiwala-news/12278

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JUSTICE NEWS: Breaking News ! हिंदी & English 26.11.16

JUSTICE NEWS: Breaking News ! हिंदी & English 26.11.16

 Justice News English 26.11.16

Ø  Currency withdrawal: 50% tax, 4-year lock-in for unaccounted deposits

http://justicenews.co.in/currency-withdrawal-50-tax-4-year-lock-unaccounted-deposits/17242

Ø  22.5 p.c. of industrial land reserved for SCs, STs

http://justicenews.co.in/22-5-p-c-of-industrial-land-reserved-for-scs-sts/17258

Ø  Dalit marries Patel girl, his family driven out

http://justicenews.co.in/dalit-marries-patel-girl-his-family-driven-out/17248

Ø  JNU notice to 20, including Kanhaiya Kumar, for ‘confining officials’

http://justicenews.co.in/jnu-notice-to-20-including-kanhaiya-kumar-for-confining-officials/17246

Ø  Probe into Ilavarasan’s mysterious death handed over to CB-CID

http://justicenews.co.in/probe-into-ilavarasans-mysterious-death-handed-over-to-cb-cid/17252

Ø  Forgotten land feels cash sting

http://justicenews.co.in/forgotten-land-feels-cash-sting/17254

Ø  Magsaysay awardee Sandip Pandey ended Indefinite Fast after action from BSA !

http://justicenews.co.in/magsaysay-awardee-sandip-pandey-ended-indefinite-fast-after-action-from-bsa/17239

जस्टिस न्यूज़ : हिंदी 26.11.16

• GOPALGANJ: फुलवरिया में एक ही परिवार के आधा दर्जन दलितों को पीटा

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dalits-were-beaten-half-a-dozen-of-the-same-family/11402

• दबंगों ने किया शादी रोकने का प्रयास, युवती ने लगाई न्याय की गुहार

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/tried-to-prevent-the-marriage-the-woman-plead-for-  justice/11405

• सहरिया व दलितों की जमीन पर किया दबंगों ने कब्जा, ग्रामीणों का प्रदर्शन

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/land-of-dalits-occupied-by-dominants/11407

• नालंदा विश्वविद्यालय के कुलपति जॉर्ज यो ने अपने पद से दिया इस्तीफा

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/nalanda-university-chancellor-george-yeo-resignation-from-his-post/11413

• पर्दे के पीछे भी है दलितों का दमदार रोल

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dalits-also-powerful-role-behind-the-scenes/11415

 
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ARUN KHOTE

Editor

JUSTICE NEWS

Dalits Media Watch -News Updates 25.11.16

• Dalits Media watch – English News Updates 25.11.16

http://justicenews.co.in/dalits-media-watch-english-news-updates-25-11-16/17237

•  दलित मीडिया वाच – हिंदी न्यूज़ अपडेट 25.11.16

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dmw-hindi-news-updates-25-11-16/11400

 

 

 

JUSTICE NEWS: BREAKING NEWS ! हिंदी & English 24.11.16

 Justice News- English

•  For common education system, Magsaysay Awardee Sandip Pandey on indefinite hunger strike from 24th Nov at Lucknow

http://justicenews.co.in/common-education-system-magsaysay-awardee-sandip-pandy-indefinite-hunger-strike-24th-nov-lucknow/17178

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• HC ‘last’ chance to state on Dalit word usage

http://justicenews.co.in/hc-last-chance-state-dalit-word-usage/17184

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• Maharashtra tribals don’t eat wheat, barter it for salt, oil, says study

http://justicenews.co.in/maharashtra-tribals-dont-eat-wheat-barter-it-for-salt-oil-says-study/17174

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• Minting cash from trash: Kannur school shows the way

http://justicenews.co.in/minting-cash-from-trash-kannur-school-shows-the-way/17152

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• 21,000 Crore Deposited In Jan Dhan Accounts, Most From Bengal, Karnataka

http://justicenews.co.in/21000-crore-deposited-in-jan-dhan-accounts-most-from-bengal-karnataka/17171

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• Play it up, women

http://justicenews.co.in/play-it-up-women/17186

जस्टिस न्यूज़ –हिंदी

• काला धन रोकने में नहीं मिलेगी मदद : प्रभात पटनायक, वरिष्ठ अर्थशास्त्री

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/category/articles

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• 22000 दलित सीवर की सफाई करते हुए मर गए

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/22000-dalits-died-while-cleaning-sewer/11242

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• दोगुनी उम्र का दूल्हा देख दुल्हन ने किया फेरों से इनकार

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/groom-of-age-doubled-the-frequency-denied/11350

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• बैंकों का खजाना खाली देख दिन भर होता रहा हंगामा, टूटते रहे सब्र के बांध

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/banks-throughout-the-day-there-was-a-commotion-in-the-reserves-who-patiently-dam-break/11352

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• वरिष्ठ आईपीएस अधिकारी ने बयां किया दर्द कहा, यूपी में अब काम कर पाना संभव नहीं

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/senior-ips-officer-described-the-pain-not-possible-to-work-in-up/11348

 

By Justice News Team

 

 

Dalits Media Watch – हिंदी & English News Updates 23.11.16

• Dalits Media Watch – English News Updates 23.11.16
  http://justicenews.co.in/dmw-english-news-update-23-1…/17155

• दलित मीडिया वाच – हिंदी न्यूज़ अपडेट 23.11.16

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dmw-hindi-news-update-23-11-16/11344

JUSTICE NEWS: BREAKING NEWS ! हिंदी & English 23.11.16

Justice news English 23.11.16

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 Ø  18 Mahadalit houses set ablaze by caste Hindus in Bihar

http://justicenews.co.in/18-mahadalit-houses-set-ablaze-by-caste-hindus-in-bihar/17150

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Ø  body of Dalit girl found in suspicious circumstances in Firozabad

http://justicenews.co.in/body-of-dalit-girl-found-in-suspicious-circumstances-in-firozabad/17133

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Ø  Brahmins Took Over Dalit And Adivasi Land In This Village, And This Film Captures It All

http://justicenews.co.in/brahmins-took-dalit-adivasi-land-village-film-captures/17137

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Ø  ‘Daily labourers hardest hit by demonetisation’

http://justicenews.co.in/daily-labourers-hardest-hit-by-demonetisation/17143

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Ø  Govt tells temples to display boards denouncing discrimination

http://justicenews.co.in/govt-tells-temples-to-display-boards-denouncing-discrimination/17145

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Ø  Cinema and reality: What is wrong with India’s police?

http://justicenews.co.in/cinema-and-reality-what-is-wrong-with-indias-police/17139

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Ø  Spending life in the middle of cotton farms

http://justicenews.co.in/spending-life-in-the-middle-of-cotton-farms/17126

जस्टिस न्यूज़ – हिंदी 23.11.16

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Ø  स्कूल के बाथरूम में मिली दलित किशोरी की लाश

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/uttar-pradeshothersdalit-girlamp39s-body-was-found-in-the-bathroom-of-the-school/11340

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Ø  बेटी की शादी से पहले नकदी की किल्लत से जूझ रहे व्यक्ति ने की खुदकुशी

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/before-the-cash-starved-daughter-married-man-commits-suicide/11335

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Ø  खेत से ट्रैक्टर निकालने पर दलित के साथ मारपीट

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/removing-the-tractor-from-the-farm-to-the-underdog-beat/11332

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Ø  चित्रकूटः दबंग ने खलिहान की जमीन बेंचा, पुलिस भी कुछ नहीं कर पाई

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/the-police-could-not-do-anything/11338

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ARUN KHOTE

Editor

JUSTICE NEWS

JUSTICE NEWS- ENGLISH & हिंदी 22.11.16

ENGLISH NEWS

 After house razed, family on hunger strike

http://justicenews.co.in/after-house-razed-family-on-hunger-strike/17116

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Bank Officers Confederation demands resignation of RBI Governor

http://justicenews.co.in/bank-officers-confederation-demands-resignation-rbi-governor/17119

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Jhalkari Bai: The Indian Rebellion Of 1857 And Forgotten Dalit History

http://justicenews.co.in/jhalkari-bai-the-indian-rebellion-of-1857-and-forgotten-dalit-history/17114

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The History Of Deekshabhoomi In One Minute

http://justicenews.co.in/the-history-of-deekshabhoomi-in-one-minute/17108

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Spending life in the middle of cotton farms

 http://justicenews.co.in/spending-life-in-the-middle-of-cotton-farms/17126

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जस्टिस न्यूज़ हिंदी – 22.11.16

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घास काटना पड़ा महंगा, पिटाई

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/really-had-to-mow-beating/11315

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डीएसपी ने की कथित दलित उत्पीड़न मामले की जांच

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dsp-probe-the-alleged-harassment-of-dalit/11310

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आदिवासी समाज ने कहा, सीएनटी में संशोधन हुआ तो आग लगा देंगे

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/the-amendments-will-put-fire-in-cnt/11318

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सीएम व मंत्रियों का फूंका पुतला

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/burned-effigies-of-chief-minister-and-ministers/11321

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असमानता पर हल्ला बोलती कन्हैया की किताब

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/kanhaiyas-book-on-inequality/11313

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Dalits Media Watch 05.11.16

English News :

http://justicenews.co.in/dalits-media-watch-news-updates-05-11-16/16865

Hindi :News  

http://justicenews.co.in/Hindi/dalits-media-watch-hindi-news-updates-05-11-16/11166

Ashes to ashes: Matang women sift through funeral pyres to earn their livelihood; it’s killing them

Firstpost

Ashes to ashes: Matang women sift through funeral pyres to earn their livelihood; it’s killing them

http://www.firstpost.com/living/ashes-to-ashes-matang-women-sift-through-funeral-pyres-to-earn-their-livelihood-its-killing-them-3015210.html

Updated: Sep 25, 2016 08:43 IST

The mourners gather around the dead body. One of them sets the pyre on fire. The rituals of the funeral conclude, and one by one, people head out of the graveyard. But Lata Sathe, 52, stays put. She waits for the pyre to cool down. She inspects the ash accumulated under the pyre, and with the help of a few other women, starts the search for a saleable item in it.

Sathe hails from the Matang community, a subsection within Dalits, but the most deprived one. While Dalits aim to break away from the work assigned to them by tradition, Matang women are still making their ends meet by segregating ashes in the graveyard. There are close to 300 of them in Nasik city, 150 kilometers from Mumbai; they have divided the 20 graveyards here among themselves.

Sathe frequents one of them. A pile of bamboos stacked near the gate, Sathe, along with 10 other women, arrives here at eight in the morning. A smoky rectangular concrete structure with a peculiar smell — space enough for 10 pyres — has been her life, she says. “I do not remember doing anything else,” says Sathe, draped in a worn out sari. “My mother and mother-in-law would do it. Now my daughter and daughter-in law have joined in.”

Matang women earn their livelihood by segregating the ashes after a cremation

Hindus generally keep a metal or a bit of gold in the dead body’s mouth. The challenge is to find that in the ash. In case of a woman, Sathe is on the lookout for earrings or bangles as well.

A couple of women fill up a few buckets of water and pour it in the pit under the pyre. Hunched over, Sathe crawls under the pyre, ankles dipped into the water full of the burnt body’s ash. She cleans up the pit, fills her buckets and vessels with the ash water and then strains the water out before proceeding to the Godavari River just across the graveyard to clean up the ash, in which she hopes to find something worth selling. Whatever they find, is split among the women. “I end up making 80-100 rupees a day,” says Sathe, who has two unemployed sons, and a paralysed husband. Her daughter is married. “If nothing else, we pick up wood for the stove or clothes left at the graveyard. The sari I am wearing is from this very place.”

Sathe’s friend Sangeeta Ranshinge says when her eight-year old boy cries for a chocolate, she gives him the offering of the funeral. “What else can I do?” she asks. “That is the only way I can get something sweet for him.”

Generally, people tend to have a bath after visiting a graveyard, which is why Sathe, who spends most of her day there, is treated like an untouchable by the society. “I feel the humiliation at every juncture,” she says. “Even some of my relatives do not accept water from my hands.”

Cast away from the society, they even have their separate colonies, Matangwada. A kilometer’s distance from the graveyard, Sathe’s Matangwada is densely populated with 500 people. Cramped, poorly lit one-room houses clutter the society, as kids optimise the gaps running between the houses to play hide and seek. One has to bend the head to enter a house, where clothes hang at eye level. The house is damp, for there has been a sustained drizzle in the morning and the roof is leaking.

The men in Matang community are engaged in casual labour or make money by washing cars. The average educational level is no higher than Class Four. “I do not think I have ever purchased rations sufficient for even a week (at a time),” Sathe says. “With the money we make, education for our kids is a long shot.”

Activists have been demanding rehabilitation and alternative employment for Matang women. Vishwas Kamble of the Maharashtra Matang Social Organisation has conducted protest marches in Nasik and elsewhere. “It is a tragedy people have to earn a living like this in the 21st century,” he says. “All the talks of development are cosmetic. Real development cannot happen if we keep neglecting the deprived.”

In February 2014, the previous Maharashtra State Government had assured in a letter that a meeting had been held regarding the rehabilitation of Matangs — whose numbers are just under 30 lakhs as per the 2011 census — and the decision to employ them as sweepers or cleaners at government offices, gardens and so on had been taken. The expected time of enforcement was estimated at one month.

Just before that, through Annabhau Sathe Economic Development Corporation, the state had provided 30 Matang women with a loan of 50,000 rupees each. It was a pilot project. But due to miscommunication, the women thought it was financial aid, not a loan. They only realised they were expected to repay the money after receiving notices for defaulting on payments.

When Kamble briefly met the current chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, he was assured that the matter of the Matangs’ rehabilitation would be looked into. Rajkumar Badole, cabinet minister for Social Justice and Special Assistance, said he has chaired a few meetings regarding this issue and the GR for the same would be released soon.

In the meantime, Sathe is waiting for the night of the new moon. One of the other modes of income for Matang women: They beg once a month, on the night of the new moon, a superstition prevalent in rural Maharashtra.

According to the superstition, family members of any person who is sick, not doing well in life, or supposedly possessed by negative powers, give away food, oil, cereals, grains etc by mixing it with the person’s nails, hair and so on, to Matang women. The belief is that the supposedly cursed person would be rid of it and the negative forces would be transferred to the Matangs, through the nails or hair, along with the food.

Sathe says she segregates the food material and washes it before the family consumes it. But there is a huge hygiene issue here, for the food mixed with body hair or nails can only be cleaned to an extent. Many a time, the food given away by villagers is rotten.

A doctor advised Sathe to avoid it when she was down with stomach upset, and asked her to stay away from the graveyard as well. Constantly inhaling the smoke is dangerous, she was told.

But, Sathe says, she would not even make the paltry sum of money that she now does, if she renounces her “job”. “If I continue, I will die of a disease,” she says. “But if I do not, I will die of hunger.”