Archive for January, 2008
In a hard-hitting reminder of Punjab’s feudal ethos, a Jat farmer strangulated his 23-year-daughter, who had dared to fall in love with a lower caste man and wanted to marry him, here on Saturday.Though the killer father has been arrested, he is bereft of remorse for having eliminated his own daughter – all in the [...]
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For once a politician is at the receiving end.
A Congress MLA from Chhattisgarh had to pay a fine of Rs 24,000 to the community he belongs to following his son’s inter-caste marriage.
Champa constituency MLA Motilal Dewangan’s son Dharesh (name changed) was physically challenged since he was seven months old. However, he was a good student [...]
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The court assembles at 11:42 A.M.The previous witness, Mahadev Zanzad is again ready to be examined by the C.B.I.Counsol, Adv.Ejaj Khan.
Adv.Khan: The statement you gave to the Magistrate was read over to you & you yourself too read it.Right?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Khan: Whatever you told was exactly recorded by the Magistrate.Right?
Wit: yes.
Adv.Khan: The same statement you gave to the C.B.I.& [...]
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Now, the next witness , Mahadeo Balkrishna Zanzad is called in the witness-box to depose.The C.B.I. counsol , Adv. Ejaz Khan is ready to examine him.
Adv. Khan: What is your eduacation?
Wit: I have passed upto 11th Std.
Adv. Khan: Since how long you are residing at Khairlanji?
Wit: I am residing at hairlanji since from my birth.
Adv. Khan:Did you [...]
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The court again assembles after lunch break.The defence lawyer Adv.Sudeedp Jaiswal is again ready to cross-examine the witness.
Adv.Jaiswal: Did you tell the police that there were ladies attackers?
Wit: No.
Adv.Jaiswal: But is recorded by the police . Why?
Wit: It is not correctly recorded by the police.
Adv.Jaiswal: Whether you stated to the police that amongst those attackers [...]
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A ‘purification’ ritual was performed in the famous Guruvayur Sree Krishna temple on Sunday night after a British national entered it, despite his claim that he had converted to Hinduism.
The temple thanthri (the traditional high priest) ordered ‘punyaham’ to be performed after it was found that the British national had worshipped in the shrine, where [...]
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Why P. Sainath writes? Simple as it is, he is true to his pains, because he takes pain in understanding pain of 250 million block of Dalits in India who suffer every day owing to human made structure called ‘caste’ from ages. Jackals belonging to pseudo-intellectual tradition are seen today making ample hue & cry for no pains and busy finding many [...]
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Everlasting Casting of caste
Following are experts views from Emily Wax of washinton Post on the Indian caste slavery.Though Illegal, Bias Based on India’s Ancient Pecking Order Persists. But a Few Schools Are Opening Doors to Dreams. Any comments?
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N ot so long ago, in the back of a tin-roofed restaurant, Ramu, a teenage dishwasher, spent his nights chained to [...]
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The defence lawyer Adv.Khandelwal contiues his cross-examination of the witness, Dinesh Dhande.
Adv.Khandelwal: Betala , Devhara & Palora are the neighbouring villages of your village, Khairlnji.Right?
Wit : No.
Adv.Khandelwal: In those 3 villages there were many thefts from houses & in the fields in the months of July to August 2006.Right?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Khandelwal: Is it also right that [...]
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The defence lawyer Adv.Khandelwal is again ready to continue to cross-examine the witness, Dinesh Dhande.
Adv.Khandelwal: Do you know that if Sidhhartha would come to Bhaiyyalal’s house, he would go out of his house?
Wit: No , I don’t know.
adv.Khandelwal: Is it true that sometimes the ladies of the village used to quarrel with Surekha Bhotmange?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Khandelwal: [...]
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After Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange , the next witness, witness no.19, Dinesh Dhande is called in the witness-box. The public prosecutor from C.B.I. , Adv.Ejaz Khan is ready to examine him.
Adv.Khan: What is you age?
Wit: 26 Years.
Adv.Khan: What is your occupatioon?
Wit: I am a farmer.
Adv.Khan: Since from when , you are living in Khairlanji?
Wit : Since from my [...]
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The court assembles at 11:30 A.M.The defence lawyer , Adv.M.T.Bedarkar is ready to contiue to cross-examine the witness, Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange.
Adv.Bedarkar: After the incident , when did you first visit Khirlanji?
Wit: On 30/9/06, I left house of Sidhhartha at about 4 to 4:30 A.M.Then I went to Kharlanji walking.I reached Khairlanji in 15 minutes.
Adv.Bedarkar: What [...]
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(The court again assembles at 3 P.M.The witness Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange is again ready to be cross-examined by Adv.M.T.Bedarkar)
Adv.Bedarkar : Ther is a canal situated at about half Km. from your field which flows from Kandri side to Andhalgaon.Right?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Bedarkar: One branch of canal also goes towards Dhusala.Right?
Wit: Yes.
Adv.Bedarkar: Is it true that at the time [...]
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A love affair in a Marathwada village took a gruesome turn when outraged relatives of an upper-caste girl gouged out one of the eyes of a Dalit boy who had eloped with her. The relatives then tried to inflict the same punishment on one of the friends of the boy, but he managed to escape [...]
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Villagers in Phooljhar, about 90 km from Raipur, beat their Dalit sarpanch, Bholaram, to death on Friday, reportedly infuriated by his offensive behaviour. After battering him to death, the mob set his body ablaze. The police, however, managed to recover the burnt body.
Villagers told police that Bholaram misbehaved with people at the local exhibition on [...]
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(cross-examination by Adv.M.T.Bedarkar of the witness , Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange)
Adv.Bedarkar : Is it true that earlier when you made grass-hut on Govt. land , Gram Panchayat objected?
Wit : Yes.
Adv.Bedarkar : When you were constructing the grass hut this way , there would be the quarrel with the Gram Panchayat members & the vilagers. Right?
Wit : No.
Adv.Bedarkar: [...]
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Caste-Virus in Indian Cricket
Caste could play a role in who represents India, writes Andrew Stevenson from Sydney Morning Herald.
MANY and proud are those to make a major contribution to Indian cricket. Narayan Masurekar is not often listed among them, though perhaps he deserves a place.Masurekar was a relative of Sunil Gavaskar, born on July 10, 1949 in [...]
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Nineteen-year-old Poonam’s blank look speaks of the trauma she has suffered at the hands of her family. Her relatives, threw her into a canal at Tibbi, near Haryana’s border with Rajasthan, and left her to die. All because she, a Jat girl, married a Dalit boy. “They forcibly made me sit in a jeep and [...]
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― Prosecutors say a 57-year-old man set a fire that killed his daughter, her husband and their 3-year-old son because the son-in-law came from a “lower caste system” and had not asked him for the daughter’s hand in marriage.
Subhash Chander was ordered held without bond Tuesday in a hearing before Judge Martin McDonough at the [...]
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PROCEEDING ON 15 th NOVEMBER
The court assembles at 11:15 A.M.Previous witness Mr. Bhaiyyalal Bhotmange is ready to be cross-examined by the defence lawyer Adv.Neeraj Khandewale.
Adv.Khandewale : Is it true that the land you possessed was the ancestral & it was barren?
Wit: Yes, it was barren but due to our hard work we made it cultivable.
Adv.Khandewale [...]
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Following is the report from online Wall Street Journal. The article tries to portray the Khairlanji incidence in the backdrop of ongoing atrocities on Dalits in India due to inhuman caste graded inequal system!
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By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV
December 27, 2007; Page A1
KHAIRLANJI, India — Not long ago, the Bhotmange family was a showcase of how Dalits, the [...]
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..the bleeding eyes
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