I wrote an article last year on my experiences as a Dalit on dating apps. My comment that ‘upper-caste’ men only want to argue about reservation and EWS offended many men — including those from my own community.

Five days after the article was published, I was in Jharkhand covering the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. I was travelling back to the hotel after covering MLA Kalpana Soren’s campaign in Giridih, when I received an X post that said, “She is a Dalit journalist demanding reservation on dating apps.”

The reason I am writing this now is because the trolls have resurfaced. On Tuesday morning, just a day after Diwali, a friend sent an Instagram post. The same photos, the same trolling. Show Full Article

The casteism I faced on these platforms that scream of modernity was rea

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