A complaint has been filed against actor Sreenivasan for his remarks against Kerala’s Anganwadi teachers saying that they aren’t educated enough to teach children.

A case of casteism has come to light in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai district when two ‘Dalit’ Anganwadi women M Annalakshmi and M Jyotilakshmi were denied work.

Anganwadi workers — the mainstay of India’s Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) for nutrition of children — have been protesting across the country for increased wages, regularisation of employment, social security benefits and removal of leakages in wages, which most of them still receive in cash. While increasing wages, and bringing this large workforce in […]