Mid-day's Mayank Shekhar talks to Neeraj Ghaywan about Made in Heaven 2, and his own struggle with his Dalit identity. Director Neeraj Ghaywan opens up on the conversation-starter episode of Made in Heaven that spotlights owning your Dalit identity. "Pallavi Menke is me,” filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan confesses, before apologising for emotionally choking up, during a video call with mid-day, along with Alankrita Shrivastav, Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar, writer-directors of the second season of the Emmy-nominated series, Made in Heaven (MIH), on Amazon Prime Video. Neeraj Ghaywan is referring to Radhika Apte’s Ambedkarite Dalit, upper-class, lead-character, in the fifth episode of Made in Heaven 2, titled The Heart Skipped A Beat, directed by him. That’s singularly turned into a conversation-starter online.
20 August,2023 01:48 PM ISTCongress celebrated its 138th foundation day on 28th December 2022. INC President Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, and other politicians were present on the occasion. On the occasion, Kharge gave a brief history of the party and said “India progressed as Congress broke many shackles of Dalits, poors”. He also added that the party follows the principles of taking everyone along. Congress MP from Wayanad Rahul Gandhi who is in the national capital now as part of his ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, attended the event
29 December,2022 03:08 PM ISTParents allege their children, admitted to a private school under the Right to Education Act, are facing discrimination. Video courtesy: NDTV
19 July,2012 08:56 AM ISTClaiming breakthrough in the alleged gangrape of a teenage Dalit girl in Hisar, which prompted her father to commit suicide, police said it has arrested one accused who revealed there were 11 others involved in the crime. Hisar police chief B Satheesh Balan said the accused, arrested on Saturday, has revealed names of the other 11 accused and they will be arrested soon. Video courtesy: NDTV
24 September,2012 09:01 AM ISTIn north Haryana, a Dalit woman has been gang-raped in her home at gunpoint. The attack in the Jind district was also filmed on a phone camera and the MMS was circulated in her village. Video courtesy: NDTV
27 September,2012 10:18 AM ISTA 16-year-old Dalit girl committed suicide today after she was allegedly raped by a man in Sachcha Kheda village in Haryana's Jind district. This is the tenth case of rape in the state in less than 27 days. Video courtesy: NDTV
07 October,2012 04:21 PM ISTA Dalit woman has been burnt alive in Bihar's Gaya district by the upper caste Yadav landowners. Her family alleges that the accused, Subedar Yadav - a former block pramukh - and his two nephews Yogesh and Mukesh, had promised them a house under the Indira Awas Yojana. They used to visit the woman often and take money from her. Video courtesy: NDTV
09 October,2012 09:14 AM ISTHaryana Dalit woman raped, MMS shot.Video courtesy: NDTV
29 October,2012 04:18 PM ISTThanks to social reforms, lives of Dalits are getting transformed. But now they are facing a new threat. Non-Dalits who once oppressed them feel threatened by their economic empowerment and are turning against them. In one such case, around 200 Dalit houses were set on fire in Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri district and their properties and livelihood completely destroyed, allegedly by the Vanniar community. Video courtesy: NDTV
10 December,2012 12:08 PM ISTIn one of the most horrific cases of sexual assault and murder, a Dalit woman was gang-raped and murdered by local hooligan allegedly associated with the family of a village headman in Malpura district of Agra.
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