On 3rd March, 2013, Sunday9:30 am At St. Xavier’s College, Siddharth Assembly Hall, Narangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Dear Friends,
Gujarat Dalit and Adivasi Students’ Convention
“Lack of strong Dalit movement in Gujarat gives RSS-VHP-BJP a free run”
Anoop Kumar Gujarat assembly elections are here, and Round Table India takes this as an opportunity to post an interview of French Scholar Dr. Christophe Jaffrelot that was first published by the Dalit students’ magazine ‘Insight Young Voices’ (Feb-March, 2008). This interview was taken by Anoop Kumar for the magazine on the eve of …
Dalit Women’s Right to Political Participation in Rural Panchayati Raj (Part 2)
Dalit Women’s Right to Political Participationin Rural Panchayati Raj A study of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu Continued from here. ~Executive Summary ~Jayshree MangubhaiAloysius Irudayam sjEmma Sydenham ~(Research done in Collaboration with Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat and Evidence, Tamil Nadu) ~ IV. Responsiveness of the State “I did not take other problems …
Dalit Women’s Right to Political Participation in Rural Panchayati Raj (Part 1)
Dalit Women’s Right to Political Participationin Rural Panchayati RajA study of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu ~Executive Summary ~Jayshree MangubhaiAloysius Irudayam sjEmma Sydenham ~(Research done in Collaboration with Navsarjan Trust, Gujarat and Evidence, Tamil Nadu) ~ “More and more Dalit1 women should contest the elections and get elected to the panchayat, and help the Dalit community …
Thaan Dalit Mahasammelan
At the Thaan Dalit Mahasammelan held on October 2, close to 50,000 dalit community members gathered in Thangadh town to protest the killing of three youths in police firing on September 22 and 23. {youtube}AOfH7vfNTYc{/youtube} Speaking on the occasion, Raju Solanki, Dalit rights activist said:
Gujarat: Myth and reality
Bhalchandra Mungekar A war of words has erupted between the chief ministers of Bihar and Gujarat. Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar has slammed Narendra Modi for taking potshots at the state’s slow socio-economic growth. The altercation began with Modi saying that caste politics has ruined states like Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Hitting back, Nitish has …
The Other Mahatma
Gail Omvedt (First published in May, 2002) The publication of a collection of English translations of the writings of Jotirao Phule, the nineteenth century social radical, by LeftWord publications marks, hopefully, a transition in the attitude of the left towards the struggle against Brahmanism. It also marks an increasing recognition of the importance of Phule, …
How to stop another Gujarat?
Karthik Navayan [Karthik Navayan wrote this article ten years ago, in 2002, after visiting Gujarat as a relief volunteer seeking to offer aid to the victims of the 2002 carnage. The one persistent thought on his mind after the experience was: how to stop Andhra Pradesh from becoming Gujarat? How to stop any other state …
Killings in the name of witchcraft
Karthik Navayan [A February, 2010 article in Oneworld South Asia gives us an idea about the scale of the problem of ‘witch-hunting’ in rural India: ‘Statistics on witch-hunting crimes compiled by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) are a cause of concern. The NCRB reported that in 2007, 177 cases of witchcraft-related murders were reported …