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Hi Sir,
I have no words to thank you for your time and help.
Have written this small note as a message, I am not that good in writing.Please review for any changes required.
Hi Rajesh Chacha,
This is sonu, I know your memories would have faded enough to remember me, but this kid has been searching for you limited to his own means since years.
Please chacha, please contact me. please get back to me. You cannot imagine the spark in eyes of mom, dad, chote chacha, bade papa just for a glimpse of yours.
Please let me know where you are, I will be right there within 24 hours.
Miss you,
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Chetan stumbled into one of my BLOGS and invented our friendship as I have written something about my JNU memories.He just claaed me from states where he is staying for just two years.
Chetan is the 27 years old Nephew of our friend Rajesh Rahul, a brilliant student activist in JNU during late seventies and early eighties. He was a close associate of Vtearn Journalist URMILESH, then a research student and PSO leader in JNU.But he was closer to Philosopher Poet GORAKH Pandey.
I would not blame any one but the TRUTH is that a DISILLUSIONED Poet and Political Activist GORAKH Committed Suicide and another, Rajesh Rahul lost in DRUG ADDICTION. We could not SAVE Gorakh nor we could ever try to REHAB Rahul.
I should not remind my friends that GORAKH and RAHUL mobilised the New Delhi Convention in SAPRU House perhaps in mid eighties when we formed JANA SANSKRITI MANCH. After this TASK Accomplished, GORAKH and RAHUL were thrown into ISOLATION and into the wildness of SEGREGATION as the leadership never cared for the OLD Activists!
These events might be mere coincidence! But we perhaps EVADED the RESPONSIBILITY to bail out them from Personality Disorder!
Rather an EMINENT Poet wrote a well known SHORT Story with the theme of GORAKH`s Starvation for love and his poetic romanticism making a joke of his COMMITMENT. This SHORT Story was widely circulated in JNU Campus and one day the news was published that GORAKH was DICOVERED hanging in his Hostel room!
I am just not opening the CUP Board. I am trying to suggest the apathy towards thosed who dreamt and worked hard for a CHANGE in India. We could not help them a little bit but, somehow, betrayed them with UNDECLARED ENIMITY!
I last met Rajesh Rahul in 1999 in SRIRAM Centre Cafe. I could not recognise him. But my friends told me that it was Rajesh who was accompanied by some DRUG Peddlers. We got him. He instantly recognised us. He was in poor health. We ordered coffee. Rajesh wanted to go to the bathroom and we allowed. He never returned.
Chetan rang me on TUES DAY morning. I often get calls from USA. But it was UNPRECEDENTED. Chetan was asking me about his lost UNCLE and was seeking my help who forgot the man long ago as I am based in Kolkata for about twenty years and have virtually no contact with the OLD Friends as most of them are well recognised and settled and I have a very low Profile.
But I decided to knock the doors and windows of the Memories for another time when all of us tried to be best COMMITTED!
I could not return my village BASANTIPUR for last three years after my Mother`s death. My Nephew Shekhar expired in a road accident. I was not amongst my family. My childhood friend Krishna requested me to attend the Marriage ceremony of his only daughter. The poor girl Asha lost her mother when she was born. She lost her father very early after her marriage. I could not go home. My DSB friend Nirmal expired. My friend Pawan rakesh lost his only son Gaurav who was a few years older than my son, Excallibur Stevens TUSSU! I could not visit neither Hills nor the Palins in Uttarakhand to celebrate the moments of Joy and share the grief. But we are connected ONLINE or on Mobile. I get every day to day Update. My united family and my Village include me in day to day decision making. So I am connected with the HIMALYAS which happens to be my ULTIMATE IDENTITY.
But last week I could not attend the marriage ceremony at Shamsherda`s home where all friends gathered. I could not go to New delhi while my Niece Supriya, the fashion designer was married away. I could not join friends in the Marriage ceremonies of the daughters of Anand Swaroop Verma and Pankaj Bisht. My friends lost their sons in tragedies , I could not solace them. So many faces of the Past or lost including Baba Nagarjun, Shalabh shriram singh and Trilochan shastri. Then, Vishnu Prabhakar! I was no where. My village lost so many memebers! I could not mourn!
ALL the meemories and all the Pain returned me once again. Amongst them, the brightened eyes of Gorakh reciting folk glitters like GOLD in the Ivory towers of memory! I can see Rajesh Rahul opening the pouch of Bikaneri Bhujia in Periayar or Poorvanchal Hostel!
We may see him POSTERING or shouting slogans in the Anti Imperialist Procession. Anandji published the Anti US demonstration photos in Teesri Dunia!
Then Chetan informed me that Rajesh rahul lost his mother as well as his sister. The Poor ladies died waiting Rajesh. I just could not bear!
How may we help Rajesh?
Last year, I was standing aside the Dius where RASHEEDA B and bhopal gas victims were singing Gorakh`s songs. I could not help myself and talked to CPIML Secretary DIPANKAR Bhattachary that we must do something diffrent from the Power Hegemony as well as Resistance Hegemony which happen to be the wings of Manusmriti Rule! Their national or Global interests and stance, vison or practice replicate each other. We must work for a real Anti Imperialist Anti fascist resistance. He called on Kartik Paul and set a meeting. The meeting had been postponed time and again and Never took place.
Kanchan Kumar Mukherjee translated the poems of Sukanta Bhattacharya. We knew and believed him from our student days. He led the Redical students` movement as well as radical Writers movement. He is the key man in Bandi Mukti samiti. As I was away in North East, I gave him all the documents relevant to dalit Bengali Refugges deported from the History and Geography of Bengal and had been demographically adjusted as captured Vote Bank countrywide. I gave him the draft of the CITIZENSHIP Bill. I talked to the Convenor Sainath that Mukherjee would present the documents. The issue was raised by our JNU friends and Bihar comrades. Mukherjee just kept mum.
We planned and published BHASHA Bandhan led by Mahashweta Debi. But she refused our lot the adequate SPACE. I gave her each and every document relevant to REFUGEE Problem. But she adviced me to mobilise the movement myself as she may not help. I had to disaasociate from Bhasha Bandhan.Though we consider DIDI our leader till date and branded ourselves as GIRAFFE!
I sent the first copy of my NOVEL AMERICA SE Savdhan to Smakallen Janmat editor, Ramji Roy. But he rejected the Novel for Jana snskriti Manch as he thought it loud. But a daily newspaper AWAZ published the Novel simultaneously from Dhanbad and Jamshedpur for two years. scores of little mags published one or another chapter or few of them. It happened during 1993 to 1997. Mahashweta di wrote an article on me in dainik Hindustan and emphasising the relevance of the NOVEL in Anti Imperialist movement.
I had been committed to the IDEOLOGY since my students` life. I did never join any Political Parties even though I had been proposed MP tickets from Nainital by more than one party. But I realised it very hard that no Political party or Ideology seem to save our people, Five Corores of them dprived of citizenship, human and civil rights, mother tongue and reseravtion! Nor these ideologies or parties have to do anything with Resistance against Tri IBLIS Satanic Global manusmriti Order of Fascism as well as Imperialism!
My pepole in Dandakarany have been branded as Bangladeshi as well as Maoist. How may we save them? How may we save the Indigenous Aboriginal Minority Communities predestined to be KILLED?
Chetan reminded me of those friends lost in the past who were most CONCERNED with these question but neither IDELOGY nor Parties could take a little bit of CARE for the Most SENSITIVE personalities of our time.
Sorry, friends, I had to IGNITE some OLD Memories of lost faces and lost time!
May we help CHETAN anyway?
THE SONG OF THE SENSIBLE
by Gorakh Pandey
What way the winds blow, I can understand
Why we show our backs to it, I can understand
I understand the meaning of blood
The value of money I understand
What is for and what is against, I can understand
I even understand this
We are scared to be able to understand, and remain silent.
I can understand the meaning of remaining quiet
When we speak we speak with thinking and understanding
The freedom to speak
Its meaning, I can understand
For a pathetic and measly employment
To sell our freedom, the meaning of that I can understand
But what can we do
When unemployment
Rises faster than the injustice
The dangers of freedom and unemployment, I understand
We narrowly escape the dangers of terror
I can understand
Why we escape and get saved, this too I can understand.
We remain disappointed and are pained by the Almighty if he does not just remain an imagination
We remain disappointed and are pained by the Government why it does not understand
We remain disappointed and pained by the common man because it succumbs to a herd mentality.
We remain pained by the pain of the entire world
I can understand
But how much we remain pained by this pain this too
I can understand
That opposition is the desired step to take
I can understand
At every step we make compromising understandings
I can understand
We make deep commitments for this understanding
Every deep commitment we present in ambiguous language
I can understand
The reason for this ambiguous language also
I understand.
Incidently, we do not consider ourselves
Less than anyone, I can understand
Every black to white
And white to black we are capable of converting
We are capable of creating a storm in a tea cup
If we want we can start a revolution also
If the Government is weak and the common man understanding
But I can understand
That there is nothing that we can do
Why there is nothing that we can do
This too I can understand.
The above a poem by poet Gorakh Pandey and my very inept translation. It was given to me by a journalist of a Hindi Daily, when he came to interview me on the occasion of my Father’s Birthday. My Father’s Birthday is today, November 27th. He would have been 101 years old.
The poet was a troubled human. Intelligent and anguished by the state of the nation. He had wanted to inspire with his writing and the strength of his thinking. When he failed he committed suicide. He was a brilliant student from the Benares Hindu University and later was with JNU - Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
The entire day has been spent in front of the TV and watching in anguish and in anger the proceedings on the streets of Mumbai. I have been riveted to Times Now and to the incredible anchoring of Arnab. He has been at it non stop for almost 24 hrs; reporting, discussing, interviewing, taking opinion, tirelessly.
My pain has been the sight and plight of my innocent and vulnerable and completely insecure countrymen, facing the wrath of this terror attack. And my anger has been at the ineptitude of the authorities that have been ordained to look after us. I have simply loved and endorsed the sentiments expressed by one of those that came on for comments on the Arnab reportage, Suhel Seth. They were strong, precise and most apt. And of course I have had the greatest pride in those from the forces that have and continue to fight for our freedom. Brilliant officers and police personnel have laid down their lives for us. I can only but salute them and respect their sincerity in the call of duty.
I have been at the receiving end of a million calls and an equal number of sms’s the whole day to come live on TV or on the print media to express my views on the current situation and am being lured by words such as ’we need you to speak to express solidarity and for the people to maintain their calm’.
This is disgusting !! I will NOT do that. TELL ME AND ORDER ME INSTEAD THAT WE REQUIRE FOR EVERY INDIAN TO GET UP AND WALK INTO THE FACILITIES WHERE THE ACTION IS ON AND I WILL BE THE FIRST TO WALK. But, please do not ask me to come and make sloppy statements that will do nothing more than create viewer interest in said particular channel ! I respect what the media is doing in serving the nation with its continuous information bulletins and I admire the brave and diligent manner in which they have devoted themselves to the cause. But what they expect me do I find against my ethics and want to be excused from it.
And for God’s sake, let us stop reiterating that cliched ”Sprit of Mumbai” retort. Yes Mumbai is strong and resilient and shall not be cowed down by any such occurrence. But let us not conveniently use it as our cover sheet, pull it over our heads and go off to sleep. Because that is what has been happening every time. Incidents of grave disaster have continued to be camouflaged with ‘oh, this is Mumbai, we have a great spirit, we will spring back’. Fine, we will, of course. But who is assuring us that the disaster will not !!
As an Indian, I need to live in my own land, on my own soil with dignity and without fear. And I need an assurance on that.
I am ashamed to say this and not afraid to share this now with the rest of the cyber world, that last night, as the events of the terror attack unfolded in front of me I did something for the first time and one that I had hoped never ever to be in a situation to do.
Before retiring for the night, I pulled out my licensed .32 revolver, loaded it and put it under my pillow. For a very disturbed sleep.
Amitabh Bachchan
http://blogs.siliconindia.com/Amitabhbachchan/DAY_218-bid-4w7V8hDF1811235.html.
‘Sone ki nagri’ will be Indian Ocean’s new mascot
February 24th, 2008 - 4:52 pm ICT by admin
By Madhusree Chatterjee
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) A single number changed the course of contemporary fusion music in India in 2000, which till then was dominated by popular music formats from the West and Bollywood. Now leading contemporary fusion band Indian Ocean is set to recreate the magic of “Kandisa”, a song that gave footloose India something to hum 24×7.
A loose remake of an Aramaic hyme, “Kandisa” was set to a raucous ethnic Indian beat on the drums, tabla, the guitar and powerful vocals. It achieved near-iconic status.
Indian Ocean wants to bring back the same old magic with its new song “Sone ki Nagri” from the movie “Halla”, being directed by Jaydeep Verma.
“It’s a very contemporary song about the state of affairs in the country,” explains percussionist Asheem Chakraborty.
The band is now “loaded” with work from Bollywood, admits lead guitarist Sushmit Sen.
“We don’t even have time to take a break to cut our own album. The past months have been so loaded,” Sen, who is ‘fiercely loyal’ about the band’s originality and purity of sounds, told IANS minutes after the band played some of their “latest originals” at the ongoing East Wind Music Festival here.
“We have just sung six numbers for ‘Bhumi’, a movie by newcomer Aveek Mukhopadhyay. One of them has the live version of ‘Hille Le’, a verse by poet Gorakh Pandey from Bihar, set to tune by us,” Sen said.
The numbers they played on stage are yet to be released, he adds.
The band has earlier provided music for Anurag Basu’s “Black Friday”.
Rahul Ram, a doctorate in environmental toxicology from Cornell University, anchors Indian Ocean along with Sushmit Sen on the guitars. While Asheem Chakraborty plays the tabla, the versatile Amit Keelam accompanies on the drums, vocals and many other forms of percussion.
The band was formed in 1990 when Sushmit met Asheem at a jamming session and they broke into the mainstream in 1998 after Times Music brought the foursome into its fold.
The movie “Bhumi” releases July 15, while “Halla” has been awaiting release since November 2007. “Shunya”, a movie about a sportsman starring Kay Kay Menon, for which the group sang a number in 2005, is also set to hit the theatres soon.
“Can’t set the time frame though… that’s how Bollywood works,” reasons Rahul. “We have also sung a one-and-a-half-minute number for a short film made by Anurag Basu,” he added.
Why was “Kandisa” iconic?
“‘Kandisa’ was iconic because it sounded good and was promoted well. It struck the right chord in the listener, but there have been other songs after ‘Kandisa’ that became hits like ‘Ma Rewa’, ‘Hille Re’ and ‘Are Ruk Ja Re Bande’ from ‘Black Friday’… Who knows if our next song will be another ‘Kandisa’,” says Rahul, the group’s lead vocalist.
The group is said to cull its influences from folk, Sufi music, rock, Indipop, jazz and blues.
“Anything that sounds good forms the basis of our music. Be it classical, rock, jazz, Sufi and folk, though the later dominates most of our numbers,” he admits.
“For us, music is something more than just hammering out numbers. It has to have a profound universal feel,” he explains. Which is why probably the group takes “six months to a year to cut a new album”.
“We are choosy. And we are glad that the right kind of directors and producers are approaching us to make music for them.
“We simply refuse to compromise on originality. We keep the copyrights of the songs that we have sung for movies. Later, we throw out their lyrics and replace them with our own. This way the numbers are essentially Indian Ocean’s,” Rahul says.
The foursome is also planning a new CD.
“We have six to eight songs in our kitty. Two numbers from the movies ‘Halla’ and ‘Bhumi’, and four tentative numbers we are toying with,” reveals Rahul.
They include “one Kabir’s song, an old Kannada folk song that I heard as a four-year-old, a Bheelali (of Bhil tribals) folk song and a couple of Rajasthani folk tunes.
“But we’d never do a night club number, mind you,” laughs Rahul, proving that Indian Ocean still has its moorings intact.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/sone-ki-nagri-will-be-indian-oceans-new-mascot_10020667.html
Monday, January 26, 2004
Kein Dhafna, Gil mashrao, dayotshi dayotshi Meli Bahar
What more could be the best way to end the World Social Forum..with a performance by “Indian Ocean” ..the Indian rock band..the band that sings in Indian about India…
I think they can be easily judged the best Indian rock band..coz they sing about our issues in our languages.
This was the second time I caught them live..with a more powerful performance than last time..with people from all over the world grooving to their music..be it the Koreans on my left or the Dutch on my right..it didn’t matter if the song was in hindi..bihari..kashmiri..or aramaic..the music..the thought was universal and for everyone it meant something..if nothing else good music for their ears.
Maa Reva..tharo paani nirmal..khal khal bahto jayo re..
Amarkhand se nikli O Reva..jan jan.karirayo tari seva..
Seva se sab pawe mewa..aiso Ved puran batayo re…
‘Maa Reva’ had all the vendors and people from M.P who were there for the forum joining in..it was the song from their land..Medha Patkar should use it as a promotional song and it will be a big hit. It talks bout the beautiful Narmada…one helluva song
Kandisa Alahaye Kandisa Esana..Aalam Balam Aalam..
Amenu Aamen…Sliha Mar Yose, Almaduba Kudisa…
Aangen dhanusa..nehave dukharana…
It can give you goose-bumps. The language of jesus..its in Aramaic..meaning ‘praise’. The best ever song...this song still gives such high its unbeatable. The Hindustani classical lyrics with aremaic take the song to even higher grounds..Even attended church with Gaia to hear other aramaic hymns but nothing beats ‘Kandisa’
Hille le Jhakjhor duniya..hille le jhakjhor..
Dah gaye Rajwade..dahe Maharajwa..
Rani kari dhool mein lutaniya..
The last song on the show ‘hille le’ by the bihari poet Gorakh Pande..talking bout power of people to shake anything..corruption..brutality…the perfect ending to WSF on that cold night in bombay.
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Ten Thousand Things
"Ten Thousand Things" is a Buddhist expression representing the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of everything in the universe.
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People of Color Discriminating against People of Color in Asia & their Challengers: Dalit Intellectual Chandra Bhan Prasad and Dalit Activist Ruth Manorama
In all, Dalits' Durban experiment witnessed a great leap forward as a large number of women participated in the campaign. As the great radical poet Gorakh Pandey said, "women are the pre-requisite for a movement's success."
– Chandra Bhan Prasad
"I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society."
– Ruth Manorama
In Asia, discrimination results from a mix of traditional and neo-colonial attitudes and structures, with caste-based forms being the most historically entrenched. Transnational activists and intellectuals are collaborating to more powerfully deconstruct and challenge the conceptual underpinnings of caste discrimination.
One example is the joining of forces between the Burakumin and Dalit human rights movements.
Japanese historical prejudice towards Burakumin is related with those of caste attitudes towards Dalits, members of the "untouchable" caste in South Asia. Both forms of discrimination derive from archaic religious attitudes rendering these groups as ritually "impure.”
Along with the migration of other Indian cultural legacies throughout Asia, caste concepts spread from India throughout the Asian subcontinent and the Japanese archipelago centuries ago, as well as to diasporan communities more recently. The website of the International Dalit Solidarity Network, a transnational movement that brings together people who are discriminated on the basis of archaic notions of hereditary caste throughout the world, dilineates:
India’s caste system finds corollaries in other parts of the sub-continent, including Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Discrimination against Buraku, sometimes known as eta (variously defined as ‘pollution abundant’ or ‘unclean’) persists in Japan.
Caste has migrated with the South Asian diaspora to firmly take root in East and South Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, the Middle East, Malaysia, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, North America, and other regions.
Although the Indian government ostensibly formalized constitutional protections for Dalits in 1950, discrimination continues in widespread attitudes and practices towards the 160 million Dalits in India, part of the 250 million Dalits in South Asia (two percent of the world's population), who remain in a hidden apartheid system. Dalits are denied access to land, forced to work in humiliating conditions, and are regularly abused, at the hands of the police and of higher-caste groups protected by the government. Women suffer from frequent sexual abuse, without recourse to legal remedies.
"Dalit Perspectives: a symposium on the changing contours of Dalit politics", a February 2006 edition of the outstanding Seminar Magazine published in New Delhi, offers an array of original and challenging perspectives on the situation of Dalits.
Historian Ramnarayan S. Rawat, one of a number of North American-based scholars on Dalit issues considers the source of "The Problem" as the absence of Dalit perspectives in mainstream Indian public discourse and narratives:
As a caste Hindu, I have been struck by the absence of Dalit points of view within mainstream Indian historiography, and by the necessity of bringing these points of view into active dialogue with caste Hindu narratives of Indian history, society, nationalism and colonialism...
Intellectual Chandra Bhan Prasad is the first Dalit to have a regular column in a leading English-language Indian newspaper. His "The brown man's counter-apartheid," sharply challenges the ironies of traditional forms of racism in India and Asia, perpetrated by people of color against other people of color:
Is the brown man intrinsically a racist? Well, it is difficult to state it affirmatively, and equally difficult to negate it. India has been a hierarchal society since its remotest antiquity. The brown man’s intellectual personality is organically inseparable from the history he has lived through. The brown man’s cultural trait thus seeks a civilizational context, where a system of hierarchy must pre-define his existence...
In September 2001 when I was in Durban, a Black journalist narrated an interesting story. When apartheid was officially done away with, Indian immigrants to South Africa, in particular the Patels, would avoid restaurants where Black waiters served. After further investigation it was found that the Blacks hated Indians more than their White ‘masters’, because, the Indians in this case, routinely engaged with the Blacks as their subordinates. Similar stories can be found in the US as well, where the Brown man treats the Black population as potential subjects. Hierarchy, therefore, thrives on other continents as well where Indians have found their cultural world…
Barnard College South Asian history professor Anupama Rao contextualizes the Dalit situation within an interrelated global history of structural oppression and movements towards liberation. Rao brilliantly argues that the Dalit movement towards equal opportunity is the real test of Indian democracy. (In my view, this is analogous to the African American Civil Rights Movement finally bringing the start of authentic democracy to the United States in the 1960's. How can a nation consider itself "democratic" when millions are disenfranchised and structurally oppressed?)
I argue that Dalit is not a name so much as it is a field of contestation and significance. The emergence of the Dalit as a political subject is historically contingent, and problematizes dominant narratives of secular nationalism.
As a politics of minority, Dalit politics revealed the Indian nation to be the political manifestation of Hindu majoritarianism. More significantly still, I would argue, is the necessity to think about Dalit critiques of caste inequality as forming a crucial chapter in a broader, global history of subaltern imaginations of political emancipation...
Through this brief discussion of different aspects of a genealogy of the Dalit political subject, I wish to make a more provocative argument, and this is to suggest that the Dalit is India’s first modern, democratic subject. Stifled by the regulations of caste, degraded and humiliated, she had to think modernity through democracy, instead of crafting a nativist modernity that countered the colonial masters while falling short of democratizing the illiberal economies of caste. And yet, Dalit emancipation remains an unfinished project.
Increasingly Dalit voices are gaining the attention of the world's mainstream, if not entering it completely yet:
Indian filmmaker Leena Manimekalai produced "Parai," a documentary that takes a hard look at the harsh intersection of caste-based and gender discrimination experienced by Dalit women:
...reveals the status of Dalit population in India with the South Indian village Siruthondamadevi as a classic example. "An injury to one is an injury to all," quoted by Martin Luther King is the baseline of the film.
Siruthondamadevi, a non-descript village situated in Cuddalore district, Tamilnadu, India, continues to live with the "official" lie that atrocities against minorities are a thing of past. Here 600 odd Dalits are under assault everyday by 6000 strong backward caste (Oppressor caste) people.
Untouchability, sexual harassment, rape, assault, exploitation of labor against the scheduled caste population are shockingly prevalent in this village.
Almost ninety percent of the women in colony live with sexual violence against them with their men helplessly acknowledging the oppressions. The documentary leaves the question on the constitutional concept of "Justice to All". After 56 years of self rule and independence, a major section of the Indian society still lives oppressed in the name of caste.
Indira Patel OBE, Chair, WNC Task Force on the World Conference against Racism, and Meena Poudel, Programme Representative, Oxfam Nepal detail violence against Dalit women in this report at the Oxfam website.
Dalits may not cross the line dividing their part of the village from that occupied by higher castes. They may not use the same wells, drink from same cups, or claim land that is legally theirs. The burden often falls on women because, for example, they have to fetch water, on foot, from distant and unclaimed sources, which might take hours.
Women are also frequent victims of sexual abuse. Since the early 1990s, violence, abuse, and rape against Dalit women has escalated dramatically in response to the growing Dalit human rights and self-determination movements. The sexual slavery of Dalit girls and women continues to receive religious sanction, and the trafficking in persons for the exploitation of their sexuality has become a severe problem for women in general and Dalit women in particular.
However, change is happening, as demonstrated by grassroots and transnational Dalit leader Ruth Manorama, who sees parallels between the experiences of African Americans and Dalits, as mentioned in this February 2006 profile:
Ruth Manorama, 42, is widely known for her contribution in mainstreaming Dalit issues, especially the precarious situation of Dalit women in India. Ruth, herself from the Dalit community, calls the women "Dalits among the Dalits." Ruth has also contributed enormously to breaking the upper-class, upper-caste image of the women's movement in India. In 2005, she was one of 1000 nominees for the '1000 women for the Nobel Peace prize' campaign...
Subsequently, Ruth started Women's Voice and registered the Bangalore Gruhakarmikara Sangha (domestic workers' union) as a trade union. In 1986, Ruth was asked to participate in a cross-cultural study comparing Afro-American Blacks in the US and Dalits in India. Her specific interest was to study the lives of Black women and compare it to the situation of Dalit women. She realised that although several core issues were different, there were many similarities in the situations of marginalised communities across the world.
At an early stage itself, Ruth realised that large, mass-based organisations were necessary to take up issues related to societal structures affecting large populations over a wide area. Thus was born the National Federation of Dalit Women. Ruth was also closely associated with the mobilisation of Dalits towards the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, an effort that put the issue on the international map. In 1993, she organised the public hearing on Violence Against Dalit Women in Bangalore, and the National Federation of Dalit Women was born out of that effort. Ruth was also a core group member of the Asian Women's Human Rights Council.
Her work on coordinating the South India chapter of the preparations for the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 had a big role to play in this. After returning to India from the UN Conference, the Advisory Group decided that ten regional members of the task force would come together as the National Alliance of Women (NAWO), with Ruth as president, to take the mobilisation of women forward.
For some more information on transnational activism in support of those oppressed by caste systems, the website of the International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism in Asia (the organization that invited U.N. Rapporteur Doudou Diene to Japan), provides reports at"Global Action for Dalits." Human Rights Watch also has a 2005 update on India.
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Vol.4, No.7, Feb' 14, 2001
In this Issue:
Editorial...
Of Electoral Realignment and Political Credibility
News form the fields of struggle...
Sankalp Sabha Held at Mairwa in Bihar
CPI(ML) Condemns Rajauri Massacre
CPI(ML)-AISA Team Returns from Bhuj
Assam Hill Solidarity Day Observed All Over India
Massive Procession and Dharna in Assam
Demonstration in Delhi
Demonstration in Calcutta
Statewide Black Day Observed in Bihar
Party Condemns Killing of Left Leader in U.P.
The Builder-Politician Nexus
Seminar in Muzaffarpur
Party District Conferences in Tinsukia and Sonitpur in Assam
Central Quake Relief Fund
'Do Seer Dhan' Staged in Patna
Accidents? or Fall-out of Govt. Policy?
In the Memory of Gorakh Pandey
Culture of Resistance and Poetry Today
Editorial...
Of Electoral Realignment and Political Credibility
As the countdown begins for the coming round of Assembly elections, the process of political realignments has begun to gather momentum. The PMK of Tamil Nadu has fired the first salvo by quitting the NDA and jumping on to the Jayalalitha bandwagon. The amicable separation of the five PMK MPs from the NDA does not however pose any immediate threat to the survival chances of the reigning coalition at the Centre. Moreover, the PMK has promised to jump to the NDA government's rescue should any threat really arise. If the BSP had earlier set up new standards of political opportunism by entering into an alternating arrangement of power-sharing with the BJP in UP, the PMK has now surpassed the BSP with this unique combination of secularism below and communalism above!
The PMK-AIADMK bonhomie may however end up putting off the Congress, TMC and the emerging dalit outfits in Tamil Nadu from a possible grand alliance against the DMK. The PMK has got a strong pro-LTTE image and it will therefore be rather difficult for the Congress or TMC to accept it as a poll partner. The dalit organisations too are known to be ill at ease with the kind of aggressive backwardism symbolised by the PMK. The only affordable alternative for the Congress and TMC may therefore be to forge a third front. It will be interesting to watch the response of the CPI(M) and CPI to such an eventuality. The two old communist parties are keen advocates of a Congress-TMC-AIADMK tie-up, but now with the PMK virtually precluding such a line-up, the CPI and CPI(M) will have to choose between the Congress and AIADMK or opt for going it alone.
Another state where the two old communist parties have a difficult choice ahead is Assam. Here the CPI and CPI(M) are still formally partners of the ruling AGP-led alliance. Meanwhile, the AGP is getting increasingly closer to the BJP. On the Ayodhya motion, the party sided with the BJP in the Rajya Sabha. Not only BJP leaders but also Hindutva hawks like Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Nirupam have addressed a couple of recent AGP rallies in the state. Interestingly, it is the CPI, which has taken strong exception to the AGP's growing pro-BJP stance, primarily because in the concrete electoral conditions of Assam, the party can benefit more from an understanding or adjustment with the Congress. In fact, the Congress has invited the Left to join hands in a secular alliance; an offer, which has already found declared favour with the CPI. The CPI(M) however can gain more from a continuing tie-up with the AGP and the party therefore has not been able to summon any greater courage than asking the AGP to 'clarify' its position vis-à-vis the BJP. The request for clarification has however been turned own with obvious contempt by even junior AGP spokespersons.
Both in Tamil Nadu and Assam, the only honourable course left for the Left is to fight the polls as an independent, united Left bloc. Any electoral alliance or adjustment with either AIADMK or the Congress in Tamil Nadu, and with the AGP or the Congress in Assam, will only erode the already declining credibility of the two old communist parties.
News form the fields of struggle...
Sankalp Sabha Held at Mairwa in Bihar
A Sankalp Sabha (Pledge-taking meeting) was held on 7 February at Mairwa block of Siwan district in Bihar in memory of eight comrades who laid down their lives fighting against Satish Pandey-Suresh Yadav gang (patronised by BJP-Samata) on 1 February. Thousands of people came to attend it from distant villages. Before addressing the meeting Party Gen. Secy. Com. Dipankar Bhattacharya and Convenor of Bihar Pradesh Khet Mazdoor Sabha Com. Rameshwar Prasad met the families and neighbours of the martyrs at Jagdishpur village where the incident had taken place. Recalling their revolutionary optimism Com. Dipankar observed that despite the massacre, cinders of life still carry fire under the ash and asserted that the sacrifices will never go in vain and ultimately victory belongs to us. Exhorting the people to plunge in thousands into the struggle along the path shown by these heroes, he said that the struggle belongs to all those who are aggrieved by the incident, and they all should come forward.
CPI(ML) Condemns Rajauri Massacre
While strongly condemning the incident of massacre of 15 villagers in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, Party said that the NDA govt. led by BJP has completely failed in restoring normalcy in J&K and breaking the political impasse in the state. And so it has failed to protect the lives of the common people. The Party blamed the NDA govt. for playing a dirty political game on Kashmir that has resulted in these massacres.
CPI(ML)-AISA Team Returns from Bhuj
The CPI(ML)-AISA team led by Com. Ranjan Ganguli and comprising AISA members from Delhi University (DU) and JNU returned from Bhuj district of Gujarat on 12 February where they had spent 11 days taking part in rescue and relief work. The experiences of the team were an eye-opener, revealing the extremely shocking attitude of the government machinery. From the very beginning the team had to argue its way against a reluctant administration asking them to go back because they didn't need hands. For its failure in rescuing tens of thousands of victims as well as in keeping a check on mafia responsible for non-distribution of relief materials, Gujarat government must have been summarily dismissed, they opined. At Lalam College complex in Bhuj, where AISA activists helped International Red Cross set up a 1000-bed hospital, some 50,000 blankets were lying at one side in packets and barely 50 meters away hundreds of relatives of the poor patients were shivering in cold under the open sky, until AISA activists discovered them and after a heated exchange with the authorities, managed to provide blankets.
In Lakher, a village 60 km from Bhuj, the team gave Rs.5000 from its relief fund for rebuilding of Madarsa in the village. Moreover, AISA activists competently served every job, from manning the OPD registration to handling pharmacy and X-Ray, erection of tents or other infrastructural job. They also went to remote areas with ambulance to identify and bring victims to the hospital.
Assam Hill Solidarity Day Observed All Over India
Massive Procession and Dharna in Assam
The CPI (ML) observed 'Assam Hill Solidarity Day' and held protests in Delhi, Guwahati, Calcutta, Patna and several other centres of the country against, what the Party calls, "the nexus between the Congress and the extremist groups like UPDS in Assam and the ongoing conspiracy of this nexus to destabilise the democratically elected Karbi-Anglong Autonomous Council in the state". The CPI (ML) also urged the President of India to recommend for the immediate implementation of Article 244-A of the Indian Constitution in relation to the demand for an autonomous state comprising the hill districts of Karbi-Anglong and N.C. Hills.
Observing the day in Assam, when the Assembly opened its budget session, a massive procession participated in by around 10,000 people started from Rajgarh Bihutoli to reach the Assembly at Dispur covering 6 k.m of busy RG Baruah Road in Guwahati. The procession converted into dharna in front of Assam Assembly. It was addressed by Com. Swadesh Bhattacharya, Party Polit Bureau member, ASDC General Secy. and MLA Com. Hemsing Tisso, Selawar Bey, Secy. of Karbi Anglong Party Committee, Com. Ranoj Pegu, Gen. Secy. of Mising Memag Kebang, Bhuban Pegu, President of TMKP, Prakanta Warisa, Vice President of ASDC and MP(R.S.), Rajatmoni Thousen, Gen. Secy. of DSU, Pratima Ingtipi, Gen. Secy. of KNCA, Com. Subhas Sen, Secy. of AICCTU, Loknath Goswami, Gen. Secy. of Sadou Asom Janasanskritik Parishad, Kanaklata Dutta, Secy. of Sadou Asom Pragatisheel Nari Santha, Depulal Hojai, EM of NC Hills Autonomous Council, Maikan Rongpharpi and Rongmili Hojai of DWS and Baliandra Saikia, Secy. of AISA. A delegation led by CPI(ML) Assam State Secy. Com. Rubul Sarma, Hemsing Tisso and Depolal Hojai submitted a memorandum to the Governor of Assam and the Speaker of Assam Assembly. The memorandum demanded immediate arrest of the culprits involved in mass killings in Karbi Anglong and NC Hills and immediate high level enquiry into the killing of JM Basumatary, EM of KAAC and the relation of Cong(I)-BJP leaders and Holiram Terang's group with UPDS-DHD armed outfits and immediate effective steps by the Government of Assam to stop mass killings in the Hill Districts, seizure of illegal arms from the extremist outfits and provide license and guns free of cost to the common people for their self-defence, apart from recommending immediate implementation of Art. 244-A of Indian Constitution and creation of Autonomous State comprising Karbi Anglong and NC Hills.
Demonstration in Delhi
CPI (ML) activists and supporters led by Party leaders Kumudini Pati, Rajendra Pratholi, Ranjit Abhigyan, Rajiv Dimri, Jeeta Kaur and Santosh Roy held a demonstration near the Assam Niwas. Later, a delegation of the Party handed over a memorandum addressed to the Assam Governor to the Resident Commissioner of Assam Niwas. CPI (ML) sent another memorandum to the President of India.
Demonstration in Calcutta
A demonstration was staged before Assam Bhaban at Calcutta, led by Com. Joyatu Deshmukh, Dhiresh Goswami, Amit Dasgupta and others. Speakers strongly condemned the ongoing conspiracy by Congress(I)-UPDS to destabilise the elected council and disrupt people's harmony and the Autonomus State movement and expressed their solidarity with the movement. A memorandum addressed to the Governor of Assam was handed over to the chief of Assam Bhaban which carries a number of signatures of eminent personalities including Jyotiprakash Chatterjee, Maitreyi Devi, Jiad Ali, Imanul Haq, Swaswati Ghosh etc.
Statewide Black Day Observed in Bihar
Party activists and leaders throughout the state wore black badges observing Black Day in Bihar protesting against the killings of Bihari workers in Assam and attempts to destabilise the Autonomous Council in Karbi Anglong. A memorandum signed by Party senior leaders as well as leaders of CPI, CPI(M), Forward Bloc, RSP, MCPI, SUCI etc. addressed to Assam Governor was handed over to Governor of Bihar by a delegation comprising Com. Ram Naresh Ram, Ramjatan Sharma, KD Yadav and RN Thakur.
Party Condemns Killing of Left Leader in U.P.
Gulab, leader of Rashtriya Janwadi Morcha, a left organisation, was killed by police in a fake encounter in Sonebhadra district of U.P. on 7 February. Condemning this as a political murder, UP State Committee demanded that the police campaign of killing left leaders in adivasi areas of Sonebhadra, Mirzapur and Chandauli must be stopped. Party appealed to other left and democratic forces as well as human rights organisations to put their weight on the state government for the same. It is to be noted that Gulab did not belong to MCC as claimed by police but he had a number of false cases against him as he was fighting for adivasi and dalit peasants and workers. He had contested from Naugarh for the post of member of district Panchayat. U.P. Khet Mazdoor Sabha and peasant associations will observe statewide protest day against this killing on 14 February. A People's Union for Human Rights (PUHR) team has also visited Robertsganj.
The Builder-Politician Nexus
Admits one official: "The minister's links with the builder are well-known. We are under pressure to spare him..."
Investigations by Outlook reveal that literally a quarter of Gujarat cabinet are backers of land sharks. Apart from Vajubhai Wala, the other political heavyweight-turned-builder is water resources minister Narottam Patel. According to preliminary inquiries, he has been linked to Girish Patel, another big builder charged for negligence and culpable homicide in two cses filed last fortnight. In Girish's case too, the structure that he built were found unstable, ther was no preliminary checking of the soil to examine whether it was stable or not, building bye-laws were flauted with impunity. Sources say the corruption begins at the very top. Chief minister Keshubhai Patel's son Bharat Patel is regarded as one of the biggest property developers in the state and runs a flourishing multi-crore business, with able assistance, no doubt, from papa and his close men. And the irony is that Keshubhai himself rode to power on a strong anti-corruption plank. (Outlook, February 19, 2001)
Seminar in Muzaffarpur
A seminar on "Agrarian crisis and Means of resolution" was organised by Muzaffarpur unit of Bihar Pradesh Kisan Sabha at Panchayat Bhawan, Itahan Manihari Chowk on 4 February. Com. Suresh Das Kanaujia, member of Party district committee and Jitendra Yadav, district convenor of BPKS and other peasant, youth and student leaders addressed the seminar. The resolution read out in the seminar demanded withdrawal from WTO and taking back anti-peasant and anti-national agrarian policy.
Party District Conferences in Tinsukia and Sonitpur in Assam
Party's Tinsukia district organisation held its conference on 3-4 February at Asom Sahitya Sabha Bhawan (named Martyr Anil Kumar Barua Bhawan for the occasion) in Tinsukia. The report was presented by Com. Subhas Sen, Secy. of the Adhoc DC. The conference elected a DC, which in turn elected Subahs Sen as its secretary.
The 7th conference of Sonitpur DC was held at Borgang on 4, 5 and 6 Feb. On 4 Feb., an impressive rally was brought out and open session was held, which was participated in by around 3,000 people who came from far-flung tea-gardens and villages despite total transport collapse due to the bandh called by ULFA on that day protesting Advani's visit to Assam.
Com. Lila Sarma presented the report on behalf of the outgoing District Committee to a house of 50 delegates including 12 women, 11 observers and 3 guests. After a lively debate a 9-member DC was elected which in its turn re-elected Com Lila Sarma as its secretary.
The two conference were also attended by Com. Rubul Sarma and Com. Swadesh Bhattacharya.
Central Quake Relief Fund
Apart from contributions directly made to Red Cross Society by Party organisations in Bihar and other states, Delhi State Committee and W.B. State Committee have deposited Rs.23,570 and Rs.32,000 respectively to the Central Quake Relief Fund. In Delhi the campaign is still on.
'Do Seer Dhan' Staged in Patna
Hirawal, performing unit of Jan Sanskriti Manch staged Do Seer Dhan (Two seers of paddy) on 9, 10 and 11 February at Kalidas Rangalaya in Patna. The play is based on renowned Malayalam literateur Takshi Shivshankar Pillai's novel from which the stage-script was written by Suman Kumar. Directed by Kunal, the play has 19 characters including three female artists. While music was directed by Santosh Jha, Pramod Yadav, councillor of Jan Sanskriti Manch, shouldered the responsibility of production controller. Altogether 25 artists carried on rehersal for two months before it was finally staged. The play has been dedicated to the quake victims of Gujarat. At this occasion a souvenir was brought out under the editorship of poet Madan Kashyap, vice president of Jan Sanskriti Manch.
Accidents? or Fall-out of Govt. Policy?
Earthquake in Gujarat was a natural calamity, no doubt, but the extent of loss suffered clearly indicated to the man-made aspect of disasters. Now shocking stories are being revealed regarding the builder-politician-administration nexus that has played its dirty role in erecting so many disaster-prone structures in cities and towns, not only in Gujarat but even in Orissa.
In Bagdigi coalmine in Dhanbad, at least 14 miners who went alive down the Bagdigi mine for operations could not come back. The rescue team recovered their corpses only. There may be some others whose corpses also might remain unrecovered. Even primary investigation reveals that mining safety rules were openly flouted there. Out of the 15 major disasters caused by flooding of the coal mine, 7 are from Jharia coalfields. The worst one occurred at Chasnala, adjacent to Damodar river, where as many as 375 miners were killed. "Gross negligence and disregard of safety regulations on the part of the management of mining companies remains the reason for most of the disasters." "For coal companies, profit is the prime concern, not safety of the miners", writes Pankaj Kumar, a Dhanbad-based correspondent.
After suicides by cotton and tobacco farmers, it is now the turn of intermediate students. As many as five students, majority of them girls, have committed suicide in the recent week in Andhra Pradesh -- Chandrababu's cyber state! These students have undergo tremendous stress as they prepare to appear for entrance examinations for admission into engineering, medical and other professional courses where there are very few seats available. The unprecedented pressure is the result of new education policy, which is forcing the students to resort to such extreme steps like suicide.
A Delhi student, after being mercilessly beaten by the musclemen of a blue line bus owner, is braving death in a ICU of a hospital. Abusing, beating, manhandling, eve-teasing and molestation of women in Delhi buses is an everyday affair. Incidents of school children getting dashed or crushed, apart from dying due to overturning of the school buses, have become a regular affair. The entire system of public transport is in chaos and anarchy under the spree of privatisation.
Repeated incidents of MIG-21 crashes, rail mishaps, even events like the Surajkund joyride meeting its tragic end -- the list is endless. And all of them point to the policy of privatisation that criminally favours profit at the cost of safety. Down with this death trap.
In the Memory of Gorakh Pandey
Culture of Resistance and Poetry Today
Jan Sanskriti Manch, Delhi organised a cultural programme in the memory of noted revolutionary poet and founder General Secretary of JSM, Gorakh Pandey on 10 February at Rajendra Bhawan in Delhi. After the recital of a number of poems from Gorakh by Pankaj Singh, renowned critic Dr. Manager Pandey delivered the keynote address. Later Mangalesh Dabral, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Kallol Chakravarty, Rajendra Dhorpkar, Savita Singh, Sunder Chand Thakur, Sanjay Kundan and Indira Rathore recited their poems. At the end, Shubhendu Ghosh sang Gorakh Pandey's celebrated Bhojpuri song "Sutal rahalin sapan ek dekhlin". Bhasha Singh, convenor of Delhi unit of Jan Sanskriti Manch conducted the programme and Radhika, co-convenor, thanked the participants.
In his address Dr. Manager Pandey said that the culture of resistance must be developed in a multi-faceted way. Observing that the terror of assassination and death has been on increase among the people, and poets do share the pain, he expressed the apprehension that the pain and resistance of writers does not reach the common people. Moreover, in order to develop the culture of resistance, identification of the aggressor was the most necessary thing. This was relatively straight in the times of Gorakh, but today it is not only fascism that can be identified as the sole aggressor. Market is equally building up the prowess to affect each and every aspect of life. In this scenario it is imperative to understand the nexus of capitalism and feudalism. A specific kind of integrated vision towards life, society and history has become necessary to fulfill the task.
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Woman power in Dalit movements
ChandraBhan Prasad
I do not wish to refer to Ms Mayawati, the pride of the Dalit movement today, who has single-handedly redefined the grammar of cowbelt politics. Yes, Kanshi Ram did "introduce" her but don't male politicians require mentors, too? I am talking about other women, the "new strengths" in modern-day Dalit movements.
In this exercise I am not going to refer to Nidhi, Anjali Deshpandey, Prabha Jagannathan, Meenakshi Nath, Rama Lakshmi, Bela Malik, Bulbul, Tista Setalvad and over half a dozen more - all women with minds, inner rebellion, successful and who have played decisive roles in my life, sustained me in Delhi, both intellectually and emotionally. Neither do I wish to refer to Rinku Ghosh, in-charge of Agenda, The Pioneer, who is more worried than me about the regularity of Dalit Diary. Nor do I intend to elaborate upon the role acclaimed novelist Sagarika Ghosh has played in my life, or for that matter Nivedita Menon, whose robust insight and intellectual clarity could frighten any anti-Dalitist. Neither shall I discuss the legendary Gail Omvedt, the first intellectual to discuss Dalit Diary's concerns in any other daily newspaper, nor Ms Shubha Parmar, a Delhi University lecturer, whose intellectual charm draws all, irrespective of age. Here, I am concerned with the others.
To begin with, let us talk of Sevanti Ninan, an acclaimed columnist with The Hindu. About a week ago, she called me asking me to write for www.thehoot.org on the position of Dalits in media. Privileged as I felt, I wrote the article challenging Varna editors to explain why they had followed a policy of exclusion and why they didn't respond to Uniyal's path-breaking story, In Search of a Dalit Journalist.
Expecting some response from pig-skinned editors [without any disrespect to pigs] I begun browsing www.thehoot.org as Ninanji had put up my story as the lead. Last week, I was attracted to an item on the site: "National Survey of Women In Journalism" and opened the page. The questionnaire seeks details of women in journalism, a kind of workforce census. The initial column stunned me as it asked: "Do you belong to SC/ST or religious minority"? To my mind, this is the first survey designed by an agency of private sector, which addresses social composition of work force in the media. I consider it as the next most decisive step forward [after Pioneer launched Dalit Diary] to BN Uniyal's quest. It is a milestone in Dalits' fight for democratisation of Indian media and history will record it as such.
Dr Radhika Balakrishnan, leading a band of students from Marymount Manhattan College, US, had come to Durban to back the Dalit cause. She teaches economics and wants to partner any move which seeks to dismantle India's caste system. So does her colleague Anita Nayar, a strategic analyst in New York. "You know my parental home in Kerala had three doors and one was 'reserved' for sweeper, the other for the maid and the third one for ourselves", Dr Radhika said, explaining why she had taken up the issue in the first place. "The whole system has to go, culturally we have to transform" was the war cry of Anita, a Mumbai-born girl.
But Samantha Nundy, a UK born Bengali girl in her mid-20s and a freelance photo journalist, won our minds and hearts. She knew about the caste system but had little idea about the nature and scale of discrimination against Dalits. She was an instant convert and has created a photo-file of Dalits' campaign in Durban.
From within India, iron lady Jyothi Raj of Karnataka made Dalits proud in Durban. Her hunger strike in front of the ICC resulted in huge support for Dalits. Above 500 people from all over the world signed our memorandum and wrote down their e-mail addresses assuring support in any further convention. And who can forget V Vasanthi Devi, former VC from Tamil Nadu and another majestic Dalit lady, a professor of management from Andhra Pradesh, Shyamala of Anveshi, the articulate Ms Lalitha, or the legendary Ruth Manorama, who all together gave a new dimension to the Dalit campaign in Durban.
From north, Nasreen Faiyas, Pushpa Valmiki, Rajani Tilak, Vimala Thorat left their deep imprint in the campaign against caste at Durban. They are very much active in India as well. And who can forget the young and cheerful Ms Mamata Bhupesh, a co-convenor of the Rajashtan chapter of NDHRC and a little girl from Chennai, who read out an English translation of a Tamil victim. In all, Dalits' Durban experiment witnessed a great leap forward as a large number of women participated in the campaign. As the great radical poet Gorakh Pandey said "women are the pre-requisite for a movement's success."
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around 1000 km. long. This 8-lane road passes mainly
through the left bank of Ganga, though in Varanasi and
Chandauli it has to pass on the right bank of Ganga.
For this Expressway worth Rs 40000 crore, 631 sq. km
land is to be acquired in 36 tehsils of 19 districts.
More over, nearly 30000 acres of land around the
Expressway is to be acquired in the name of
‘Development Zones.’ In all, around 64000 hectares of
land is to be acquired for the Expressway Project.
Perhaps, it is the largest one stroke land acquisition
in Indian history. Of these 64000 hectares, only 5%
land belongs to the Government, while 25% land is
sandy, barren land with low productivity. And 70%
land, the most fertile land of UP situated on the
banks of Ganga
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The pioneer of culture of resistance
On November 10, Samkalin Janmat, like the proverbial phoenix, once again rose from the ashes in its original birthplace, Patna, at the inaugural ceremony of Eighth National Conference of Jan Sanskriti Manch. This time its form is that of a socio-cultural quarterly. Readers would recall that intervening in the media in the decade of ‘80s as multi-dimensional news weekly, Samkalin Janmat had introduced a new angle to journalism. And in addition to serving as a mouthpiece of the raging struggles of the downtrodden in Bihar, it also carved out a niche in the field of cultural magazines in the Hindi heartland. In its Delhi reincarnation, as a fortnightly and then as a monthly, it focused on the national political scenario while continuing its intervention as a powerful representative of revolutionary culture. Now, to serve the need of the present critical situation, it has reappeared as a socio-cultural magazine. The reopening issue is devoted to the theme of culture of resis-tance against imperialist offensive of globalisation, against saffron cultural nationalism and resistance to all forms of exploitation and oppression of the humankind. It raises the “most necessary ques-tions”, which are so “simple”, but so often forgotten or buried under countless pretexts.
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Eighth Conference of Jan Sanskriti Manch
For a national democratic consciousness against globalisation
THE EIGHTH national conference of Jan Sanskriti Manch, held at Ramvilas Sharma Sabhagar (Engineers’ Hall) in Nagarjun Nagar (Patna) on 10-11 November, 2001, was focussed on the theme “For a national democratic consciousness against globalisation”.
Inaugurating the conference, noted Hindi critic Dr. Manager Pandey said that American capitalism wanted to control markets all over the world in the name of globalisation as it was eager to exploit the cheap natural as well as human resources of Asia the same way as it did in Africa and Latin America. Through ‘global media’, the information system is being used to establish the terror of American power and spread illusions regarding the American system by eulogizing it. It is for the spread of terror and confusion in the whole world that globalisation can better be called Americanisation. Well before the attack on Afghanistan, world people had read through America’s false pretensions in its advocacy of human rights and democracy. Starting from destroying the Red Indian civilization to Hiroshima, America never cared for humankind and democracy.
Dr. Pandey said that America also wants to control thought processes. Conjuring an illusory capitalist prosperity it is exploiting the contradiction between commonman’s aspirations and wants. On the other hand, the language of the market has intruded life and meanings have undergone a change. Post-modernism is the cultural manifestation of gobalisation, which opposes the social consciousness of resisting capital. He said that the way cultural nationalists are lying prostrate before America, soon it will be in a position to do away with the Indian nation state. Hence it is an urgent task to strengthen the democratic nation state consciousness. The session was presided over by noted poet and editor of Sarvanam, Vishnuchandra Sharma and conducted by Ajay Singh, General Secretary of JSM. Besides noted Urdu writer Shaukat Hayat, chairman of the reception committee, who warmly greeted the delegates, guests and observers and attacked American imperialist policies in his speech, critic Khagendra Thakur, poets Arun Kamal and Alokdhanwa also addressed this session. The (re-)opening issue of popular revolutionary socio-cultural magazine Samkalin Janmat was also released in the inaugural session by Vishnuchandra Sharma. This issue has the culture of resistance as its main theme. Greeting the ‘new incarnation’ of Janmat, Khagendra Thakur, Arun Kamal, Ravi Bhushan, Madan Kashyap and Anil Sinha said that in the present critical period, when the people’s struggles have been banished from the domain of literature and culture, publication of a magazine that gives expression to class consciousness and mass resistance does bring considerable hope. A brief discussion was also held on “cultural journalism” with senior journalist Anil Sinha in the chair.
The next day witnessed a lively debate over General Secretary, Ajay Singh’s theme paper. It points out that on the one hand the war imposed and the terror spread by America is the most violent and terrible form of globalisation, and on the other, the protagonists of cultural nationalism in India have waged an unabashed campaign to portray a new mental and cultural slavery of multinationals as freedom. It emphasises the necessity for a genuine national democratic consciousness, armed with a ruthlessly critical approach, infused with boldness to effect a radical rupture with the whole legacy. Participants in the debate included Dr Manager Pandey, Khagendra Thakur, Ravi Bhushan, Madan Kashyap, Pranay Krishna, Jitendra Kumar, Bhasha Singh, Anil Anshuman, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Hemant, Krishna Pratap Singh, VK Singh, Shyam Ankuram and others. The session was presided over by Ajay Kumar, Suresh Kantak and Arvind Kumar and conducted by Sudhir Suman and Krishna Mohan.
The conference decided to organize cultural programmes under the anti-war campaign in different cities in the November end. It also planned to organize a series of seminars to reassess our legacy and strengthen ties between Hindi and Urdu literature.
The conference unanimously elected Dr. Manager Pandey as its president. Erstwhile president Trilochan Shashtri could not attend the conference because of illness but he continues to remain an honorary member. Ajay Singh was re-elected General Secretary. Along with four vice presidents, Madhukar Singh, Madan Kashyap, Ajay Kumar and Dr. Ravi Bhushan, a 77-member National Council and 25-member National Executive Committee were also elected. Krishna Mohan, Pramod Yadav, Viren Dangwal, Bhasha Singh and Shambhu Badal were entrusted with the responsibilities of coordinating U.P, Bihar, Uttaranchal, Delhi and Jharkhand respectively.
On this occasion, veteran CPI(ML) leader Com. Ram Naresh Ram greeted the delegates and guests and said that in this broadbased struggle against globalisation, CPI(ML) is always with the dreams of cultural activists. The Party will always stand by the cultural activists in their endeavor to develop mass resistance.
A number of cultural programmes were presented by performance teams from Sakla Bazar, Bikarmganj, Begusarai and Patna (Hirawal). presentations by Jharkhand Sanskriti Manch and Kala Kammune Banaras were also significant, with the participation of Anil Anshuman, theatre artist Vijay Kumar, people’s singer Amitabh, Nirmal Nayan, Durgesh Akari, and Krishna Kumar Nirmohi.
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Nifty touches 52-week high
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MUMBAI: Bulls extended their winning streak on Wednesday, taking the Indian equity benchmarks to 52-week highs. Traders defied cautious calls from experts that markets are over-heated and a correction is imminent.
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NTT DoCoMo open to hiking stake in Tata Tele
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Favourable FDI: (From left) Mr Toshinari Kunieda, Senior Vice-President & Managing Director, Global Business Division, NTT DcCoMo; Mr Anil Sardana, Managing Director, Tata Teleservices Ltd; and Mr Deepak Gulati, President, Tata DoCoMo, ...
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BPO player look to increase focus on India ops
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The second day of the Nasscom BPO Summit saw a lot of top BPO players including Genpact and Aegis who said they were looking at significantly increasing their focus on India operations.
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Rupee rises by 24 paise on increased capital flows
Times of India - 5 hours ago
10 Jun 2009, 1844 hrs IST, PTI MUMBAI: The rupee on Wednesday soared by 24 paise to close at 47.24/25 against the dollar on increased capital flows into firm stock markets and the US currency weakening against major global currencies.
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Tata Tea full-year net at Rs 701 cr
Hindu Business Line - 6 minutes ago
Mumbai, June 10 Tata Tea has posted a consolidated a net profit of Rs 701 crore for the year ended March 2009 against Rs 1543 crore for the previous year.
Tata Tea FY09 net drops 54% to Rs 700 cr Business Standard
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Steel minister okay with divestment
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NEW DELHI: Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday pushed for divestment of stake in companies under his ministry and said he would take up the issue of adequate supplies of feedstock for steel units with the states concerned.
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No plans to sell stake in ING Vysya Bank: ING
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ING Groep NV remains committed to its India operations and continues to have long-term business prospects in the country, a senior executive of the Netherlands-based financial services firm said today.
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Pranab sees merit in bank consolidation for stability
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Big is beautiful: The Union Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, with chief executives of public sector banks (from left) Mr OP Bhatt (Chairman, State Bank of India), Mr KC Chakrabarty (CMD, Punjab National Bank), and MV Nair (CMD, Union Bank) during ...
SBI to decide on consolidation of associates next month Business Standard
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NYMEX-Crude stays above $71 on big EIA drawdown
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* EIA: crude supplies fall sharply as imports down * Dollar rebounds against euro, Wall Street dips NEW YORK, June 10 (Reuters) - US crude oil futures moved toward session highs above $71 midday on Wednesday, supported by government data showing a ...
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L&T to sell UltraTech Cement stake on Thursday: Sources
Moneycontrol.com - 2 hours ago
Larsen & Toubro will sell its stake in UltraTech Cement on Thursday, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources. The stake sale would take place via book-building process while Citigroup is the sole book runner, sources said, adding that L&T would offer minimum ...
India's L&T selling most of Ultratech stake-sources Reuters India
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ANALYSIS - Does more than ambition cement the BRICs?
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By Andrew Marshall, Asia Political Risk Correspondent SINGAPORE (Reuters) - If shared interests are the basis of a successful long-term relationship, the alliance of the four BRIC nations is likely to be a brief affair.
SCENARIOS-The BRIC nations: Growth and risks Reuters
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HDFC QIP's biggest of 'em all
Economic Times - 22 hours ago
MUMBAI: India's biggest home finance company, HDFC, will raise Rs 4000 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) of non-convertible debentures.
HDFC to raise Rs 4000cr via NCDs; stk gains Moneycontrol.com
HDFC to raise Rs 4k-cr debt in QIP Business Standard
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Bharti Airtel Signs VAS Managed Services Deal With Group Firm Comviva
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By Sruthijith KK - contentSutra.com Bharti Airtel today said it has signed a managed services contract for its value added services with group company Comviva Technologies.
Bharti Airtel in pact with Comviva for managing VAS biz Business Standard
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IRDA plans to cap salaries of insurance firm's CEOs
Economic Times - 34 minutes ago
10 Jun 2009, 2326 hrs IST, PTI KOLKATA: Insurance regulator IRDA on Wednesday said it is considering to cap the salaries of chief executives of the insurance companies so as to maintain expenses in a reasonable range.
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IRDA to make valuation of cos mandatory from this fiscal Hindu
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Baroda Pioneer AMC launches Treasury Advantage Fund
Economic Times - 5 hours ago
MUMBAI: Baroda Pioneer AMC on Wednesday launched Baroda Pioneer Treasury Advantage Fund, an open-ended debt fund, which aims to provide optimal returns and liquidity by investing in a portfolio comprising of debt securities and money market instruments ...
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US won't accept nuclear North Korea: nominee
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will not accept a nuclear North Korea and is committed to defending neighboring Japan and South Korea, the nominee to be the top US diplomat for Asia said Wednesday.
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Gunman, guards exchange fire in Holocaust Museum
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A gunman exchanged fire with security guards inside the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. US Park Police Sgt.
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Iran Presidential Election Marked by Spirited Campaign
Voice of America - 39 minutes ago
By Gary Thomas Voters in Iran go to the polls Friday to choose a president. The race pits the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, against challenges from reformist and conservative candidates.
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French cops dismiss terror names report: Jet crash
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PARIS: Two passengers on the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic shared names with terror suspects but this was a simple coincidence, police said Wednesday, ruling out a link to the accident.
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Envoy Tells Palestinians US Committed to Palestinian Statehood
Voice of America - 1 hour ago
By Luis Ramirez US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has told Palestinian leaders the United States remains committed to the establishment of a Palestinian state.
US envoy pushes for prompt Mideast peace talks The Associated Press
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Aid workers among 9 dead in Pakistani hotel blast
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence Wednesday after a deadly suicide bombing the UN condemned as a "heinous terrorist attack.
Video: Search for Clues in Pakistani Hotel Blast The Associated Press
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Sri Lanka's deportation of Canadian MP 'absurd': Ottawa
AFP - 58 minutes ago
OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian government on Wednesday rebuked Sri Lanka for its refusal to allow a prominent Canadian MP into its country for allegedly supporting defeated Tamil Tiger rebels as "absurd.
Sri Lanka bars entry to Canadian lawmaker The Associated Press
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US envoy cites growing refugee crisis in Pakistan
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Pakistan faces a "major crisis" in managing damage and dislocation from its US-endorsed military offensive against the Taliban, the Obama administration's special envoy to the region said Wednesday.
Pakistani refugees are 'major, major crisis': Holbrooke AFP
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Fiat Forms Sixth-Largest Automaker as High Court Allows Chrysler ...
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By Sara Gay Forden and Mike Ramsey June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Fiat SpA bought a stake in most of Chrysler LLC's assets, creating the world's sixth-largest carmaker in Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne's plan to survive the recession by setting up a ...
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UN climate chief: Rich nations short on CO2 goals
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BONN, Germany (AP) - Japan unveiled a new target Wednesday for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent by 2020, but the plan was slammed by environmentalists and the UN climate chief as leaving the industrial world dangerously short of its ...
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Japan targets eight percent emissions cut from 1990 levels AFP
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Donors Warn Kyi Trial Thwarts Fundraising for Cyclone Victims
Washington Post - 59 minutes ago
By Tim Johnston BANGKOK, June 10 -- Aid donors have warned that the trial of Burmese opposition leader and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi has made it more difficult to raise money for the victims of last year's cyclone, an official said Wednesday.
Suu Kyi trial clouds Myanmar cyclone aid effort Reuters
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GOP gives Sotomayor an 'incomplete'
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"Sen. Leahy's decision to rush Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearing is puzzling," Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
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Car bomb in Iraq kills about 30 people
The Associated Press - 43 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (AP) - A car bomb blew up Wednesday in a packed outdoor food market in one of the most peaceful areas of Iraq's Shiite south, killing about 30 people and wounding dozens more.
Iraqis Attack Police After Bombing Kills at Least 28 New York Times
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Tube strike: trains, boats but no buggies
guardian.co.uk - 48 minutes ago
The first gnawings at my patience began just before 10.30am this morning as I stood on Waterloo pier in the drizzle while another Thames Clipper pulled away without taking on passengers.
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US still considering sending Uighurs to Palau
AFP - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government is still considering sending up to 17 Chinese Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to the Pacific island nation of Palau, a senior US official said Wednesday.
Rough guide to Palau guardian.co.uk
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BNP bodyguard attacked me, says protester
guardian.co.uk - 2 hours ago
Anna Heath, left, moments before a clash with one of Nick Griffin's bodyguards. Photograph: Stephen Hird/Reuters A woman who says she was left with injuries to her neck and face after being thrown to the floor by one of Nick Griffin's bodyguards is to ...
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Gaddafi makes first official Italian visit to Italy
euronews - 35 minutes ago
Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi has arrived in Rome, marking his first official visit to Italy. Stepping off the plane in full military uniform, it was all hugs and smiles as prime minister Silvio Berlusconi greeted his guest.
Video: Raw Video: Gadhafi Visits Italy for 1st Time The Associated Press
Libya's Kadhafi 'turns page on past' with visit to Italy AFP
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British Leader Orders Urgent Work on Political Expense Reform
Voice of America - 1 hour ago
By Tom Rivers Battered in the polls, British leader Gordon Brown has unveiled an urgent legislative plan to clear-up the political expenses scandal gripping the country.
Rogue MPs face being thrown out of Commons under new reform proposals Times Online
Brown unveils Commons shake-up AFP
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US man accused of spying for Cuba allegedly admired British agents
guardian.co.uk - 1 hour ago
A former American official accused of spying for Cuba admired a team of British cold war spies and believed they acted in what they thought were Europe's best interests, according to one of his former students.
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Accused Cuban spy couple ordered held in jail Reuters
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Gabon Interim President Inaugurated
Voice of America - 3 hours ago
By Scott Stearns Senate President Rose Francine Rogombe is Gabon's new interim head of state, following Monday's death of long-time leader Omar Bongo.
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