[ZESTCaste] Journalists can end up perpetuating stereotypes that stigmatize an entire community...

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://thehoot.org/web/home/story.php?storyid=4026mod=1pg=1sectionId=19valid=true Caste matters The Times’ recent report isn’t unusual; the paper has been consistently running down the performance of reserved category IIT aspirants and students. Journalists can end up perpetuating stereotypes

[ZESTCaste] SC declines petition on OBC quota row in DU

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.samaylive.com/news/sc-declines-petition-on-obc-quota-row-in-du/648553.html SC declines petition on OBC quota row in DU Published by: Noor Khan Published: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 at 18:32 IST F Prev Next LNew Delhi: The Supreme Court today declined to entertain a plea seeking a direction to

[ZESTCaste] Centre wants quotas in civil service postings

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/centre-wants-quotas-in-civil-service-postings_100234954.html Centre wants quotas in civil service postings August 19th, 2009 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS - New Delhi, Aug 19 (IANS) Dalit and backward category students competing in the civil services exams on

[ZESTCaste] Rahul raps Mayawati for being averse to development

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-94790.html Rahul raps Mayawati for being averse to development Amethi, Aug 18 : Raising the 'development mantra' once again, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi today said the present Uttar Pradesh government's tenure would be marked by the lack of

[ZESTCaste] Discrepancy in reservation

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=12608 Discrepancy in reservation Editorial Posted On Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Large-scale discrepancies are witnessed many times in the provisions and systems of reservation for the backward classes of the society introduced to provide an

[ZESTCaste] News and my thoughts

2009-08-20 Thread Benjamin Kaila
Dear donors and friends, These two news items took me to my childhood where I was living in a Dalit ghetto in a small village in AP. As a norm we would live in a ghetto away from the main village. Our ghetto was connected to the village by a narrow mud road. Though all of the village roads

[ZESTCaste] Microloans project in Bihar: asking for donations

2009-08-20 Thread Benjamin Kaila
Dear donors and friends, If you are following correspondence on this group, you must have noticed about the proposal to start “Microloans project” in Bihar through Dr Satinath Chowdary, a well known figure in Dalit intellectual circles.   Prof Anadswarup Gadde of Australia came forward with seed

[ZESTCaste] Re: [E-Forum] Re: Micro-Loan Project of Aurangabad, Bihar, is ready to roll!

2009-08-20 Thread Satinath Choudhary
Dear Ben,   I am sure a resourceful person like you would come up with Rs. 25,000 and even more sooner or later. In the mean time, I believe we should be able to get the project rolling, in particular, in view of what an experienced social activist friend (Charles from Hyderabad) with a good

[ZESTCaste] Hello! I am in Chennai now; will be in Bangaluru and Hyderabad soon!

2009-08-20 Thread Satinath Choudhary
Dear friends,   I am in Chennai right now. If anyone of you would like to say hello to me, please call me at my phone number 092122 24183. I will be here for a couple of days. Then I will be in Bangaluru for a couple of days, and in Hyderabad for another couple of days before returning back to

[ZESTCaste] Re: [E-Forum] Hello! I am in Chennai now; will be in Bangaluru and Hyderabad soon!

2009-08-20 Thread Benjamin Kaila
Dear Dr Sati, I am happy you are planing to visit our Microloan project in AP. Our project is running in Guntur district which is around 300 Kms from Hyderabad. If you have a date of your proposed visit, I will let our people know about it. You need a translator as well as my folk can not talk

[ZESTCaste] SC Constitution Bench begins hearing on UPSC's quota rule

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=12693 SC Constitution Bench begins hearing on UPSC's quota rule Nation Posted On Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Agencies New Delhi, Aug 19: A Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday began the hearing on the contentious issue whether

[ZESTCaste] Statue issue haunts Mayawati's work for drought-hit farmers

2009-08-20 Thread Siddhartha Kumar
http://www.samaylive.com/news/statue-issue-haunts-mayawatis-work-for-droughthit-farmers/648973.html Statue issue haunts Mayawati's work for drought-hit farmers Published by: Noor Khan Published: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 at 15:01 ISTF Prev Next LLucknow, Aug 20 Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh

[ZESTCaste] News on ‘Khabar Lahariya’ : we are proud that we helped them

2009-08-20 Thread Benjamin Kaila
  FFEI is proud that it awarded a small amount of Rs.10,000 to this esteemed newspaper “Khabhar Lahariya” two years ago. Mr Vidya Bhushan Rawat helped us in presenting our award http://www.friends4education.org/scholarship/2007/07awards/07kl.htm   It is a pleasure to see good reports on it.