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• The Weave of My Life: A Dalit Woman’s Memoir

  
  Feminist Review — Authority: 553
  By Urmila Pawar Columbia University Press At the end of her memoir, The Weave of My Life , Urmila Pawar writes, “Life has taught me many things, showed me so much, it has also lashed out at me till I bled. I don’t know how much longer I am going to live, nor do I know in what form life is going to confront ...
  6 hours ago

• Bangaloreans protest to access green spaces

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bangalore, Dec 1 (IANS) With placards in hands and shouting slogans, around 250 people protested against the Karnataka government’s proposed plan to make ID cards mandatory to enter Cubbon and Lalbagh parks, two of city’s sprawling green spaces.The protestors, mostly children from poor families, gathered near ...
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• Debunking the Beauty Myth

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 648
  Naomi Wolf author of The Beauty Myth discusses how images fueled by consumerism are used against women.  Wolf points out that the beauty myth becomes harsher after times of political gain for women, thus distracting us from the cause of equality. As Ecclesiastes…
  4 days ago

• Bihar will be top state: Nitish Kumar on completing 4 years

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Patna, Nov 24 (IANS) Bihar is poised to be one of the leading states in India, asserted Chief Minister Nitish Kumar whose NDA government completed four years in power Tuesday.“Our state is poised to be counted as one of the leading states in the country. The central government and other state governments have not ...
  1 week ago

• Ambedkar’s Boys at the Dalit Human Rights Movement (DHRM):

  
  RUPEE NEWS: Recording History, Narrating Archives, Strategic Intellibrief Analysis: Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | ??????? ????? | ???? | Rupi Nyheter | ??????? | ????? ????? — Authority: 446
  At first sight, 27-year-old VV Selvaraj looks more the assistant manager with Idea Cellular that he was until six years ago than the firebrand — and controversial — dalit leader he has quickly turned out to be in Kerala. He appears even less the man with the dubious distinction of being India’s first dalit ...
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• ‘Dalit India’ appeals ‘Black America’

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 115
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• Open Letter to President Barack Obama : An appeal to pursue during Indian Prime Minister’s visit

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 115
  November 21, 2009The Honorable Barack Obama,President of the United StatesThe White House1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20500Dear President,First of all thank you for making commitment to creating the most open and accessible administration in American history. We expect the fare treatment for our request ...
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• Probe against me Mayawati’s vendetta: Congress MP

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Lucknow, Nov 15 (IANS) Congress parliamentarian P.L.Punia Sunday charged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati with misusing her official position to set up probe against him and aid it was a “political vendetta” because his shift from bureaucracy to politics was not “palatable” to her.A former Indian ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patients pray as Bihar doctors’ strike enters third day

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Patna, Nov 12 (IANS) Left with no other option, hundreds of poor patients in Patna prayed for an end to the doctors’ strike that entered its third day Thursday, officials said.About 500 junior doctors have struck work demanding payment of the increased stipend that was promised to them earlier. Their strike has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why I am not a Hindu: Kancha Ilaiah

  
  RUPEE NEWS: Recording History, Narrating Archives, Strategic Intellibrief Analysis: Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | ??????? ????? | ???? | Rupi Nyheter | ??????? | ????? ????? — Authority: 446
  Kancha Ilaiah’s book ‘why I am not a Hindu’, should be made a textbook in all the colleges and universities all over the world. This is the most highly scholarly book on religion. Even Bertrand Russel’s book ‘Why I am not a christian’  is nothing in comparison because Bertrand russell was very ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tribal, Dalit women bear brunt of climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) Marginalised groups, especially women, who are heavily dependent on natural resources for their livelihood are bearing the brunt of climate change that hardly affects those staying in cities, it was evident at a public hearing organised here Wednesday.Rural households, that are most affected ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 92
  - PUNITA RIMAL / correspondent - Women News Network - WNNNepal has always been classed as a developing country. In the U.S. it is often called a “third world” country. And it may well remain that way unless Nepal can break out of the vicious cycle of exploiting its people, particularly its women. One strategy ...
  3 weeks ago

• Israel: Remote Control Occupation?

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 136
  Heading further down the road to total control of masses of people deemed by others as enemies or terrorist while waging terror on them remotely with high tech WMD Robots making or creating even more hatreds and enemies of!!Baum: New technologies are allowing Israel to maintain control over its occupation remotelyThis ...
  3 weeks ago

• Two women in new Maharashtra government (Lead, superseding earlier story)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party’s Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday.Both Fauzia, a Member of Legislative Council (the upper house) from Parbhani, and Gaekwad have been inducted as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Two women in new Maharashtra government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Mumbai, Nov 7 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) Fauzia Khan, a Muslim, and Congress party’s Varsha Gaekwad, a Dalit, have found place in the new Maharashtra council of ministers sworn in Saturday.Both Fauzia, a Member of Legislative Council (the upper house) from Parbhani, and Gaekwad, who became a giant ...
  3 weeks ago

• Israel: Remote control occupation?

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  Dandelion Saladhttp://therealnews.com/Baum: New technologies are allowing Israel to maintain control over its occupation remotelyThis week, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erakat, announced that because Israeli settlements continue to grow (with de facto US support) and annex the land planned for a future ...
  3 weeks ago

• Who are these “caste Hindus”?

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 128
  …or The Great Joke that is Indian Media - Part XI Excerpt from  an OpEd in the Indian Express (emphasis mine)*: This (Dalits entering a temple) could have made news 60 years ago. And even then, it would have been shocking. For the fact of Dalits entering a temple to make headlines in the 21st century only ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Letter: National Commission for SC and ST isn’t fake?

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 115
  Following is a painful letter from a High official in Govt of India public sector undertaking. The words melt the heart seeing the injustice meted out which are in invisible form and defunct National commission instead of working as watchdong for SC & ST rights becoming political centre for corruption. Doing ...
  4 weeks ago

• A page from History!

  
  My Take — Authority: 446
  This day that age ! Dalits and local political workers proclaim that they will enter the Sri Ekambareshwarar Temple at Chettipulam near Vedaranyam, for the first time ever on September 30. On that day and on the next day they find the temple locked. They do a sit-in for few hours and depart. On October ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dalits stage peaceful, orderly protest outside Varkala police station

  
  Kerala Letter — Authority: 408
  About 1,000 Dalits, mostly women, staged a dharna outside the Varkala police station this afternoon to protest against the police-Shiv Sena assault on Dalit colonies. The dharna was under the auspices of an umbrella organization called Dalit Janaadhipathya Aikyamunnani (Dalit Democratic United Front). The ...
  5 weeks ago

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