[GreenYouth] Summer courses on “GENDER, STATE AND WELFARE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY”AND “(NEO)LIBERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM AND CRISES OF CAPITAL” - Central European Univer sity, Budapest
PLS CIRCULATE Summer courses on “GENDER, STATE AND WELFARE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY”AND “(NEO)LIBERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM AND CRISES OF CAPITAL” - Central European University, Budapest Dear Ranjith Thankappan, We would like to solicit your help to promote the summer courses on “GENDER, STATE AND WELFARE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY”and “(NEO)LIBERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM AND CRISES OF CAPITAL” among your colleagues, your graduate students, or any interested researchers. “GENDER, STATE AND WELFARE IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY” Course Dates: 4 - 9 July, 2011 Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary, Detailed course description: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/ gender Course Directors: Eva Fodor, CEU, Deptartment of Gender Studies, Budapest, Hungary Christy Glass, Utah State University, Department of Sociology, Social Work Anthropology, Logan, USA Faculty: Lynne Haney, Department of Sociology, New York University, New York, USA Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, Department of Sociology, Evanston, USA Dorota Szelewa, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Bremen, Germany Target group: The course is aimed at individuals with an advanced status in PhD research or postdoctoral research engagement in the field of social sciences, political science, policy studies, law or related subjects. Participants should ideally have had some earlier engagement with the topic of intersectionality and will be required to submit a piece of written work for discussion during the course. Language of instruction: English Tuition fee: EUR 300. Financial aid is available. “(NEO)LIBERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM AND CRISES OF CAPITAL” Course Dates: July 4-15, 2011 Location: Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary, Detailed course description: http://www.summer.ceu.hu/neoliberalization Course Director: Mary Taylor, The City University of New York, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Graduate Center, US Csilla Kalocsai, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Center for Women's Studies in Education, Canada Faculty: Judit Bodnar, CEU, Department of History/Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Budapest, Hungary Johanna K. Bockman, George Mason University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfax, US David Harvey, The City University of New York, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, New York, US Ivan Szelenyi, New York University, Abu Dhabi Katherine Verdery, The City University of New York, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, New York, US Target group: graduate students, researchers, and junior scholars in the social sciences. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered. Working knowledge of substantive issues in the areas of socialism, postsocialist transformation, (neo)liberalization, and/or crises of capital is recommended Application deadline: February 15, 2011 Online application: https://apply.embark.com/NonDegree/CEU We’d be grateful if you could forward this email to those potentially interested in our summer school (individuals, listservs, blogs, electronic journals, etc.) and/or have a short announcement placed on a relevant web site. Thank you for your kind assistance. Sincerely yours, -- Ranjit -- 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] Sign the Petition
Dear folk, I would be grateful if you would have a look at this petition and sign in. I would be even happier if you sent it around to everyone you know to sign as well. Thank you ashley http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ashelytellis/ -- Ashley Tellis 2/14 - A Second Floor Jangpura A New Delhi - 110014 -- K.C. Bindu, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Science, College for Girls, Al Kharj University, Riyadh-Wadi Dawasir, P.O. Box - 54, Postal Code - 11991 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. -- Ranjit -- 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] Muslimspeak: Barabari and bhagidari or Babri? NEW BLOG POST !
hi all,pls circulate The Muslims have been neglected for a long time, and now they are raising their voices for better education and jobs. What they want now is barabari (equality) and bhagidari (equal distribution) in national life. This should come through socio-economic development, but justice on the Babri Masjid issue will return their lost confidence on the concept of equality and sovereignty promised to them by the Indian Constitution. http://journalismcultureinindia.blogspot .com/2010/10/muslimspeak-barabari-and-bhagidari-or.html -- Ranjit -- 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] AIIMS 'flouting' Reservation Rule
Savita Verma New Delhi, October 2, 2010 , Updated *11:53 IST* A doctors' forum has sought the Prime Minister's intervention to stop the ongoing flouting of reservation norms at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). A doctors' forum has shot a letter to the PM protesting against the flouting of reservation of norms. The Forum for Rights and Equality, which has about 100 faculty members on its rolls, has accused the premier institute of subverting government policy of reservation either by claiming non-availability of reserved category candidates or by adjusting meritorious candidates in the reserved quota. The forum presented a letter of protest to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday, demanding action. We demand that all those responsible for omission or commission be brought to justice, the forum stated in the letter. It also demanded setting up of a watchdog that would oversee implementation of all policies for SC/ ST/ OBCs, including reservation. The reservation for SC/ST/OBC in undergraduate MBBS admission is the latest casualty where reserved category candidates who secured more marks in the entrance test have been adjusted in the quota, the forum pointed out in the letter. Divya Agarwal with 67.1 per cent marks, Vitish Singla with 66.6 per cent marks, Rosemary Poulose with 66.3 per cent marks and Bhrigu Jain with 66.3 per cent marks have been selected in the general category while the first four students in the OBC category have scored more marks - Abhijeet Beniwal with 70.8 per cent, Dipin Sudhakaran with 68.6 per cent, Sreerag P Rajan with 67.5 per cent and Jyoti Kumari with 67.5 per cent - but they have been adjusted in the reservation quota. Reservation for postgraduate admission has also been compromised, the letter alleged. The letter claims that the reservation policy is being compromised even at the level of appointment of faculty. Many reserved category candidates have been declared unsuitable for being appointed as faculty members despite having relevant degrees and experience. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/114803/India/aiims-flouting-reservation-rule.html Sanjeev Kumar NCDHR-DAAA 09958797409 -- Dr Parmod Kumar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups IGNOU SC/ST Teachers group. To post to this group, send an email to ignou-scst-teach...@googlegroups.com . To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ignou-scst-teachers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comignou-scst-teachers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ignou-scst-teachers?hl=en-GB. -- Ranjit -- 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] An interview on Caste Census (New Post at Insight blog www.blog.insightyv.com)
“People who oppose caste-census are less in numbers, but are powerful and they run this country” http://www.blog.insightyv.com/ An interview with Dilip Mandal *Dilip Mandal*, a senior journalist and writer, is currently associated with Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi. He has been consistently writing on some of the most important socio-economic issues before our country, in newspapers and on internet. He has recently edited a book *‘Caste Census: Parliament, Society and Media’ *(in Hindi). Here he is interacting with Insight members – *Gurinder Singh Azad, Anup Vimal, Noopur and Anoop Kumar* – on the issue of caste census. This interview is also being published in Hindi herehttp://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1544#more-1544 . *Please read the entire interview both in English and Hindi at our blog www.blog.insightyv.com* -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit -- 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] Gender and MOdernities seminar
*Postfeminist Postmortems? Gender, Sexualities and Multiple Modernities * *February 14-16, 2011* *Feminisms and modernities have had a long and interlocked history. Now that we are, arguably, in a post-feminist, post-modern era, is it a fitting moment to stop and take stock of this critical encounter?* *This provocation emerges out of a particular trajectory of debates, controversies and confrontations in gender studies* *over the past two decades. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990) destabilised understandings of these interlocked categories about two decades after feminism emerged as a serious tool of critical inquiry. In 1990, also, Gayatri Spivak in The Postcolonial Critic re-located critical feminisms outside the Anglophone world.* *As a result of such foundational interventions, gender and modernities have encountered each other in and across unlikely cultural geographies, and have produced unforeseen critical progeny. Recent developments, in particular, dislocate any universalist assumption behind such mercurial categories, and allow us to re-conceptualize both gender and modernities across multiple spatial coordinates spanning innovative understandings of postcolonial feminisms, queer studies, performance/film studies, legal studies and so forth. Following on leads offered by such significant scholarship in these areas, this conference in the 21st century will look for fresh evaluations of modernities and gender across the arts and social sciences. The conference will seek to understand the complex interactions of gender/sexualities with a large array of social identifications including race, class, nation and caste within the framework of modernities across literatures, cinema, art, music, dance, photography and theatre in western as well as in post/neo/colonial sites. * *Possible topics may include but are not restricted to: * ** *· Literary modernity and gendered politics* *· Sexualities and contemporary modernities* *· Queer politics and cultural tropes* *· Postfeminist interventions and contemporary frames of knowledge* *· Reframing political thought and gendered citizenship* *· The gendered subaltern and modern historiographies * *· Gender, sexualities, and everyday life* *· Postfeminist geographies and locational politics* *· Metropolitan modernities and feminist interventions* *·Gender, sexualities and contemporary visual cultures* *· Genres of modernity* *· Postsecular interrogations* *· Consuming modernities and public/private spaces* *· Performing gender and modernities* *· Gender and science/technology* *· Sexual minorities and contemporary legal discourses* *· Class, caste and gendered politics* *· Islam, the veil and the West* *· Gender and development/environment* *· Radical queernesses* *· Violence, sexuality and power* *· The desiring/desired body* *· Affective modernities * *Please send your abstract (300 words) and a brief bionote (150 words) to the following email or postal address by October 31, 2010:* *dugendermodernitiesc...@gmail.com* dugendermodernitiesc...@gmail.com* * -- Ranjit -- 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] Technology, People and Media: Interview with Alan Rusbridger
has entered the picture. Which is, the public itself. If we establish the right relationship with our readers, we can create something which enhances our journalism and enables us to go on doing things that we need to. There is never going to be any less need for what we do. I am not denigrating the value of journalism. I am saying there is great need for what we do, but let us be alert to how to do this better by harnessing the technology and the abilities of people to help us do it. *Click herehttp://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/article699123.ece?homepage=trueto read the abridged version of this interview that was published in * *the print edition of *The Hindu. (Courtesy: http://www.thehindu.com) -- Ranjit -- Ranjit -- 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] An interview on Caste Census (New Post at Insight blog www.blog.insightyv.com)
“People who oppose caste-census are less in numbers, but are powerful and they run this country” http://www.blog.insightyv.com/ An interview with Dilip Mandal *Dilip Mandal*, a senior journalist and writer, is currently associated with Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi. He has been consistently writing on some of the most important socio-economic issues before our country, in newspapers and on internet. He has recently edited a book *‘Caste Census: Parliament, Society and Media’ *(in Hindi). Here he is interacting with Insight members – *Gurinder Singh Azad, Anup Vimal, Noopur and Anoop Kumar* – on the issue of caste census. This interview is also being published in Hindi herehttp://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1544#more-1544 . *Please read the entire interview both in English and Hindi at our blog www.blog.insightyv.com* -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] Insight Circle Meeting (19th Sept, Sund ay) on “Educated Urban Dalit Women: Opportunities and Cha llenges for Employment and Entrepreneurship”
Insight Study Circle Invites you for a public discussion *On* “Educated Urban Dalit Women: Opportunities and Challenges for Employment and Entrepreneurship” Based on * A recent study undertaken by Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion (CSEI), New Delhi* *Date* – 19 September 2010 (Sunday) *Time* – 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM *Venue* - Room No 411, Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, Near Saibaba Mandir, New Delhi *A discussion will take place based on the sharing on the findings of the study by our friends from Centre for Social Equity and Inclusion (CSEI). * *1.* Annie Namala *2.* Satyendra Kumar *This study explores various opportunities and challenges that are present in the contemporary labour market before educated urban Dalit women, a class that is less in number but has considerable impact on the community. The study has tried to look into the complex interplay of caste, class and patriarchy in Dalit women’s aspirations and their efforts and achievements in globalized India. Apart from studying about enterprises run by Dalit women, the study has also tried to map the employment opportunities available in public, private and NGO sector. This study was undertaken in two cities Delhi and Hyderabad. * RSVP *9313432410 599876* * .. * Insight Foundation is a* * group of young Dalit and Adivasi students professionals that are committed towards creating various support systems for our students and to make our education system more equitable and inclusive. Towards this 1. We are running a *National Dalit and Adivasi Students Helpline* (No- 0 48 42 49, Mon-Fri, 10 am - 5pm) 2. www.scststudents.org - A *Dalit and Adivasi Student Portal* 3. www.blog.insightyv.com - A *team blog* on contemporary issues 4. *Insight Study Circle* - A monthly meeting on contemporary issues in Delhi much regards anoop -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] Freedom instead Fear: A Note from Germany (New Blog Post)
PLEASE CIRCULATE Read New Blog Post!! One of the major civil concerns in 21st century Germany is protection of privacy and private data. The fear of a Orwell-like Big Brother State employed through new electronic features (e.g. the electronic finger print, collecting internet data and so on) is constantly growing. Thus, for quite some time now there has been a huge number of supporters from all kinds of civil movements, clubs, unions and parties at least annually protesting against this trend. Last Saturday, again, was one of these demonstrations in Germany's capital city of Berlin. http://journalismcultureinindia.blogspot.com/ -- Ranjit -- 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] An Interview with Abhay Xaxa (www.scststudents.org)
*Abhay Xaxa, age 34, born and brought up in Jashpur District of Chhattisgarh, is a researcher-activist based in Delhi. He is currently with Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, working on the status report of Adivasi in India after completing his post graduation in Anthropology from University of Sussex. At the very young age, Abhay became part of the Adivasi movement and in this interview he shares his struggle, vision and dreams towards the empowerment of his community.* Read his complete interview at our portal www.scststudents.org where we are trying to bring out success stories of our Dalit and Adivasi Students. You can also read other success stories and interviews of our mentors Kaushal Panwar http://www.scststudents.org/storydetails.php?id=10 VP Gomathi http://www.scststudents.org/storydetails.php?id=11 Sapna Surin http://www.scststudents.org/intdetails12.php?id=7 Gyanendra Kumar http://www.scststudents.org/intdetails12.php?id=6 ... Insight Foundation is a* * group of young Dalit and Adivasi students professionals that are committed towards creating various support systems for our students and to make our education system more equitable and inclusive. Towards this 1. We are running a National Dalit and Adivasi Students Helpline (No- 0 48 42 49, Mon-Fri, 10 am - 5pm) 2. www.scststudents.org - A Dalit and Adivasi Student Portal 3. www.blog.insightyv.com - A team blog on contemporary issues 4. Insight Study Circle - A monthly meeting on contemporary issues in Delhi much regards anoop -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] IIPM not recognised, can't confer degrees: UGC
PS: Please see the full story covered in Deccan Chronicle below. http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/iipm-not-recognised-cant-confer-degrees-ugc-685 IIPM not recognised, can't confer degrees: UGC The country's higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission, has said that the privately run Indian Institute of Planning and Management, New Delhi, is not recognised by it and not authorised to confer degrees. Without assigning reasons for its public notice brought out in dailies on Wednesday, the UGC said: It is further clarified for information that IIPM is neither entitled to award MBA/BBA/BCA degree nor it is recognised by UGC. Spokesperson of IIPM, run by management guru Arindam Chaudhuri, was not reachable for comments, while the chairman's office did not entertain calls. Calls to UGC secretary Niloufer Adil Kazmi's office were not returned. The apex higher education body, in the notice, also said that IIPM does not have the right of conferring or granting degrees as specified by the University Grants Commission under section 22(3) of the UGC Act. The notice said: It is hereby informed to the public at large and students that IIPM, New Delhi, is not a university within the meaning of section 2(f) of the UGC Act, 1956. It added that IIPM is not recognised by the ministry of human resource development, UGC or the All-India Council for Technical Education -- Dr. Shaheen Ansari Arkitect India C - 336 - ACD / 2 Z, Budha Vihar,(Opp. JNU Gate) Munirka,New Delhi- 110067 http://educationatdoorsteps.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/ __._,_.___ Reply to senderom...@hotmail.com?subject=re:+%5BArkitect+India%5D+IIPM+not+recognised%2C+can%27t+confer+degrees:+UGC| Reply to grouparkitectin...@yahoogroups.com?subject=re:+%5BArkitect+India%5D+IIPM+not+recognised%2C+can%27t+confer+degrees:+UGC| Reply via web posthttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwM2ZjMzZpBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BG1zZ0lkAzg4MDkEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMjgzNjAzMzkw?act=replymessageNum=8809| Start a New Topichttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlMDA0ZWE4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTI4MzYwMzM5MA-- Messages in this topichttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/message/8808;_ylc=X3oDMTM0ZDRqYjU2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BG1zZ0lkAzg4MDkEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMjgzNjAzMzkwBHRwY0lkAzg4MDg-( 2) Recent Activity: - New Membershttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJmdjhkZ29rBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZtYnJzBHN0aW1lAzEyODM2MDMzOTA-?o=6 10 Visit Your Grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia;_ylc=X3oDMTJldmU5amZ1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUDMTI4MzYwMzM5MA-- MARKETPLACE Get great advice about dogs and cats. Visit the Dog Cat Answers Center.http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=15oqtqmhe/M=493064.13814537.14041040.10835568/D=groups/S=1705064085:MKP1/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1283610591/L=1d570f9a-b820-11df-a659-73091f82c310/B=707ZG0WTeQI-/J=1283603391521995/K=kZ.DqlzU1hMPgcfk04MukQ/A=6078812/R=0/SIG=114ae4ln1/*http://dogandcatanswers.yahoo.com/ -- Hobbies Activities Zone: Find others who share your passions! Explore new interests.http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=15onjsq1v/M=493064.14012770.13963757.13298430/D=groups/S=1705064085:MKP1/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1283610591/L=1d570f9a-b820-11df-a659-73091f82c310/B=8E7ZG0WTeQI-/J=1283603391521995/K=kZ.DqlzU1hMPgcfk04MukQ/A=6015306/R=0/SIG=11vlkvigg/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/hobbiesandactivitieszone/ -- Stay on top of your group activity without leaving the page you're on - Get the Yahoo! Toolbar now.http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=15oa4h567/M=493064.13983314.14041046.13298430/D=groups/S=1705064085:MKP1/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1283610591/L=1d570f9a-b820-11df-a659-73091f82c310/B=7k7ZG0WTeQI-/J=1283603391521995/K=kZ.DqlzU1hMPgcfk04MukQ/A=6060255/R=0/SIG=1194m4keh/*http://us.toolbar.yahoo.com/?.cpdl=grpj [image: Yahoo! Groups]http://groups.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTJkb2NhbTQ0BF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA2dmcARzdGltZQMxMjgzNjAzMzkw Switch to: Text-Onlyarkitectindia-traditio...@yahoogroups.com?subject=change+delivery+format:+Traditional, Daily Digestarkitectindia-dig...@yahoogroups.com?subject=email+delivery:+Digest• Unsubscribe arkitectindia-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com?subject=unsubscribe• Terms of Use http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . __,_._,___ -- Ranjit -- 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
[GreenYouth] Silence and violence of Telengana student movement (eflustories.blogspot.com)
Is Telangana movement degrading to the level of a Sivasena kinda of reactionary fundamentalist movement dominated by reddy-velamma castes with clever silences on the issues of Dalits and Adivasis? The attack on Kancha Ialiah recently for raising the issue of DAlits and adivasis and the recent attack on teachers from non-telangana region who came on offical duty to evaluate BEd in Osmania University indicate the crisis in the telangana movement i believe. see another interesting write-up from nearby university.. it raises the violence within telengana student movement. http://eflustories.blogspot.com/ kindly read and circulate this blog. -- Ranjit -- 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] EXHIBITION ON KANDHAMAL BY DALIT ARTISTS
EXHIBITION ON KANDHAMAL BY DALIT ARTISTS Dear friends, Perhaps you are aware that even after two years, the Christian adivasi and dalit survivors of the Kandhamal http://orissaconcerns.net/kandhamal violence are still struggling for justice. Thousands of people cannot go back to their own lands and many are still living in tents in Kandhamal. Education of children is disrupted and their trauma is still continuing. The culprits of communal violence are getting acquitted without any punishment from the courts. In this context, the National Solidarity Forumhttp://www.nationalsolidarityforum.org/, a coalition of over 50 organisations from different parts of the country have given a call for protests, public meetings or any other civil society action on August 25, 2010 as `Kandhamal Dayhttp://orissaconcerns.net/2010/08/kandhamal-day/'. Since the attacks on Christians have taken place in over 10 states in India, the local issues may also be taken up along with the event. As part of the call for protesthttp://orissaconcerns.net/2010/08/kandhamal-day/ on August 25th two dalit artists, *Shashi Memuri and Venkatesh* have completed a series of paintings and sketches for an exhibition on the situation in Kandhamal after visiting more than 50 villages in the area recently. These can be downloaded from thehttp://orissaconcerns.net and print outs can be taken in A/3 size. We request all secular groups and organizations to make use of this exhibition before, during or after Kandhamal Dayhttp://orissaconcerns.net/2010/08/kandhamal-day/, in colleges, schools, institutions and public places. If the exhibition is organized in your area before Kandhamal Day it may also be contribute to the public action on August 25th. We plan to cover your solidarity actions/protest reports and news in OrissaConcerns.net. Please send reports and photographs of your actions to ani...@movingrepublic.org and nptkandha...@gmail.com so that other groups will also be informed and inspired by your action. Download Posters From Here http://orissaconcerns.net/2010/08/kandhamal-exhibition/ Tune http://orissaconcerns.net/kandhamal for Updates from Kandhamal from Peoples Tribunal happening in Delhi Details about National People’s Tribunal on Kandhamal, 22-24 August 2010 http://orissaconcerns.net/2010/08/national-people%E2%80%99s-tribunal-on-kandhamal-22-24-august-2010/ In Solidarity *Dhirendra Panda* Coordinator National Solidarity Forum *Anivar Aravind *(Editor , OrissaConcerns.net) Moving Republic for CSSC Shibi/Jestin http://indiacssc.wordpress.com/art/ Centre for Social Studies and Culture (CSSC) C/o Prof. TM Yesudasan Thaiparambil Sachivothamapuram PO Kottayam- 686532 Ph. 0481 2430597 Mob. 9446201659, 8089520220 Email- indiac...@gmail.com -- Ranjit -- 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] A public talk on Dalit and Adivasi Students and Foreign Educational Institutions (Insight Study Circle, 22nd August, 2010)
*Insight Study Circle**Invites you for a public meeting* *On* “Opportunities for Dalit and Adivasi Students for Higher Education in World’s Premier Educational Institutions” And to interact with our panel of Dalit and Adivasi Scholars *Date* - 22 August 2010 (Sunday) *Time *- 3 PM to 5.30 PM *Venue *- Room No 303, Indian Social Institute, Lodhi Road, New Delhi * * *Speakers* *David Vumlallian Zou *(from Manipur) teaches at History Department, Delhi University and did his doctorate from Queen’s University, Belfast with full scholarship from Academic Planning Grant (Northern Ireland). *Abhay Xaxa* (from Chhattisgarh) is currently working with Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi and did his Masters in Social Anthropology from University of Sussex, UK (2008) as one of the recipient of International Ford Fellowship Programme. *Rama Devi *(from Andhra Pradesh) completed her Post Graduation in Human Rights from University of London (2004) as one of the International Ford Fellow. She is currently based in Kolkata and is working with Catholic Relief Service. *Bhawani Buswala* (from Rajasthan) is currently in the country for his field research. He is pursuing his PhD in Anthropology from Brown University, Rhodes Island, USA on full university scholarship. -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] ] Fake Encounters in Jharkhand by Gladson Dungdung
* Fake Encounters in Jharkhand * By Gladson Dungdung In the afternoon on July 5, 2010, the security forces comprising of JAP and SAF under the leadership of E.H. Siddique the officer-in-charge of Tamar Police Station arrived to Gunti village and picked up 45 year-old Etwa Munda of Papirdah village comes under Tamar police station of Ranchi district in Jharkhand, when he was in the house of his relative Manav Munda. The police also caught a girl Bengi Kumari and escorted both of them towards Jabla pahari (forest). After sometime, the villagers heard the sound of firing and rushed toward the spot. They were shocked to see the dead body of Etwa Munda laying on the ground. The police framed the cold-blooded murder of Etwa Munda as a result of an encounter between the police and the Maoists. The police also depicted him as a hardcore Maoist who was very closed to the Maoist Zonal commander Kundan Pahan. Perhaps, Etwa Munda was not an innocent person but under which laws the police killed him in a fake encounter is the question needs to be answered. Since the villagers were fully aware of the cold-blooded murder of Etwa Munda therefore the police spared Bengi Kumari and threatened the villagers and family members of the deceased for keeping quite. However, the villagers wanted to raise the issue therefore they approached to a local activist Xavier Soy and told him about the fake encounter. Meanwhile, when the police came to know about Xavier Soy’s acts of attempting to unearth the fact of the fake encounter and encouraging the villagers for raising the issue, the police put Xavier Soy with his school going son behind the bars alleging them of keeping the Maoist literature in their house. The police also do not allow the outsiders especially the Human Rights Activists and the Journalists to roam in the area so that the truth remained buried. Finally, the police succeeded in shutting up the villagers’ mouths and in framing the cold-blooded murder as a genuine case of encounter between the police and the Maoists. Amidst, Tamar police again picked up another villager Rajesh Singh Munda of Papridah village on August 1, 2010 before the dawn from his village when he was sleeping. The police took him near Koja River in Heso forest and gunned down after branding him as a hardcore Maoist and aide of the Maoist Zonal Commander Kundan Pahan. The former Jharkhand chief Minister Arjun Munda raised the question and demanded for the CBI inquiry alleging that the Police killed Rajesh Singh Munda in a cold-blooded murder. He also said that the Naxalism would grow if innocent villagers were being coined as Naxalites and killed in fake encounters. He further said that the police kill innocent Adivasis precisely because they are voiceless. Perhaps, this is the first time in Jharkhand when a political leader has raised questions against the cold-blooded murder. Obviously, the most of the people keep quiet on the case of fake encounter because the licensed killings are not only accepted in our so-called civilized society but we also applaud for it, award the killers and make them heroes of our Indian society, which foundation lies on the non-violence ethos. It would be very interesting to know whether Etwa Munda and Rajesh Singh Munda were members of the Maoist groups? The circumstances suggest that they were not the members of the Maoist groups. For instance, the Maoists had called off ‘India block’ on July 7th after alleged killing of their leader Azad. Similarly, on 8 August 2010, they shut down Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhatsgarh and West Bengal against the arrest of Maoist leader Rajesh alias Udayji from Ranchi the capital city of Jharkhand. However, they did not even issue a statement after brutal killings of Etwa Munda and Rajesh Singh Munda by the Security Forces, which is a clearly indication that they were not the members of the Maoist groups. However, the villagers do not deny Etwa Munda’s involvement in some illegal activities but denied him being the member of Maoist groups. Perhaps, Rajesh Singh Munda was completely innocent. Indeed, the police often conduct fake encounters for ensuring medal, award and promotion for them but now the things have changed. The purposes of cold-blooded murders are entirely different in the red corridor. The Security forces have been organizing the fake encounters in the forests with the intention of frightening the villagers so that they can stop supporting the Maoists. It is to show the brave work of the security forces to the city dwellers especially the middle class for getting their support for the bigger assault against the Maoist. It is also to bring back the lost moral ground of the security forces. And of course, it is to shield their failures and to justify the so-called anti-Naxal operations of the Indian government. For instance, on July 1, 2010 the Police had organized a mass meeting at Sarjormdih village near Bunda police station of Ranchi district in Jharkhand against the
[GreenYouth] Urgent - ALL is not Well, students teach CWG organisers and they demand your active presence solidarity in this struggle
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vijayan MJ vijaya...@gmail.com Date: 14 August 2010 16:33 Subject: Urgent - ALL is not Well, students teach CWG organisers and they demand your active presence solidarity in this struggle To: *Dear friends,* * * *Delhi University students *are finally turning the heat on University authorities, Delhi Govt and the CWG organisers. Thrown to the streets after their hostels have been surrendered to Commonwealth Games organising committee by the greedy University/college establishments, the students are up in arms (though not literally, yet) against a system thats denying them any space in their own campuses. However, their struggle is not for themselves of for their hostel rights; they are fighting for labour rights in this city and against the national shame and disaster this Commonwealth Games business has become for India's working people and poor...*.* * * *F*or us, in Delhi Solidarity Group, this is a moment when some of our own comrades have pulled-off this rather stunning opposition among University students that has the potential to stun Kalmadies of the UPA and the CWG organising lobby... We need to join them in our own ways, as friends, comrades, as parents (!) - upholding them, their spirit, sitting with them at the dharna sthal, raising resources for their programmes across the university, getting pamphlets made for them, etc (being some ways).* * * * *P*ls remember that nothing compensates for your active presence and solidarity. Writing about them and their struggle, sending petitions supporting their demands to Government, bringing diverse groups from all over to understand their struggle and provide solidarity, talking about their struggle to other constituencies in this city, etc are also good ways of providing solidarity to them at this moment*. * * * *L*ets remember that this could be the beginning of what could well be the end of the Commonwealth dirt. If someone could initiate it with so much energy and strength, it is the University friends and they have shown the way. They have stood with us in the past - for Narmada, for Singur, for Nandigram, for Chengara, for fishworkers, for Palestine, for Human Rights in Kashmir, for Kashipur, for Niyamgiri, against AFSPA... and the list is endless. They need us to stand with them, in this struggle of theirs, for their rights and demands..*.* * * *For *all we know, they may create history ... and we are sure they will script a new victory* ! * *Today, *it is our privilege to be part of that. After all, it is for all of us, for democracy, that they are on the warpath... * * *Venue: Arts Faculty, Univ of Delhi North campus - 9am to 9pm...* * * *Kindly read and circulate the below note (prepared and circulated by UCD friends)... * * Regards,* * * Tarini Manchanda, Shabnam Hashmi, Joe Athialy, Bhupendra Rawat, Kalyani Menon-Sen, Kaveri Rajaraman, Vimalbhai, Rajendra Ravi, Sunita Rani, Bipin CC, Purnima Ramanujan, Sherebanu Frosh, Anita Kapoor, Anil T Varghese, Sandeep Ekka, Abhay Xaxa, Aanchal Kapoor, Shalini Sharma, Madhuresh Kumar, Kabir Arora, Vijayan MJ* others in DSG *collective...* * * * * * *The University Community for Democracy is initiating a relay hunger strike from 12th of Aug onwards between 9 a.m and 9 p.m at Arts Faculty, North Campus, DU against:* * * ·*Eviction of students and labouring poor of the city in the name of Commonwealth Games* ·*Violation of legally guaranteed labour standards in the University in particular and in the city in general.* ·*Lack of rent control around the university which has resulted in the sky rocketing of rent rates making accommodation for common students unfordable. * ·*Arbitrary decision making and shrinking of democratic space.* Everyday 5 people (teachers, students, researchers and activists) will be on hunger strike and rest would join in solidarity. UCD is a forum that has formed in the university with the intent of resisting the outrageous and deeply undemocratic manner in which Delhi as well as the university is being re-engineered for the 12 day commonwealth games. As the games are drawing closer it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to mask the exploitative and unjust nature of the ‘world class city’ that being imposed on the citizens of Delhi. As members of the university community we urge you to join our relentless battle against oppressive state action that will only intensify as the weeks go by. This hunger strike provides us the opportunity to come together in solidarity as students, teachers, activists, journalists and all those who have been disposed by the state in the name of national pride. Let us come together and ask What is this aggressive nationalism which is obsessed with making hollow political assertions of super-powerdom while neglecting the labouring lives of millions? Let us gather and demonstrate our collective strength by asserting our rights and resisting the repressive
[GreenYouth] Commonwealth Games and Kalawati
*Commonwealth Games and Kalawati* The so called “irresponsible remarks” by Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar (on the Commonwealth Games) have left the government and its beloved *babus* fuming. The routine and the alternative media is buzz with an outright condemnation of Mr. Aiyar, calling him anti-national and an unworthy son of this great motherland. It all amuses me. As an Indian, I know that the stakes of Indian pride on a global scene are too high to be meddled with at the last moment. The Beijing Olympics have showcased China to a global audience and we are told by the self righteous hawks that we too should use this opportunity to showcase the might of India, the next super-power. We are told that events like the Commonwealth Games bring with them employment and opportunities for developing and improving the existing infra-structure. The government sees the event as a boon for economic development and prosperity. I won’t be wrong in concluding that we have been made to believe that the woes of the common Indian will be laid to rest on October 3, 2010 as soon as the games are declared open! Alas! This could have been true. The darker side of the organization of these games is not only murky but plainly speaking dirty to the soul. Corruption, malpractices, poor quality and irrelevant budgeting have plagued the games in a big way. The games will conclude with an approximate budget of 35000 Crore rupees (or 1.3 Billion USD). Imagine a sum of 3500 Crore Rupees just to develop a showcase of might and economic well being in a country where 47% of population earns less than 1.25$! What can we call this? Are there words to describe this inhuman and irrelevant extravagance? I agree with those who argue that events like the Commonwealth games shouldn’t be compared with governmental policies of public welfare. True but unfortunately it is not all about money; it is the irrelevance of thought of our policy makers which angers me. It was heartening to see Mr. Rahul Gandhi talk about Kalawati during the trust motion in 2008. But can he imagine that how many more Kalawatis would have been added to the system ever since the inception of construction work for the Commonwealth Games? I still remember Beena, the eight year old daughter of Ram Pyari, a migrant worker from Uttar Pradesh who had come to Delhi with her family to work on one of the stadia. Beena had bone cancer and of course the family could not afford any treatment. Beena died in one of the slums which had come out as an illegitimate offspring of the Commonwealth games village. The family wanted to take Beena’s body back home but couldn’t afford loosing the provisional livelihood as the contractor wanted the work to go on a war footing- he had a deadline to meet. Beena was buried in Delhi and Ram Pyari continued working at the stadia which is now ready as a symbol of India’s growing economic might- the ornament of the showcase which Mr. Kalmadi and his bunch of imbecile nitwits want us to appreciate. I am sure the story of Beena and Ram Pyari is not the only one. Many Beenas lie buried under the debris of what we think is the greatest sporting event in the country. Surely, the cost of organizing the games goes far beyond 35000 Crore rupees. It is ironic that the logo of these games has been made to look like the * Chakra* (a symbol of India’s freedom) with four colors- red, blue, yellow and pink. Each color has relevance and they represent the “trinity of values” which symbolizes the games. Red represents a unification of humanity, yellow –a chance for the athletes to realize their destiny, blue promotes equality and pink we are made to believe adds an element of surprise and luxury to the games and reflects India in all its resplendent glory. On one of Beena’s visit to my clinic I had asked her which color does she like the best. It haunts me that she had abruptly said “Pink”. No wonder India’s “resplendent” glory could only be erected on her flesh and bones. I am surprised why the “trinity of values” concept eludes our ruling class when it comes to prioritizing hunger, poverty and ignorance? Why can’t the red represent an equitable distribution of resources? Why can’t blue promote social equality and social justice? And how about assigning the yellow color to opportunities and hope to fulfill the destiny of millions of common Indians who are otherwise too effete to even stretch their imagination beyond the need and fulfillment of daily bread? It is indeed a matter of shame that we want to hold the Commonwealth games even when we have yet to sort out more pressing issues which require an in-depth and humane allocation of funds and resources. I won’t be exaggerating if I compare this to Pokhran-II where an incumbent BJP government found it appropriate to conduct the blasts and gain instant middle class popularity rather than mending India’s gaping economic and social wounds. The showcase of Indian glory will also be a hallmark of core values which define
[GreenYouth] Pracharak as Terrorist – On the Bhasm asur of Hindutva Terror
Pracharak as Terrorist – On the Bhasmasur of Hindutva Terror I.http://kafila.org/2010/07/20/pracharak-as-terrorist/#comment-10717 Hindu mythology with its plethora of gods and goddesses (which according to a conservative estimate numbers around 330 millions or 33 crores) has n number of stories supposedly to show the human face of the almighty. One such story talks of the creation of a demon called *Bhasmasur* by one of the gods himself. The said demon had the unique power of turning everything into ash if he could touch anybody’s head. The story goes that after ‘conquering’ the world the demon tries to attack his ‘creator god’ namely Shiva himself and then Lord Vishnu intervenes and manages to eliminate the demon itself. Whatever might have been the significance of the story then, it bears striking resemblance to the plight of the RSS – the biggest fountainhead of Hindutva politics in the country – today. And this relates to the arrest of many of its senior wholetimers (called *Pracharaks* in its lexicon) for their role as masterminds, instigators or patrons of terrorist acts in the country and the ongoing questioning of many other senior leaders for their role in aiding and abetting such acts. Interestingly the parent organisation has till date not formally denied their role in all these acts and nor called it witchhunting as it did when investigations into the Malegaon bomb blast II (Sept 2008) were on and the likes of Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Purohit and others from the larger Hindutva family found themselves behind bars. In fact, this time it appears more cautious and according to a report it has even sent few of its leaders who supposedly played some role in these acts on a compulsory leave and has plans to send few more. (*Bhaskar*, 7 th July 2010). It might never be known what role (if any) the RSS itself played in these acts or not but with the arrest of few of its seniors in engaging in such acts it is clear that there definitely existed a network of rogue RSS Pracharaks/leaders who cleverly manipulated the Parivar links to their heinous agenda. Of course, it is now history how the RSS received opprobrium (fromVallabhbhai Patel, the first home minister of independent India) for creating the culture of violence which ultimately led to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and questions would always be raised how it fostered such rogue pracharak-terrorists in its ranks. Whatever might be the truth in the case it cannot be denied that RSS and its top bosses have to do a lot of explaining in the coming few weeks and one might see arrest of few other senior leaders of the Parivar for helping the Pracharak-terrorists execute the Ajmer as well as Mecca Masjid blasts. The moot question is whether the powers that be will show enough spine to take all necessary steps to stamp out the roots of majoritarian terrorism in the country or will suddenly develop cold feet once the investigations further unravel few other dark corners of the issue. *II*. What is the present worry of the RSS ? The lacklustre performance of its appointee as BJP President or the manner in which the Delhi 4 (as named by Sangh Supremo Mohan Bhagwat) is wresting control over the party with due support of Advani or for that matter the drop in attendance at its Shakhas ? Or it has to do with the re-induction of Jaswant Singh ( who committed the heresy of praising Jinnah in his book) in the party. It cannot be denied that the Sangh leadership is not perturbed over all these developments and has not lost a single chance to administer a dose of ‘baudhik’ to them from time to time. Recently there indeed was such a meeting where the Sangh people spoke and the top leadership of BJP listened. But all these little worries have not given the Sangh leadership sleepless nights. It seems more perturbed over the ‘Hindu’ link to terrorism. If one were to believe newspaper reports then it becomes clear that the biggest worry facing the Sangh leadership is this ‘Hindu’ link to terrorism which first surfaced in the form of ‘Sadhvi’ Pragya Singh Thakur and has since caught on. A leading correspondent with *The Hindu* even shared that the situation has become so grim that “..[m]any in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh have been spending sleepless nights, wondering where police investigations will lead once the agencies are able to connect all the dots that have emerged over the past two years.” (RSS worried about ‘Hindu’ links to terrorism, Neena Vyas, *The Hindu*, 2 June 2010) Definitely its worries are understandable. Nanded-Parbhani-Malegaon in Maharashtra, Tenkasi in Tamil Nadu, Mecca Masjid in A.P. Ajmer bomb blast in Rajasthan, Kanpur in U.P., Bhopal in M.P. and the ongoing investigation in the blasts in the Samjhauta Express establishing clear links with the fraternity. The list seems endless. Gone are the days when any link of terrorism with the name Hindu was frowned upon even by a section of the civil society, today with the hand of Hindu
[GreenYouth] Rs. 744 crores dalit fund diverted for Games
Rs 744cr dalit fund diverted for Games http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Delhi/Rs-744cr-dalit-fund-diverted-for-Games/articleshow/6173912.cms NEW DELHI: The state government has over the past five years been systematically diverting funds meant for the development of Scheduled Caste communities to projects related to the Commonwealth Games, a reply to an RTI query has revealed. Since 2006, Rs 744 crore has been used up from the Scheduled Caste sub plan fund for Games-related projects of various departments. Releasing the findings on Thursday, an NGO Housing and Land Rights Network called for an inquiry by a parliamentary sub-committee into the diversion of the funds which it said violated all norms of governance. The RTI query was addressed to the city's department of social welfare the agency in charge of SC/ST/OBC/minorities which furnished the details. HRLN and the National Dalit Campaign for Human Rights said the funds were used for projects of MCD, NDMC, DJB and departments of urban development and sports and youth, among others. The RTI reply said that in 2006-07, Rs 1.97 crore was diverted from the special component fund and spent on Commonwealth Games-related projects. In 2007-08, Rs 15.58 crore was used from the fund. The amount rose to Rs 214.73 crore in 2008-09 and Rs 288.44 crore in 2009-10. In 2010-11 so far the amount diverted for CWG projects is Rs 233.64 crore. In another RTI application filed by HRLN with the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games on the Agra trip being organized for the 8,000-odd athletes and delegates, the OC said the cost of the trip would be Rs 1.71 crore. HRLN said the diversion of money violated norms governing special component plan funds. The norms, put in place by the Planing Commission and the National Development Council, clearly state that the fund is meant for micro development works for the Scheduled Caste communities. Government of India rules have repeatedly emphasized that the funds allocated under the SCP have to be disbursed exclusively for the benefit of those belonging to the SC communities, HRLN activists said. Delhi has a Dalit population estimated at 2.34 million. HRLN has also written to the Comptroller and Auditor General seeking an audit into the exact expenditure on the Commonwealth Games to date and the diversion of funds from SC sub plan component. -- Pragyanshu Amaoni, CIPOD/SIS/JNU New Delhi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] Caste Injustice in JNU
COMMENTARY Economic Political Weekly EPW JUNE 26, 2010 vol xlv nos 26 27 27 *Caste Injustice in Jawaharlal Nehru University* Santhosh S, Joshil K Abraham Be it in the implementation of a University Grants Commission guideline on reservation for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes in faculty positions, or in the matter of providing justice to student victims of caste prejudice and violence, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi) administration has shown a regressive attitude that belies its progressive image. The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, is considered to be one of the most progressive campuses in India and a bastion of radical politics. Given its iconic status (should we call it the brand value), other institutions of higher education often try to emulate it. Yet, a closer look at the functioning of JNU shows us that it is no better than most conservative campuses in the country. A case in point is the implementation of reservations both in faculty appointments and in student admissions. UGC GuidelinesFollowing the “UGC Guidelines for Strict Implementation of Reservation Policy”, the Executive Committee (EC) of the JNU decided in 2007 to implement reservation for the scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) at the level of associate professors and professors and reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) at the level of assistant professors. Yet, within two years, the JNU administration found ways of subverting its own 2007 decision. In 2009, the JNU advertised for 149 faculty positions. The anti-reservation lobby in the campus got active and the selection process was virtually frozen. There were student demonstrations, cutting across the political spectrum from far left to the far right, poster campaigns, and pamphleteering in favour of the implementation of reservation along the lines of the UGC guidelines. The JNU Teachers Association also took a position in favour of implementing reservations. But the JNU EC meeting convened in April 2010, as a way of delaying – if not derailing – the implementation of reservations, chose to seek further legal advice from the solicitor general of India – a suggestion which originated from the vice chancellor himself. The arguments of the anti-reservation lobby in the JNU merit attention. In a letter sent to the JNU Executive Council in November 2009, 30 faculty members claimed: Considering that this step [implementing Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes reservations above the level of Assistant Professors] has very serious implications for the long term academic development of this premier University, the EC should reconsider its decision… This alarmist claim has received its endorsement from others too. In a note submitted to the vice chancellor of JNU, the former vice chancellors and emeritus professors such as Y K Alagh, T K Oommen and Bipin Chandra, argued, If steps are taken which prevent it [JNU] from remaining one of the premier centres of excellence (which is what we fear will happen by limiting, through reservation, the scope for selecting the best faculty at the Senior Professor and Associate Professor levels) the chief victim will be the disadvantaged sections of Indian society. If JNU declines, the well to do will move to foreign and private universities, and the disadvantaged will no longer be able to get world class education which JNU has been so proud to offer them so far. The argument that the “disadvantaged sections of India” will suffer if the “well-to- do” take flight to foreign and private universities – an argument which uncreatively mimics the Gandhian idea of trusteeship – is both specious and dubious and does not stand scrutiny. There is more at stake here. The terms “disadvantaged sections” and “well-to- do” are vague enough not to refer to their caste connotations. It does not need much imagination to understand that the lower castes and the dalits predominantly constitute the “disadvantaged”; and the upper castes, the “well-to- do”. While the luminaries thus deny the validity of caste as a source of power and lack of it, caste does return with a vengeance. The flip side of their argument is that if there is any source of emancipation for the lower castes, it can come only from the upper castes. If the upper castes flee abroad – as they have been always doing – lower castes will be eternally trapped in a state of intellectual misery. Given the claim that the “well-to- do” are the source of “world class education”, the only knowledge that needs to be transmitted to the lower castes is that of the upper castes. The authors thank M S S Pandian for his inputs in writing this piece.Santhosh S (ssanthosh1...@gmail.com) is visiting faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Joshil K Abraham (joshilabra...@gmail.com) is at the Ambedkar Institute of Technology. COMMENTARY JUNE 26, 2010 vol xlv nos 26 27 EPW Economic Political Weekly 28 Thus, the argument forbids the entry of lower
[GreenYouth] SAY NO TO BOTTLED WATER !
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[GreenYouth] Fwd: Arrest all Hindu Terrorists!
http://communalism.blogspot.com/2010/05/ajmer-blasts-investigation.html May 11, 2010 Ajmer Blasts Investigationhttp://communalism.blogspot.com/2010/05/ajmer-blasts-investigation.html Delayed Waking up: Terrorism Investigations Ram Puniyani The Ajmer bomb blasts took place on 11th October 2007; these took place inside the holy Shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti, killing two people. In the wake of this the central Home minister, in his standard statement said that this is the handiwork of HUJI and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba type groups who are indulging in these activities and this is aimed to disrupt the communal harmony in the country. Three years down the line now a RSS functionary Devendra Gupta and his associates have been accused of triggering this blast and have been arrested. To cap it all there seems to be the connection between this Ajmer blast and the blast which took place in Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, which took place a few months ago of this Ajmer blast (May 2007). There is also the news that the Rajasthan police despite evidence delayed the investigation of Ajmer blasts as the leads of investigation pointed towards the involvement of Hindu right wing terror gangs. One also hears that since Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur was arrested in connection with Malegaon blasts, her links led to Swami Asimanand of Dangs, who is the major RSS combine figure of the area. He is absconding since then. And now apart from Maharashtra police Rajasthan police is also looking for him. Strange things have happened in connection with the investigation of blasts during last few years. The thesis guiding the police investigation for a long time was that terror groups are being promoted by Pakistan and they want to create communal disharmony, that they are putting bombs in places of Muslim worship. It is due to this and the inherent biases of our investigation agencies that for so long and despite clear involvement of terror groups inspired and connected with ideology of RSS were not touched. It was after Hemant Karkare discovered the irrefutable evidence of Sadhvi’s motor cycle used in Maelgaon blasts and her connections with all others, Lt Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, Swami Dayanand Pande, Retd. Major Upadhaya etc., that the nexus was discovered. After the tragic killing of Hemant Karkare again the investigation has put on the slow track. In the face of such strong evidences now some of the investigation authorities are forced to wake up to the threat of terrorism done by these groups. There has been a pattern of these terror attacks done by the likes of Sadhvi, those connected with RSS ideology or remotely connected with organizations floated by the ones’ trained in RSS ideology. This raises lot of questions about the professional competence of our investigation agencies. The blasts took place in the places where predominantly Muslims congregate, blasts took place at times when their numbers was maximum in the places of prayer. The observation was that after the blasts, blinded by the inherent biases, the investigation agencies made it a routine to arrest some Muslim youth. The names of HUJI, Lashkar, and SIMI have been dished out and lapped up by media which has shaped the public opinion. The problems which we witnessed in this are two fold. One, the innocents were tortured and their lives and careers were ruined by this crass attitude and second the real culprits carried on merrily one after the other, knowing full well that they will be protected because of their religion and because of their organization, which makes maximum noises against terrorism itself. The pattern began with Nanded in 2006, when two Bajrang Dal workers died while making bombs, in the same city later a Shiv Sena Shaka member died in the go-down storing biscuits, two Bajrag Dal Workers died in Kanpur in 2008 and many such incidents kept going on. The tide in a way turned when the irrefutable evidence of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakurs' motor cycle being used in Malegaon blast was detected. The immaculate investigation done by Mahrashtra ATS led to the detection of the involvement of other such affiliates (meaning all those organization who subscribe to ideology of Hindu Nation, Hindutva and whose core team is trained in this ideology). Sadhvis' photo was also seen with the BJP President Rajnath Singh. Surely after the arrest of the real culprits starting from the Sadhvi, the frequency of terror attacks has come down. In Thane on 4th June 2008, two Hindu Jagran Samiti workers were arrested for planting the bombs in the basement of Gadkari Rangayatan, due to which 7 people got injured. The same group was involved in the blasts in Vashi, Panvel also. This group was also involved in the bomb blast in Goa, recently on the occasion of Narak Chaturdashi. This group idolizes Savarkar (Hindu Mahasabha) and Hedgewar (RSS) and indoctrinates its members into hating Christians and Muslims. Similarly on 24th August 2008 two Bajrang Dal activists died in Kanpur,
[GreenYouth] Myth of the Misuse of Laws meant for the protection of dalits and tribals
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[GreenYouth] Dalits against Khap Panchayats: Protest against Mirchpur Killing
*Haryana Dalit Bachao Sanghursh Samiti* *F-15,Bhagat Singh Market, GoleMarket, New Delhi-110001* *Phones: 23367602, 039972, 9958766625* Press Release *Killing Of Mirchpur Will Be Protested By “Jharu Down”* *New Outfit Launched To Save Dalits In Haryana And To Teach A lesson To So-called Khap Panchayat.* *Chief Minister Must Resign* New Delhi, 6th May, 2010 Dr. Udit Raj said that some Jat musclemen burnt the houses of Dalits on 21.4.2010 at Mirchpur, dist. Hissar, Haryana, right in front of the policemen. The house of a disabled girl, Suman who was hiding in her house, was set on fire and she was burnt alive and her father sustained 90% burn injuries and died next day. On the 19th April, some Jat youths who were in an inebriated condition were creating nuisance in the Valmiki Basti. A dog in the basti started barking at them which was beaten by the jat youths who were drunk. When the people from the Valmiki community objected to their behaviour. Next day when some elders of the Valmiki community went to meet the Jat leaders to tender apology and restore peace, one of their men, Vir Bhan, was given lathi blows by some Jat youths and Vir Bhan had to be taken to district hospital. Unfortunately, the hospital authorities refused to admit him. Afterwards, people from the Valmiki Samaj met Thana Incharge, Shri Vinod Kajal, and narrated the entire sequence of events. Thana Incharge came to the place of incident at about 9 PM and just when the Valmiki community people started explaining the position leading to the incident, people from the Jat community also assembled there and launched an attack exactly at that point of time. From the above, it is evident that the houses were put on fire right in the presence of the Thana Incharge resulting in the death of two Dalits. Tara Chand was being set on fire in front of the policemen when he was desperately trying to save his life but could not do so. He was brought to the hospital on 22.4.2010 where he succumbed to burn injuries. The whole area is so much gripped with fear that the entire Valmiki community have left their homes and hearths and taken refuge in the district headquarter. This ghastly incident has terribly shaken not only the entire Valmiki community in the country but also dalits and other people having respect for human values. Earlier also, houses of Valmikis were set on fire at Gohana in Haryana. Prior to that, five Dalits were slaughtered at Jhajjar, Haryana. India got Independence 63 years ago. Instead of working for their welfare and raising their standard of living, Dalits are struggling hard to save their lives. Are we living in a civilized society ? Medieval age is known for its cruelty but this incident has probably taken us to primitive ages. Haryana Dalit Bachao Sanghursh Samiti has decided that now it will be a fight to the finish. The Convenor of the Samiti said that very soon “Jharu Down” agitation will be launched to express our protest against the ghastly killings in Haryana. In the first phase, the agitation will be started in Delhi, which will throw the entire city out of gear so far as cleanliness is concerned. If tangible security to dalits in Haryana is not provided and guilty are not punished, there will be reprisal by Safai Karmcharies to keep off from the work during the Commonwealth Game. The Haryana Government and the Central Government will be squarely responsible for this state of affairs. It is demanded that Haryana Government should be immediately dismissed for this fiaasco. The cases relating to the killing of Dalits should be dealt by the fast-track courts for expeditious justice. The people who have left their homes and hearths should be given flats at the district headquarter and mere compensations and job will not suffice. All these cases relating to the killing of Dalits in Haryana should be transferred to Delhi. So called Khap Panchayats must be banned. There is no SC/ST Commission in the State of Haryana which should be constituted immediately. A judicial probe may be ordered into the matter by a retired Judge of the Supreme Court or the High Court. *(Sanjay Raj),* Media Incharge 9654252076 -- Thanking you, Vinod Rawat __ Swords will always sharpen, bullets harden and retaliation fasten, but none shall ever equal the power of knowledge. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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
[GreenYouth] the Saga of his Discrimination in America
Untouchable Ambedkar—the Saga of his Discrimination in America In a thought-provoking article in The New York Times, Joseph Berger had exposed a sensational but well-guarded secrecy how the Columbia University was compelled to abort the project for the Ambedkar Chair in the teeth of opposition by some faculty members. It is clarified at the first opportunity that the opponents of the Ambedkar Chair were not Americans per se. The members who offered resistance to nip the scheme in the bud were Indians—one and all. And they were, according the said article in the powerful daily, the “upper-caste Indians”. READ MORE http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1990.html -- Ranjit -- 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] Chidambaram’s Crocodile Tears by Glad son Dungdung
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gladson Dungdung gladsonhractiv...@gmail.com Date: 15 April 2010 10:19 Subject: [arkitectindia] Chidambaram’s Crocodile Tears by Gladson Dungdung To: Arkitechindia arkitectin...@yahoogroups.com, humanrightsactivist humanrightsactiv...@yahoogroups.com Chidambaram’s Crocodile Tears By Gladson Dungdung Jharkhandmirror.org 15 April, 2010 Soon after hearing the heart breaking news from Dantewara of Chhatisgarh, where 76 CRPF personals were killed in the Maoists attack on April 6, 2010, the India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram gave his resignation saying, “I have no hesitation in saying the buck stops at my desk. I accept fully responsibility for what happened in Dantewara”. Of course he is right; apparently because he is the person who had sent the CRPF personals for preparing the investment roadmap by killing the Maoists as they are the biggest threat to the investment climate that’s what our economist Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh had said earlier. A brilliant corporate lawyer turned Home Minister P Chidambaram’s odd face had also appeared in the media, shedding tears for the CRPF personals who laid down their lives in Dantewada. But how could the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had accepted Chidambaram’s resignation when his assigned job for preparation of the investment climate has not yet accomplished? As usual, the corporate media did not hesitate in coining Chidambaram as hero of the day merely for submitting his resignation not for his deeds for the nation. But is he? Is it not true that he shed the crocodile tears merely to mobilize the middle class sentiments in the favour of his war against the Adivasis in corporate interest? Perhaps, the ARMY Chief General V K Singh has unmasked the corporate Home Minister saying that there appeared to be “internal deficiencies” in the training of the personals lost their lives in the attack. Though Chidambaram has rejected it by saying it “incorrect and baseless” but question is how the ARMY chief who is responsible for the security of the nation can talk on the baseless matter? Does Chidambaram know better than the ARMY chief about the security related matters? Of course, he can not be challenged on the matters of the corporate but every one can doubt on his ability on the security matters if he challenges the ARMY chief. Secondly, the matter of the law and order is the state subject but there were no support extended to the CRPF personals by the local police during the anti-Naxal operation in Dantewara. Thirdly, there is no electricity, good telephone service and other facilities available in the CRPF camp of Dantewara. Ironically, the CRPF personals had no vegetables for last three months. They were having chapattis with mangos available nearby the CRPF camp. In fact, the CRPF camp was established in Dantewara without availability of the required infrastructure, support and facilities. This is how our brave security personals are being treated and our ruling elites shed the crocodile tears when they lose their lives and we also walk with them. Is it not true that the CRPF personals were left to die in an unknown utterly dangerous place without any help of the local police and the villagers? Who is responsible for the loss of 76 brave lives? Paradoxically, the opposition party the BJP has backed Chidambaram saying ‘it is not the time for a Senapati (commander) to step down. His resignation at this stage would be meaning a victory for Naxalites’. A question comes into one’s mind is whether the BJP would have behaved in the same manner with Chidambaram if the Jehadi terrorists would have done the same damage to our security forces? If the 26/11 can end Shivraj Patil’s career as Home Minister then why should Chidambaram stay back? However, the Left parties especially the CPI (M) has shocked the most as now Bhudhadev Bhattacharjee has also agreed to work together with Chidambaram and of course, his party is very keen to establish corporate corridor in the so-called red corridor. The people are amazed to see the rights left and centre alliance on the issue of cleansing the Maoists. It is apparent because all these parties are working hard for converting the so-called red corridor into the corporate corridor. Now the corporate houses have also become the election investors therefore our political parties are committed for the corporate interest rather than the people’s interest. Obviously, they are the main actors who run the biggest democracy of the world, where the marginalized have only a day once in a five years to rejoice the democracy and rest of the days they have to face the brutality. Indeed, the untrained CRPF personals were deliberately put into danger with the expectation, if they are killed by the Maoists that would be the best opportunity for mobilizing the middle class sentiments for using the Army to get the Adivasis land clear for the corporate sharks in the name of cleansing the Maoists.
[GreenYouth] Why India's Dalits Dont Trust The Maoists
*Why India's Dalits Dont Trust The Maoists* *By Thomas C. Mountain* *http://www.countercurrents.org/mountain100410.htm * 10 April, 2010 *Countercurrents.org* India's Dalits really, really distrust the Maoist movement of India and Nepal. As the Maoist movement begins to challenge for state power in Nepal, and has struck a serious level of alarm in the ruling elite in India, this question has important ramifications for the future of south Asia. The Dalit movement in India is the largest and fastest growing threat to the status quo, followed at some distance by the Maoists. Interestingly, almost all the Dalit leadership I know, mostly mid level cadre in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), India's third largest national party and main force in the Dalit liberation movement, are ex-Maoists. When asked why they distrust the Naxalites, the common term for the Maoist movement, they point out, to start, the fact that almost all the rank and file fighters in the Maoist movement are Dalits or tribals and that almost all the leadership are high caste. The Dalits I know have had first hand experience with just how casteist the Naxalite/Maoist leadership is. When delving into the political line put forth by the Maoist movement in India and Nepal, it is rare to find mention of caste/varna, let alone any attempt to address caste/varna(color) in any sort of historical perspective. It would seem that the Maoist leaders would prefer to blend class with caste and avoid any dealing with such a potentially divisive question. The Dalit movement exemplified by the BSP cadre I know is firmly rooted in organizing Dalits into community collectives and focused on mobilizing Dalits in exercising their voting rights. When it is pointed out that no ruling class has ever peacefully relinquished their priviledges, i.e; through elections, my Dalit comrades point out that 85% of India Dalits still believe in the one, unifying tenent of Hinduism, varna/caste/color. Simply put, most Dalits believe they are being punished by God for sins in a previous life and their lot as untouchables, Dalits, is Gods Will. If God willed your punishment today with the promise of a better re-birth in the next life , than trying to lift yourselfs and your childrens lot above that of cleaning the communal toilets is going against Gods Will. Sounds like a brilliant scheme for social control using a religion, Hinduism, in the opinion of all the Dalits I know. Taking into consideration just how mentally enslaved most Dalits remain, moving the masses of Dalits from being so crushed and broken to real liberation might take a series of steps instead of one giant leap, or so my Dalit comrades seem to feel. Dalits may have to see for themselves that casting a vote is not going to midwife any real liberation for the rank and file. While acknowledging that a series of trial and error may mark their struggle and that the Maoist scorn such an approach, Dalits feel that if the Maoist movement continues to ignore varna/caste while still dependent on Dalits to win power, Dalits are doomed to see their struggle for equal rights and justice betrayed by the new Brahmins, the leaders of todays Maoist movement. One fact remains utterly non debatable and that is that India and Nepal remain overwhelmingly a society of villages. Equally non debatable is that in India and Nepal's villages, caste rules . How the Maoist movement can hope to succeed without even addressing this issue in any real way bodes ill for any hopes the Maoist movement offers any real solutions to the most barbaric, inhumane system of human oppression in the world, Apartheid in India and Nepal. In a previous life Thomas C. Mountain was the publisher of the Ambedkar Journal and a founding member of the Phoolan Devi International Defense Committee thomascmountain at yahoo dot com -- Ranjit -- 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] Invitation: Celebration of Birth Anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on 13th April, 2010, at 11.00 AM
*Subject: Invitation for the Celebration of Birth Anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on 13th April, 2010, at 11.00 AM, IGNOU, New Delhi.* * * *Dear All,* * * Dr. Ambedkar Chair on Social change and Development is celebrating Birth Anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar for a a half day on 13th April, 2010 at 11.00 AM, Convention Centre, IGNOU, New Delhi. The programme will include lectures/presentation and academic discussions on Dr. Ambedkar’s life and contributions. The following events/activities will be organized during this function. *Date* *Activities* 13.04.2010 11.00 AM Inauguration Ceremony VC, IGNOU. 13.04.2010 11.15-12.00 PM Lecture on “Ambedkar and Social Emancipation” by Prof. Tulsi Ram, JNU, New Delhi. 13.04.2010 12.00-12.45 PM Lecture on “Ambedkar and Reconstructing the world” by Prof. Gail Omvedt, Chairperson, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair, IGNOU. 13.04.2010 12.45-13.15 PM Concluding Session and Vote of Thanks by Prof. Vimal Thorat, Convenor, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair, IGNOU. 13.04.2010 13:15PM Lunch Kindly come and attend the function, your presence will be highly appreciated. *With Best Regards,* * * * * *From – * * * *(Prof. Gail Omvedt), * *Chair Professor,* *Dr. Ambedkar Chair on Social change and Development.* -- Ranjit -- 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] Struggle against land alienation @University of Hyderabad
dear friends u may find it interesting to note that students and teachers of university of Hyderabad are fighting against land alienation. please read the forwarded item ramesh patnaik member, secretariat, All India Forum for Right To Education -- Forwarded message -- From: UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION u...@uohyd.ernet.in Date: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:29 AM Subject: University of Hyderabad - press release To: UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION u...@uohyd.ernet.in *Press Release**March 22, 2010** * * * *Joint Action Committee of Teachers, Non-teaching Employees, and Students of the **University** of **Hyderabad** * The campus community is agitating and presenting its perspective on a variety of issues to the members of the Executive Council of the University of Hyderabad which is meeting today (See Annexure 1). The campus community has been suffering because of the arbitrary policies of the university administration for the last more than four years. Norms are not followed, guidelines are often flouted, and conventions that used to be followed in the running of different functions of the administration have been frequently violated. The most important issue agitating the campus community is the issue of large scale alienation of university land, especially in the last five years, to outside organizations. The university community believes that the resource of land is the most important resource for the future growth of the university. We also believe that as a public university we should not try to leverage or lease our land in order to raise monetary resources for the university. In that respect, our thinking on this question is diametrically different from how a private university or a corporate landowner might think about the issue (See Annexure 2). The above perspective influences how we think about the proposal for setting up the Knowledge and Innovation Park (KIP). In addition to being opposed to our philosophy, this park is being set up unilaterally, without persuading or taking into confidence the various sections and members of the campus community about its ostensible academic or other benefits. We are therefore categorically opposing the KIP. We are also strongly opposing the move to amend the statutes of the university to facilitate a second term for the current vice-chancellor. It is the single item for decision at the EC meeting today as listed in the agenda. Though the agenda is cleverly worded to make it seem that the statutory amendment is generalized enough to apply to any contingency of the future, do not be fooled. It is crystal clear to us that the VC is pushing for the amendment right now because he is desperate to get a second term. There is otherwise no urgency for the amendment. However, our fundamental position on the issue is that we are in principle opposed to second term for any vice-chancellor, and therefore including for the current incumbent. We are opposing any move to tinker and meddle with the statutes of the university. *Dr N Purendra Prasad * *Convenor, Joint Action Committee * *University** of **Hyderabad** * * * __._,_.___ Reply to senderdramesh...@gmail.com?subject=fwd:+Sruggle+against+land+alianation+University+of+Hyderabad| Reply to grouparkitectin...@yahoogroups.com?subject=fwd:+Sruggle+against+land+alianation+University+of+Hyderabad| Reply via web posthttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwY3JvaW82BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BG1zZ0lkAzczNTIEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMjcwOTQ3MTg0?act=replymessageNum=7352| Start a New Topichttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlcDQ5MGM5BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA250cGMEc3RpbWUDMTI3MDk0NzE4NA-- Messages in this topichttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/message/7352;_ylc=X3oDMTM0NmVydnNkBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BG1zZ0lkAzczNTIEc2VjA2Z0cgRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMjcwOTQ3MTg0BHRwY0lkAzczNTI-( 1) Recent Activity: - New Membershttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia/members;_ylc=X3oDMTJmZTdnN2tvBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZtYnJzBHN0aW1lAzEyNzA5NDcxODQ-?o=6 33 Visit Your Grouphttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/arkitectindia;_ylc=X3oDMTJlYjgwYWZtBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzg5NTEzNTAEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MDg1BHNlYwN2dGwEc2xrA3ZnaHAEc3RpbWUDMTI3MDk0NzE4NA-- MARKETPLACE Do More for Dogs Group. Connect with other dog owners who do more.http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=15om80nj3/M=493064.13983314.13965207.13298430/D=groups/S=1705064085:MKP1/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1270954384/L=963e54fc-4504-11df-a01f-6badae707e78/B=a.vFFWKJiTE-/J=1270947184732288/K=9pwJy0lu6YWJcFuc2xajDA/A=6046497/R=0/SIG=11jls91tg/*http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/domorefordogs -- Welcome to Mom Connection! Share stories, news and more
[GreenYouth] The caste train by Gail Omvedt
The caste train *By: Gail Omvedt* http://www.himalmag.com/The-caste-train_nw4420.html *Waiting for an India when caste names will have lost their meaning.* Karen Haydock Those who deny that caste is really much of a ‘problem’ should look at the case of Chitralekha. She is a Dalit (Pulaya caste) woman in Payannur in Kerala, married to an Other Backward Caste man. In 2003, she decided to take up the profession of autorickshaw driving (as her husband does), since the nursing course she was in training for required night work, which would have impeded on her ability to care for her children. Since then, she has been constantly harassed by the ‘caste Hindus’ who dominate the Communist Party of India (Marxist) autorickshaw union. Her autorickshaw was torched; then a new one was also ruined by having salt poured into its gas tank. Finally, she herself was beaten by a mob working with the police. When we talked to the aggressive members of the union in the local CPM office, they refused to even recognise Chitralekha’s marriage, calling her a “woman who lives outside the tracks”. After all, she and husband, Sheeshkant, had committed what the ‘sacred books’ call* varna-samkara*, mixture of castes. Outside the tracks? The tracks are those that bear the still-very-alive caste system in India. The train that runs on those tracks is a gloomy one, driven by the power of the Vedas, the *Manusmriti, *even the *Gita. *At its head is the Brahmin engine, followed by other of the sacred ‘twice-born’. Behind, without much power to influence its running, swung along by the wily engine, are the Shudra carriages – divided from one another for, as B R Ambedkar noted, “Caste is not a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.” Different Shudra *jatis *are not supposed to intermarry or ‘inter-dine’, and even today violations of these codes evoke penalties in many of India’s villages. The caboose is that of the Dalits, tagging along at the end. Running at the side, perhaps, can be said to be the Adivasis, the marginalised, with Brahmin hands reaching out to drag them along with the train. And sitting in every carriage, often with curtains around them, with inferior food and sleeping space and clothing, are the women of each caste. Today, there are those who not only want to get off the train, but to derail it completely. Perhaps the victory appears distant; yet the inequality and turmoil in modern-day India are unprecedented. Indians bring caste along with them wherever they go in the world, and the debates and conflicts have continued in England, the US, the Gulf and elsewhere. In the first two, the tradition of civil rights has added support to the battle against the caste train. Just recently, in a victory for the ‘subalterns’, the British Parliament, which considers racism a crime, voted to treat caste as part of race. It had been a long struggle – with a group called the Hindu Council UK lobbying, though a wordy report, that caste was really not a problem, that it had originally been equalitarian, that calling Shudras “as the legs” (which the Rig Veda does) had to be read in the context of legs being part of the body and essential to it; and that, anyway, caste was dying. In short, the Council rehashed all of the tired old arguments, which can also be found today on countless ‘Hindu’ websites. But in the end, the arguments of justice triumphed in England. Of course, caste and untouchability are outlawed in India, too. The difference is that countries such as Britain enforce their laws. We want to derail the train, tear up the tracks. There are still Gandhians today who argue that ‘caste’, with its supposed virtues of solidarity, can be maintained without the hierarchy and oppression. This is impossible. What would a caste-free India look like? Enough intermarriage, for one thing, so that everyone would have to admit that they come from many ‘caste’ backgrounds. There would be openings everywhere according to talent, not the supposed ‘merit’ type that belong to those with millennia of superior backgrounds. There would be no identifiable ‘caste quarters’ in villages. Perhaps names might remain – after all, the US and England have Smiths, Carpenters, Potters – but in India, as there, no one would remember that they mean anything. * Gail Omvedt is Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and Development at the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.* -- Ranjit -- 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] UK Law: India’s Hindu Caste-slavery i s racism
UK Law: India’s Hindu Caste-slavery is racismhttp://rupeenews.com/2010/03/30/uk-law-indias-caste-slavery-is-racism/ Posted on March 30, 2010 by The Editor Rate This [image: Quantcast] The worlds worst violation of human rights are going on in India. World conscience has been asleep. Indians hide the status of the Dalit and delve into tokenism to justify Caste discrimination. Half the population of India is shackled in slavery and hidden from plain view. This has to be exposed. Every human being on this planet must write about and speak up against institutionalized slavery in India. *Indians themselves do not have a single term for describing the Caste system as a whole, but have a variety of words referring to different aspects of it, the two main ones being varna and jati.* *The varna consists of four categories, each ranked differently in terms of social honour. Below these groupings are the so-called ‘untouchables’- those in the lowest position of all. The Jati are locally defined groups within which the caste ranks are organised. Jati is coupled with one’s occupation and the meaning of varna in Sanskrit is ‘colour’ that signify a social category or a social classification. It is used to enforce a social stratification but does not mean colour of skin.* *According to those who practice and promote it, Caste is determined by birth and cannot be changed. In a class based system there is ‘vertical mobility’ but this is denied in a Caste based system. In India, Social Stratification, historically, gave rise to ‘Untouchables’. Although, practice of Untouchability is legally prohibited in India but ‘Untouchables’ continue to be shunned socially and economically. Each Caste continues in a state of social paralysis antagonistic and hostile towards each other’s interests. *http://www.castewatchuk.org/ However there is a ray of hope–ignited by a new law in the United Kingdom. Once this law finds a way into the world media, it may spread like wildfire through the European Union–and eventually to America. Once that happens, India will have to buckle under international pressure and be forced to end the slavery of 450 million souls who are fighting for the right to be considered a human being. - Following intensive lobbying by the National Secular Society (NSS, an IHEU http://www.iheu.org/glossary/term/204member organization), the UK’s House of Lords on 2 March 2010 adopted an amendment to the new UK Equality Bill, paving the way for castehttp://www.iheu.org/glossary/term/281discrimination to be made illegal. Lobbying by the NSS was given a new focus by the first international conference on untouchabilityhttp://www.iheu.org/world-conference-shows-misery-untouchability-and-hope-progresshosted by the IHEU and held in London last summer. - Keith Porteous Wood of the National Secular Society commented: “This victory is historic; the UK is the first Western country to pass such legislation. I hope it will encourage other states where caste discrimination is practised to do likewise, or – in the case of India – enforce the legislation it already has.” - http://www.iheu.org/uk-house-lords-adopts-measure-against-caste-discrimination - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8546661.stm - With particular focus on the Hindu caste system, this book (*Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law*) represents a comprehensive analysis of the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination in international law. It evaluates the strategies that have informed the work of the United Nations in this area, mapping a new path that moves from standard-setting to implementation. Combining legal analysis with the meaning and origin of caste, it explores the remedies human rights law can propose towards the prohibition of caste-based discrimination, and the abolition of the caste system itself. Bharat (aka India) has tried to keep Caste discrimination under the radar. Now a new law in the United Kingdom equates the horrendous practice of caste slavery as racism. Mr. Mohandas Gandhi had the opportunity to end Caste discrimination and liberate the Dalits. He however defended the Hindu Caste system and said that he would defend it with the last breath of life in him. Gandhi forced Dr. Ambadekar into abandoning the separate electorate for the Dalits. Separate electorates would have liberated the Dalits from Brahamin enslavement. Dr. Ambadekar considered the abandonment of separate electorate as the biggest blunder of his life. Dr. Kancha of the Dalit Freedom Network predicts the “Post Hindu India” where 450 million Dalits, Untouchables and Scheduled classes will leave the shackles of Hinduism and convert to Christianity Islam and Buddhism. *NEW DELHI: In the first such legislative move anywhere in the world, and much to the embarrassment of India’s official position, the British House of Lords has passed a law that treats caste as “an aspect of race”.
[GreenYouth] : BSP to stage demo against Women Reservation Bill on Apr 14
BSP to stage demo against Women Reservation Bill on Apr 14 PTI Monday, March 15, 2010 AT 02:14 PM (IST) Tags: BSPhttp://www.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimesBeta/SearchNews.aspx?tag=BSP , Mayawatihttp://www.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimesBeta/SearchNews.aspx?tag=Mayawati , Uttar Pradeshhttp://www.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimesBeta/SearchNews.aspx?tag=Uttar+Pradesh , Womens billhttp://www.sakaaltimes.com/SakaalTimesBeta/SearchNews.aspx?tag=Womens+bill *LUCKNOW:* Accusing the Congress of being anti-Dalit, BSP supremo Mayawati today said her party would stage demonstrations against the Women Reservation Bill across the country on April 14. Congress and other political parties had always been against Dalits and this is evident from the fact that no separate quota has been carved out for SC/ST women in 33 per cent reservation proposed in the Women Reservation Bill, Mayawati said, addressing a rally here to mark the party's silver jubilee function. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said her party boycotted the passage of the Bill in Parliament to register its protest. The BSP would stage demonstration at district headquarters across the country on the birth anniversary of Ambedkar on April 14 to protest the bill, she announced. Mayawati claimed that even the BSP's suggestion of a separate quota for backward and poor women from upper caste was not incorporated in the bill. Congress people claim themselves to be the biggest sympathisers of women and are praising Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. In reality, whatever rights women have got in the field of education, employment and politics, it is due to Ambedkar, she said. The BSP's silver jubilee celebration also marks the birth anniversary of party founder Kanshiram. Mayawati's party, like the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Janata Dal, opposes Women Reservation Bill in its present form and seeks quota within quota for SC/ST women in it. Mayawati said it was Ambedkar who for the first time provided equal opportunities to women in the Constitution. Another evidence of Congress being anti-Dalit came to the fore when the Centre did not announce even a single day national mourning on the death of Kanshiram, who devoted his entire life for the upliftment of SC/ST and downtrodden, she alleged. Taking a potshot at the Congress leaders' visit to Dalit houses, she said it was a drama. Congress and other party leaders, who had been staging this drama of visiting houses of Dalits and sharing food with them have been exposed, she alleged. Mayawati said that casteism prevented SC/STs and backwards to lead a dignified and equitable life in the country. They did not had rights of education, to contest election and lead a dignified life like people of other castes, she said. It was due to Ambedkar that SC/STs and backwards got legal rights to lead an equitable life, which was strongly opposed by the Congress and other parties, and which continued till date, the BSP leader added. Mayawati said the Women Reservation Bill was an example of anti-Dalit mentality of the Congress and other political parties. -- The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepagehttp://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_yyi_1/*http://in.yahoo.com/ . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] Dr Ambedkar’s Buddhist movement
“Dr Ambedkar’s Buddhist movement is, I believe, the best hope for Buddhism in the world today” http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1155 *An Interview with Dhammachari Subhuti* By *Anoop Kumar* Dhammachari Subhuti, a British born, is an ordained member of International Buddhist order known as Friends of Western Buddhist Order (FWBO). This order was founded in London in 1967 by another British Buddhist monk known as Urgyen Sangharakshita to promote Buddhism in the West. Highly impressed by Babasaheb Ambedkar’s interpretation of Buddhism and its role in contemporary times, this Buddhist Order has been working with Indian Buddhists from ex-untouchable communities since last thirty years through its Indian wing known as Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayak Gana (TBMSG). However, recently the Order has been renamed as the *Triratna Buddhist Order*(Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha) and the wider movement is called the Friends of the Triratna Buddhist Order or *Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayak Gana *in Hindi (TBMSG). * * [image: subhuti_lecture1] Dh. Subhuti speaking before Buddhist youth in Baudhgaya, Bihar (December 19th, 2009) *TBMSG has been working for the last thirty years in Maharashtra, and in some other states too, among the Dalits who have embraced Buddhism following in the footsteps of Babasaheb Ambedkar. How did your association with Ambedkarite Buddhism and Dalits begin?* Though our Indian wing was formed in 1979 as Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayaka Gana, but our relationship with Dr Ambedkar and his Buddhist followers goes long back, even before the time of Babasaheb’s conversion to Buddhism in 1956. Urgyen Sangharakshita, our teacher and the founder of TBMSG, although he was born in England, was at that time living in Kalimpong in West Bengal, where he had settled after his ordination as a bhikkhu. He first encountered Dr Ambedkar in 1950, when he read ‘The Buddha and the Future of His Religion’ in the Mahabodhi Journal. Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1155#more-1155 -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] on jyoti basu
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[GreenYouth] Invite: Screening of 'Pill I' followed by discussion on emergency contraceptives
Screening of 'Pill I' followed by discussion on emergency contraceptives ** For years, the rampant promotion and distribution of hormonal contraceptives by the government have been an issue of concern. Today, the scenario has been compounded by the aggressive marketing of a range of emergency contraception pills. I-Pill. U-72. XPL 7. Pill 72. The market is flooded and apparently the pills are doing ‘very good business’. But what are they? Who are they suitable for/who not? Are they a sign of women’s autonomy over their bodies or a long step back in the struggle for equal responsibility among men and women having sex, within and outside marriage? And why is the Ministry of Health aiming to ensure that all women have “a supply of emergency contraceptive pills in advance.” To discuss all this and maybe even figure some strategies on how to respond to the situation, we invite you to the premiere screening of the documentary film, *Pill I* by: Diksha Grover, Naam Chakrovorty, Nikita Balasubramanian, Sabika Muzaffar, Shruti Chakroborty, Vrishnika Singh *When: 26th January 2010 at 4 pm* *Where: Saheli office, *Above Shop Nos. 105-108, Defence Colony Flyover, New Delhi 110024 *Synopsis: **The film ponders over issues of women’s sexual health and how despite the omnipresence of oral emergency contraceptive pill advertisements, there is lack of awareness about when to consume the pill, contraindications, regimen, side effects and other possible implications. Through candid confessions by users and implications of abuse debated by professionals, the film questions each player’s accountability: the individual, the corporate and the state.* We are delighted that the filmmakers will be joining us for the event. So, hope to see you there. Pl also forward to anyone you think may be interested. Cheers All of us in Saheli Saheli Women's Resource Centre Above Shop Nos. 105-108 Under Defence Colony Flyover New Delhi 110024 -- Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more.http://windows.microsoft.com/shop -- Carmel Christy -- Ranjit -- 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] 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
[GreenYouth] Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler ?
Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler? Shobhan Saxenahttp://author.toiblogs.com/Main-Street, 12 January 2010, 06:14 PM IST http://author.toiblogs.com/Main-Street/entry/was-gandhi-more-violent-than Let me make it clear at the very beginning that I have no doubt that Hitler was more violent than Gandhi. Actually, I would not even compare Gandhi with Hitler. I am not an admirer of Gandhi, but I wouldn’t call him a violent person. Now, if you are wondering why on earth I am asking this question -- Was Gandhi more violent than Hitler? Here’s my answer: Last week, I met Slavoj Zizek who is an unusual philosopher from Slovenia. Zizek mixes unfashionably intransigent left-wing politics with his taste for Hollywood classics. The 59-year-old academic has written more than 30 books on subjects as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Lenin and 9/11 attacks, and also presented the TV series The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. He has also run for Slovenia’s president. During the interview, excerpts of which were carried in this week’s Sunday Times (All That Matters page), Zizek told me that he considered Gandhi to be an extremely violent person. When I asked Zizek to elaborate his point, he gave a long, provocative and interesting explanation. It’s not easy to disagree with him. Zizek, who was invited to India by Navayana to release his latest book, First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, and give a series of lectures across the country, also slammed the Dalai Lama and Buddhism and China. On the advice of some friends, who found the interview interesting and wanted to know more about Zizek, I am posting the detailed interview here. Read it and decide for yourself if you agree with Zizek or not. *Q: You call yourself a Leninist but the media in the West has called you an intellectual rock star, Elvis of cultural theory and the Marx Brother. How do you react to such journalistic labeling?* ** A: With resigned melancholy. I think they try to say that this guy may be interesting and provocative but he is not serious. They call me a provocative guy. To the western media, I am like a fly that annoys you and provokes you but should not be taken seriously. It’s a defence mecahnism. Though, of late, they have been dubbing me as someone more threatening... ** *Q: In an article in the New Republic recently, Adam Kirsch called you the most dangerous philosopher in the west... * A: Yes, in the last two years, the tone in the US and Europe has changed. Now they say we are dealing with somebody very dangerous. This change of tone is quite amazing. First there were Marx Brothers jokes and now they say I am dangerous because I am Leninist. But I don’t care. I am resigned to it. ** *Q: You have also been accused of glorifying political violence. Do you support violence as a means of political change?* A: Here I must be frank. For me, the 20th century communism is the biggest ethical-political catastrophe in the history of humanity, greater catastrophe than fascism. In fascism, you had bad people who said we will do bad things and they took power and they did bad things. That’s why in fascism you don’t have dissidents. But in the first years of the October Revolution, in spite of the so-called Red Terror, there was sexual liberation, literary explosion and then it turned into the nightmare. I don’t accept the right-wing critique that says it was evil from the very beginning. ** *Q: What’s your point?* A: My point is what people perceive as violence is the direct subjective violence. It’s crucial to see violence which has to be done repeatedly to keep the things the way they are. I am not just talking about structural violence, symbolic violence, violence in language, etc. In that sense Gandhi was more violent than Hitler. Hitler killed millions of people. It was more reactive killing. Hitler was active all the time not to change things but to prevent change. ** *Q: A lot of people will find it ridiculous to even imagine that Gandhi was more violent than Hitler? Are you serious when you say that...* A: Yes he was, although Gandhi didn’t support killing. With his actions -- boycott and all that -- he helped the British imperialists to stay in India longer. This is something Hitler never wanted. Gandhi didn’t do anything to stop the functioning of the British empire or the way it functioned here. You have to think why was India called the jewel of the empire? That for me is a problem. Let us locate violence properly. ** *Q: I guess you have no respect for Gandhi who is a tall figure in this country... * A: I respect him. I don’t respect him for his peaceful ways, vegetarianism etc. I don’t care about that. But Gandhi somehow succeeded in carrying on his principled attitude with pragmatic spirit. It’s very difficult to maintain this balance. But again I feel Ambedkar was much better than Gandhi. My favourite oneliner from Ambedkar is when he said that there is no caste without outcastes. Ambedkar saw that the Gandhian solution
[GreenYouth] The god delusion in action !
hi all, an interesting artcle http://nirmukta.com/2008/10/03/the-god-delusion-in-action-my-indian-travelogue/ -- Gyanendra Kumar, Biology Department, Bldg. 463, 50 Bell Avenue, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 USA Phone: 001-631-344-2787 Cell: 001-631-875-9189 --- Residence: 16, Harrison Commons, Yaphank, NY 11980 USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] Sixth Ambedkar Memorial Lecture '10 at TISS
*Tata Institute of Social Sciences* ** ** Sion-Trombay road,opp.Deonar bus stand, Deonar, Mumbai- 400088 _ January 7, 2010 *INVITATION* [image: ?ui=2view=attth=1260514f10396532attid=0.1disp=attdrealattid=ii_1260514f10396532zw] We, the students of TISS, cordially invite you for* 6**th** Dr. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture (AML), 2010*. The theme of the lecture is *Dr. B. R.**Ambedkar's Thoughts on Women’s Emancipation”.* It’s a great pleasure for us to have *Dr.* *Sharmila Rege, (*Director, Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan, University of Pune) as a speaker of the lecture. The AML was first held on the April 13, 2005 as an initiative of the postgraduate students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Since then every year the students of T.I.S.S. organize this academic event to commemorate the valuable contributions of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s works in various fields of the social sciences. The lecture will be followed by Cultural Social awareness songs by renowned “Shahir Rahul Anvikar” and his group. We look forward to your participation. Venue TISS Convention Centre, Naoroji Campus, Deonar, Mumbai *Saturday, January 9, 2010* *Timing: 5pm- 9pm* *Thanking you*, AML-2010 Organizing Committee Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai *For further details* Pramod Kalekar 9867100959 Dr. Nagesh 9226145770 Pramod Kalekar: *pramodkaleka...@gmail.com* pramodkaleka...@gmail.com ** * P.S. Delay in sending this mail is deeply regretted. We hope that from next year we will be able to inform you well in advance to ensure your definite participation. You can also contact Vaibhav Raaj on phone (9930286245) or email (vaibhavr...@gmail.com). *-- Those people are GREAT, who are awakened towards the duties in which community they are Born. Dr.B.R.Ambedkar -- Ranjit Dr Ambedkar.jpg-- 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] The Day We Defeated Brahminism: The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: 1st January, 1818
The Day We Defeated Brahminism http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1086 *The Battle of Bhima Koregaon: 1st January, 1818* By *Pardeep Singh Attri* *“If we wish to be free, we must fight. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” – Patrick Henry (March, 1775)* [image: bhima-koregaon1] Bhima Koregaon Pillar: Honouring the Bravery of Untouchable Soldiers History of India is nothing but the struggle between untouchables and so called upper castes. However the Indian historians have always misled us by not showing the true face of Indian History. The glorious victory of few hundred untouchable soldiers over numerically superior Peshwa’s army in the battle of Koregaon, fought on 1st January, 1818, is one such chapter in Indian history whose significance has been carefully hidden. On that day, when many were busy celebrating the new year, a small force of 500 mahar (an untouchable caste in Maharashtra) soldiers in the British army were preparing for a war against the most brutal Indian state of that times – Brahmin Peshwa rulers of Pune, Maharashtra. In the history books, this battle is considered an important one and is known as second Anglo-Maratha war that resulted in the total destruction of Peshwa kingdom and sealed the victory of British Empire in India. However, there is a different historical dimension to this war that all of us need to be aware of. Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1086#more-1086 -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] രാജ്മോഹന് ഉണ ്ണിത്താനും സൂഫിയ മദനി യും മാധ്യമങ്ങളും
അനാശാസ്യ (മാധ്യമ)പ്രവര്ത്തനംhttp://dillipost.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post_31.html മലയാളി മനസിനെ മാധ്യമങ്ങള് രോഗാതുരമാക്കുന്നുവെന്ന് *യാമിനി ഉണ്ണികൃഷ്ണന് http://dillipost.blogspot.com/ * -- Ranjit -- 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] महात्मा गांधी अंतरराष्ट्रीय हिन्दी विश्वविद्यालय के प्रश ासन के खिलाफ दलित चार् जशीट
-- Forwarded message -- From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com Date: 2009/12/27 Subject: महात्मा गांधी अंतरराष्ट्रीय हिन्दी विश्वविद्यालय के प्रशासन के खिलाफ दलित चार्जशीट महात्मा गांधी अंतरराष्ट्रीय हिन्दी विश्वविद्यालय के प्रशासन के खिलाफ दलित चार्जशीट http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1075 Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University is located at Wardha, near Nagpur, Maharashtra. Formed in 1997 to promote and develop Hindi languague and literature, this University was established by Union government through Act of Indian Parliament. However, like any other educational instituion of the country, this university also has turn itself into a brahmanical space reverberating with nepotism and anti-Dalit/caste prejudices. Given below is the chargesheet prepared by Dalit students, who have been protesting against the University administration for quite some time. What is happening in this University is nothing peculiar but is just one reflection of the debasement of our university system. Is Pandit Ramchandra Guha listening? The following peice has been taken from a blog [http://mgahv.blogspot.com/] run by the University students. We will shortly publish this peice in English too. ——– देश भर में धर्मनिरपेक्ष प्रशासक की छवि निर्मित करने वाले पुलिस अधिकारी विभूति नारायण राय के महात्मा गांधी अंतरराष्ट्रीय हिन्दी विश्वविद्यालय में कुलपति बनने के बाद दलितों का उत्पीड़न तेजी के साथ बढ़ा है। क्या कोई धर्मनिरपेक्षवादी जातिवादी नहीं हो सकता है ? दलित उत्पीड़न की घटनाएं एक नई बहस खड़ी करती है। ——– [image: asf] Dalit students sitting on protest in the campus *1. *विश्वविद्यालय के अनुवाद विद्यापीठ में राहुल कांबले ने एम फिल की परीक्षा में टॉप ( स्वर्ण पदक) किया लेकिन पीएचडी में उसका नामांकन नहीं किया गया।अनुवाद विद्यापीठ में दो विद्यार्थियों का ही नामांकन करने का फैसला विश्वविद्यालय ने किया। पीएच.डी. के लिए चयनित विद्यार्थियों में राहुल कांबले को तीसरे नंबर पर दिखाया गया। लेकिन जब चयनित दो विद्यार्थियों में से एक विद्यार्थी ने अनुवाद विद्यापीठ में पीएचडी में नामांकन नहीं लिया तो राहुल ने अपना दावा पेश किया। लेकिन लगातार तीन महीने तक उसे प्रताड़ित किया गया। उसने नामांकन की पूरी प्रक्रिया को समझने के लिए सूचना के अधिकार के तहत विश्वविद्यालय प्रशासन से जानकारी मांगी थी। अनुवाद विद्यापीठ के डीन प्रो. आत्मप्रकाश श्रीवास्तव ने सूचना का अधिकार कानून का इस्तेमाल करने की आड़ लेकर राहुल का नामांकन लेने से मना कर दिया। राहुल कुलपति विभूति नारायण राय के समक्ष अपनी फरियाद लेकर गया। लेकिन कुलपति ने बजाय उसके साथ न्याय करने के प्रो. आत्म प्रकाश श्रीवास्तव से माफी मांगने का निर्देश दिया। राहुल ने प्रो. आत्म प्रकाश श्रीवास्तव से चार बार माफी मांगी। उनके पैर तक पकड़े। लेकिन कुलपति ने नामांकन की स्वीकृति नहीं दी। आखिरकार राहुल ने आंदोलन करने की चेतावनी दी। http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1075#more-1075 Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=1075#more-1075 Read the full post at www.blog.insightyv.com -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit -- 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] Reservation in Private sector : Udit Raj on fast unto death
*Udit Raj on fast unto death against non implementation of reservation in private sector* * * *By Vidya Bhushan Rawat* Jantar Mantar in Delhi is witnessing numerous hunger strikes and fast unto deaths these days. The Telengana verdict has suddenly focused on the power of self sacrifice for people’s cause. Though essentially a Gandhian tool, fast unto death is becoming a new instrument to highlight the issue and compel the ‘insensitive’ authorities to activate it. In the post globalised India, when the government job sector is shrinking, it is important the challenges are tackled in the new way. The reservation debate can not remain the same as it used to be. Now, private sector constitutes a big chunk and the government has itself disinvested many of its public sector companies. Though Dr Udit Raj and the organization that he is president off, namely All India Confederation of SC/ST Employees Associations have always opposed privatization and globalization, yet they feel that despite their political opposition, it is time that government accepts their demand for reservation in private sector. Associations of SC-ST employees under the banner of Confederation as well as Indian Justice Party, are sitting on Dharana since November 19th in Delhi for speedy implementation of the quota, particularly completing the backlogs which are not being promoted. So, far no government official has visited them. Not a single member of parliament thought of this issue and political parties have not felt it an issue to be responded. ‘ it is rather unfortunate and painful, feel Dr Udit Raj, who decided to sit on fast unto death for this cause, which he feel is much bigger than being a prime minister or chief minister of a state. It empowers the entire community, it is not for some time and it does not just empower an individual, he emphasized. Udit Raj has been in the forefront of campaign to save reservation. The Confederation has been organizing rallies and protest marches, meeting ministers, planning commission members, Member of Parliaments and Group of Ministers. The UPA government formulated a bill in the fag end of its previous term which was produced in Parliament in February 2009. It was passed by Rajya Sabha but the Lok Sabha did not pass it. There were many objectionable points in the bill which again re-emphasized the issue of ‘merit’, for the ‘creamy’ positions. So, according to the bill, many of the ‘expert’ positions would not have reservation in the name of ‘compromising’ with merit. The Confederation opposed it but now the government in the new term is not interested at all to bring the bill. Udit Raj feel that the bill for ensuring reservation must come in parliament but not in its original form. They have given their suggestions to the government. In 2004, when the UPA government came to power, it had a lot of intention to listen to us. It started a dialogue on this with industries which were not supportive of quota but promised the following : 1. Creating 100 entrepreneur 2. Supporting 500 professional from SC-ST in better institutions nationally-internationally, 3. supporting 10,000 students for coaching. The prime minister’s office had been monitoring this for long but now, feels Udit Raj, one does not know what the status of these promises made by the industries. What have industries done so far voluntarily which they emphasised so much? That is why, he says, we oppose to these voluntary efforts which end up voluntarily without any accountability. ‘Now, Congress party does not want to speak on the issue. The Dalit parties are unable to go beyond their castes and Muslim reservations. No question is raised in parliament. The issue is completely suppressed. CII and ASOCHAM, FICCI became proactive against quota and emphasized on voluntarism again.’ Udit Raj feel that government should bring reservation act in this session only after correcting anomalies in it particularly no reservation in class I post in the name of compromise with merit. Reservation is not a compromise with merit, he says. The government must implement reservation as per law and there should be no dilution in it. Now, we have information that it has dropped filling backlog posts which is in lakhs. Its various departments and bureaucrats are playing dirty games to stop implementation of reservation. Udit Raj plunged into politics after much struggle for SC-ST employees and their rights. But the political games are different. At the grassroots, lot of issues, contradictions comes up and he too had to face these dark realities of caste and sub caste. Today he feel disgusted with all this though he continues to fight. He says ‘ Fighting for reservation in private sector is most important than fighting for becoming PM and CM, as it gives strength to entire community and not one individual. Secondly, it is permanent solution to our issues and all other positions are time bound and you may not be there
[GreenYouth] Let us promote untouchability and humiliation at all cost ( a new blog post)
“Let us promote untouchability and humiliation at all cost”http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=985 A guest post by *Lalit Khandare* * * [image: clip_image001] 'Not a Pretty Picture' . Pic Courtsey @ Sudharak Olwe from http://tinyurl.com/yz6opd5 In an article “Where style has trumped substance” http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/27/stories/2009112756190900.htmby Pravin Swami on 26 November, 2009, the writer comes across as making an appeal that salaries of Sanitation workers must not be increased at cost of national security. Pravin Swami says, “Working upwards of fourteen hours a day — not counting the typically three hours spent commuting — constable Kamble earns a basic pay of Rs. 5,200 a month. Sanitation workers employed by the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation are paid less — Rs. 4,440 a month — but end up taking home similar wages, because of overtime. Indeed, until the Sixth Pay Commission recently upgraded the categorisation of police work as semi-skilled from skilled, sanitation workers actually made more money. Little has been done to upgrade the police’s living standards and training.” Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=985#more-985 -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Our Media group. To post to this group, send email to our-me...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to our-media+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comour-media%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/our-media?hl=en. -- Ranjit -- 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] Mayawati govt gets SC nod to implement 50% quota in pvt colleges
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gyanendra Kumar gyanendr...@gmail.com Date: 2009/8/16 Subject: Mayawati govt gets SC nod to implement 50% quota in pvt colleges To: aim_usa aim_...@googlegroups.com, our-media our-me...@googlegroups.com http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4882696.cms Mayawati govt gets SC nod to implement 50% quota in pvt colleges TNN 12 August 2009, 04:07am IST NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the decks for the Mayawati government to implement its decision to offer 50% quota for SCs, STs and OBCs in admissions to private unaided medical, engineering and other professional educational institutions, except those run by minority communities. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan stayed an order of the Allahabad High Court, which had restrained the government from going ahead with the 50% quota in private colleges under the UP Admissions to Educational Institutions (Reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs) Act, 2006. Under this, SCs were to get 21% of the seats in every professional educational institution including aided, unaided and private, STs 2% and OBCs 27%. The state through senior advocate P P Rao and additional advocate general Shail Kumar Dwivedi told the Bench that all associations of private educational institutions were taken into confidence and it was decided that the quota would be implemented from the academic year 2009-10. They cited the July 17 order of the SC allowing the state to implement the 50% reservation for SCs, STs and OBCs in private colleges, if the latter agreed to the policy decision of the government. After taking legal opinion, the state decided to implement its reservation policy in institutions affiliated to the UP Technical University for the 2009-10 academic session. About 70% of the counselling is over. Of the 80,631 B.Tech seats, 49,052 have already been allotted of which 7,189 have gone to SCs, 286 to STs and 11,838 to OBCs, the state said. It said if the HC order restraining the government from implementing the reservation policy at this late stage was not stayed it would require total re-arrangement leading to chaos and confusion among the students. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Dalit Students won the IIT Delhi Case of caste discrimination
Kudos to Ravi Kumar of IIT Delhi and member of Insight group who started this fight. It is an amazing decision and restore our faith in Judiciary. every thing is not lost . Am extremely excited :) :) it took one year but all our efforts bore fruit... the credit goes to Ravikumar and Akhilesh too who despite his illhealth remain steadfast... am superbly happyNEW DELHI: The premier IITs cannot just cite pursuit of academic excellence as a reason to expel SC/ST students failing to make the grade, the Supreme Court said while exhorting the institutes to take care of those belonging to socially backward classes at every stage. Asking IIT Delhi to reconsider its decision to expel five students from the backward classes for their poor performance, a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan said, “These socially and economically backward categories are to be taken care of at every stage even in specialised institutions like IITs.” Asking IITs not to apply the grading system mechanically to backward class students, especially those belonging to SCs and STs, the Bench said, “They must make all endeavour to provide additional coaching and bring them up at par with general category students.” Writing the judgment for the Bench, Justice Sathasivam said SCs/STs were a separate class by themselves and the creamy layer principle did not apply to them. Additionally, the Constitution enjoins upon the state to promote with special care the educational and economic interests of people and protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation, he added. After perusing the low grades of students who were expelled from IIT Delhi, the Bench said, “It is true that the petitioners were not able to secure the required credits as against the stipulated minimum requirement for continuation of their studies.” However, it rose to their defence, especially as they were from the socially and economically backward class. “It is relevant to mention that admittedly all these students had joined IIT Delhi in the academic year 2006-07 and 2007-08 after clearing All-India JEE conducted for all the IITs in the year 2006 and 2007. It shows that they were successful in securing the minimum cut-off marks earmarked for the SC/ST categories,” the Bench said. “In such circumstances, it cannot be claimed that all these students are not fit to be admitted in IIT,” it said, adding, “We are of the view that ends of justice would be fully met by giving one more opportunity to them.” It directed IIT Delhi to consider their cases afresh within four weeks taking into consideration the various aspects discussed in the judgment. -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE CASTE !
http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=595 ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Caste’ *When children of the ‘upper’ caste drop out from school…* A guest post by* P.K. Ratheesh Kumar * Different from its conventional understanding, the term ‘dropout’ has acquired a different meaning in the popular discourse in Kerala. Unlike other states, on an average, more than 90% of the children complete their school education and the question of addressing the issue of dropout does not hold much policy significance in the state of Kerala. The term dropout is then generally used to denote the shifting of children from one school to another. “TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE CASTE”, a documentary directed by Soumya, a young filmmaker, exposes the dangerous dimension of a unique dropout episode from a pre-primary school in Malappuram, Kerala. By labeling the Uthalakkandi Anganvadi in Thrukalangod gram panjayat as “SC Anganvadi”, the caste Hindu parents withdraw their children from that nursery school. They grumble their children will become cultureless by mixing with Dalit kids who are also labeled as “unhygienic and less cultured—another video story on caste from the “god’s own country”. The movie captures this dreadful caste practice in the larger context of decentralization and developmental framework in Kerala, which is otherwise being celebrated as a ‘casteless” society in public discourse. “Caste is an old story in Kerala”, ”caste has disappeared from our society“, caste is no more a significant object in determining Kerala’s social life and public sphere”—when the larger popular imaginations on caste in Kerala live with these claims, each frame of the movie wipes out this common myth. Sharply focusing on the critical thinking within Dalit community in the Uthalakkandy Dalit Colony (Settlement), it visualizes how Dalits resists the modern forms of caste violence and voices the powerful Dalit responses to the fake claims of development by the government and the media. The movie asserts: “Dalits are not capable of defining their problems is just a myth created by the state officials and the media. Political discussions and theorization take place constantly within Dalit community and they need no one to tell them what kind of problems they have and what kind of development they require”. The question of community participation and empowerment has been at the centre of discussion among educational planners, activists, and academicians for quite sometime now. In most of such engagements community turns out to be a homogenous category. The caste and gender hierarchies, the nature of participation and conflicts arising out of community involvement are more or less absent. How then one can understand community participation in schooling as empowering when the caste compositions of that community are not problematised? There was a press conference after the release of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Caste” at the Malappuram Press Club. Presumably, the media persons –both right and left- more or less ignored the theme and content of the film since it’s caste, a remote social syndrome that they cannot relate to. And then what is the point of discussing about it; so they engaged in a ‘pedagogic’ action, enlightening the young woman filmmaker on ‘how to make a documentary’. The media men sympathized that this movie has no good visuals, no good technology involved, just blended with the bits of four people’s random talk-then how will it become a documentary! The press conference, instead of discussing the film, ended up in imparting the basics of documentary making to the young filmmaker. W hile the right wing political workers observed their usual strategic silence after the movie gotbroadcast by a local television channel, the left party guardians frantically spread the word - “this is class, not caste”. Watch Part two http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Wn8sHFFAg , Part three,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMZP7G3E4OEPart four http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4RqkP3WB3kfeature=relatedof the Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4RqkP3WB3kfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4RqkP3WB3kfeature=related -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Join National Protest Day against Encounter Killings on 14th August
Sohrabuddin, Batla House, Manipur …. *Say No to Encounter Killings!* This Independence Day, Demand freedom from Encounters Observe National Day of Protest against Encounter Killings on 14th August Assemble at ITO Chowk, 3.30 pm, 14th Aug (Friday) The Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association along with other organisations has called for a National Day of Protest on 14 August 2009 against the continuing trend of ‘encounter’ killings by state forces, the arbitrary arrests of Muslim youth and the blatant whitewashing of such crimes by state agencies. All this in the name of ‘national security’ and ‘war against terror’. The cold-blooded murder of Chungkham Sanjit, a 27-year old Manipur youth in broad daylight on 23 July by the Manipur Police Commandos, barely 500 meters from the state assembly building in Imphal, has once again highlighted the sordid truth about ‘encounter’ killings in India. While the MPC had claimed initially that Sanjit had been killed while escaping during a routine screening operation, their lie was nailed by a series of photographs published by the Tehelka magazine, which showed the unarmed, peaceful youth was shot by the commandos without provocation. In addition, a pregnant woman, Mrs. Rabina and the five-month-old child in her womb were also killed, while five others were wounded. Last year on 19 September the Delhi police had carried out a similar ‘encounter’ against alleged ‘terrorists’ of the Indian Mujahideen at Batla House in New Delhi. This would have been another routine ‘encounter’ if not for the nationwide outcry from human rights groups, students and academics. While the Delhi High Court appointed the National Human Rights Commission to carry out an independent and fair inquiry into the encounter killings, the NHRC has chosen to further sully its already stained reputation by presenting a partisan report absolving the Delhi Police of any human rights violation. The NHRC did not bother to visit the families of the two ‘terrorists’ killed by the Delhi police, talk to eye witnesses or even visit the site of the ‘encounter’, basing their conclusions on the statements of the Delhi Police, the accused party! This was only a repeat of the shameful exoneration of the security forces by the one-man enquiry commission in the brutal Shopian rape and murder case. In Gujarat the Sohrabuddin ‘encounter’ is returning to haunt the Narendra Modi government as evidence points to yet another cold-blooded murder by a highly communalized state police. These murders by the killers in uniform are then legitimized and glorified as ‘encounters’. Large sections of our citizenry—Muslims, Kashmiris, peoples from the Northeast, Adivasis and Dalits—are condemned to be ‘encounterable’. These are people who can be killed, and their killings justified and explained through recourse to a warped security discourse. These people exist not in the framework of fundamental human rights but in that of national security alone. The security forces are afforded impunity and immunity as long as they can introduce the “Terror” word. In different parts of the country, Muslim youth are still being arrested and tortured on trumped up charges of links to ‘terrorism’. The large-scale detentions of Muslim youth in Karnataka following communal riots in Mysore recently is a case in point of double standards followed by the state police, which is mysteriously soft on hardline-Hindutva advocates like Pramod Muthalik who openly advocates attacks on women and members of the Christian and Muslim minorities. To raise a concerted voice against the culture of encounters, which violates the fundamental rights provided by the Indian Constitution, to demand accountability of state forces, we call upon all those who value Indian democracy to come forward and join the National Day of Protest on 14 August in all parts of the country. Sd/- Manisha Sethi (9811625577), Adeel Mehdi (9990923027), Ambarien Al Qadar (9810946273) for Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association (JTSA) Malem Ningthouja (9899925345) Campaign for Peace and Democracy, Manipur (CPDM) All India Students’ Association (AISA) ANHAD The Other Media -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Vellai azhake.. : On pink Chaddi etc
wonderful love it വെള്ളൈ അഴകേ, എന് ഉള്ളം ഉനക്കേ...http://vellezhuthth.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_07.html http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QilWYA4A09o/SlN-j1-0aQI/AiU/bCeKpaIU9Ks/s1600-h/rag+doll+pink+ballerina.jpg പിങ്ക് ചഡ്ഡി പ്രചാരണപ്രവര്ത്തനത്തിന് നേതൃത്വം നല്കിയ നിഷാസൂസന് പറഞ്ഞതുപോലെ പിങ്ക് സ്വകാര്യവും സ്വതന്ത്രവുമായ ഒരു നിറമാണെന്ന് സമ്മതിച്ചാല് തന്നെ അത് പ്രതിനിധീകരിക്കുന്നത് മുഴുവന് സ്ത്രീകളെയുമാണോ എന്നൊരു സംശയം കുറച്ചു കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ടാണ് തലയില് ‘അറുപതു വാട്ടുള്ള സൂര്യനായി’ കത്തിയത്. അപ്പോഴേയ്ക്കും കറുത്ത പെണ്ണിനെ പിങ്ക് ഒരു തരത്തിലും സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നില്ലെന്നും അവളുടെ നിറം വൈലറ്റാണെന്നും പറഞ്ഞ ആലിസ് വാക്കറെപ്പറ്റി നിഖിലാഹെന്റി (പച്ചക്കുതിര) എഴുതിക്കളഞ്ഞു. ‘വുമണിസ’ത്തിന് മലയാളത്തില് വ്യാഖ്യാനങ്ങളും ഉണ്ടായി. ‘ഒരേ രക്തം’ എന്നൊക്കെയാണല്ലോ ആലങ്കാരിക ഭാഷയില് നമ്മള് പറഞ്ഞു പഠിച്ചത് . എന്നിട്ടും പെണ്ച്ചോരയ്ക്കു മാത്രമിങ്ങനെയുള്ള രണ്ടു വ്യാഖ്യാനഭേദങ്ങള് ആരെയാണ് ഇരുത്തിച്ചിന്തിപ്പിക്കാത്തത്? പിങ്കിന്റെ പ്രസാദാത്മകത്വവും വരേണ്യതയും നിഗൂഢതയും, ഇരുണ്ട തൊലിയില് ചതഞ്ഞ രക്തം നിറം പിടിപ്പിക്കുന്ന നീലയ്ക്കില്ല. പ്രകടമായും ഞാറപ്പഴത്തിന്റെ വൈലറ്റ് വിഷാദാത്മകത്വത്തിന്റെ നിറമാണ്. ലൈംഗികമായ നിഗൂഢത അതിലില്ല. മ്ലാനമുഖമുള്ള നോവാണ് അതിന്റെ പ്രത്യക്ഷാനുഭവം.. An interesting post, at http://vellezhuthth.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_07.html -- Carmel Christy -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Indian Police= Criminals (?!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthiK_xQlRw (Are we paying to preserve criminal police?) -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] infested with the ghost of gandhi family !!
An interesting list which shows how horribly the ghost of Gandhi family had spread in our society that too using public money!! Oh Indian Politicians! !! Nehru ,Indira, Rajiv Gandhi !!! http://madhavgopalkrish.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/dinasti-nehru-gandhi_q8u qh_21916.jpg Tum logo ke naam kitnee sare kaam? *A short list of schemes, roads etc. for Nehru-Gandhi dynasty promotion with Tax Payers money! * Following is the list of Government schemes and projects; universities and educational institutions; ports and airports; National parks and sanctuaries; sports tournaments, trophies and stadia; hospitals and medical institutions; national scientific and research institutions; University chairs, scholarships and fellowships; festivals; roads and buildings named after three members of the Nehru Gandhi family, Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, *which has been submitted to the Election Commission . * This list includes most of the projects, schemes and institutions funded by the Union Government and the Governments in the States. Central 1 Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana; 2 Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission; 3 Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme for the Children of Working Mothers, Department of Women Child Development; 4. Rajiv Gandhi Udyami Mitra Yojana; 5 Indira Awas Yojana 6 Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme; 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission 8 Jawaharlal Nehru Rojgar Yojna 9.Rajiv Gandhi Shramik Kalyan Yojna; 10 Indira Gandhi Canal Project, Funded by World Bank 11.Rajiv Gandhi Shilpi Swasthya Bima Yojana State schemes 1 Rajiv Gandhi Rehabilitation Package for Tsunami Affected Areas, 2.Rajiv Gandhi Social Security Scheme, Govt. of Puducherry 3Rajiv Ratna Awas Yojna; 4 Rajiv Gandhi Prathamik Shiksha Mission, Raigarh; 5 Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission, Madhya Pradesh; 6 Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Food Security , Madhya Pradesh; 7. Rajiv Gandhi Mission on Community Health, Madhya Pradesh; 8 Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Corp.; 9 Rajiv Gandhi Tourism Development Mission, Rajasthan; 10 Rajiv Gandhi Computer Literacy Programme, Assam 11 Rajiv Gandhi Swavlamban Rojgar Yojana, Govt. of NCT of Delhi 12.Rajiv Gandhi Mobile Aids Counseling and Testing Services, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation 13.Rajiv Gandhi Vidyarthi Suraksha Yojana, Maharashtra; 14 Rajiv Gandhi Mission for Water Shed Management, M.P.; 15Rajiv Gandhi Food Security Mission for Tribal Areas, MP 16.Rajiv Gandhi Home for Handicapped, Pondicherry; 17 Rajiv Gandhi Breakfast Scheme, Pondicherry; 18 Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Divas, Punjab; 19 Rajiv Gandhi Artisans Health Life Insurance Scheme, Tamil Nadu; 20 Rajiv Gandhi Zopadpatti and Nivara Prakalpa, Mumbai; 21 Rajiv Arogya Sri programme, Gujrat State Govt. Scheme; 22 Rajiv Gandhi Abhyudaya Yojana, AP; 23 Rajiv Gandhi Computer Saksharta Mission, Jabalpur 24 Rajiv Gandhi Bridges and Roads Infrastructure Development Programme; 25 Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Niwara Prakalp, Maharashtra Govt 26Indira Gandhi Utkrishtha Chhattervritti Yojna , HP; 27 Indira Gandhi Women Protection Scheme, Maharashtra Gov; 28.Indira Gandhi Prathisthan, Housing and Urban Planning Department, UP Govt 29.Indira Kranthi Patham Scheme, Andhra Pradesh ; 30Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana, State Govt. Scheme; 31 Indira Gandhi Vruddha Bhumiheen Shetmajoor Anudan Yojana, Govt. of Maharashtra 32.Indira Gandhi Nahar Project, Jaisalmer, Govt. of Rajasthan 33.Indira Gandhi Niradhar Yojna, Govt. of Maharashtra; 34 Indira Gandhi kuppam, State Govt. Welfare Scheme for Tsunami effected fishermen; 35 Indira Gandhi Drinking Water Scheme-2006, Haryana Govt. 36.Indira Gandhi Niradhar Old, Landless, Destitute women farm labour Scheme, Maharashtra Govt. 37.Indira Gandhi Women Protection Scheme , Maharashtra Govt. 38.Indira Gaon Ganga Yojana, Chattisgarh; 39 Indira Sahara Yojana , Chattisgarh; 40 Indira Soochna Shakti Yojana, Chattisgarh; 41 Indira Gandhi Balika Suraksha Yojana , HP; 42 Indira Gandhi Garibi Hatao Yojana (DPIP), MP; 43 Indira Gandhi super thermal power project , Haryana Govt. 44 Indira Gandhi Water Project, Haryana Govt. 45.Indira Gandhi Sagar Project, Bhandara District Gosikhurd Maharashtra; 46 Indira Jeevitha Bima Pathakam, AP Govt; 47 Indira Gandhi Priyadarshani Vivah Shagun Yojana, Haryana Govt; 48 Indira Mahila Yojana Scheme, Meghalaya Govt 49.Indira Gandhi Calf Rearing Scheme, Chhattisgarh Govt. 50.Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Vivah Shagun Yojana, Haryana Govt. 51.Indira Gandhi Calf Rearing Scheme; 52 Indira Gandhi Landless Agriculture Labour scheme, Maharashtra Govt. Sports/Tournaments/ Trophies 1.Rajiv Gandhi Gold Cup Kabaddi Tournament; 2 Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Run; 3.Rajiv Gandhi Federation Cup boxing championship 4.Rajiv Gandhi International tournament (football) 5.NSCI - Rajiv Gandhi road races, New Delhi; 6. Rajiv Gandhi Boat Race, Kerala; 7Rajiv Gandhi International Artistic Gymnastic Tournament 8.Rajiv
[GreenYouth] (New Post) Reality Shows: Classical Caste and Star Singer
Reality Shows: Classical Caste and Star Singerhttp://blog.insightyv.com/?p=493 A guest post by *A S Ajith Kumar, P K Ratheesh Kumar S Sanjeev* “Star Singer”, broadcast by Asianet has been one of the most popular reality shows in Malayalam satellite television for the past four years. The star singers are presented with villas in Dubai, duplex apartments in Keralam, whopping prize monies and of course better career prospects. **The following is from a 2008 segment of the show. The compere, Ranjini Haridas is admonishing the ill-fated singer Somadas who had just delivered a supposedly miserable performance in the “classical music” round: *[…] The judges have been telling you to start learning classical music for the past 4-5 stages, but have you? You know that in this show we are not looking for a particular type of singing. One has to sing classical songs, songs with feel…there must be range, perfect pitching…will Somu fit in this would be a question in spectators’ minds…you must realize that you have reached this far not because of them [pointing to judges] but them [pointing to spectators]. It’s their SMS that has pulled you through from stage to stage. But this competition should be won by the best singer.* Read more at Round Table http://www.blog.insightyv.com anoop -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] What’s in a caption? (a new post)
What’s in a caption? http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=473 By *Ashokan Nambiar* *Carrying forward the debate on the politics of photo-captions initiated by Anoop, I am posting my piece that I wrote in January 2007. * By writing a caption which only the progeny of Golwalkar could have written/write, The New Indian Express has showed where its ideological sympathies lie. But they are not alone, many so called progressive and secular media publications also suffer from the same vice. The print media is careful nowadays about its visual presentation to attract readers who are sometimes described as `scanners’. So the news papers and magazines give much importance to photographs and their organisation. The caption, being an inevitable part of photograph has also undergone certain changes in its presentation style which will be dealt briefly in the later part of this essay. However, this article is not about the changing pattern of the style of presentation of caption or photograph but seeks to unravel certain ideological underpinnings of some of the captions that appeared recently in some of the news papers and a news magazine published in India. [image: muslim_girls_vandematarm_pe_20070115] Photo published by Outlook weekly with the caption 'We're Indian Too' Captions are used in news papers and magazines primarily to provide the reader with necessary information such as naming/identifying persons and objects and the context of the photo etc. But there has also been an increasing tendency to follow the title-sub-title style with a colon while writing caption. News papers like The Hindu and The Times of India follow this style as a norm but The New Indian Express and Deccan Herald use this style while writing caption for lead photos and other `important’ photos. For the purpose of this article I will be analysing some of the `title captions’ (which appear before the caption or on the top of the photo) which appeared in the January 9th edition (Bangalore) of newspapers such as The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Deccan Herald and also the Outlook year-end bumper issue. Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=473 http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=473#more-473 -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] ( A new post) Do The Hindu newspaper’ s photo captions have caste too?: Media and the case of tw o agitations.
Do The Hindu newspaper’s photo captions have caste too?: Media and the case of two agitations. http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=442 By *Anoop Kumar* Today while reading one of our National English Daily ‘The Hindu’ I came across a news item regarding the rekindling of Gujjar agitation, in Rajasthan, demanding Scheduled Tribe status. They are holding a three day caste-panchayat to support their demand. Along side the information on the panchayat, the news item also carried a photograph of Gujjar men sitting peacefully in the panchayat. However, what caught my attention was its caption – ‘Show of force’. What does this caption means? Read the full article at http://www.blog.insightyv.com/ anoop -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] another piece on Gangubai Hangal- New standards for the feminine singing
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mausam/gangubai.html *On Gangubai Hangal by Sabina Sehgal* Nicknamed gaanewali, she was ostracized by the orthodox brahmins. But her irrepressible talent brought her the respect, status and the financial security she has always craved. Sabina Sehgal met Padma Bhushan Gangubai Hangal during her 75th birthday celebrations at her hometown, Hubli. The story of the little girl Gangubai from Hangal, a remote village in Karnataka, almost reads like a fairy tale. Except that today, as Dr Gangubai Hangal turns 75 and continues to live happily ever after, her life and times, infinitely more than her music and fame, assume gigantic proportions. Because hers is not just a simple rags-to-riches story, but a far more complex one, which cannot be bandied simply as one from degradation to respectability. Born in Dharwar, in 1913, into a family of Gangamats, or a class of simple boatmen, the social milieu in which Gangubai was brought up was by no means conducive. Being a shudra, and that too of the lowest order, was compounded by the fact that she was born into a family where the female folk assumed the role of what was euphemistically referred to as Angavasthra, a term which, if literally translated, would correspond to an additional cloth or ornament draped by sophisticated men as a status symbol; a practice which was not necessarily considered immoral a century back. Gangubai, like her mother Ambabai, and her grandmother Kamlabai, all good musicians in their own right, belonged to this tradition. Both her father, Shri Nadgir and her husband, Shri Kaulgi, were brahmins, but interestingly, neither she nor her mother, assumed their names after marriage, or lived with them and their families; even Gangubai's children and grandchildren continue to call themselves Hangal. In fact, right from when she can remember, her life has been a series of contradictions. Of some childhood experiences in a predominant brahmin neighbourhood, Gangubai says: I remember stealing fruit from our neighbour's mango trees. More than the act of stealing, I remember the neighbours being horrified that a singer's daughter should step into their compound. I would be thrown out. Incidentally, the same people invite me over to their house today and call me 'Gangubai' with great respect. There are so many incidents that I will never forget--I remember singing for the Belgaum Congress session which was attended by Gandhiji--my only paranoia throughout the programme was that I would be asked to eat my food separately. And it is against this backdrop that it becomes essential to study the evolution of one of the greatest female musicians of our times. Gangubai's mother was a Carnatic music vocalist, but once her daughter started learning Hindustani music, she gave up her own style of singing so that her daughter could best hone her talents. Gangubai's stage debut took place in Bombay, at the Bombay Music Circle, where she was heard by several eminent musicians. After her debut here, Jadden Bai (mother of film actress Nargis) convinced her to participate in a music conference in Calcutta. Gangubai recalls, In Calcutta, when the organizers saw me, they insisted that I first sing in a private sitting a night before my concert was scheduled. I couldn't understand why they couldn't wait till the next day. Nisar Husain Khan Saheb took me aside and explained that the organizers had doubts about what I, a frail girl at that time, was capable of! I sang and was greatly appreciated. In fact, I was awarded a gold medal by the Maharaja of Tripura. At the same concert, I kept remembering my mother who was no more, and just then felt a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around, I saw K. L. Saigal, who said, 'bahut surila' (very melodious). I was happy but then very upset that a strange man should touch me! Other than her mother, Gangubai owes her musical training to Shri Krishnacharya, Shri Dattopant Desai and most significantly, to Pt. Rambhau Kundgolkar, better known as Sawai Gandharva--guru and teacher to many eminent musicians including Pt. Bhimsen Joshi and Firoze Dastur. Another strong influence on Gangubai's music, though indirect, was the singer from Agra, Zohrabai. Says Gangubai, Even today I love Zohrabai's music. Reminiscing about her training with her guru Sawai Gandharva, Gangubai recalls, Guruji lived in Kundgol and I in Hubli--a distance of about 30 kilometres. I formally started learning from him somewhere around 1937, by which time I had a family to look after and anyway, it would have been impossible to live in Kundgol with him like Bhim-'Anna' (Bhimsen Joshi) did. And so I would travel from Hubli to Kundgol by train every evening, accompanied by my uncle Ram-'Anna', who lived with us. I still remember vividly the reception I received whenever I walked down the streets to guruji's house in Kundgol. People would rush out of their houses and jeer, 'Dekho, dekho, gaanewali aiyi hai' (see, see, the singer has
[GreenYouth] Deadly religion-- Hinduism kills people in the name of honor
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Honour-over-love-Over-100-killed-every-yr/articleshow/4818395.cms
Honour over love: Over 100 killed every yrSukhbir Siwach, TNN 25 July 2009,
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CHANDIGARH: Love doesn’t come easy in Jatland. It never did in the
countryside, where honour takes precedence over feelings. Neither Ved Pal
Mor, who was killed on Thursday, understood it nor scores of nameless others
who died in the last decade.
Monitoring such cases for quite some time, Jagmati Sangwan, state president
of All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA), estimated that at least
100 boys or girls every year are being murdered or forced to commit suicide
due to love affairs in the state.
Sharing his experience, D R Chaudhary, member of Haryana Administrative
Reforms Commission, who had been investigating honour killings, said khap
(caste) panchayats every year force death of at least a dozen couples or
make them leave villages.
More worrying is silence of government and administration in most of such
incidents. This was clear in the killing of Ved Pal Mor as the government
could not save the life of the boy despite orders of the Punjab and Haryana
Court. Instead of taking tough action against negligent cops, the state just
found a scapegoat in the local SHO, who had been placed under suspension.
Social activists did not even rule out connivance of some cops as in the
Manoj and Babli murder case.
In a starling reve l at i o n , Haryanas DGP Rajiv Dalal, had in April
admitted that a young couple Manoj and Babli were killed due to negligence
of cops in 2007. Incidentally, the couple was killed after a panchayat
termed them brother and sister on account of the same-‘gotra’ marriage in
Kaithal district. Ironically, like Ved Pal, the villagers killed the couple
despite the fact that police protection was provided to them on the
directions of a Kaithal court.
In Manoj-Babli case, both got married on May 18, 2007, the entire village
turned against them and the panchayat ostracized Manoj’s family, decreeing
that anyone violating the order will be fined Rs 25,000. Phone call details
revealed that cops accompanying the couple were in regular contact with the
accused, Gurdev Singh, which reasonably creates a doubt that these officials
had given information about the movement of the couple to the accused, added
the DGP.
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[GreenYouth] Gangubai Hangal- New standards for the feminine singing
-- Forwarded message -- From: rajesh katulkar rajeshkatul...@yahoo.co.in Date: 2009/7/23 Subject: Gangubai Hangal- New standards for the feminine singing To: our-me...@googlegroups.com [image: File - In this May 19, 2005 file photo, legendary Indian classical singer] http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/respiratory-problems/photo//090721/481/782519b490ff483092a95a0d3d582644//s:/ap/20090721/ap_on_re_as/as_india_obit_gangubai_hangal;_ylt=Ah9yDVwI2wfEmY4yGIkVUQb9xg8F;_ylu=X3oDMTE5OG9yNjVkBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9yX3RvcF9waG90bwRzbGsDZmlsZS1pbnRoaXNtAP – File - In this May 19, 2005 file photo, legendary Indian classical singer Gangubai Hangal is felicitated … Tue Jul 21, 3:02 am ET NEW DELHI – Veteran Indian classical singer Gangubai Hangal, who battled caste and gender prejudices to establish a career that spanned more than seven decades, died Tuesday after being briefly hospitalized for respiratory problems. She was 96. Hangal was put on a life-support system Monday night after her condition turned critical, her doctor, Asho Kalamadani, told Press Trust of India newsagency. Her grandson Manoj Hangal was quoted saying she died early Tuesday. With her powerful, deep voice, Hangal was often described as more gifted than most male singers of her time, and people had trouble matching her strong vocals with her small frame. She was one of the most well-known singers of Khayal, a style that belonged to the Hindustani, or north Indian, school of classical singing. She was born on March 5, 1913, in the southern state of Karnataka and trained under Sawai Gandharva, a respected guru. She remembered how upper caste people used to come to her concerts when she was invited to peform and after wards when food was served she has to sit seperately. She had a strong voice which make people assume sometimes her as a man,there she makes an impact on feminine singing standards, where shrill and effiminate voice is the only consideration for female singers. Born into a family of boatmen, considered low caste in Hinduism's complex caste structure, Hangal battled that prejudice as well as the notion that singing wasn't an appropriate profession for a woman of her generation. She died in Hubli, a city in Karnataka state, where she lived, PTI reported. She is survived by two sons. -- See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by people like you. Check out Yahoo! Buzz http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_buzz_1/*http://in.buzz.yahoo.com/ -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Accused Shiney Ahuja’s lawyer gives c aste angle to rape case
-- Forwarded message -- From: Arvind Marathe arvin...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM Subject: [CONCERN-IISc] Accused Shiney Ahuja’s lawyer gives caste angle to rape case, says victim belonged to 'aggressive' lower caste To: concern-i...@googlegroups.com Shiney’s lawyer gives caste angle to case, argues victim ‘aggressive’ Express News Service Posted: Jul 08, 2009 at 0205 hrs IST Mumbai Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja’s lawyer on Tuesday gave a new angle to the case, claiming that the victim of the alleged rape belongs to a lower caste, which is aggressive” in nature. During a hearing on the actor’s bail plea filed before a sessions court, lawyer Shrikant Shivde contented that Shiney hails from a “respectable” family and was wrongly implicated in the case. Elaborating his version of “consensual sex”, Shivde argued that if Ahuja had tried to rape the victim, she could have “definitely” resisted. “She belongs to a lower caste, which is aggressive by nature, and she wouldn’t have submitted herself so easily. They are known for being aggressive,” Shivde said. Shivde also contented that the victim had concocted the story of alleged rape and it is highly doubtful. “Rape cases can be easily concocted. It’s hard to prove them and even harder to defend. Prima facie, the case has become a little doubtful. Why didn’t the victim try to run from the crime site, if she had not relented to his sexual advances,” Shivde asked. However, Shivde agreed to have seen the medical report that says traces of semen were found in the vaginal smears collected by the doctors. “Some of the tests have proved that sexual intercourse had occurred. So we are not refuting that part. We are just contending on the allegation that the victim was raped,” said Shivde. The prosecution, however, opposed the actor’s bail plea stating that the medical and forensic reports supported the charges against the actor. “Medical report is strong enough to nail the accused. Though the victim had no external injury, the medical report supports our case that sex was forceful,” said special Public Prosecutor R V Kini. Ahuja’s lawyer said that the actor was ready to stay away from Mumbai till chargesheet is filed. “If the court feels that my client would try to tamper with the evidence and influence the victim, he wouldn’t mind staying away from Mumbai and Raigad where the victim hails from,” Shivde told the court. Shivde was replying to the prosecution’s argument that Ahuja would try to intimidate the victim and witnesses as he hails from an influential family. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] ‘Respectable’ Shiney and ‘lower caste’ maid !? new ROUND TABLE post
http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=419cpage=1#comment-296 ‘Respectable’ Shiney and ‘lower caste’ maid !? By *Gyanendra Kumar* [image: 090618135412_shiney_police226] Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja’s lawyer on Tuesday gave a new angle to the case, claiming that the victim of the alleged rape belongs to a lower caste, which is “aggressive” in nature. During a hearing on the actor’s bail plea filed before a sessions court, lawyer Shrikant Shivde contented that Shiney hails from a “respectable” family and was wrongly implicated in the case. Elaborating his version of “consensual sex”, Shivde argued that if Ahuja had tried to rape the victim, she could have “definitely” resisted. “She belongs to a lower caste, which is aggressive by nature, and she wouldn’t have submitted herself so easily. They are known for being aggressive,” Shivde said. News Courtesy: http://www.expressindia.com Photo Courtesy: www.urdunewseurope.com -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Harvard professor's arrest spotlights racial profiling in the US
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gyanendra Kumar gyanendr...@gmail.com Date: 2009/7/24 Subject: Harvard professor's arrest spotlights racial profiling in the US To: our-media our-me...@googlegroups.com, aim_...@googlegroups.com On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Arvind Marathe arvin...@gmail.com wrote: The pitfalls of racial profiling in Cambridge Ed Pilkington Being a highly respected scholar was not enough to stop Henry Louis Gates Jr. from being arrested for entering his own home. Note to all police officers in Cambridge, Massachusetts: if you absolutely do have to arrest an African-American man on suspicion of breaking into a house that turns out to be his own home then please, please make sure it is not Henry Louis Gates Jr. To say the Cambridge force had egg on its face on Tuesday does a massive injustice to the scale of its embarrassment. One of its sergeants had arrested, handcuffed and locked in a cell for four hours, arguably the most highly respected scholar of African-American history in America. Prolific writer, TV presenter, director of Harvard’s WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, friend of Oprah Winfrey — the list of Mr. Gates’s connections and achievements goes on. But when Mr. Gates returned last Thursday to his leafy Harvard home from a trip to China filming his latest TV documentary, he was, well, just another African-American man seemingly engaged in nefarious activities. It was the early afternoon when Mr. Gates (58) reached his house in a taxi . The front door had been damaged and he could not get in, so he entered through the back door, disabled the alarm and then again tried to push open the front door with the help of the (North African) driver. A (white) woman walking by saw an African-American man trying to force the door and leapt to the kind of assumptions that Mr. Gates has chronicled over many years. She called 911, and then hapless Sgt. James Crowley turned up. By then Mr. Gates, settling back home, was calling Harvard’s property section to report the faulty door. Sgt. Crowley asked him to step outside as he was investigating a report of a break-in. “Why, because I’m a black man in America?” Mr. Gates asked, according to Sgt. Crowley’s police report, refusing to leave his front room. Asked to prove it was his own home, Mr. Gates showed his Harvard ID and local driving licence. In return, Mr. Gates asked Sgt. Crowley for his name and badge number. In his report, Sgt. Crowley said Mr. Gates accused him of being a racist police officer and told him he had no idea who he was messing with. The officer wrote that when asked Gates to step outside again, he was told: “Ya, I’ll speak with your mama outside.” “I was quite surprised and confused with the behaviour,” the sergeant said. He called officers from Cambridge and Harvard’s own police. Mr. Gates was arrested for “loud and tumultuous behaviour”. Later, Mr. Gates said he was “appalled that any American could be treated as capriciously by an individual police officer”. “There are one million black men in jail in this country and last Thursday I was one of them,” he told the Washington Post. “This is outrageous and that this is how poor black men across the country are treated everyday in the criminal justice system. It’s one thing to write about it, but altogether another to experience it.” As news spread of the arrest, friends and colleagues rallied to Mr. Gates’s side. He was offered the legal help of Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor and friend of Barack Obama. Lawrence Bobo, a Harvard sociologist, rushed to the station and drove him home after Mr. Gates was allowed out on $40 bail. Within hours of news breaking of the arrest, the Cambridge police had dropped all charges. The force said the “regrettable and unfortunate” incident should not be seen as demeaning the character and reputation of Mr. Gates or the character of the police. Mr. Gates is fond, though, of quoting an observation from Bert Williams, an early 20th century African-American entertainer: “It’s no disgrace to be coloured. But it is awfully inconvenient.” — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2009 -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Dalito ka beta (Son of Dalits) -- Rahulgiri !!
SEE an interesting post poking Rahul Gandhi http://blog.insightyv.com/ His Rahulgiri will not make him a leader till his tomb enjoy -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Can't forgive Rita, she will be punished: Mayawati
*Can't forgive Rita, she will be punished: Mayawati* NDTV Correspondenthttp://www.ndtv.com/news/search/results.php?cfeed=tw%3BSU%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.ndtv.com%3BLC%3A%23003399%3BVC%3A%23008000%3BDC%3A%2399%3BTB%3A0%3BPBG%3A1%3BGP%3A0%3B%3BRBG%3A%23DCDCDChl=enq=NDTV%20Correspondentsite=ndtv.com, Friday July 17, 2009, Lucknow http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/cant_forgive_rita_she_will_be_punished_mayawati.php AFP image Uttar Pradeshhttp://www.ndtv.com/news/india/cant_forgive_rita_she_will_be_punished_mayawati.php#Chief Minister Mayawati said on Friday that state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi's derogatory remarks against her cannot be forgiven and that she will be punished. Mayawati on Friday raised questions on why no action was taken against state Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi by her party president Sonia Gandhi. No action has been taken against Rita at the party level. Sonia Gandhi also apologised after Rita's comments under duress, said Mayawati at a press conference. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief said that her party had decided not to disrupt Parliament over the issue, adding that legal action against the state Congress chief would go on. Rita may get a bail like Varun Gandhi, but she cannot be pardoned, she said. Mayawati further said that Congress shouldn't think her party workers are weak. If I didn't stop BSP workers on Wednesday night, Congress workers would have gone underground, she said. However, the UP Chief Minister requested her party workers not to protest violently. Meanwhile, a court in Moradabad reserved order on the bail plea of Rita. She was arrested on Thursday in a midnight crackdown -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] The myth called 'civilised and cultured' upper caste women- womenspeak !!
http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=336#more-336 Womenspeak By *Cynthia Stephen* [image: brinda] Will they stand up now ? Sushmaji (BJP), Brindaji (CPIM), Prabhaji (Cong) showing their 'all' women-unity on 'women's' reservation bill. Photo courtesy: TOI, New Delhi The Mayawati - Rita Bahuguna fracas can of course be read, and rightly so, as a typical case of a casteist and classist response of frustration with the fact that power is in the hands of the subaltern(s) in UP. There can be nothing but condemnation for the words used by a woman who is in public office and has a political lineage to boot, on the elected representative and leader of the state of which she is a citizen. It is of course unfortunate that the woman’s house was burnt down by some miscreants after her remarks, but that can be said to be collateral damage. Rita has been roundly condemned by all concerned and the Hindu, in an editorial, has called for Sonia to sack her as UPCC chief. But added to the fact that Brahminical Patriarchy is showing its colours, there is also the fact that the media is playing it up as a “fight for Dalit Votes (between Cong and BSP)”, as if Mayawati won and became the CM of UP for the fourth time on the Dalit vote alone! But we need to look at another aspect. While women are slowly - too slowly, alas - coming into their own in the public sphere in India especially in governance, where we have several women in Cabinet positions, as President (Pratibha Patil), Chief of the main constituent of the ruling coalition (Sonia Gandhi), some women Chief ministers Sheila Dixit and Mayawati - and ex- chief ministers - Vijayaraje Scindia - younger women coming into parliaments and assemblies - Kanimozhi, Priay Dutt, Seilja - , and important roles in opposition - Mamata Bannerjee - as in West Bengal, which has had no opposition worth the name for decades. On the other hand, we see that women in public office, despite their being relatively so few of them, do not get along too well, may be because solidarity among women is still looked upon with disfavour by our patriarchal society which actually pioneered the concept of “divide and rule”. Thus, it is no wonder that the women’s reservation bill has had such a stormy history, and its future does not appear to be too rosy. Only some have understood the rather nuanced position taken by Sharad Yadav, who asserts strongly the need for reservation/representation for women on the basis of thier caste-class origin, but of course he is damned by the Brahminical media for “blocking the women’s reservation bill”. But over and above this, the level to which the discourse among the women themselves has sunk to be noted and condemned. Not many know that a couple of days ago, the Rajasthan Assembly was thunderstruck by the former CM, Vijaya Raje Scindia’s remarks in reply to criticism by a minister in the present government - she walked up to his seat, and asked how he would feel if she went around claiming that his wife was given to drinking and carousing in the streets every night! The assembly was shocked into silence at her words. And in Andhra Pradesh, just before the elections, there have been some very unedifying TV talk shows in which some of the leaders of the women’s wings of political parties - notably the Praja Rajyam and some other prominent women political leaders engaging a free-for-all slanging matches on air, which served to further bring to public disrepute their capacities as leaders and spokespersons for their parties or their constituents. The point to note is that while communal rioters have routinely targeted the bodies of the “other” women for violence and rape, the new trend appears to be get women “leaders” who are already insecure and unsure of their roles in power and governance to attack other women in public office, and even more so if the woman in question is single, dark skinned, and/or belongs to a marginalised group. It is interesting to note how this major incident has not made it into the blogosphere which has had so much to say about Mayawati’s statutes, her diamonds, her cakes, her clothes …! And Indian feminists and slacktivists have not jumped into the fray with statements, placards, or candle-light protests! Just goes to show how ‘class’ and “caste” will show itself up even in its silences. Let us break the silence, but let us keep our dignity, and that of others as well. July 17th, 2009 in Gender http://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=91, Statehttp://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=19, violence http://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=85 | tags: Bahugunahttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=bahuguna, BSP http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=bsp, Congresshttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=congress, Mayawati http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=mayawati, Rapehttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=rape, Scindhia http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=scindhia, Sharad Yadavhttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=sharad-yadav, Sonia http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=sonia, UPhttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=up, women
[GreenYouth] What a Gandhiwadi Brahmin woman says to a Dalit Woman...
http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=322#more-322 What a Gandhiwadi Brahmin woman says to a Dalit Woman - *“Mayawati should be raped.” Says, Rita Bahuguna Joshi* Does this surprises you? Do you feel offended? [image: Pic Courtesy: www.expressindia.com] Pic Courtesy: www.expressindia.com I am not. One reason may be becasue I am a male and perhaps enjoy such sexist languague against any woman but apart from that I am not surprised becasue that is the langauage I have grown up hearing. The tone and tenor is too familiar. It never surprises me to know that how caste-hindu women participated actively in the lynching, raping, killings of members of Dalit family in Kherlanji, Maharashtra. It never surprised me about how caste-hindu women, to protect their caste kins-men murderers, gave false testimonies of being dishonoured by Dalit men and thus justified the Dalit massacres in Tsunduru in Andhra pradesh. I am not surprised because that is what Ritaji has also grown up hearing in her family and around - ” KILL, RAPE , BURN ” ( Exclusively reserved for those Dalits who do not fall to their places). I am not surprised becasue we get many comments on our blog sharing the same aspiration for Maywatiji and other Dalit icons, who in the true upper caste machoismo give false name and fake email ids. I only feel pity for UP Congress Chief that she was caught while saying this publically and above all Mayawatiji is the CM right now so she could get Ritaji arrested while fleeing to Delhi by road. Other wise like others she would have maximum raised some smiles/smirk here and there on her comment and would have gone ahead with her party work like her father did. For readers’ kind information, Rita Ji made this remark slamming Mayawatiji’s decision of sending DGP to investigate the cases of rapes of Dalit women and providing monetary compensation as per the provision of SC/ST Atrocity Act. Last heard, Rita ji was saying to the media that, “ I regret what I said in a fit of anger. It is being taken out of context. I am myself a woman and I should not have spoken these words … I really apologise”. Last time I also heard Rahul Gandhi spend a night with a Dalit family to show his friend the real India. This time he need not take that much efforts he could always rely on Ritaji and other party workers to show him and his friends the really ‘real’ India. July 16th, 2009 in Language http://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=65, Lawhttp://blog.insightyv.com/?cat=10| tags: Bahuguna http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=bahuguna, Mayawatihttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=mayawati, Rahul Gandhi http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=rahul-gandhi, Rapehttp://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=rape, UP http://blog.insightyv.com/?tag=up 2 Comments RanjuJuly 16th, 2009 at 8:16 pm revealing; exposing; eye opening shameless Congress’s shameless leaders it seems caste HIndu women need orientation/refresher courses to make them gender-sensitive i wonder why can’t 100 years of feminist activism could not address these problem? Are the caste Hindu feminists listening? when will they speak up for “uplifting” their fellow caste hindu women from the clutches of brahminism? Can the Indian Butlers and Wolfs speak now? ChristyJuly 16th, 2009 at 8:46 pm Ritaji represents the ‘upper caste’ woman who has completely surrendered (or can afford to surrender) to the patriarchal norms of the society. When such women become perpetrators of caste/gender hierarchies, they flourish on the (symbolic) facelessness/raping and burning of lower caste men/women.They become the ‘woman’, while all other lower caste women becomes ‘lesser women’ whose sexualities are asexualised, that is, where rape is not a crime but just something that they deserve!! -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] KAMBLI: Experiments with Caste, Willow and Gloves (new post at our blog Round Table)
-- Forwarded message -- From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com Date: 2009/7/15 Subject: KAMBLI: Experiments with Caste, Willow and Gloves (new post at our blog Round Table) To: our-media our-me...@googlegroups.com KAMBLI: Experiments with Caste, Willow and Gloveshttp://blog.insightyv.com/?p=292 *Recently newspapers reportedhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4774108.cms that Vinod Kambli, the Indian cricketer during the shooting of a forthcoming television show had vehemently attacked BCCI for discriminating against him based on his caste and skin colour and criticized his childhood friend Sachin Tendulkar for being less ‘friendly’ at his bad times. Though,Kambli has denied these reports laterhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4777247.cms, RANJITH THANKAPPAN shares the ‘Kambli Moment’ in his life that point towards the caste factor in cricket and life.* Kambli, I knew it years ago. Perhaps you didn’t. Or what else kept you silent for long? I know, cricket like brahmanism is a mythical institution that will lead one to the illusion of empowered self. But, I expected you to throw it back with the same ease with which you pick up and throw to get your opponent run out. And how can I forget your beautiful smile; the mumbling after a diving effort to save a single; the naughty grin after an effortless catch; the languishing return from the crease and enigmatic flow of energy in the field with the usual encouraging words to fellow players. How can I forget you Kambli, though you were not my role model? Nor Sachin was. Never ever. Read the full post at our Blog Round Table http://www.blog.insightyv.com/ http://www.blog.insightyv.com/anoop -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Why Ramachadra Guha should apologise? (a must read)
Pandit Ramchandra Guha and the post of Mysore University Vice-Chancellor - Ihttp://blog.insightyv.com/?p=264 *This article is in two parts* *http://blog.insightyv.com/ * Just last night, while browsing through emails, I stumbled upon an article, forwarded in one of the e-groups, titled ‘Is Brahminical Elitism at Work in Academic Institutions?http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=section=opinionxfile=data/opinion/2009/July/opinion_July24.xml’ written by India’s foremost historian and former academic Ramchandra Guha. Since I want to be an academician, and have been working on the issues of caste in academia with the students and academicians from various universities, I read on further. Ramchandra Guha wrote this piece in the context of one news item that was published in one of the national dailies regarding short listing of three candidates for the post of Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University. The three short listed candidates, according to the news item, quoting unnamed sources, belong to Lingayat, SC and Vokkaliga communities. It seems that this particular fact about the caste backgrounds of three candidates troubled our national historian so much that he criticized the daily for not including their academic qualifications and eligibility in the news item. He writes, “The report mentioned the names of the short listed candidates, from which one could discern their respective caste affiliations. Remarkably, the news report did not carry any details on the qualifications of those who aspired to be the new vice-chancellor of Mysore University.” He asks further, “What were their areas of academic expertise? What were their plans for reviving a once-good university now gone to seed? Apparently, these matters did not matter to the newspaper, as they did not to the government that was to make the appointment. Perhaps, they were of no concern to the candidates themselves.” These are very valid questions from a person who is a former academician and claims to be concerned about the quality of our education system. However, the point is whether Mr. Guha would have asked the same questions if the candidates short listed were from the brahmin, bania and kayastha communities? Whether the news item would have then mentioned their caste background too? I doubt it. I have not come across any such thing till now. The reason is, like Ramchandra Guha, the media also believes that only persons from certain backgrounds are meritorious and therefore eligible but others are only appointed due to the ‘vote bank politics’. For some caste is invisibilised but for others caste is the only truth. It is even unthinkable for Guha that these candidates might have been short listed on the basis of their academic qualification. Since there was no candidate from the traditional ‘upper’ caste elite background, Guha was sure that the academic qualifications were compromised in preparing the list. Otherwise he would have not chosen this particular news item as a context to cry hoarsely about the political influence and the deteriorating situation of Indian Universities. I am amused that Ramchandra Guha is critical about this news item for not giving the details about the candidates’ qualifications for the post. However, the fact is that both the national daily and Mr. Guha are exactly on the same wavelength. The daily, in fact, is asking the same questions by mentioning their caste background in the report and thus making sure that the readers get the fair idea of their ‘qualifications’. Otherwise what was the need of the news daily to investigate and then reveal the caste identity of the candidates? Certainly the official press-note would not have carried the information regarding the candidates’ background. After casting aspersions on the qualifications of the Mysore university candidates, Mr Guha then tries to obfuscate the whole issue by pointing his fingers at every body-left, right and centre of compromising the academic environment of the country. The rest of his piece is a brilliant exposition of brahminical double speak, attempts for political correctness and complete distrust on the political class that has now become a rage among upper caste-middle class section as it gives a blank cheque not to introspect but put entire blame on others, especially politicians. Let me go one by one on what Guha wrote and what he actually meant. At first, apart from all other things that Guha wrote ,trying to justify his diatribe against the University appointments from non-upper caste background, one particular nugget of wisdom doled by him, really made my day. It gives us a clear-cut idea about his objectivity in relation with brahminical culture and traditions as well. Criticizing the Indian Left too for involving in ideological biases in appointments, he writes and I quote, “When the Left Front was in power in Kerala, a historian of modern India was appointed vice-chancellor of, all things, a Sanskrit
[GreenYouth] The need to say FUCK
http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=205#more-205 Insight Young Voices Blog http://blog.insightyv.com/| A Dalit Youth Magazine | - Home http://blog.insightyv.com/ - About http://blog.insightyv.com/?page_id=2 - Contact http://blog.insightyv.com/?page_id=71 - Disclaimer http://blog.insightyv.com/?page_id=72 Subscribe http://blog.insightyv.com/?feed=rss2 What the fuck? There was an interesting debate developing behind the scenes of the Insight Young Voices site in general and the Round Table Blogs in particular. The debate was essentially about moderation of the comments that were expected to be posted in response to posts, both on the site as well as the blog. [image: the_gesture022]While it is unncessary for us to go into the details of the actual arguments being made, the issue soon came around to what has been described as ‘cussing’ and whether it should be allowed and if so to what extent. Of course reference was made to my previous post, the poem by Keshav Meshram, which has as its first line…One day I cursed that motherfucker God. To be very fair to all concerned it should be mentioned that no one had any objection to the poem whatsoever, in fact, one even commented on use of the expletive as being a ‘beautiful expression’. To be even fairer, no one even had a problem with cussing at all, except that it could possibly detract from the actual issue at hand and degenerate into a slinging match. However in the midst of this mushrooming debate, Anoop, being his usual self, and with a terrific sense of irony, commented, and I quote, “My earlier stand on cussing came from my shy nature, god-fearing hindu family background and missionary school teachings and I have never ever cussed anybody in my life but I am ready to learn.” Anyone who has read Anoop’s interview in Tehelka, and knows him personally,would know that cussing was and is the least of his problems…;) Yet jokes apart, there is a deep truth to what Anoop has pointed out. Cussing or the use of expletives has not been encouraged, by either the colonial missionaries with their Victorian value system or by the doyens of so called polite, elitist society. There is no wonder then that the Castor faced Brahmin is shocked out of his wits at the expletive. Yet the matter is not so simple either, if one were to question a little further, the role of power would come into the equation. Taking this into account it becomes clear that while the students of most institutions, missionary or otherwise, are taught not to be ‘foul mouthed’, the teachers and those in power can be. Of course the teacher probably would not use the word fuck, at least not in the hearing of the students, but other, and far worse abusive words for children such as ’stupid’, ‘good for nothing’, are used and have been used. Even on occasion when the words themselves are not used, the attitudes that pass on the same values prevail. Of course it should be mentioned here that Dalit and Tribal children are far greater victims of this kind of verbal and attitudinal abuse, even worse when the question of reservations comes in because then worse things are said and thought. The question then, is not about the use of the expletive or the curse word, but rather one of who can and who cannot utter it. Those in power can and those who are powerless cannot. It is no wonder then, that for the same people who want to maintain the Brahmanic purity of language, the term Madiga is a curse! The subaltern use of the expletive then is a challenge to the system, it shakes the very foundations of it (as Meshram himself noted). It questions the very basis of the equation between language and power. It becomes the very means by which the subaltern names and shames the powers that be. Therefore ‘cussing’ itself becomes not only a legitimate means of the expression of Dalit anger, but it also becomes the very act through which they name (and shame) their oppressors and their oppression. Cussing then, is empowering… I cannot but help but think of a feminist friend of mine who once told me that unless a woman can say fuck, she is not liberated It is a well known fact that we cannot articulate our experience if we do not have the words. The use of the expletive or cussing then offers us an avenue of expressing our experience. What we should remember also however, is that experience is also understood though language. Language enables us to assimilate and make connections between the various facets of our experience. It is here that the expletive has limited use, while a word like fuck can offer us a valid way of expressing pain, anger and even protest, it has limited usage in enabling us to understand the dynamics of the pain, anger and protest involved. To be honest however, in as much as language itself is the hegemony of the powerful, any word will have limited usage in this area. It is here that the onus is on us to not depend on the ‘language’ of the oppressor, but to invent new words
[GreenYouth] Indian universities face misconduct allegations
News -- Nature Medicine 15, 723 (2009) doi:10.1038/nm0709-723c Indian universities face misconduct allegations Killugudi Jayaraman1http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15/n7/full/nm0709-723c.html#a1 1. Bangalore, India Introduction A report by the *Times of India* newspaper alleging that admissions to medical school might have been sold for money at two private institutions has stirred controversy in India. The newspaper has said it caught officials on tape demanding as much as Rs 4 million ($80,000) for admission to medical degree programs without providing receipts. In the wake of these allegations, the country's education ministry has ordered an official probe into the claims. The two institutions, Sri Ramachandra University and Sree Balaji Medical College, affiliated with Bharat University—both in the south Indian state of Tamilnadu—risk derecognition if found guilty, education ministry spokesperson Mamta Verma told *Nature Medicine*. Dayanand Dongaonkar, secretary general of the Association of Indian Universities in New Delhi is waiting for the outcome of the probe, saying that we will decide about what action to take on our members once the government investigation is over. Ramachandra University's vice chancellor S. Rangaswami did not reply to request for comments. The university has an ongoing research alliance with Harvard University in the US. We have been in contact with the leadership of Sri Ramachandra University, with which we have a professional services agreement, and have expressed our wish to see the matter resolved in appropriate fashion, says Chris Railey, director of communications and marketing for Partners Harvard Medical International. Balaji College, the newspaper found from the college's website, was chaired by S. Jagathrakshakan, a junior minister in the government. But after the exposé his name reportedly disappeared from the website. *Nature Medicine* was unable to reach S. Jagathrakshakan for comment. The admission scam has prompted the education ministry to review the functioning of 123 universities, including 55 medical colleges that obtained the 'deemed status' in last five years. -- Gyanendra Kumar, Biology Department, Bldg. 463, 50 Bell Avenue, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973 USA Phone: 001-631-344-2787 Cell: 001-631-875-9189 --- Residence: 16, Harrison Commons, Yaphank, NY 11980 USA -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Excerpts from a letter written by a young man concerned about the Dalits of Kandhamal
I continue to be dismayed at the challenge that Dalits and Muslims in our country face in exercising thier freedom of religion. Yesterday, Ranjit forwarded a very disturbing report about a riot in Rohini. This morning the papers report that Muslims in Mysore were attacked because they were constructing a place of religious study, and also in continuation of some previous conflicts in the area. The legal response will take its course, but what will restore the sense of peace and security of the villagers who have suffered so much for so long? - Cynthia [A]fter about an year from now, in August 2008, when the Dalit Christians were attacked, killed and their houses and churches were burnt to ashes in Khandamal, Orissa, Justice Chitta Ranjan Das of the fast track court II in Phulbani, convicted first person Mr. Chakradhar Mallick, 58 years old in the riots case with two years of imprisonment and a fine of one thousand rupees today. Adv. BD.Das, an advoacte at the High Court in Orissa on behalf of the Utkal Christian Council (UCC) has been leading a team of lawyers in fighting for justice for the Dalit Christians in Khandamal. Adv. BD Das explains that, with the available witnesses, (though many of the survivors of the riots are unable to identify the people who burnt their houses for they attacked in a mob, and they were running into jungles to save their lives), the trail has been fairly in a right direction, and justice will be ensured by convicting the miscreants. On a day to day basis lawyers have been attending the Court of law in Phulbani, about 250 kms from the State Capital to implore on behalf of the victims survivors of violence, hatred and prejudices. According to the news from UCC, nearly 10,000 have been named in the 827 cases registered, where charge sheets have been filed for 437 cases and the investigations have been in progress. Meanwhile, after the Central Home Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram's recent visit to Khandamal and his apology to the survivors of the riots, the last batch of Central Reserve Police Force have been withdrawn from Khandamal, and the the people living in relief camps have been asked to go back to their houses, however there are still 1200 people in the camps. We thank you all for your solidarity and support expressed to our people in khandamal thus far, and seek your prayers as the trials are on for justice to be triumphant, and as the traumatised Dalit Christians start to resettle in their own houses in their localities. The road ahead is not a smooth one for the Dalit Christians in Khandamal as they have to start their living from the scratch, for they have lost their beloved ones, houses, property and everything in life. The trauma still continues to haunt these our people, several questions still remains unanswered and unsettled. Will the miscreants and caste fundamentalists allow these Dalit Christians to live peacefully in their own places with out any more attacks on them? Is the assurance of both the Central and State Governments for safety and security worth believing? Will these people be allowed to preach, practice and propagate their faith freely openly? Will justice favour them? How to start living and earning their living? what are the new strategies of the casteist and fundamentalist groups?These and many more unanswered questions still linger in the minds of these survivors of caste conflicts. Raj Bharat Patta -- Cynthia Stephen Independent Writer and Researcher And may you be blessed with the foolishness to think that you can make a difference in the world, so that you will do things which others tell you cannot be done Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily. Margaret Atwood : Canadian Literary Icon. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] UPA failed to use Rs 72,500 crore for Dalits says a Study
A small fact that might interest you *As published in The Times of India, Delhi Edition, 5 Jul 2009* http://blog.insightyv.com/ *UPA failed to use Rs 72,500 crore for Dalits says a Study * The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) may wax eloquent about empowering the downtrodden, but in the last five years it has denied the Scheduled Castes (SCs) a whopping Rs.72,500 crore ($15.16 billion) that should have been earmarked for them under a special scheme. This has been underlined by voluntary organisation National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR) after a study of India’s budget documents. Called the special component plan (SCP), the scheme was a strategy evolved way back in April 1975, envisaging that every central ministry must allocate funds from its annual plan for Dalits according to their population. SCs today form 16.2 percent of India’s 1.1 billion population. Therefore, between 2005 and 2009, the Congress-led government should have set aside Rs.129,000 crore for Dalits. But as much as Rs.72,500 crore was not earmarked, the NCDHR has pointed out. “The figures of allocation are a mute witness to the history of denial of exclusion. It is not only for the last five years; this trend is observed for the last 28 years since the inception of the special component plan in 1979-80,” states the NCDHR. It points to the allocations in the interim budget of the UPA government in February. “Out of 75 ministries and their departments, only 16 have allocated funds under the SCP. Out of these, nine ministries have allocated token amounts below five percent. Labour and employment, science technology, bio-technology, panchayati raj and textiles are some of the examples,” says the study. But the NCDHR concedes that human resource development, social justice and empowerment, rural development, women and child development and health ministries did make allocations according to the Dalit population. The SCP came into being in 1979-80 and only Rs.433 crore had been spent on SCs and Scheduled Tribes (STs) together in the 30 years before that. According to the Planning Commission guidelines, these funds cannot be diverted for any other purpose. The ruling Congress and its UPA allies that spoke of the common man in the run up to elections allocated Rs.15,280 crore for SCs in its interim budget in February while it should have set aside Rs.34,413 crore for this fiscal, says NCDHR. “This is even lower than last year’s allocation,” points out the study. “While the total increase in the plan outlay is 15.74 percent, it is unacceptable that at this critical time of financial crisis, the amount for the socially and economically vulnerable sections is drastically reduced. The amount denied is 55 percent this year!” -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Re: [arkitectindia] National Agenda for Muslims Development
Need to Democratise ‘Muslim’ Institutionshttp://blog.insightyv.com/?p=157 *A guest post by Khalid A. Ansari on behalf of Pasmanda Intellectuals’ Forum* The last two decades in Indian democracy have witnessed wider acknowledgment and interrogation of the disproportionate hegemony of upper castes in the structures of power. Quite clearly such overt domination of a few elite oligarchic caste groups in decision making processes runs against the pluralist and democratic ambitions of the Indian Constitution. The persistence of such trends does not augur well for the future of this nation. [image: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh] Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh The legitimacy of the category of caste in non-Hindu (minority) communities is now officially established. The inclusion of 82 Muslim caste groups in the OBC list of the Mandal Commission Report in 1990 was a watershed event in this context. The presence of caste in Muslim community is also reaffirmed by the recent Sachhar Committee Report and the report of the Ranganath Mishra Commission on Linguistic Minorities. Moreover, apart from the official recognition there is a strong movement among the dalit/backward caste Muslims that is gaining ground in North India (especially UP and Bihar). The movement is called the ‘Pasmanda Movement’ and it is articulating the anxiety and anger of the Pasmanda Muslim sections over their blatant social exclusion. It must be borne in mind that the Pasmanda Muslims (dalit/backward caste Muslims; also called ajlaf and arzal) constitute about 75% of the Indian Muslim population (the remaining 25% is formed by the upper caste ashraf Muslims). The politics of numeric should itself suffice to suggest that their claims can not be taken lightly. The marginalisation of Pasmanda Muslims from state and community-controlled institutions is an issue that perhaps needs to be urgently addressed. Read more… » http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=157#more-157 at http://www.blog.insightyv.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Admission Notice: MA in Gender, Culture and Development Studies, University of Pune
Please forward it to various e-groups. It is a unique course offered in University of Pune *MA in Gender, Culture and Development Studies* Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune is offering a new and exciting postgraduate/Masters course in the coming academic term. Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre is one of the few centres which sees the gender question as essentially linked to the caste question in India. The courses and research at this center have focused on Phule-Ambedkarite/abrahmani feminisms in India. The Center was established in 1987 in University of Pune. Today it is one of the foremost centres in the discipline of Women’s Studies in the country. The very name of the centre invokes the ideals set out by Savitribai Phule, the first woman teacher of modern India and guides it to deal consciously with interlocking issues of gender, caste, class, region etc in all its activities. The *MA in Gender, Culture and Development Studies* is different from other postgraduate courses in Social Sciences and Humanities as it ties together three fields of Gender Studies, Culture Studies and Development Studies into one cohesive postgraduate programme. To read more kindly visit insightyv.com http://insightyv.com/?p=1037 anoop -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Hindu Rashtra in Delhi (horrible!!)
Hindu Rashtra in Delhi (*Protest by Hindutva organisations against construction of a mosque in Rohini Sector 16, Delhi…Prayer by the MUSLIMS not allowed by hindutva forces on 26.6.2009 and those who were coming for the NAMAZ were beaten up and chased back. .. Hooligans marched in street to look out for muslims…Women also participated in large numbers..Timely intervention by the police..19 arrested……Appeal to maintain communal harmony by citizens groups.* *According to reliable sources, a piece of land was alloted by the DDA to the ‘Dargah Islamiya Intezamiya Committee’ for a mosque in the area in North-West Delhi to cater to the longtime demand of the minority community. In fact people from Rohini have to either to go to Badli or Avantika, if they have to offer Namaz on anyday..* **- Based on newspaper reports appearing in Rashtriya Sahara, Rojnama Sahara (27 th June 2009) and others) I Wahidbhai, who is nearing sixties, is feeling low since last few days. A doctor by profession, he is suddenly contemplating shifting to his paternal home in Jama Masjid area from his own flat in Rohini. In fact it was only a few years ago that he had purchased this flat despite opposition from his other relatives. To be very frank the recent developments in his own neighbourhood have left him completely devastated. He had not imagined in his wildest dreams that many of his own neighbours – who were regular visitors to his house as well as clinic – would have no qualms in raising slogans which stigmatised the whole minority community. It was true that in this part of Delhi, people owning allegiance to his faith – who were not in significant numbers – had to travel a few kilometres just to offer Namaz on special occasions. And during the time of Ramzan when people fasted for the whole day, it became further difficult to do so. Sometime back the government had agreed to the proposal put forward by a local organisation for a mosque and had granted a piece of land in the area. Many community members in the area had contributed wholeheartedly and a token amount was deposited with the government in lieu of the piece of land. Wahidbhai shivers to think if the police had not shown enough alertness what could have happened on the day when people had gathered there to offer Namaz.(Friday, 26 th June 2009).It was a mere coincidence that he was away on that day and had gone to meet his relatives in the other part of the city. Although he had noticed the manner in which Hindutva forces had become hyperactive supposedly to stop the construction of the mosque, it was beyond his comprehension that they would resort to violence. He was also told that fanatic elements also attacked a man in his cutting saloon.And the most tragic part of the whole episode was that many youth from a poor neighbourhood which housed many victims of the tragic 1984 riots were also to be seen in the melee. The only silver lining to the otherwise disturbing situation was the manner in which few ordinary wo/men who stood the ground and resisted the lumpens who were attacking innocents and talked of unity of all religions. *II* As of now there is calm in the area but it seems deceptive.Police is vigilant and is taking extra precaution but mischievous forces may again become active to keep the tensions high. Nobody can deny that they are more keen to keep the pot boiling. It was no coincidence that a temple ‘came up’ suddenly one night on a piece of government land, near the mosque itself. And a ‘bhandara’ was also organised at this temple supposedly to mobilise people. This temple was in addition to many other illegally constructed temples which have come up in recent times in the area (Rohini Sector 15, 16, 17 and others) by encroaching public land.Few such temples have even proved to be moneyspinners for their promoters For outsiders the manner in which communal forces have become active in a middle class dominated area of Delhi may sound incomprehensible. But close watchers of the situation know the desperation in the ranks of the pro Hindutva forces when the results to the elections to the parliament were out. To the surprise of all, this area which use to be a stronghold of the saffrons, registred more votes to the Congress candidate vis-a-vis the saffrons. And thus apart from the national context where the saffrons faced humiliating defeat , the sense of vengeance among them had an added local context. However can it be said that this is for the first time that Delhi has witnessed such majoritarian attempts to deny even the constitutionally granted right to freedom of religion. It was only last year that a church in Delhi was attacked by the Hindu Right (*Delhi church attacked 2 weeks ago, cops mum,* Times of India, 4 th Oct 2008). *New Delhi: The fanatical Hindu mobs have struck in the Capital. And the police has kept it under wraps. A good fortnight ago, a mob attacked a handful of Christian families at the Peeragarhi Relief Camp and
[GreenYouth] Faculty reservation in IITs is a fact: Kapil Sibal
Apparantly, Kapil Sibbal has corrected his stand on this issue, thanks to those who initiated writing letters to President, Prime Minister and other members of the Parliament about his earlier statements. Also, look at the stubbornness of IIT Director, he would be on top of the merit-list of men to be hanged ;-) http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=IndiaSectionPageid=1e0fc4d5-0571-41e7-bf7f-3e554418a4f3Headline=Faculty+reservation+in+IITs+is+a+fact%3a+Kapil+Sibal Reservation in IITs is a fact: Kapil Sibal New Delhi, July 01, 2009 Clearing all speculation on faculty reservation in Indian institutes of technology (IITs), Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal Wednesday said quota in faculty recruitment at the IITs was a fact and these institutions have to work with it. Faculty reservation in IITs is a fact. Any attempt to exempt (it) is infructuous, Sibal told all the 12 IITs in a programme at IIT Delhi. The comment came after IIT Delhi director Surendra Prasad said: Sir, we are a little bit confused on faculty reservation. There is mental strain among us about it. We are confused. In response to the statement, Sibal made his stand clear and went on to add that as we move bottom upward, the problem will be solved. You have to work with it. The HRD ministry last year had advocated implementation of 15 percent quota for Scheduled Castes, 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribes and 27 per cent for Other Backward Castes in the faculty recruitments. However, all IITs across the country have opposed it. Sibal said that IITs might be confused about the issue but not the government. We are not confused. The issue must be handled with sensitivity and care. No institution can live in isolation. It has to take everyone along. Though majority of the IITs expressed their displeasure over the development, many refused to give an official comment. But IIT Madras director M S Ananth told IANS: We are going to debate the issue. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Dalit kids cannot use school loo but have to clean them
Dalit kids cannot use school loo but have to clean them http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4699387.cms?frm=mailtofriend http://drambedkarbooks.wordpress.com Know Buddha, Know Life No Buddha, No Life..! -- Cricket on your mind? Visit the ultimate cricket website. Enter now!http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_cricket_1/*http://cricket.yahoo.com -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Almost 5 thousand women are burnt every year in India !!!
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=enart=15514size=A Bride Burning: another chapter on the humiliation of the Indian Woman by CT Nilesh Almost 5 thousand women are burnt every year. Even domestic violence and torture are on a rise with more than 75 thousand cases. Inability to pay dowry, revenge, betrayal are some of the reasons for this violence. These problems exist even amongst the Christians. http://www.asianews.it/files/img/INDIA_-_DONNE_AL_GATEWAY_MUMBAI.jpg Mumbai (AsiaNews) - Only a few weeks back the nation was rejoicing for the election of its first female speaker in the Parliament. But it also has to face an ever rising phenomenon: bride burning. In the last few days the Supreme Court, in a rare pronouncement, took the opportunity to vent its ire against those resorting to bride burning. The case at hand is related to the burning of a woman by her husband because of her protest against his alleged illicit relationship. The accused, sentenced to life imprisonment asked for the case to be revised. The vacation bench comprising Justice Markandey Katju and Deepak Verma, angered by the plea of the convict challenging his life sentence, was of the firm opinion that persons like him (the husband)deserved no leniency and should be awarded the death penalty. This sharp reaction was caused by the spiraling crimes against women in matrimonial homes. The National Crime Records Bureau had reported a whopping 75,930 incidents of torture and cruelty against women within the family last year. More than 5,000 wives are burnt to death every year. But statistics precise that the incidence is increasing: 6.787 in the year 2005, 7,618 in 2006 and 8,093 in 2007. The case taken up by the Supreme Court is related to the death of Rajni who in her dying declaration alleged that her husband Mahender Gulati, his elder brother Prem Kumar and the latter’s wife Vimla poured kerosene on her on December 9,2003 and set her on fire. She had also accused Mahender ofhaving an illicit relationship with imla and alleged that the motive behind the crime was her protest against the affair. The Supreme Court has always been of the idea that violence in matrimonial homes should be dealt with sternly and Justice Katju is known for his radical views in such cases. Such cases do not take place only in villages or slums but is very much present in the urban middle class too. For example, even in the cities the age old costume of demanding dowry from the family of the proposed wife is very much alive. The families who cannot provide everything immediately may agree to a delayed payment of rates of dowry, but when the promises are not kept, the wife’s in-laws start harassing her to recover the promised items or sums. When finally they feel cheated (because they did not receive the entire amount of dowry) they try to get rid of the woman simulating kitchen accidents or suicide. Awareness campaigns had been started by governments and private organizations to discourage and outlaw the system of dowry, but the age old system supported by tradition and greed is difficult to stop. Also in some traditional Christian communities, like in Kerala, it is considered an honor and a duty to give and to demand dowry. -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] TOI journalism- the worst elitist ever (read)
http://www.thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=3924mod=1pg=1sectionId=17valid=true Shiney Ahuja and the maid *Letter to the Hoot: TOI’s appalling article on the effect maids have on men and marriages shows insensitivity and class bias, * says MAITREYI MISRA Posted Saturday, Jun 20 13:34:35, 2009 *I came across an article in the Lifestyle section of the Times of Indiatoday titled 'Beware of the Maid!.' The article uses Shiney Ahuja's case to explore the apparent effect maids have on men and marriages.* * * *The very premise of the article is callous at best. The article starts off citing Ahuja's case of alleged rape and then moves on to cite a number of examples from **Hollywood** and Bollywood where other stars have partaken in consensual sex (seemingly) with their domestic workers. One completely fails to see the relation between the two.* * * *The article seems to sympathize with the women of the household by explaining why seemingly unattractive and low class maids are hired. Not only is the article insensitive to the situation of domestic help across the country but it also implicitly justifies men taking advantage of maids by taking a boys would be boys attitude. * * * *Noteworthy and most appalling is this statement and explanation given by a female dermatologist:* * * *Not only that if you observe the way these maids work- putting ample cleavage on display, bending and making a posture that would entice any man. And with the common image of these harmless women, men feel like overpowering them. It's like unleashing the beast within that they know their wife or their girlfriend won't tolerate,* * * *Of course why she is described as a dermatologist is completely baffling. * * * *The end of the article gives us the evidence as to the very reason for piece in the first place, to bring out disgust of the middle and upper class with the thought of men having a physical relationship with a lowly maid. The quotes from Pooja Bedi and Sukriti Katyal are just plain disgusting, as is the final advice the article leave us with :* * * *The fact is that men don't really fall in love with a maid but feel like exploring the alternative world of headless, harmless women. A word of advice to all the women out there- choose your maid with care!* * * *This kind of journalism is appalling and something needs to be done about these kind of insensitive pieces.* * * * * *Thanks,* * * * * *Maitreyi Misra* *Bangalore* -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Delhi’s reverse racism
Delhi’s reverse racism 19 Jun 2009, hrs IST, TNN Those of us who’d be quick to point fingers at Australians and Canadians in the current context of racial attacks might as well take a hard look [image: Delhi’s reverse racism] Delhi’s reverse racism within. Are we kind to foreign students? Do we make sure their time in India is memorable and pleasant? Or is it that we like to reserve our ‘niceness’ and ‘racial tolerance’ only for some? DT takes a look... Gori syndrome Call it preferential racism, or the white skin syndrome, but we like to be nice to white people; and are suspicious and wary of those who hail from other parts of the global village. Apartheid may have ended, but problems faced by Africans in the capital are yet to come to an end. Moelelwa Mashala, from South Africa, who has just completed her BA from Miranda House says she faces humiliation every day. “When I walk on the streets, people laugh at me, and I can hear them say words like ‘Kalu’. When I first came here, I was shocked, I had no idea Indians could be racist. But I guess the society is not used to black people,” she says. And racism towards Africans doesn’t stop at derogatory comments. Mutahi, a Kenyan from Ramjas College states it is almost impossible for an African to get a house in India and when they do, they’re charged double. But what hurt him most was the conduct of his teachers. “They think we are second-rate students and can never do well in anything. In fact, when one of us scores well, they’ll say to the other students – ‘Look, this ‘Kalu’ has scored better than you’, as though it were demeaning for an Indian to be outdone by an African.” Osama-ed! This reverse racism is not restricted to Africans alone. You’d think Middle Eastern people would enjoy a better understanding here in India than in any other part of the world, but sadly, we do an America on them too – ‘terrorist’ and ‘suicide bomber’ are just some of the words they have to put up with. “People I met for the first time would be really friendly till they’d discover I was a Muslim from Iran,” says Fakhroddin Ghaffari, a 23-year-old student of music, “After that point, it would get really weird. They would just bottle up.” “They’d call me Osama,” says Kaif, another 23-year-old from Afghanistan, studying political science at Jamia Millia. “In the beginning I used to feel bad and got into fights, but I’ve learnt to ignore such comments now.” Objects of desire So much for crying hoarse over racial equality for Indians. But that doesn’t necessarily have to mean we’re a nation of the racial and the prejudiced where xenophobia runs amok. There’s one saving grace: the whites are treated better, with less suspicion and more courteousness. Jane Hosking, an Australian who studied at LSR, says she had a really good time in India and loves the people here. “While I was in India I experienced prejudice in a good way. When people saw me, they’d be kind and welcoming,” says the political science student. But here too, there’s a catch, they get harassed as well, only the nature very of harassment speaks of white women as objects to be desired, not despised. “It seems to me that some men see western women purely as sexual objects and therefore do not treat them with respect. All other young women I have spoken to, who have travelled to India, have mentioned that they have faced sexual harassment while here,” adds Jane. Atithi Devo Bhava, anyone? Aarushi Nigam -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Protest Demonstration on 18th June Thursday 2009
* * 2009/6/16 Centenary Commiittee of International Women's Day iwdcenten...@gmail.com http://mc/compose?to=iwdcenten...@gmail.com *Protest Demonstration* *In front of Jammu Kashmir House, 5 Prithvi Raj road ( Near khanMarket)* At 2.30PM On 18th June, Thursday 2009 *Against* *Rape and murder of two young girls in Shopian, in Kashmir.* *Please circulate this message widely * ** *Please come and participate* Vasantha Rajni for Centenary Committee to Celebrate International Women’s Day -- Centenary Committee to Celebrate International Women's Day Delhi -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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: Pasmanda Intellectuals' Forum Questions the selection process of the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Jamia Milia Islamiya University (JMI), New Delhi
-- Forwarded message -- From: arshad amanullah arshad.m...@gmail.com Date: 2009/6/13 Subject: [arkitectindia] Pasmanda Intellectuals' Forum Questions the selection process of the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Jamia Milia Islamiya University (JMI), New Delhi [With apologies for X-posting] An Open Letter to the President Ms. Pratibha Patil The last two decades in Indian democracy have witnessed wider acknowledgement and interrogation of the disproportionate hegemony of upper castes in the structures of power. Quite clearly such overt domination of a few elite oligarchic caste groups in decision making processes runs against the pluralist and democratic ambitions of the Indian Constitution. The persistence of such trends does not augur well for the future of this nation. The legitimacy of the category of caste in non-Hindu (minority) communities is now officially established. The inclusion of 82 Muslim caste groups in the OBC list of the Mandal Commission Report in 1990 was a watershed event in this context. The presence of caste in Muslim community is also reaffirmed by the recent Sachhar Committee Report and the report of the Ranganath Mishra Commission on Linguistic Minorities. Moreover, apart from the official recognition there is a strong movement among the dalit/backward caste Muslims that is gaining ground in North India (especially UP and Bihar). The movement is called the ‘Pasmanda Movement’ and it is articulating the anxiety and anger of the Pasmanda Muslim sections over their blatant social exclusion. It must be borne in mind that the Pasmanda Muslims (dalit/backward caste Muslims; also called ajlaf and arzal) constitute about 75% of the Indian Muslim population (the remaining 25% is formed by the upper caste ashraf Muslims). The politics of numeric should itself suffice to suggest that their claims can not be taken lightly. The marginalisation of Pasmanda Muslims from state and community-controlle d institutions is an issue that perhaps needs to be urgently addressed. In this context, the recent reports about the selection process of the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Jamia Milia Islamiya University (JMI), New Delhi have once again disappointed the Pasmanda Muslim sections. In historical terms, ‘Muslim’ institutions like AMU and JMI have exhibited strong rigidity in accommodating persons from non-ashraf social locations as VC’s. If the claims of the Pasmanda Movement are true then not even a single VC in these institutions has been appointed from the Pasmanda Muslim communities since Independence (Mr. Hamid Ansari, the former VC of AMU who is usually taken to be a Pasmanda Muslim arguably comes from an ashraf family). Quite clearly the empanelment process of the Vice Chancellor in these two institutions is a strong testimony to such prejudices. Recently, a ‘Search Committee’ (comprising Justice Saghir Ahmed, Syed Hamid and Prof. Yashpal) constituted a panel of five persons for the Vice Chancellorship of JMI (see: The Indian Express, New Delhi edition, 12 June 2009) and submitted it to the President (visitor to the University). The panel includes Mr. Afzal Amanullah, Prof. Mushirul Hasan, Prof. Faizan Ahmad, Mr. Najeeb Jung and Mr. Mohd Shakeel Ahmad. While two members in the panel are academics, the rest are bureaucrats. Remarkably, neither the search committee nor the panel includes even a single name from non-ashraf Muslim communities! There are credible reports that an IAS officer from the UP cadre Mr. Anis Ansari, who also comes from a Pasmanda biradari, did offer his CV for the purpose. Moreover, having served as Secretary Agriculture and as Agricultural Production Controller (APC) of UP twice he did have the experience of managing and dealing with the affairs of higher education (including the prestigious Pantnagar Agriculture University). Besides, he has also served at the level of Additional Chief Secretary of UP and has held key positions in the departments of Rural Development, Industry and Urban Development etc. Yet his name was not deemed fit to be even mentioned in the panel of five. What is more remarkable is the fact that all the other bureaucrats favoured over him are either junior to him or had dissociated themselves from public service by taking voluntary retirement from the IAS way back (Mr. Najeeb Jung and Mr. Mohd Shakeel Ahmad). The selection process of the panel clearly underlines the strong and deeply entrenched prejudice against the Pasmanda Muslim communities. Afterall, what explains this anomaly and elision if not caste discrimination of the worst order? What is even more intriguing is that India, a nation of one billion people, is so deficient in human resources that a man in his 80’s, and with all the problems that old age brings, is allowed to play arbitrary and decisive roles in the affairs of ‘Muslim’ institutions in particular and the affairs of the Muslim community in general. Moreover, this particular person is highly distrusted by the
[GreenYouth] Making of a Dalit activist: The tehelka story
http://tehelka.com/story_main42.asp?filename=hub200609the_secret.asp *From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 24, Dated Jun 20, 2009* *CULTURE SOCIETY* *The Secret History Of Blood* *Anoop Kumar** turned his life away from a miasma of violence towards mentoring students* [image: image] *Raising hopes* Anoop Kumar at his Delhi office *Photo:* SHAILENDRA PANDEY *ANOOP KUMAR* joined engineering college the year Mayawati came to power in Uttar Pradesh. On his first day the physics lecturer told students who had been admitted under the SC/ST quota that ‘they better work hard because he was going to mark their papers, not Mayawati’. At the time, Kumar had an inchoate idea of what it meant to be a dalit. These are some things he knew: his father, a first generation learner from the dhobi community in Lakhimpur Kheri, was smart and proficient in Hindi, Sanskrit and Urdu, but had to resign from his position as a Block Development Officer in the 1970s. Villagers would not even give him water to drink and his superiors were astonished to meet this defiant, outspoken dalit. When Kumar went to high school in Lucknow as a teenager, he knew he should pretend he was a Rajput but it took a while to understand he needed a fake gotra too. By the time Kumar got to college in Kanpur, he knew that his hitherto excellent academic record was not going to stop lecturers from saying that they did not expect much from him. In his second year, he helped organise a welcome party for dalit freshers a whole 7 km away from college because they did not want to be accused of invoking caste in college. By the third year Kumar had bluffed his way into a reputation for violence in his tense, volatile campus. He had made sure he was seen often enough in the company of visibly ‘rougher elements’ to deter any impetuous ‘ragging’. In third year, a close friend was hospitalised with a gut torn and eyes wounded by angry uppercaste students. Everyone blamed Kumar for creating an atmosphere in which dalits thought they could assert themselves. A few weeks later, Kumar was witness to a professor picking on a dalit student. Years of suppressed rage exploded. He found himself beating the professor, yelling like an insane prophet predicting Armageddon. The college — afraid of a caste atrocities lawsuit — told Kumar he could continue studying there despite his ‘misdemeanors’. But Kumar told his father, “If you make me stay, I will kill someone or be killed.’ His grief-stricken father and three brothers, who had put aside a great deal of their income to educate him, took him home. A decade later, 32-year-old Kumar is considering a PhD. Nerdy and sardonic, Kumar has a gift for telling a gripping story. He does not hate those who tortured him and says that the socialisation process is what is to blame. He has been running *Insight Young* Voices (insightyv.com), a magazine for dalit students, for the last five years, making tiny inroads into 50 universities across the country. He played a key role in creating the National Dalit Students’ Forum. Beaten down by his engineering college experience he had joined a small Arts college back home and did extremely well. He passed the preliminary examinations for the civil services and headed to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for his master’s degree. “I was amazed to be in a place where dalits organised openly. It was almost ‘Hi, I am dalit. How are you?” Kumar roars with laughter. He was determined not to get involved in anything but the first person he met was a dalit activist. ‘Saala, he ruined my life,’ he chuckles. He hovered on the edges of JNU’s political circles for a while, shivering and crying as he read Ambedkar and Phule for days on end. But becoming friends with a young dalit student, who had been systematically exploited by her upper-caste lover and his friends, drew him in. Ideology was well and good, Kumar thought, but dalit students had more urgent needs. He turned his room into a library, organised English and computer classes. “I WAS AMAZED TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE DALITS ORGANISED OPENLY. IT WAS ALMOST ‘HI, I AM DALIT. HOW ARE YOU?” Aspirations to the civil services were discarded, Kumar’s siblings grew angry. “A young dalit man is an investment for the community. He must work hard and marry a dalit girl,” Kumar smiles to soften the truth about his community’s discomfort with his activist life and his fellow activist (non-dalit) girlfriend. But he has a clear vision. “Higher education is full of landmines for dalits. They work hard to get there but have their confidence destroyed. When they graduate, they never want to be known as dalit again.” So every young student is on his own, struggling as if his experiences are unique and isolated. Kumar and his friends assure students that they can claim pride in being dalit and that they have a duty to plan for others’ future. This is a complex task, Kumar says, since community pride conventionally boils down to the tracing of
[GreenYouth] Job opportunity: Assistant Professor in Journalism (temp)
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[GreenYouth] (Fwd:) On Dalit Sikhs and Killings in Austria
*an interesting observation on the recent uprising of Dalit Sikhs in Punjab.* Dear Friends Jaibheem My condolences on the unfortunate death of a Dalit-Sikh religious leader in Austria. The group represented by him is one of the main Dalit groups in Punjab and Haryana that is trying to fight the caste oppression and has been instrumental in mobilizing the Dalit Sikh across the globe. The group is known for adopting peaceful means for the rights of the dalit sikhs. This was waiting to happen and I fear that there is going to be lot more violence in the near future in Punjab and Haryana. Since last one decade there has been underlying tensions in Punjab especially the Doab area (areas surrounding jalandhar) where lots of Dalits have migrated to US and European countries and are earning well. Before the immigration thing the Dalits never used to assert themselves in Punjab within the Sikhism fold. There has been undercurrents , impact left of adi-dharmi movement but that was against Hinduism and caste system per se. They never challenged the Sikh clergies and the strong hold of jat and khatri sikhs on Punjab social, political and economic scene. However, with the remittance money coming they have now started to build their own gurudwaras almost in each village of that region. The assertion has come via NRI Dalits in this region. The Dalit NRIs started to build the ravidas temples since 60s onwards mainly in Canada, US, Germany and few other european countries and they also gave donations to local gurudwaras in their native villages. But they also demanded equal control of gurudwaras assets which the Sikh clergy dominated by jat sikhs everywhere refused to share the control. One of the prime example was talhan case that happened 2-3 years ago. the violence in talhan happened over control of the local gurudwara. Simultaneously Punjab also have history of deras (small sects) which have huge followings among the dalit Sikhs. But these deras never talk about caste oppression or caste inequality. They talk about equality in the sugar coated words and are less rigid then jat Sikh control mainstream Sikh gurudwaras. However their large following among the Dalits have made them the target of jat Sikhs and their party like SAD as they fear that these sects later might become the power centre for dalit assertions. therefore u wil see lots of violence and persecution of these dera heads in recent times by mainstream Sikhs on flimsy grounds ( for example last year persecution of guru ram raheem of dera saccha sauda which is headed by non-dalit but has large Dalit Sikh followings). Till now the Jat Sikhs (and SAD) never targeted the Dalit groups like Ravidas samaj because it will be overtly casteist and the rupture within the Sikh society will become open. So they targeted only these Deras and asked them to confirm to Sikh religion almost at the lines of Taliban. However, i feel we have reached to the flash point and I fear that there will be huge persecution of dalit Sikhs as the entire state apparatus is with the jat sikhs. The RSS also share a very strong relationship with SAD and fights election together with SAD in Delhi and Punjab since a decade now. I am confident that Congress doesn't have guts to take a stand in this issue as they are already targeted for being anti-Sikh. Being a secular party i don't think they will even want to take a stand on 'religious' issue. Lets see what happens in the future. I fear the same treatment for dalit Sikh that happened to Christians in kandhmal (all were Dalits) in orissa but things are little better as there is a large NRI Dalit Sikh population which will make their task of persecuting Dalits in punjab little difficult. -- Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run, Obama ran so your children can fly -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Upper caste sikhs attack ravidasi sikhs at gurudwara
Sikh rivals fight at temple in Austria; 16 injured By VERONIKA OLEKYSN – 15 minutes ago VIENNA (AP) — Sikhs wielding knives and a handgun attacked two preachers at a rival temple in Vienna on Sunday in a brawl that left at least 16 people wounded, police and witnesses said. A related clash later broke out in northern India. Witnesses said a group of bearded and turbaned men attacked the religious leaders at the temple in Austria's capital and their followers moved to defend them. The preachers were among the six people who suffered serious wounds and were identified by Indian diplomats and police as Nirajnan Das and Sant Rama Anand. Police said both were out of danger after undergoing operations for gunshot wounds. Police spokesman Michael Takacs said the scene was like a battlefield. Six suspects were in custody with more arrests possible, he said. Mohnder Ram, a worshipper who said he had attended services at the temple for decades, said it is run by followers of Shri Guru Ravidas, a 14th-century founder of a Sikh sect called Dera Sach Khand. In India, fighting between mainstream Sikhs and followers of the guru broke out in the northern city of Jalandhar several hours after the Vienna clash, in what locals there described as an apparent reaction to the melee in the Austrian capital. Sanjiv Kalra, a senior police official at Jalandhar, said that protesters had set fire to a number of vehicles and erected several roadblocks across the city. He gave no other details. Witnesses in Vienna spoke of chaos. Everybody was praying and then it started with knives and a pistol, said Nermal Singh, bare-footed, his shirt bloodied and his head bandaged from what he said was a knife wound. Ram, 72, said, I heard four to five shots in the temple. People started screaming, children were crying as they ran out. It was like war. There was lots of blood everywhere. Witness Mohinder Ram also spoke of blood everywhere, adding: People were hit and stabbed with knives. Bimla Laka, who lives in a ground-floor apartment just opposite the building housing the temple, said she saw seven or eight men with lengthy beards and dark blue and orange turbans fleeing the building. It was not clear whether some of the weapons used were kirpans, the ceremonial daggers carried by Sikhs. Police said kirpans may legally be worn by Sikhs in Austria. Takacs, the police spokesman, said of the six people in serious condition, four were definitely perpetrators. The most serious wounds were caused by gunshots to the abdomen and head. The possibility that not only the attackers but also some of the worshippers were armed was being investigated, said Takacs. He denied reports that temple leaders had asked in vain for police protection after telephone threats last week, saying no such requests were received. Bernhard Segal of Vienna medical services said that one of the more seriously wounded had to be resuscitated several times at the scene. He described those hurt as of Indian origin and between 30 and 50 years old. Witnesses said the perpetrators were fundamentalist Sikhs from a higher caste, who accused one or both of the preachers of being disrespectful of the Holy Book. Indian news reports said the attackers were incensed that one of the preachers was given a ceremonial shawl considered a high Sikh honor. Ram said about 400 people were at the service when the fight broke out in the temple, in a residential building of the working-class Viennese neighborhood. Police put the number at between 150 and 300. Four ambulances and three medical helicopters transported the victims to hospitals. The temple is situated in Vienna-Rudolfsheim, the capital's 15th district near Westbahnhof, one of Vienna's main train stations. Police cordoned off the area. The Dera Sach Khand sect comprises mostly Sikhs belonging to the lower Dalit caste. There are several such Deras across the northern state of Punjab. While there are disagreements between the Deras and Sikh religious authorities, violent clashes are rare. Sikhs make up less than 2 percent of India's 1.1 billion people, the vast majority of whom are Hindus. Associated Press writers Muneeza Naqvi in New Delhi and Eric Willemsen in Vienna contributed to this report. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Economies of change by Chandrabhan Prasad
*Economies of change* *Chandrabhan Prasad* It was May 2008 when was I travelling by a Bihar-bound train from Delhi to Lucknow. Disobeying the law, I was smoking and hence stood at the gate. A Bihar-born immigrant family was trying to catch the train. The train had begun moving, and the second class coach had passed. The family — proletariat by all standards, was trying to board the AC II coach in which I was traveling. The family — husband, wife, and three kids could some how manage to catch the train. I along with my co-smoker helped them enter the coach. We consoled the proletariat family, and assured that we will help them transfer to the second class coach. I was going to the Uttar Pradesh countryside for a study — “Food habits, occupation and lifestyle changes amongst Dalits.” I found a ready subject in that family. I asked them questions relating to the goods the family was carrying. Among many things, the family was carrying a pressure cooker, a cheap cell phone set, and clothing for other family members back home. As the family revealed, the pressure cooker was for their family, and the cell phone was a gift meant for a relative whose daughter was getting married the next week. This April, I visited few Kolam villages in the district of Yavatmal, Maharashtra. Kolam is a primitive Tribe, and many Kolam boys and girls are using shampoo to wash their hair. Shampoo pouches are available for 50 paisa. In the apartment I live in Delhi, almost all desert coolers have been replaced by air-conditioners. The family that had window ACs are now switching over to split AC sets. Many families in the apartment I live in are replacing their old TV sets by LCD TVs. A couple of weeks back, a relative of mine got married. I could not attend his marriage because of General Election. The groom side was upset because the bride side didn’t serve cold drinks to the wedding party guests. There are funnier sides to things happening in this country. I am told of an interesting story. An ex-landlord’s family has turned poor. The family sold off most of the land they once had to maintain the lifestyle they were used to. That ex-landlord’s family couldn’t afford to buy a TV set, but have a large house built decades back. The household head bought an antenna and installed on his roof top. In public perception, the family has a TV set. The thinking India has missed some thing strange happening inside the society. All of a sudden, material markers are gaining grounds over social markers. Economics has come to lead the politics and that’s what seems to have caused Congress’ stunning victory. If the rich in the urban India are replacing small cars with bigger ones, the poor in the countryside are aspiring for bicycles. Rich or the poor, most Indians are now swayed by material goods. Not that all poor have come to possess bicycles or TV sets, not that all the rich families have bought luxury cars, but they at least aspiring for these worldly goods. Contrary to the new mood of the society, losing political players sold something else in these elections. Expected to do well this time BJP sold the slogan of “Strong Leader, Decisive Government”. Voters seem to have shot back- “What is this”? The Left came with the politically correct slogan — “A non-BJP, non-Congress Secular Government?” The voters seem to have responded by saying “Get Lost”? The BSP sold the slogan of “Dalit ki beti as PM.” Voters seem to have asked — “Why not a Bharat ki Beti as PM”? With few notable exceptions, regional warlords too have been denied their ‘State’ nationalism. The Congress on the other hand, invariably talked of nuclear deal, economic growth and the youth power. Of the billion plus Indians, 75 per cent are aged below 45 years. In other words, Congress could connect to the majority of Indians who in search of shampoo pouches, pressure cookers, cell phones, bicycles, large cars and split AC sets. The Congress triumphed and brutalised both the opponents and poll pundits. What the thinking India seems to be missing is that howsoever socially diverse India may be, with diverse and multiple identities, at one point of time there can only be one particular identity presiding over the of rest the sub-identities. In this election, economics led the politics. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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: Video trainers required
-- Forwarded message -- From: Video Volunteers-India videovolunteersin...@gmail.com Date: 2009/5/22 Subject: Video trainers required To: videovolunteersin...@gmail.com *Video Volunteers is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering community voices and to democratization of media. We set up community media units where poor and disadvantaged people are trained to create their own media content as a step towards finding solutions to their problems. Members of these units **learn to be powerful communicators, journalists, filmmakers, and advocates and leaders in their communities. **If you are video/film maker experienced in teaching/training and interested in working with the underprivileged communities in India then do read on.* *We are looking to employ* *Senior Video Trainers** who are interested in being part of a growing community media movement. * * * *Job Requirements:* - Proficient in all aspects of video production--shooting, writing and non-linear editing - Must have 4 to 5 years of video training experience, or experience working in human rights or development organization - Must have shot, written and edited your own videos - Must have strong creative and storytelling abilities - Must have leadership qualities to motivate and lead - Must have great communications skills and a desire to work with communities - Must be willing to travel to remote, rural area for sizeable amounts of time - Must be proficient in writing and reading English, Hindi and third language preferable** - Must show a reel of work you have shot, written and edited on your own* * - Only Indian Nationals may apply** * * *Location* Candidates should be willing to be based in Goa. Candidates may be placed in one of our units in rural area for about 4-6 months. *Remuneration* Commensurate with experience and qualifications. *Apply with resume, cover letter and show-reel links to:* Program Manager, Video Volunteers-India: videovolunteersin...@gmail.com www.videovolunteers.org www.ch19.org -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] UGC Draft Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009
All universities shjould include this in their prospectus Ragging Is TOTALLY BANNED, as per the UGC Draft Regulations on Curbing the Menace of Ragging in Higher Educational Institutions, 2009. The Regulation, In Para 5.2 states: Ragging in all its forms shall be totally banned in the entire institution, including its departments, constituent units, all its premises (academic,residential, sports, canteen, etc) whether located within the campus or outside and in all means of transportation of students whether public or private. The Regulation, In para 3.4 defines Ragging: Ragging means the following: Any conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or undisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student. The college will take the strongest possible action against those found guilty of ragging, as per Para 5.3 of the Regulation, which states: The institution shall take strict action against those found guilty of ragging and/or of abetting ragging. As per the Regulation, punishment(s) may range from suspension/rustication of the students involved, to a fine ranging between Rupees 25,000/- and Rupees I lakh Refer UGC website http://www.ugc.ac.in/notices/minuterag230409.pdf -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Fight Saffron Terror
kudos to all Indians who voted against the terror politics of RSS/BJP see the video on saffron terror http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1555233925729525949hl=undefined -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] How shameful..1st school for girls in India now a shopping mall
It was in Pune that the country's first school for girls was started by Mahatma Jyotiba Phule and his wife Savitri. The historical structure was taken over by a builder, demolished and replaced with a commercial complex, but the government has now realised its mistake and wants this piece of history back. It's our national heritage which has been turned into a commercial complex due to mistakes committed by Pune Municipal Corporation, said Babasaheb Bhosale, an activist. Check out NDTV news at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrTGPcn1SoQ http://drambedkarbooks.wordpress.com Know Buddha, Know Life No Buddha, No Life..! -- Now surf faster and smarter ! Check out the new Firefox 3 - Yahoo! Edition * Click here!http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_firefox_1/*http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/firefox/ -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Hinduism : The Altrnative History (book Review)
-- Forwarded message -- From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com Dear Friends, I always suspected present Hinduism to be an invention of western indologist and considered it the greatest gift of British rule to the upper caste Indians and I was not wrong :) Dr. Wendy Doniger is an acclaimed scholar on religion and has come out with a book which is likely to be banned in India as she has been a target of upper caste fundamentalism since long. I am pasting a book review of her book below published in new York times wriiten by Pankaj Mishra published on 24 April. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Mishra-t.html Another Incarnation THE HINDUS :An Alternative History (By Wendy Doniger) 779 pp. The Penguin Press. $35 By PANKAJ MISHRA Published: April 24, 2009 Visiting India in 1921, E. M. Forsterhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/em_forster/index.html?inline=nyt-perwitnessed the eight-day celebration of Lord Krishna’s birthday. This first encounter with devotional ecstasy left the Bloomsbury aesthete baffled. “There is no dignity, no taste, no form,” he complained in a letter home. Recoiling from Hindu India, Forster was relieved to enter the relatively rational world of Islam. Describing the muezzin’s call at the Taj Mahal, he wrote, “I knew at all events where I stood and what I heard; it was a land that was not merely atmosphere but had definite outlines and horizons.” Forster, who later used his appalled fascination with India’s polytheistic muddle to superb effect in his novel “A Passage to India,” was only one in a long line of Britons who felt their notions of order and morality challenged by Indian religious and cultural practices. The British Army captain who discovered the erotic temples of Khajuraho in the early 19th century was outraged by how “extremely indecent and offensive” depictions of fornicating couples profaned a “place of worship.” Lord Macaulay thundered against the worship, still widespread in India today, of the Shiva lingam. Even Karl Marxhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/karl_marx/index.html?inline=nyt-perinveighed against how man, “the sovereign of nature,” had degraded himself in India by worshipping Hanuman, the monkey god. Repelled by such pagan blasphemies, the first British scholars of India went so far as to invent what we now call “Hinduism,” complete with a mainstream classical tradition consisting entirely of Sanskrit philosophical texts like the Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads. In fact, most Indians in the 18th century knew no Sanskrit, the language exclusive to Brahmins. For centuries, they remained unaware of the hymns of the four Vedas or the idealist monism of the Upanishads that the German Romantics, American Transcendentalists and other early Indophiles solemnly supposed to be the very essence of Indian civilization. (Smoking chillums and chanting “Om,” the Beats were closer to the mark.) As Wendy Doniger, a scholar of Indian religions at the University of Chicagohttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_chicago/index.html?inline=nyt-org, explains in her staggeringly comprehensive book, the British Indologists who sought to tame India’s chaotic polytheisms had a “Protestant bias in favor of scripture.” In “privileging” Sanskrit over local languages, she writes, they created what has proved to be an enduring impression of a “unified Hinduism.” And they found keen collaborators among upper-caste Indian scholars and translators. This British-Brahmin version of Hinduism — one of the many invented traditions born around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries — has continued to find many takers among semi-Westernized Hindus suffering from an inferiority complex vis-à-vis the apparently more successful and organized religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The Hindu nationalists of today, who long for India to become a muscular international power, stand in a direct line of 19th-century Indian reform movements devoted to purifying and reviving a Hinduism perceived as having grown too fragmented and weak. These mostly upper-caste and middle-class nationalists have accelerated the modernization and homogenization of “Hinduism.” Still, the nontextual, syncretic religious and philosophical traditions of India that escaped the attention of British scholars flourish even today. Popular devotional cults, shrines, festivals, rites and legends that vary across India still form the worldview of a majority of Indians. Goddesses, as Doniger writes, “continue to evolve.” Bollywood produced the most popular one of my North Indian childhood: Santoshi Mata, who seemed to fulfill the materialistic wishes of newly urbanized Hindus. Far from being a slave to mindless superstition, popular religious legend conveys a darkly ambiguous view of human action. Revered as heroes in one region, the characters of the great epics “Ramayana” and “Mahabharata” can be
[GreenYouth] insult to ambedkar
Dear All Jai Bhim, Here is very shocking and really horrible news.. Humiliation of Dr. B.R.Amedkar' s Statue in Parliament. On 14th April,2009 we went Parliament to attend programme,118th Birth anniversary of Dr.B.R.Ambedkar. At 12 o'clock we found that there is no mention of 'Constitution of India' on Statue of Dr.B.R.Ambedkars Statue(Book in hand of Ambedkar).Everyone got angry as it was insult to Ambedkarites and specifically on 14th April where recently PM Manmohan Singh,Avani attended program . More shocking the same mistake was observed last year program. We odd-300 people agitated for more than 4 hours for proper painitng and sincere apology from Manuvadis.Within 4 hours of agitations no senior officials came instead security tried to dither the mob.But every ambedkarite was very much determined,we firmly told them that we want immediate action otherwise we will suicide. But still no one came and not took matter seroiusly(Suprisingly Meera Kumar,Social Welfare Minister is SC) At around 4 o'clock parliament security called Rapid Action Force and made round around the mob one security officer Sethi threatened to take back agitation otherwise face dire consequences pointing to RAP. Even one inspector Muktiar threatened to shoot at sight.Still we were very much determined one slit his wrist and threatened to suicide but then they went on rampage abusing lady agitators.We continued agiatation inside and outside parliament.Every ambedkarite got injured badly but Manuvadi police,security, RAP continued assailing.Finally they brutally thrashed every peaceful Ambedkarite by using thousands of security and RAP. We were very disabled as they took our mobiles earlier due to security reasons.Even Doordarshan office was very near but no one came. And this way our agitation failed to teach lesson to Manuvadis.Not even single word was mentioned in any Manuvadi Newspaper,TV channel about the whole incident. Its matter of our dignity and not just the word 'Constitution of India'-it gives us right,respect and satisfies baba movement for Liberty,Equality, Fraternity. BJP,Congress did lot of reviews to change constitution Now they are planning to change whole history and started it from Parliament. We strongly hope that we will keep our agitation against Manuvadis.We need to highlight such issues and also need to form proper strategies. Its request you to forward this news to as many Bahujans as possible and also highlight the same in our medias. Kishor Khare New Delhi -- The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human beings. - Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927 -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] A review of Behenji: A Political Biography Of Mayawati by Mark Tully
-- Forwarded message -- From: anoop kumar anoopkh...@gmail.com Date: 2009/4/20 Subject: A review of Behenji: A Political Biography Of Mayawati by Mark Tully To: our-me...@googlegroups.com *Behenji: A Political Biography Of Mayawati* by Ajoy Bose , Viking, Price: Rs 499, Pages: 288 By Mark Tully Behenji is an apologia for Mayawati, a defence of her, but it is far from being a whitewash. Ajoy Bose doesn't present her as a paragon of administrative probity and he devotes a whole chapter to the extraordinary wealth she has accumulated. The only defence he can make is that other politicians, too, become inexplicably rich. But he believes an apologia is required because there is a huge disconnect between the perceptions of what the urban intelligentsia consider good administrative qualities and that which the vast multitude still struggling for basic rights and facilities, consider essential. Behenji is an attempt to connect the intelligentsia with Mayawati. Inevitably it is difficult for the intelligentsia to understand how a woman born into a Dalit caste, and brought up in a jhuggi-jhopri colony of Delhi, could be so successful. Bose chronicles the struggle which has taken Mayawati from her unpromising beginning to the chief minister's office in Lucknow four times, and then assesses her significance. He doesn't rule out the possibility that this unique politician will become the prime minister of India. That is her stated ambition. According to Bose, the intelligentsia misses the fundamental point about Mayawati, which is the loyalty she commands among the Dalits of Uttar Pradesh. At first her followers were limited to her own caste, but now the entire Dalit community is backing her. It is not shocked by Mayawati's wealth but, according to Bose, is proud that a Dalit leader has more wealth than the upper castes. Her riches have become a symbol of Dalit empowerment, he says. It is this loyalty which also enables her to manage her party, BSP, in a way no other Indian party has ever been successfully run before. There have been plenty of autocratic party leaders, and there still are, but which autocrat promised nothing to grassroots workers? According to Bose, association with Behenji is enough for them. There is no ladder they can climb to become MLAs or MPs. Many of her electoral candidates don't even come from her party. When Brahmin and Bania candidates are selected to bring those castes into the fold, her Dalit constituency doesn't object. Agitations, so much a part of traditional Indian politics, are forbidden by Mayawati. Bose says that her mentor Kanshi Ram, the founder of BSP, taught her never to pit the party cadre against the state because agitation damaged the purpose of capturing power through elections. Mayawati owes her present prominence to the start Kanshi Ram gave her. If he had not been so impressed by her courage and dedication to the Dalit cause, she would be, at best, just another Scheduled Caste government official. But Bose says that BSP in Uttar Pradesh is almost entirely Mayawati's creation. He believes Mayawati and Kanshi Ram complemented each other. While he built the party, she provided the charisma, the ability to mesmerise a crowd. That partnership was far more important than the speculation about the exact nature of their relationship. It is clear from Behenji that Mayawati can't be dismissed as a maverick version of a typical caste politician. She understands that development is only one aspect of governance. Equally important is what happens in daily life, a Dalit's relationship with the thanedar, the patwari, the sarpanch, and of course, the upper castes. These relationships change when Mayawati comes to power. She shows that any party that wants to win the votes of the Dalits must have a leader they can take pride in and so take pride in themselves. The Congress never learnt that lesson and that is why it lost the Dalit votes in Uttar Pradesh. There was Jagjivan Ram, but Dalits do not think the Congress showed him proper respect. Bose says a Dalit woman achieving such prominence shouldn't just boost her community's pride, she should also boost the pride of all Indians in their democracy. His apologia for Mayawati should also make all politicians and bureaucrats realise how strongly Dalits resent the centuries of humiliating oppression they have suffered, and how wounded they are by the sense of inferiority inflicted on them. -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Professor post for Dr. B R Ambedkar Chair in IGNOU
pls circulate http://www.ignou.ac.in/adv/recruitments/recrut_camera.jpg -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] Can caste hinud theories speak for Dalits?
This is non-issue for the politically correct souls. But this binary of life is cruel reality for millions of Dalits. Your theories do not address their life. mind it The 165 million outcasts unchanged by democracy Jeremy Page in Madurai Rolling up the sleeve of his grubby cream shirt, Ananda Joshi shows off a deep scar, 3in long and 1in wide, where he was stabbed by an angry mob in this south Indian town last year. His crime? The 47-year-old electrician’s assistant is an Untouchable, or Dalit, and he had used a public lavatory in an area inhabited by members of the higher levels of the Hindu caste system. No one has been arrested, let alone convicted, nor does Mr Joshi expect them to be. Such injustice is routine for India’s 165 million Dalits – who are considered beneath the lowest caste, and so unclean that they have traditionally been forbidden to visit Hindu temples or draw water from the same wells as higher castes. RELATED LINKS - Untouchable may become the new kingmakerhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6074558.ece - Rioting farmers besiege Delhihttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4027974.ece India’s 1950 Constitution outlawed caste discrimination, and the world’s largest affirmative action scheme sets aside quotas of government jobs and university places for Dalits to try to correct the injustices of the past. Yet Dalit poverty and illiteracy rates are still above the national average, and police statistics show that on average three Dalit women are raped every day and a crime is committed against a Dalit every 18 minutes. Even here in Tamil Nadu, one of India’s most developed states, discrimination and violence against Dalits is rife. “I do not consider India independent, since we Dalits still live as though in a colony,” said Varatharaj Baskaran, a local lawyer and a member of the Alternative Front for Dalit Liberation. “When the caste system is broken, we’ll be liberated.” He cited the case of Uthappuram, a village near Madurai, where high-caste residents have built a wall separating them from Dalit residents – and routinely beat up Dalits who bridge the divide. In Sikkarasampalayam, another village near by, a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in August because she was rumoured to be in a relationship with a boy from a higher caste, according to Mr Baskaran. No one has been arrested or prosecuted for that either. http://www.flickr.com/photos/27315...@n02/ http://www.youtube.com/dalitjade http://dalitindia.blogspot.com/ Know Buddha, Know Life No Buddha, No Life..! -- Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Invite them now. http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_messenger_6/*http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] abt world cheapest car by sunita narayan
Down to Earth - Editorial: The right right by Sunita Narain The world’s cheapest car, the Nano, rolls out in India this week. Manufacturer Tata Motors says it will change the way Indians drive, for the inauguration places the personal car within the reach of people who once could only dream of owning one. Indeed, the Nano has been marketed as an ‘aspiration’- the right of every Indian to a car. No quibble here. There is no question an affordable car is better than an expensive one; or that a small car, being more fuel efficient, is better than a big one. No question, too, that every citizen of India has as much right to a car as every citizen of America, where vehicle numbers are obscene: some 800 vehicles for 1,000 people (old and young) against our measly 7 per 1,000 people (urban and rural). Let me roll out my concerns. The issue is not the Nano. The issue is all cars and whether cars still are the future of the world economy. Over years, in different continents, vehicle manufacturers invented and re-invented this appliance for self-mobility, for different market segments. In India, two-wheeler manufacturers can rightly claim that over the 1980s they, too, provided technology innovation and affordable mobility for vast numbers. They can also claim they were the first to break the class barrier. Then, in the early 1990s, when Sanjay Gandhi’s people’s car, the Maruti 800, hit the roads, gender barriers also fell - this was a car women could drive and it gave new freedoms. No question, therefore, of what Nano will bring to new owners. But this launch comes at a time when the production of personal vehicles itself is becoming old - economy. It is not surprising the car industry has become the first big dinosaur of the 21st century. Every country today is working to bail out its automobile industry. The big four companies are still on the brink of closure. There is huge over -capacity in the world of cars - sales are down and the industry is bleeding. You might think it is a temporary phase: cars will zoom again, as recession blues turn pink. But this is far from the reality. The fact is cars could only make it big in the old economy because they were highly subsidized, or incentivized through cheap bank loans. If people could not afford the next car, the bank worked overtime to make sure the loans kept rolling, even if that eventually broke the bank’s back. But that is the past. The future, too, will not be too different. The bank might recover, but the cost of the fuel to drive the dream vehicle will not. Oil experts will tell you black gold prices will rise again, when the world economy re-boots. Add to this what can only be called the mother of all subsidies - the free-ride personal vehicles have got, in the world, to emit large amounts of greenhouse gases and pump them into a common atmospheric space. As the rights over this ecological commons will be determined, as they must, carbon dioxide emissions from the cars of the rich will have to be limited and taxed. This will cost. It will make driving more expensive. The global automobile industry knows it is not our future. It is our past. Unfortunately, this message has not yet come home. Unlike the car-saturated West, we still have a large number of people who are potential buyers. But the fact is in India, because of the even greater price-sensitivity, personal vehicles are viable only if they are subsidized to the brim. Take the Nano. My colleague Chandra Bhushan has calculated the incentives rolled out by Narendra Modi’s Gujarat government amount to a fat write-off - as much as Rs 50,000-60,000 per this Rs 1 lakh car. In other words, its cost is so low only because the state has doled out a largesse. Every past and present automobile has got this benefit (more or less). We can afford a car because our government pays for it. We can also afford it because we are not asked to pay the price of its running - the tax on cars is lower than what buses pay in our socialist country. We do not pay for its parking, a cost, which, if added, would make us think twice before we bought or drove our new dream vehicle, whatever the variant. As the Nano rolls out, think of how we subsidize the car and tax the bus. Public buses pay taxes as commercial passenger vehicles, each year and based on the number they carry. In many states, they pay over 12 times more tax than cars. Think of the public transport bus service in your city and ask how much of its revenues go in taxes: half, in most cases. Think also that the same Tata company, that has managed to roll out the car of our dreams in record time, does not possess the capacity to build the buses cities need. Such an old-economy approach becomes completely perverse when one considers that already today, and definitely tomorrow, the greater proportion of people who are or will commute are using and will continue to use public transport - a bus or a train. Today, as much as half of rich Delhi takes a bus, and
[GreenYouth] Stop the Slaugher of Tamils- JOIN THE PROTEST MARCH
-- Forwarded message -- From: Hannah Jayapriya hannah.jayapr...@gmail.com Date: 2009/4/6 Subject: Fwd: Stop the War; please circulate as widely as possible To: Pls circulate *JOIN THE PROTEST MARCH* ** *Stop the Slaugher of Tamils'* * Campaign to end the War fight for Democracy in Sri Lanka* ** Dear Friends and Comrades, In the name of the above campaign and to discuss the issue of the ongoing Racist war in Sri Lanka and also to build for the coming protest demonstartion on 8 April a meeting is convened. We are holding this meeting of all concerned people at India Coffee House above Mohan Singh's Place at 3 pm. We request all of you to come to the meeting and also pass the word around about the *protest on the 8th of April at Jantar Mantar @ 12 noon.* In Solidarity, Jagadish Chandra and Hannah Jayapriya *'Stop the Slaughter of Tamils'* *Campaign to Stop the War fight for Democracy in Sri Lanka* -- Ranjit --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@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] IG or IAS officer, Dalit is still an untouchable
GANDHINAGAR: Rajan Priyadarshi, a 1980 batch IPS officer, has risen to the rank of inspector general. He holds the post of Range IG, Rajkot. People from different walks of life often approach him with folded hands with numerous problems. But, when the same Priyardarshi decides to visit his native Kadagra village in Dehgam taluka, the equation changes dramatically. This senior cop still cannot buy a house in the locality inhabited by higher castes of the village. He continues to have a house in the ‘Dalit vaas’ of Kadagra. Though Priyadarshi does not want to speak on the subject, sources say that till last year even the village barber did not entertain Dalit customers. And Priyadarshi is not alone. A lot of high ranking officials and even politicians continue to face similar discrimination despite enjoying a high status in the government. Take the case of PK Valera, an IAS officer who retired as commissioner (Fisheries) a few years back. When Valera organised a social gathering in his native Borisana village near Kalol in 1997, the person whom he had given the cooking contract refused to clean up the utensils. “They suddenly disappeared. We were told that they would not wash utensils at a Dalit’s place. The embarrassment cannot be expressed in words,” he says. Ironically, Valera also worked as a director of social welfare department in the state and his brother, P Valera, is a senior police official currently posted with the state intelligence bureau. He says even today there are people who do not accept a cup of tea at his home in his village. “Sitting in urban areas, people may think that the issue of untouchability is over. But most of the educated and well-placed Dalits face ostracisation when they visit their villages. I may have been a senior bureaucrat and my brother a police official, but that makes no difference to my status in my native village,” he says. When Kanti Makwana, a retired DSP, decided to take out the marriage procession of his son last year in Govana village in Harij taluka, he was not allowed to do so by the villagers. “He finally had to limit the procession to the confines of the Dalit neighbourhood,” said a source from Navsarjan, an NGO fighting for Dalit rights. According to Martin Macwan of the Navsarjan, nearly all Dalit officials face the same set of problems ranging from temple entry to filling water from village well. “People still in the government may not come on record, but the truth is quite unnerving,” he says. Jayantilal Parmar, chairman of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s standing committee, too continues to have a house in the ‘Dalit vaas’ of the Kukarwada in Vijapur taluka. “Even if I want nobody would sell me a house in the upper caste locality. The social structure is such even today,” he says. When a Class-I official, who lives in a village in Sanand, got married a couple of years back, he had to take all the non-Dalits of his village to a restaurant in Ahmedabad after they refused to eat at his place. -- Battula Karthik Navayan, Advocate, C/o Siddhartha Hospital,Parigi Road, Shadnagar, Mahaboobnagar District, 509216-AP Cell:09346677007, email:nava...@gmail.comemail%3anava...@gmail.com http://karthiknavayan.blogspot.com/ http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=10379805095932756525 __._,_.___ Messages in this topic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/message/1769;_ylc=X3oDMTM1M3Ftams3BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRtc2dJZAMxNzY5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3Z0cGMEc3RpbWUDMTIzODY2NzM3MwR0cGNJZAMxNzY5 (1) Reply (via web post) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJxN2loMWRqBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRtc2dJZAMxNzY5BHNlYwNmdHIEc2xrA3JwbHkEc3RpbWUDMTIzODY2NzM3Mw--?act=replymessageNum=1769| Start a new topic http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJma3AzcTFuBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNudHBjBHN0aW1lAzEyMzg2NjczNzM- Messageshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJmczQxbjl1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNtc2dzBHN0aW1lAzEyMzg2NjczNzI-| Fileshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/files;_ylc=X3oDMTJnamNzcG5mBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNmaWxlcwRzdGltZQMxMjM4NjY3Mzcy| Photoshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/photos;_ylc=X3oDMTJmcHIzOGJwBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNwaG90BHN0aW1lAzEyMzg2NjczNzI-| Linkshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/links;_ylc=X3oDMTJnajk3OWo4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNsaW5rcwRzdGltZQMxMjM4NjY3Mzcy| Pollshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDSF-India/polls;_ylc=X3oDMTJnOGJxOGNhBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzE2ODM2NTIwBGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTA2Mzk4NQRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNwb2xscwRzdGltZQMxMjM4NjY3Mzcy|
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Letter from UK academics to the Editor - Please circulate widely
Dear all, We are circulating a letter to be sent to the Guardian (or Independent) early next week protesting the illegal incarceration of an Indian medical doctor, Dr. Binayak Sen and asking for his immediate release. We are hoping to get signatures from UK based academics teaching in UK universities and would be grateful if you could circulate this letter widely to elicit such support from colleagues and friends. Any academic wishing to support this letter should email us directly at Priya - pg...@cam.ac.uk mailto:2...@cam.ac.uk or Perveez - pm10...@cam.ac.uk mailto:pm10...@cam.ac.uk giving consent and your name, position, university and town/city (in the same format as below). Due to the imminence of the G20 summit, we request that you circulate this letter asap and that all signatories respond by Monday morning by 10 am (30th March), so that we can send it off with all the names. Further information on Binayak Sen can be found on http://www.binayaksen.net/ Priyamvada Gopal - Senior Lecturer, Cambridge University, Cambridge Perveez Mody - Lecturer, Cambridge University, Cambridge Joshua Castellino, Professor of Law, Middlesex University, London Bhaskar Vira, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Khalid Nadvi, Senior Lecturer, Manchester University, Manchester Patricia Jeffrey, Professor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Roger Jeffrey, Professor, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Shirin M. Rai, Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry Jonathan P. Parry, Professor, London School of Economics, London -- The Editor, The Guardian / Independent London The world's economic powers gather in London this week, with India featuring prominently among them. As they do, we hope they will take the time to consider human rights as well as the credit crunch. In particular, we call attention to the continuing imprisonment of Dr Binayak Sen, the first Indian recipient of the 2008 US-based Jonathan Mann award for Global Health and Human Rights. Dr Sen, a public health professional, has worked tirelessly for decades on issues of basic livelihood, health services and social justice. He has been incarcerated 'solely for peacefully exercising his fundamental rights,' as twenty-two Nobel Laureates, British politicians and many other prominent figures have noted. Dr. Sen has been a political prisoner since 14th May 2007 in the Indian State of Chhattisgarh, and has been denied bail and appropriate medical treatment. He is on Amnesty International's list of Prisoners at Risk. No credible charges have been brought against him but anti-terror legislation has been used to extend his detention. Supplementary charges and additional witnesses are continually introduced, with the apparent intention of endlessly prolonging his trial. The needs of the world's underprivileged must be at the forefront of the G20's discussions. The Government of Indian must act immediately to withdraw the charges against one of the strongest champions of social justice. We urge that Dr Sen be released, and be treated in the spirit of India's own constitution. At a time when the global economic situation has made the poor even more vulnerable, governments must support and work with, not incarcerate and abuse, those like Dr Sen and other human rights activists who work for positive change. This list disseminates information for those with a general interest in postcolonial studies. To subscribe/unsubscribe, email english-postcolonial-interested-requ...@lists.cam.ac.uk To email graduate students and faculty members involved with the Race, Class and Identity / Commonwealth and International Literature in English seminars, send a message to english-rci-c...@lists.cam.ac.uk -Inline Attachment Follows- Dear all, We are circulating a letter to be sent to the Guardian (or Independent) early next week protesting the illegal incarceration of an Indian medical doctor, Dr. Binayak Sen and asking for his immediate release. We are hoping to get signatures from UK based academics teaching in UK universities and would be grateful if you could circulate this letter widely to elicit such support from colleagues and friends. Any academic wishing to support this letter should email us directly at Priya - pg...@cam.ac.ukhttp://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pg...@cam.ac.ukmailto: 2...@cam.ac.uk http://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=...@cam.ac.uk or Perveez - pm10...@cam.ac.ukhttp://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pm10...@cam.ac.ukmailto: pm10...@cam.ac.ukhttp://us.mc1106.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=pm10...@cam.ac.uk giving consent and your name, position, university and town/city (in the same format as below). Due to the imminence of the G20 summit, we request that you circulate this letter asap and that all signatories respond by Monday morning by 10 am (30th March), so that we can send it off with all the names. Further information on Binayak Sen can be found on
