Archive for November, 2007
An encouraging report on Atul Paswan from NDTV.
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Thirty-one-year old Atul Paswan has successfully changed what many may have said was his destiny.
A Dalit from Siwan district in Bihar three years ago, the village schoolteacher’s son set up a software company in Bangalore.
Pic01 Atul PAswan
Indo-Skura Software Private Limited is perhaps the first software firm to be owned [...]
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Meet in Bangkok
Leaders of non-governmental organisations campaigning on human rights of Dalits in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will gather in Bangkok. This meeting is designed to build strategy to strengthen Dalit rights movement in Asia. Approximately 20 participants from Dalit groups, as well as solidarity groups, will be attending the meeting.
Asia Dalit Rights Movement [...]
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TOO ugly & dangerous !
In a recent book written by him and published by the Gujrat State Information Department Modi says, “Scavenging must have been a spiritual experience for the Valmiki caste”. The book titled Karmayog is yet to hit the stands. Is this BJP stand?
Please watch IBN 7 Analytics below:
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/scavenging-a-spiritual-experience-for-dalits/53024-3.html
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Noticed it’s Caste !
Dag Erik Berg, an academic at the University of Bergen, points out the consequence of the award: “Norwegians have now learnt the word ‘Dalit’ properly. It hasn’t to date existed in dictionaries, and the press have used old-fashioned names in its place.” Divakar, NCDHR’s national convenor, is jubilant: “At last, the issue of Dalit rights [...]
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Atrocities against Dalits have added an ugly chapter in Madhya Pradesh when a man was stabbed to death and his body set ablaze because he lashed a bull decorated for Govardhan puja.
Kailash Bagri, 40, grabbed a stick and beat the animal, which was tied to a poll by his neighbour Suresh Patidar, an OBC member. [...]
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Jajjhar sounds out
The Dulina lynching case, in which five Dalit men were killed by a mob in 2002, is still being heard. Rattan Singh and his wife, Ramwati, who lost a son in the Dulina lynchings, now sell toffees to feed themselves.
Pic01: Old Parents
IN one of the most heinous crimes committed in recent times, on October 15, 2002, [...]
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The empathy is indeed overwhelming, but it remains to be seen how many legislators actually spend a night in an SC/ST welfare hostel and experience for themselves the pathetic conditions the students are subjected to.
Moved by the description of the poor conditions in these hostels, Speaker K R Suresh Reddy on Friday urged the MLAs [...]
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When Mumbai the biggest metropolis was engaged into Sesex rise & Diwali firecrackers, two Buddhist families were fighting caste attack this week. A kid quarel resulted into atrocious situation for two Buddhist families living in Ghatkoper, RamjiPitamah Nagar,Omkar Chawl Room No. 5 and 6.
On 11th of this month, the kids of the family of were playing with the local kids with firecrackers. [...]
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The court assembes at 11 A.M.Adv.Nikam rises to contiunue his examination of the previous witness, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange, the only surviving member & also a father from Bhotmange family.
Pic01: Father Bhaiyyalal
Adv.Nikam: What happened on fateful day 3/o9/2006?
Wit:Sidhhartha Gajbhiye was beaten up by some of the villagers of Khairlanji.At that time due to my ill health, I was at home.Surekha [...]
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The last witness Sunil lede is called again in the witness box.The defence lawyer, Adv.Jaiswal is ready to cross-examine the witness.
Adv.Jaiswal: when you denied him the tea , he got annoyed. Right?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Jaiswal: He was speaking in the fit of rage.Right?
Wit: Yes
Adv.Jaiswal: you r giving the false deposition against Jagdeesh Mandalekar under pressure from C.B.I.Right?
Wit: No.
(Adv.Jaiswal [...]
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The court assembles at 11:45 A.M.The next witness is called in the witness box.Special Public prosecutor Adv.Ujwal Nikam is ready to examine the witness.
Judge : What is your name?
Wit: Sunil Chirkut Lede.
Adv.Nikam: Do you know Jagdeesh Mandalekar?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Nikam:Is he present in the court?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Nikam: Where is he now?
Wit: He is sitting on the back bench [...]
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Scams kill all: A Press Release
Jai Bhagwan Jatav, President ‘Rashtriya Shoshit Parishad’ briefed news media on the eve of full body Planning Commission meeting scheduled on 8th Nov.2007. It began with the misappropriation of Rs. 965.61 crores in the year 2006-2007 and misappropriation of Rs. 1534 crores which is in the pipeline for the current year 2007-2008 in Govt. of [...]
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The court assembles at 11:15 A.M.The witness Dr. Avinash Shende is again called in the witness box.The defence lawyer Adv.Bedarkar rises to conitnue his cross-examine of the witness.
Adv.Bedarkar: Did Dr.Bante assist you in the post mortem?
Wit: No,I alone myself completed all the P.M.s.
Adv.Bedarkar: Are you aware that if any podtmortem is done, one assistant has [...]
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Now the next witness Dr.Avinash John Shende is called in the witness box
Judge : Say-”swear to the Jesus Christ that whatever I say will be the truth & nothing but the truth
Wit:I swear to the Jesus Christ that whatever I say will be the truth & nothing but the truth
Judge:Ur name?
Wit:Avinash John Shende
Judge: What is [...]
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Ghastly Ghettos
The nefarious design of caste virus is here to stay. Unlimited and organised efforts from caste groups are on anvil in preserving and nurishing the caste order that accords supremacy/benefits to them in the form of negative discrimination . Shockingly, new developments among educated caste lots are observed; caste virus percolated in upper order of caste pyramid in more conspicuous sense than lower order. Even after education and consuming so [...]
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Inter-caste couples who defy their parents’ wishes often are banished from their families. Hostile village elders find ways to invalidate such unions, sometimes by alleging that one of the partners was coerced and throwing the other in jail. Or the couple is hounded out of the community, their homes and property forfeit.”People are morally, ethically, [...]
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The police have decided to close the case on the alleged murder of a Dalit farmer in Alahal village in Surpur taluk of Gulbarga district. They have rejected a complaint filed by the farmer’s son stating that his father was murdered by a landlord and others on the night of June 18 over a dispute [...]
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Fresh violence erupted in Thane (rural) on Sunday morning as more tribals were allegedly targeted for attending prayer meets. Despite an assurance from home minister R R Patil that the police would take action against attacks on tribals, six people were assaulted at Kuttal village in Wada taluka, around 125 km away from Mumbai. Vice-chairman [...]
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The court assembles at 11 A.M.The next Witness, Mr. Milind Bansod, Sub-divisional Officer of Bhandara is ready to depose before the court on the issue of Caste Certificate. The defence lawyer Adv. Jaiswal arrives in the court at 11:45 A.M. The Witness is called in the Witness box.
Judge : What is your name?
Witness: I am [...]
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Caste corrupts: Some readings
1. Each factor and its probable consequences for the pattern of corruption is explored in this article wherein it refers kinship, friendship, and ethnicity . In Indian situation caste as notion+institution gives more shape to kinship, friendship, and ethnicity than anything else. Here ‘Parochial Corruption is seperated from Market ‘ Corruption with following understanding-
As ideal types, ‘parochial’ corruption represents [...]
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..the bleeding eyes
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