Dear Br Shiva, I am very much aware of the animosity going on between Malas and Madigas in AP and I feel sorry for it. I also wish that our project should be a model to strengthen the unity between not only these two castes but also other similar castes. They can gain something only by
Friends,
Please read this sensible mail I got from an unknown person.
If such a sane and meaningful voice comes from the so called upper castes, it would be good for every one in India.
But how many of these meritorious people are ready to hear such a sane advice? Let us see.
With
Dear friends,
Sorry for delay in updating you all on the funds received to help Br Bant Singh.
Here are the particulars.
Amount received in USD: 4,004.00 (Rs. 1,74,086.00)
Amount received in Rs: 29,361.00
Total : Rs. 2,03,447.00
Here is the tentative plan of action:
Funds
Thank you Badabhai, for translating it for people like me.
I am glad that miracles are started happening. Hope they do not go bad with the bickering of egoistic Dalit leadership as it is very common among us.
For the first time I am hearing about such organizations - Dalit Business
It is in deed a surprise. It is great hear our story from our young achievers.
Thanks to Outlook and Anuradha Raman. I wish to see more of such articles to
educate the Indian population to disperse the stereo type openions on the
socially deprived castes.
Here is the full article.
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Friends, This is the final request to send promised donations for Bant Singh, if you care. Please send them on or before 04/16/06. We want to wind it off.After thinking for while, this is what we plan to do.We have so far received $4003.99 and Rs.29,361.00. Very many thanks to all who
Dear friends,
As we all know, Dr KP had already left for India. We need to finalize and
send the contributions to him in order to present the money to Br Bant Singh.
It is better to finish the job when he is in India, I feel.
So, please send your promised donations immediately. Please
Dear friends,
Please send your promised donations to Br Bant Singhji by the end of March
2006 to either Br Shiva Shankar or Br Ramakrishna. Once again the addresses are
as follows
In USA (in $)
In India (in Rupees)
Rama Krishna Bhupathi
1347 Aberford Dr
San Jose CA
Friends,
Please check our website www.ambedkarscholarship.org for the donations
pledged/received so far.
We have commitments of Rs:34,861.00 and USD 3,430.00.
Thanks for all those who had sent their donations already.
Those who pledged and haven't sent, please do so ASAP.
Dear V S Sule,
Thank you very much for your generous contribution. Please advertise among
your friends and help Br Bant Singhji.
I will update the website in few minutes. Please check at
www.ambedkarscholarship.org .
Br Shiva Shankarji,
I updated our website with all
Br Daya Varma,
Thanks a lot for your contribution. You can send your contribution to the
following.
In USA (in $)
In India (in Rupees)
Rama Krishna Bhupathi
1347 Aberford Dr
San Jose CA 95131
USA
Shiva Shankar
CA4, Seabrook Apts.,
4th Seaward Road, Valmiki
Commitments as of Feb 13, 2006 Donor Amount($) Amount(Rs) Shri Guru Ravidass Sabha, Seattle 1,200.00Ramakrishna Bhupathi 100.00Benjamin Paul Kaila 100.00Sunil Gautham 100.00Dalit fund (Ramakrishna Bhupathi) 100.00Dr
Dear Br Dinesh, Thank you very much for your kind donation. Please send your donation to Rama Krishna Bhupathi 1347 Aberford Dr San Jose CA 95131
USAThis address and much more information is available at our website www.ambedkarscholarship.org. I am glad to hear about your idea
Br Eugene,
Thank you very much for the idea. We will do whatever we can. Please
elaborate how we can go about it. Do individuals or organizations nominate?
But the primary goal is to help him and his family financially. He has to
feed 10 mouths in all without limbs. So, it is high
Dear Kalpana,
I am Benjamin Paul Kaila, one of the founders of The Ambedkar Scholarships, a
project to help bright Dalit students.
I would like to thank you on behalf of Ambedkar Scholarships for creating
online petition on behalf of Br Bant Singh. I do not know how useful it is, but
it
Dear friends,
I am Benjamin Paul Kaila, one of the founders of Ambedkar Scholarships, a
project started to help economically backward but bright Dalit students.
Though I am a member of all these groups, I havent written anything on most
of them as I mostly write on Dalit groups. But,
Dear friends,
I am thankful to all those who responded to my appeal for help to Br Bant
Singh, a brave Dalit who stood against the oppression of caste Hindus and
dearly paid for it.
We have so far commitments to the tune of $1020. Some of them yet to mention
their contribution. We are
Dear Br Takshak,
Thanks for sharing this with us. But, in my view, compensation of Rs.1 lakh
is nothing. He should be given atleast Rs. 10-15 Lakhs as compensation. He has
to bring up 8 children with his disabilty. What does Rs. 1 lakh comensate do
for all the suffering he had undergone? But
Dear Br Berwa,
Thanks a lot for your generours contribution.
Benjamin
Laxmi Berwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear RamaK, I will send a cheque for $100.00 for Bant Singh fund.
With regards,
Dr.Berwa
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Br Sandi,
Yes, I think so. People are coming forward to help him. But the response is
not as good as I expected or the gravity of the issue.
I have not consolidated all the names yet. But unless we generate atleast
$2000, it is of no use to him or his family. I was surprised to hear
Dear Ram,
Thanks for your generous contribution. Delivering the money is not a problem.
We have lots of dedicated Punjabi Dalits in our forums - Brs Birdi, Mahay,
Sandi, Verender - to name a few. I am sure they will find a reliable person to
help us.
I request you to collect the money,
Br Sunil,
Thanks for your generous contribution. I noted down your kind and generous
contribution. Since I am getting lots of emails, I have sent a common email.
Please check the mail sent by Br Ramakrishna with his address. He is kind
enough to collect money.
As I have said in my
Dear friends
I am getting lots of emails with an intention to help his great Hero. I may
not be able to reply to everyone individually. I have not yet consolidated all
donor names. It may take few more days as I am busy with my personal matters
and at work.
So, please do not
Dear friends,
I happened to listen this program that was broadcasted in the past by NPR
under the titile Speaking of faith.
It is interesting to me ad I would like you to listen it and draw your own
conclusions.
To listen this program visit www.speakingoffaith.org and select from
Dear friends,
I congratulate Prof Thorat saheb from the bottom of my heart for his
appointment as UGC Chairman.
Can someone give a gist of him? I heard about him a lot but never have an
opportunity to know more about him.
I appreciate if anyone can do it for me.
With
Dear Brs Ram and Shinde,
Let me give my opinion on this matter as I am very frequent visitor to
Libraries where ever I stay.
It is wrong to say that Gandhi's influence is on decline in US. It is
increasing day by day in western countries unlike in India. That is due to the
Dear Ramkrishna and others,
Please find a letter to the Hindi editor to track this brave girl. Br Devadas
is also trying to find this girl to give one of our shcolarships this year.
Let us hope we will be successful.
With regards
Benjamin Paul
Benjamin Kaila [EMAIL PROTECTED
Dear Br Shiva Shakar,
What is the use of great ideas if no patrons to come forward? We know the
greatness of this real life hero. But where is the response?
We always think that somebody else (Govt or others) should help our heroes
when a tragic things happen leaving our
Br Wasnik,
He is, in deed, a Hero. Hope, he and his family get justice.
Why cant we do something? There are several active members from Punjab on
our forums. Why cant we provide some assistance which will last for ever -like
financing to open a telephone booth or petrol bunk etc. If
Thank you very much for your enquiry.
Currently we are limited to Andhra Pradesh due to resource limitation. But
our aim is to give at all India level. This year we gave 2 scholarships in
Punjab too, thanks to Br Jai Birdi and his team of supporters. That is possible
if you have someone
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Dawn of Dalit?
Ashok K Singh
A three-day seminar held recently to debate and deliberate on introducing
Dear friends,
I got a mail from Br Surya Raju for some guidance/assistance to go for
foreign education. If anyone has any type of information (scholarships,
fellowships etc), please let him know. I have posted his resume as well for
your information and it is very impressive.
So, I
Highlights of the Scholarship distribution function held
on January 13, 2006.
Highlights:
The function was a great success. A total of 150-160 people attended the
function and conducted in an atmosphere charged with joy and encouragement.
A total of 37 Scholarships were
Dear Br Enakshi,
Of all the responses I have got on my address, I liked yours very much. I am
happy to know that my message gave inspiration to you. I appreciate your good
heart to write to me about it as many of the people (including me sometimes) do
not bother to do it.
I wish you all
Dear Ambedkar scholars,
This is Benjamin Paul Kaila, once a student like you all and now working in
US as software professional. I am very happy to be in a position to help you in
a small way with the help of other good natured people from all over the globe.
So thanks to all those who
Dear friends,
The date has arrived and we want you gracious presence. Please check
www.ambedkarscholarship.org for invitation.
I request the people in and around Hyderabad to participate in the function
with friends and families and encourage Ambedkar Scholar of 2005.
Dear friends,
If anyone has ny contacts with media, please help us to cover the event. We
are doing our part but we had absolutely no success last year. As I am in US,
it is difficult for me to contact media there and my mails to them fell on deaf
ears.
So, please help us not to glorify
Dear friends,
I have updated the website with the selected list and Invitation. Some of the
selected scholars have not responded back even 3 weeks after seding selection
letter. So, we have issued selection letters to others in the list. When we get
confirmation, we will post the final list
Dear friends,
As I have requested earlier, if any one is kind enough to sponsor a book,
please come forward. We have selected Dr Ambedkar's biography by Gail Omvedt.
We have already purchased 35 copies of the book for Rs: 6952.00. We got it at a
very cheap price, thanks to Br Anand of
Dear friends,
The date for function is fixed as Jan 13, 2006 by our organizers in
Hyderabad. We have sent letters to the selected students 2 weeks ago and we are
waiting for their confirmation. As soon as we get the confirmation, we will
post them on our website for everyone to see.
Br Shiva Shankar,
What I sent was about book that I found while I was searching on internet. I
know that the title is misleading as it contains the Budha. My respect to Budha
is noway lessor than any of you in the forum. But the article contains the
matter what I was looking for - Hindu
Friends,
My previous email is full of errors. Please ignore that and read this.
--
Br Shiva Shankar,
What I sent was about a book that I found while I was searching internet. I
know that the title is misleading as it contains the Buddha. My respect towards
Buddha is no way
Dear friends,
I am happy to announce the new member in our group Br Sajjan Raj Betham. I
had announced one scholarship through our project.
I thank from the bottom of my heart for his generous contribution. Please
welcome Br Sajjan into our group.
Br Sajjan,
As a
An interesting book, but unfortunately unavailable. FYI
--
HITLER - BUDDHA - KRISHNA An unholy alliance from the Third Reich until the
present day
Hitler, Buddha, Krishna.
An unholy alliance
K R Narayanan, one of the dalit icons is dead. May his soul rest in peace.
Dalit's interests would have been served great had he walked in the path of
Babasaheb with his great intellectual capacity. But unfortunately, he was
co-opted by Congress and company and could not do much his fellow
Dear friends,
Jai Bhim.
I read regularly in the areas of my interest Dalit issues, Hitlers Holocaust
and Black history, Hinduism, Biographies and Autobiographies.
Recently I read two inspiring books and I would like to share it with all of
you. I similarly request other readers to
Dear Br Rahulji,
We express our sincere gratitude to you for your willingness to sponsor books
for our young dalit brothers and sisters. We appreciate you for that.
We have at present 30-35 scholarships for this year. I cant give you the exact
number as we are still waiting for the
Dear Gaurav,
This is in deed a great news to hear. Hats off to you all for successfully
bringing dalit students together.
Keep up the good work and take it to the new hieghts year after year with new
ideas and diversified activities. You, students, are our future. You have a
capacity to make
Dear friends,
We are looking for a Chief Guest for Ambedkar Scholarships function 2005 to be
tentatively held in Hyderabad in the month of Dec 2005 or Jan 2006. Exact date
will be announced later. We have approximately 30 scholarships for this year.
We have the following in mind as a chief
Lecturer to send us the Bio-data and
xerox copies of certificates of the candidate (Malishetty Laxmana Rao) to my
address to consider scholarship. Once receive the biodata we can think to
consider schlorship to him.
Bye
- Original Message -
From: Benjamin Kaila
To: Benjamin Kaila ; Tarun
Dear Tarun and others,
Is it possible to obtain his address? If so, please let us know. We may
consider him for our scholarship.
If anyone in the forum near his place of residence can locate him and his
address, please let us. These are the kind of children who need encouragement
and support.
Dear Sashi. Dayanad, Anand and friends,
Jai Bheem.
Last year we discussed at length on instituting an award for Journalists
through Ambedkar Scholarships project at the proposal of Br Sathikant.
We thought of doing it in an much simpler way but we got several suggestions
from the
Dear friends,
Jai Bheem.
I would like to thank immensely Dr KP Singhji for his kind gesture to sponsor 4
scholarships this year. It is great to see the way he named the scholarships
-after the some of the great visionaries of our dalit think tank. He named the
scholarships after
1. Late
Friends,
ome of our friends have beenasking me to write a short note on Ambedkar Scholarships project to circulate among others. Sorry for the delay in doing so. Please check this and circulate among your friends and relativesand encourage them to participate in this project.
I am proud to say
Dear Shivam,
Sorry for writting to you after a long time due to my job shift.
We are in the process of finalizing the donors for 2005 scholarships. Sorry for not able to provide you a writeup on the project. I will send it in a day or two.
Please mobile the donations from your side.Let me
Hello dear friends,
I am back on the forum after being away from it for a long period due to my job
shift. Now, I am in Los Angeles. If anybody is in and around LA, please let me
know so that we can meet at sometime. Only today I got my internet connection
at home and so I will be participating
Can somebody please let me know the email address of the following:
1. Shiva Shankar
2. Sandeep Chavan
My mails are returning undeliverable.
Thanks and appreciate your help.
Benjamin
Brother Shiva Shakarji,
Hope you are doing well in your health matters.
Thanks for your encouraging words. With the help of kind people like you, we
completed 2004's work with great satisfaction.
When I remember the spark in the faces of those dalit children while called on
the stage, when
Hymn And History Were the Aryans the original inhabitants of India from where
they migrated to different parts of the world? Habib's own convictions remain
as puissant as ever.D.N. JHA
THE VEDIC AGE
by Irfan Habib and Vijay Kumar Thakur
Tulika Books
Rs 95; Pages: 100
To get Irfan Habib to
Tough it is not related to Dalit issues, please these two news items. On Jan 8,
he was pleading to get his wife back and on Jan 22, he was murdered. I felt
emotionally very bad to read these two news in one digest sent by [EMAIL
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