A Selection of Short Reads from 2017

To round up our year, here are some of our short stories from 2017, selected by The Caravan’s editors.

Was an IIMC Academic Sacked for Protesting the Dismissal of 25 Dalit Workers?

In October 2016, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication had laid off over 20 Dalit contractual workers. At the time, the institute had said the workers were let go because they were no longer required—a new contractor had been hired, who had brought along his own workers, and had chosen to not retain any old employees. Among the workers who were dismissed was the woman who in October 2015, had alleged that a clerk working for IIMC had raped her.