[GreenYouth] Fwd: Communalism Watch
-- Forwarded message -- From: Communalism Watch aiin...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM Subject: Communalism Watch To: kmvenuan...@gmail.com Communalism Watch http://communalism.blogspot.com/ http://fusion.google.com/add?source=atgsfeedurl=http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommunalismWatch -- Hindutva attack on lingerie - R Prasad Cartoon in Mail Todayhttp://communalism.blogspot.com/2010/01/hindutva-attack-on-lingerie-r-prasad.html Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:36 PM PST http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Eff/CommunalismWatch?a=HkcTTByCS5Y:m1JCv-PdpbE:yIl2AUoC8zA You are subscribed to email updates from Communalism Watchhttp://communalism.blogspot.com/ To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe nowhttp://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailunsubscribe?k=U1UPAfJera9qSR24RLSjctJ294s . Email delivery powered by Google Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Muhammad's promise to Christians - MUST READ
-- Forwarded message -- From: humanrightswatch India humanrightswatch.in...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM Subject: Muhammad's promise to Christians - MUST READ To: amjed...@yahoo.co.in http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/12/prophet_muhammads_promise_to_christians.html Muhammad's promise to Christians *By Muqtedar Khan** **Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware* Muslims and Christians together constitute over 50 percent of the world. If they lived in peace, we would be half way to world peace. One small step we can take towards fostering Muslim-Christian harmony is to tell and retell positive stories and abstain from mutual demonization. In this article I propose to remind both Muslims and Christians about a promise that Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) made to Christians. The knowledge of this promise can have enormous impact on Muslim conduct towards Christians. Muslims generally respect the precedent of their Prophet and try to practice it in their lives. In 628 AD, a delegation from St. Catherine's Monastery came to Prophet Muhammed and requested his protection. He responded by granting them a charter of rights, which I reproduce below in its entirety. St. Catherine's Monastery is located at the foot of Mt. Sinai and is the world's oldest monastery. It possess a huge collection of Christian manuscripts, second only to the Vatican, and is a world heritage site. It also boasts the oldest collection of Christian icons. It is a treasure house of Christian history that has remained safe for 1,400 years under Muslim protection. *The Promise to St. Catherine:* This is a message from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, as a covenant to those who adopt Christianity, near and far, we are with them. Verily I, the servants, the helpers, and my followers defend them, because Christians are my citizens; and by Allah! I hold out against anything that displeases them. No compulsion is to be on them. Neither are their judges to be removed from their jobs nor their monks from their monasteries. No one is to destroy a house of their religion, to damage it, or to carry anything from it to the Muslims' houses. Should anyone take any of these, he would spoil God's covenant and disobey His Prophet. Verily, they are my allies and have my secure charter against all that they hate. No one is to force them to travel or to oblige them to fight. The Muslims are to fight for them. If a female Christian is married to a Muslim, it is not to take place without her approval. She is not to be prevented from visiting her church to pray. Their churches are to be respected. They are neither to be prevented from repairing them nor the sacredness of their covenants. *No one of the nation (Muslims) is to disobey the covenant till the Last Day (end of the world*). The first and the final sentence of the charter are critical. They make the promise eternal and universal. Muhammed asserts that Muslims are with Christians near and far, straight away rejecting any future attempts to limit the promise to St. Catherine alone. By ordering Muslims to obey it until the Day of Judgment the charter again undermines any future attempts to revoke the privileges. These rights are inalienable. Muhammed declared Christians, all of them, as his allies and he equated ill treatment of Christians with violating God's covenant. A remarkable aspect of the charter is that it imposes no conditions on Christians for enjoying its privileges. It is enough that they are Christians. They are not required to alter their beliefs, they do not have to make any payments and they do not have any obligations. This is a charter of rights without any duties! The document is not a modern human rights treaty, but even though it was penned in 628 A.D. it clearly protects the right to property, freedom of religion, freedom of work, and security of the person. I know most readers, must be thinking, So what? Well the answer is simple. Those who seek to foster discord among Muslims and Christians focus on issues that divide and emphasize areas of conflict. But when resources such as Muhammad's promise to Christians is invoked and highlighted it builds bridges. It inspires Muslims to rise above communal intolerance and engenders good will in Christians who might be nursing fear of Islam or Muslims. When I look at Islamic sources, I find in them unprecedented examples of religious tolerance and inclusiveness. They make me want to become a better person. I think the capacity to seek good and do good inheres in all of us. When we subdue this predisposition towards the good, we deny our fundamental humanity. In this holiday season, I hope all of us can find time to look for something positive and worthy of appreciation in the values, cultures and histories of other peoples. * Dr. Muqtedar Khan is Director of Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware and a fellow of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding*. --
[GreenYouth] Mayhem in Dantewada, C'garh: Two Snippets of the Same Ongoing Huge Criminal Act
[On October 1st, last year, in the Gompad village in the Dantewada district 9 persons including a teen-aged girl are reportedly killed by the state security forces together with the Salwa Judum brigade, the private vigilante group propped up be the state. What follows here provides us a peek into the brazen efforts of the state to hush all that up. Regardless of the fact that the Supreme Court is seized of the matter, rather with a degree of desperation triggered by that.] I/II. http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article81193.ece Key witness in Adivasi killings brought to AIIMSManisha Jha [image: THE PICTURE THEY DELETED: Sodi Sambho at AIIMS on Friday. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma] The Hindu THE PICTURE THEY DELETED: Sodi Sambho at AIIMS on Friday. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma Room No. 2016 at the New Private Ward of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here is playing host to a very special patient. Sodi Sambho, who was brought to the Institute from Gompad village in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh five days ago, is set to undergo surgery for a bullet wound in her leg this Saturday. But what makes her special is that she is a key witness in a petition filed in the Supreme Court which alleges that security forces fired upon and killed nine Adivasis in a “sanitisation operation” in her village this past October 1. After she was detained on her way to Delhi, the Supreme Court directed the Chhattisgarh police not to prevent her from coming to the Capital for treatment. Human rights activists and her lawyer, Colin Gonsalves, have expressed concern over the matter and alleged that strict police surveillance is being maintained over her movement and that she is being pressurised to change her statement. They allege she is under de facto police custody or surveillance and is not free to meet activists or journalists. An attempt by this reporter to interact with her in her ward on Friday was thwarted by three men who refused to identify themselves and claimed to be her “well-wishers”. One of them said he was a fellow-Adivasi from her village and had accompanied her to Delhi for her treatment. The second man, a non-Adivasi, claimed to be a “doctor” from outside Delhi but subsequently contradicted himself saying he was not a medical practitioner. He said he already knew the Adivasi accompanying Ms. Sambho and decided to offer whatever help he could. The third non-Adivasi man, however, did not reveal anything about himself. Tall and well-built, he had a mop of close-cropped hair. Though the two non-Adivasi men lacked any legal or professional authority to interfere in the work of a journalist, they denied *The Hindu* permission to directly speak with Ms. Sambho on the ground that she only understood Gondi. And one of them pounced on the photographer who was accompanying this reporter when he began clicking photographs. One of the “well-wishers” threatened to “inform the police” and file a legal complaint if Ms. Sambho’s picture, or a story about her, was published. He then forced the photographer to hand over the camera while demanding to see the photo identity cards. In the meantime, the third unidentified man who had just entered the room turned aggressive, took away the camera and deleted the pictures with practised ease. (As it turned out later, the photographer was able to retrieve and resurrect the pictures with the help of a special software embedded in the camera). After several attempts, the head “well-wisher” agreed to let this reporter question the other Adivasi, who he said was the only person who could speak Hindi and Gondi. However, instead of conveying the queries to Ms. Sambho, he and the other unidentified man insisted on answering them directly without asking her. The Adivasi man stated that they had the full support of the police and the hospital administration in Ms. Sambho’s treatment. He denied any police personnel had accompanied her to Delhi or were monitoring her movement to pressurise her. “The Maoists were behind the attack in which Sambho was injured,” he claimed. As the “interview” proceeded, one of the “well-wishers” lost his temper, blaming this reporter for “disturbing the patient before her surgery”. For the record, however, the AIIMS doctors themselves never objected to *The Hindu’s* attempt to meet Ms. Sambho. II. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2010011756401000.htmdate=2010/01/17/prd=th; *In Chhattisgarh, jail is the cost of filing a public interest litigation plea* Aman Sethi *Police detain three witnesses to killings in Gompad village, ban journalists from site* -- * Police decline comment on veracity of claims made in petition filed by Sodi Sambho and others There is concern that the facts surrounding the Gompad killings might never be known * -- Konta: The mystery surrounding the killing of nine Adivasis in Gompad village in Dantewada district in October last year is
Re: [GreenYouth] Mayhem in Dantewada, C'garh: Two Snippets of the Same Ongoing Huge Criminal Act
*Join* *Dharna and Candle-light Vigil in Solidarity with* * * *Sodi Sambho* * * *and the adivasi Ruchikas of Dantewada! * * * *(Sodi, an eyewitness injured in a massacre by security forces at Bastar, is at AIIMS, prevented from meeting press, public and even her lawyer)** *** * * *Assemble at Railway Reservation Counter inside AIIMS Gate,* *18 January, 2010, Monday* *5 pm onwards* Sodi Sambho is a young adivasi woman from Bastar with a leg severely injured in the murderous ‘cleansing’ operation at Gompad, Bastar on October 1, 2009, in which 9 adivasis were killed. She and other eyewitnesses have petitioned the Supreme Court against the incident. Initially the police at Dantewada tried to prevent her from coming to Delhi for treatment. Following a directive by the Supreme Court, she is now in a private room at AIIMS, but is a virtual prisoner, prevented from meeting anyone, including activists, the press and even her lawyer. Some of her fellow petitioners and eyewitnesses have been jailed in Bastar – she and they are all being intimidated to force them to withdraw/change their statements. Meanwhile, women in Bastar who have complained against rape by SPOs and Salwa Judum leaders are also being intimidated – by their rapists who roam free despite warrants against them - to withdraw their complaints. And ‘Operation Greenhunt’ is in full swing, with combing operations and killings of adivasis all happening away from any public scrutiny. One can only imagine how many more Gompads are being perpetrated. Mr. Chidambaram – what do you have to hide?! Why are you preventing Sodi Sambho from meeting her lawyer and the public? We demand justice for the adivasi Ruchikas of Dantewada who are raising their voice against massacres and rapes – defying intimidation by your Government and the BJP Government of Chhattisgarh and the entire might of the state machinery. Sodi Sambho is due to appear in court on the morning of Tuesday, January 19. On the eve of her appearance in court, we appeal to all to join the solidarity dharna and candle-light vigil to let Sodi know we are with her all the way in her brave struggle. Pl come with your banners, placards etc. * * *AIPWA, AISA, CADAM, CAVOW, Dalit Lekhak Manch, JTSA, Saheli and other organisations* Contact: 9868112252, 9868383692 2010/1/17 Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com [On October 1st, last year, in the Gompad village in the Dantewada district 9 persons including a teen-aged girl are reportedly killed by the state security forces together with the Salwa Judum brigade, the private vigilante group propped up be the state. What follows here provides us a peek into the brazen efforts of the state to hush all that up. Regardless of the fact that the Supreme Court is seized of the matter, rather with a degree of desperation triggered by that.] I/II. http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article81193.ece Key witness in Adivasi killings brought to AIIMS Manisha Jha [image: THE PICTURE THEY DELETED: Sodi Sambho at AIIMS on Friday. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma] The Hindu THE PICTURE THEY DELETED: Sodi Sambho at AIIMS on Friday. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma Room No. 2016 at the New Private Ward of All-India Institute of Medical Sciences here is playing host to a very special patient. Sodi Sambho, who was brought to the Institute from Gompad village in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh five days ago, is set to undergo surgery for a bullet wound in her leg this Saturday. But what makes her special is that she is a key witness in a petition filed in the Supreme Court which alleges that security forces fired upon and killed nine Adivasis in a “sanitisation operation” in her village this past October 1. After she was detained on her way to Delhi, the Supreme Court directed the Chhattisgarh police not to prevent her from coming to the Capital for treatment. Human rights activists and her lawyer, Colin Gonsalves, have expressed concern over the matter and alleged that strict police surveillance is being maintained over her movement and that she is being pressurised to change her statement. They allege she is under de facto police custody or surveillance and is not free to meet activists or journalists. An attempt by this reporter to interact with her in her ward on Friday was thwarted by three men who refused to identify themselves and claimed to be her “well-wishers”. One of them said he was a fellow-Adivasi from her village and had accompanied her to Delhi for her treatment. The second man, a non-Adivasi, claimed to be a “doctor” from outside Delhi but subsequently contradicted himself saying he was not a medical practitioner. He said he already knew the Adivasi accompanying Ms. Sambho and decided to offer whatever help he could. The third non-Adivasi man, however, did not reveal anything about himself. Tall and well-built, he had a mop of close-cropped hair. Though the two non-Adivasi men lacked any legal
[GreenYouth] 'Malabar Moral Police' and Attempts to Justify Bullying In the Name of Left- Debate Continues in kafila.org
It would be helpful if you could post your comments here: http://kafila.org/2010/01/13/inaugurated-the-malabar-moral-police/ Thanks, Venu -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
[GreenYouth] after Love jihad (CHARCHA)@V B Calicut BY sio kerala
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[GreenYouth] In Memory of Jyoti Babu!
The news came in the early afternoon. A friend had rung up. My TV is out of operation for quite a while. In the evening, another friend rung up to talk of. It was a long and no doubt a distinguished career in the conventional sense of the term. He was by far the longest-serving Chief Minister in India. Only Gegong Apang of Arunnachal Pradesh has a somewhat comparable record. But then, Arunachal is not counted amongst the major states of India. In 1996, his name was proposed as the Indian Prime Minister by the combined anti-Congress - anti-BJP opposition and forcefully pursued. To the horror of many - just not the foes, but also friends. In fact, after an intense tussle, the Party, of which he was the Polit Buro (the highest rung of leadership) member rejected the proposal, despite the spirited bid by the then General Secretary of the Party and also Basu himself being clearly in favour. As a disciplined party soldier, he abided by the decision. But that could not stop him from publicly calling it a historic blunder. Only a Jyoti Babu, not Comrade Basu, could go unpunished after chiding the party in public. No other leader from the Left came anywhere remotely close to that. Only Tridib Chaudhuri, of the Revolutionary Socialist Party - a far smaller leftwing outfit, had been the combined opposition's Presidential candidate against the ruling Congress in the year 1974. But that was for all intent and purpose a symbolic fight. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed would win hands down. Not that he was loved by all, no human is that fortunate. But he definitely commanded widespread respect and also elicited some degree of awe. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so to say, grew up to become a Communist. While in Britain in late thirties - the colonial ruler of India in those days, studying to become a Barrister. As is the case with his many illustrious senior and junior comrades did. Not too uncommon in those days. The famous advocate Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, who would later become the Advocate general of West Bengal, was understandably very close to him, sharing a broadly similar aristocratic family roots and personal inclinations, in those days and also for long years thereafter. Not too many would remember him now though. Basu, to be sure, had also intimately engaged with the labour movement, at least during his initial years. Was just not confined to parliamentary politics. And led historic popular agitations like the campaign against Bengal-Bihar merger, against one paisa tram fare rise etc. (Not too many would remember now though.) Jyoti Babu, as he was widely known - not Jyoti Da by any stretch nor even Comrade Basu - had his own distinctive air of aloof dignity tinged with evident haughtiness. That came with his aristocratic family roots, privileged foreign education, communist (presumably some superior) ideology, and of course Benglainess. That was perhaps during the second United Front regime in West Bengal, which had assumed power in West Bengal. Those were the days of turmoil - both in the agrarian sector, and also in the cities. Physical bloody fights among the partners of the ruling coalition led by Ajoy Mukhopadhyay of the Bangla Congress was the norm of the day. The CPIM was the second most important constituent and Jyoti Basu was the Home Minister and the Dy. Chief Minister. Bloody clashes between the cadres of the two parties in the countryside were too frequent. And also verbal duel between the leaders. As the things turned particularly sour, Jyoti Babu held a press conference to narrate an alleged incident of atrocities perpetrated by the Bangla Congess men. He'd normally not get involved in such murky business. In this particular event a widow was reportedly assaulted and tortured, to which Basu did refer. A journalist, with mischief on mind, asked him to elaborate the torture bit. Basu was visibly disgusted. He retorted back that he has already that a widow has been assaulted and tortured. The persistent journalist refusing to give up explained that the other day Sushil Dhara, the second senior most leader of the Bangla Congress, and the Industries Minister (if my memory serves me right), had given an elaborate description of the torture inflicted by the CPM cadres on some women. the quintessential Jyoti Babu with unconcealed contempt shot back: I cannot go down to the level of Sushil Dhara! A comparable example that comes to my mind would take place about a decade later. In 1977, after the Janata Party government came to power, at the end of the Emergency, it dismissed the state governments run by the Congress. In the process, in West Bengal the Left Front led by the CPIM came to power. Dr. Ashok Mitra, at that time a close friend of Basu, now the Chief Minister, became the Finance Minister. The Sunday was quite a popular magazine in those days, edited by M J Akbar. Sometime later, on its last page, it carried an interview of Dr. Mitra, an eminent economist in his own right. The interviewer, at one
[GreenYouth] Naomi Klein Video on Climate Debt
http://i4.democracynow.org/2009/11/23/naomi_klein_on_climate_debt_why -- You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. -AMBEDKAR http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
[GreenYouth] Jyoti Basu: One thing that the Indian media and politicians dont discuss
Hi, In a country mirred the quagmire of superstitions, Com Jyoti Basu set a remarkable model. He had willed to donate his body to the medical students for their studies. While we often stoop to levels that a rare politician once called as behaving like cockroaches, Basu's marvellous example is sidelined by the media that thrives on superstitions, and of course the politicians including the communists dread discussing this. I, as a ordinary Indian, am immensely inspired by the model set by Com Basu and have already commited to donate my eyes upon my death. Lets follow the example of Com Basu in whatever way possible and break the backbone of superstitions that criples the country. Farida -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
Re: [GreenYouth] Re: Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler ?
as S anand mentioned, why is it that the WE get patriotic while attacking an easy target like white european male (look at metro-feminists like nivedita menon), forgetting that the occupied patriotic realm has been challenged from below. like the kafila intellectuals who enthralled in deleting any criticism, the indian gandhi fans fall in line to defend the violence of gandhi, forgetting that the same has been pointed out by fellow indians as well. zizekian polemics exposes these hypocratical realm; thus for THEM there are two zizeks as well...poor country! On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:06 AM, venukm kmvenuan...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps I like to brush aside Zizek's negative remark on Gandhi show his novoice : I'll rather be happy with his conclusion here, in the interview : I am here to know more about India. I must frankly admit that till now I ignored India. But for sometime, a storm was gathering inside me and now it exploded and now I am here. I am reading books on India. I started with the laws of Manu. I am here to study how the modern and tradition co-exist together amid contradictions of globalization. I have more hopes from India than China because in China something very dangerous is happening. It all started in Singapore -- capitalism with Asian values, which is actually authoritarian capitalism. Till now, there was one good thing to say about capitalism -- democracy. I am afraid what’s now emerging in the Far East (we all know that Deng Xiaoping went to Singapore and said this is the model for all of China). It’s the new capitalism. It’s more dynamic than the western capitalism. And I don’t believe my liberal friends who believe that in another 10 years in china there will be another Tiananmen. On Jan 15, 5:17 pm, sreenivas v.p sreenivas_...@yahoo.co.in wrote: I do not think Gandi did some social service or something for the humanity . His social service was focussed on satisfying his own egoism and principles for which he worked. Thousands of people including children were killed or brutally tortured by the british soldiers mainly because they listened to Gandi's false idea called Ahimsa . Ahimsa has meaning when it is applied to an individual but it is a mere stupidity to preach this when we have to confront a common enemy who is coming to annihilate us . And Gandi became a role model for Indians mainly because of the fact that he upholded religious sentiments which were considered to be the true philosophy of life by the majority. A man having peaceful objectives can do harm if the tools or method he uses is incorrect and especially if he is able to mobilize the masses . -- On Fri, 15/1/10, Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com wrote: From: Sukla Sen sukla@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GreenYouth] Re: Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler ? To: free-binayak...@googlegroups.com, greenyouth greenyouth@googlegroups.com Date: Friday, 15 January, 2010, 4:46 PM Labelling Gandhi as more violent than Hitler would also ipso facto mean than Hitler is less violent, and thereby more benign, than Gandhi!! That's the true extent of this stinking obscenity. I also imagine that social science is no esoteric branch of Astrophysics or something of that sort so that only a blessed few are entitled to interpret and dish out whatever nauseating hocus pocus they want to. Sukla 2010/1/15 Daniel Mazgaonkar daniel.mazgaon...@gmail.com I really fail to understand what you all are saying and arguing, calling non-violence violence, and violence, non-violence. Shall we ever call what is going on in Chhattisgarh, non-violence of the state? Daniel. 2010/1/15 Chrysanthemum Grower chrysanthemumgro...@gmail.com I’m not sure it is particularly helpful to term a comparison of Gandhi with Hitler ‘shit’ or ‘dumb’. I think Zizek is absolutely right about Gandhi. It is quite sensible to compare Gandhi with Hilter from the point of view of social science AND politics: both were leaders who had the capacity to mobilize large number of their countrymen – the question is, the effects of what they did, with all that power they wielded, and what they could have done. What Zizek says here is not particularly original; others with more ‘knowledge’ of Indian history have made the same point. Gandhi’s violence is the violence that nonviolence makes possible and helps in reproducing. I imagine one can recognize that without necessarily pouring scorn on Gandhi as a human being. But for that one has to stop putting him on a pedestal and worshipping him and treating him like a God and making an ‘ism’ (Gandhianism) out of his thoughts. It ought to be pretty obvious that violence in one domain is not possible without forms of complicity, through explicit nonviolence, in other domains. That is the link between a nonviolent salesman in Dadar and the soldier-rapist in dantewada. The violence of
[GreenYouth] Lingerie hindutwa
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[GreenYouth] Dalits, Muslims Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (read at roundtable)
Dalits, Muslims Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ – Much ado about zilch! * * *By: Pardeep Singh Attri* *http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1137 * *Interesting news which caught my eye today (January 16th, 2009) “Human Resource Department’s internal appraisals of ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ showing most of its physical target’s for 2009-10 are** set to be fully achieved.” – With 85% schools opened of set target, 78% teachers, 92% schools with drinking water, providing free textbooks to 92% school students. *** ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ - “Education for All” scheme sometimes referred to as “each one, teach one”. Aim of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan was to provide useful and efficient elementary education to all children in the age group of 6 to 10 by 2010. There was another goal to bridge the social, regional and gender gaps with the active participation of all the communities in the management of schools. Have these targets been achieved to some extent? Are all the governments working for all these? Are all the children getting chance for betterment or this scheme also have just proved like just another government scheme, those never reaches to common people and common people read and listen about them only on T.V channel advertisements? [image: Keeping the muslims down] Keeping the muslims down There are about 45% Dalits who don’t know how to read or write, literacy rate for Dalit women is just 37.8%. *According to a survey by the Friends for Education, almost 52 % Muslims live below the poverty line (compared to 25 % of all Indians). Of every 100 Muslim girls admitted in schools at the primary level, only four pass out at high school while only 1 makes it to a college. The literacy level is a shocking 28% and graduates and postgraduates form less than 1 % of the total. In the field of medicine, the percentage is just 2.4 while in the judiciary; it doesn’t go beyond 3.1 %. The community occupies the lowest rung in the development index. Its literacy rate is poor and it has a low presence in private and public sector jobs. (“Keeping the Muslim Down” by Firoz Bakhtt Ahmed, May 19th 2008, HT)* A Citizen’s Review Report (7th Jan, 2008) on “India’s Progress on the MDGs” showed that 55% of Muslims have never attended school compared to national average of 41% (rural); In Bihar 86% of enrolled children drop-out by Standard VI. 99% Dalit children study in Public schools inadequate facilities and infrastructure as major problem for access to health education. There is another report by Comptroller Audit General (CAG) showing that SC, ST’s literacy rate is very much poor in Tamil Nadu. For ST males’ literacy rate is 32.18% for female it stands at 31.77%. Also the pass percentage of SC, ST students in 10th 12th standard examinations has dropped since 2002-03 and is much lower than the overall pass percentage during 2002-06 and this needs immediate attention in the educational development of the SC, STs. This all is result of poor monitoring poor implementation of the welfare schemes launched for SC, STs; humiliating Dalits in schools/colleges delaying the scholarships for SC, STs students. The total budget for ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan’ stands at Rs.131 billion and the scheme’s operation has come under severe flak from India’s official auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). Out of Rs 8004.71-crore allotted for the development work of “Elementary Education” and ‘Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, only Rs 2,324.99 crore was spent through record. For rest of the money spent on the development work there no records available Human Resource Department is clueless about rest of money! Means rest of money was simply siphoned off Gujarat, Rajasthan governments comes first in misusing the funds! From the funds of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan party functions were organized money was simply wasted on “Puja” in temples, thinking this will help in improving literacy rate! Almost all the times, receiving green signal from ‘World Bank’ about the next installment for Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Indian political leaders have started celebrating and why they shouldn’t? But if this Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan couldn’t fulfill the targets of giving education to all, this entire scheme has definitely made many policy makers millionaire! *“Education for All Children” movement has proved “Money for All Politicians” nothing else. *A survey conducted by “Outlook” (April 7th, 2008) showed that 71% villagers said there is high corruption in all the Government schemes don’t reach at them. India’s external debt is already at 201.4 billion USD, but where the development is seen, in the houses of ministers? Isn’t it? *There is another worrisome part an emerging trend whereby children belonging to different social backgrounds are attending different kinds of schools. In Andhra Pradesh, there is a divide between the government primary school (GPS) located in the Dalit basti and the GPS in the forward caste hamlet — only SC students attend the former
