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• Patients pray as Bihar doctors’ strike enters third day

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  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 ...
  16 hours 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: 515
  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 ...
  17 hours ago

• Tribal, Dalit women bear brunt of climate change

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  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 ...
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• NEPAL: New computer learning brings girls empowerment and education

  
  Women News Network - WNN — Authority: 91
  - 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 ...
  2 days ago

• Israel: Remote Control Occupation?

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Two women in new Maharashtra government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Israel: Remote control occupation?

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 540
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Who are these “caste Hindus”?

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 125
  …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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  Atrocity News — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• A page from History!

  
  My Take — Authority: 450
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dalits stage peaceful, orderly protest outside Varkala police station

  
  Kerala Letter — Authority: 515
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Left & Right – United

  
  Just Jo — Authority: 118
  The Varkala Murder case (in Kerala State) and the Police relating it to a Dalit organization have once again exposed the mindset of mainstream media, mainstream Left and extreme Right. The interesting thing is that the Left and Right (CPM and Shiv Sena) allegedly join hands along with Police to hunt down the Dalits in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The United Front of Left and Right

  
  Blogbharti — Authority: 428
  The Varkala Murder case (in Kerala State) and the Police relating it to a Dalit organization have once again exposed the mindset of mainstream media, mainstream Left and extreme Right. The interesting thing is that the Left and Right (CPM and Shiv Sena) allegedly join hands along with Police to hunt down the Dalits in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scorn: A Short Story By Bama

  
  aPocRyPHaL — Authority: 103
  The most abundant genre of Dalit writing you can find online is analytical. Poetry is next. Rarely you see a short story. Asking for a novel or an autobiography online is probably too much. One can hardly expect something like the Golden Notebook Project [link] at this stage.  Besides, the UN has just begun to [...]
  3 weeks ago

• What has made DHRM possible?

  
  Just Jo — Authority: 118
  On September 23rd, a 61 year old ordinary citizen from Varkala went for his usual morning walk and was brutally killed by a group of militants with swords. By evening, the police arrested a member of DHRM (Dalit Human Rights Movement) in connection with this murder, which was followed up by the arrest of 6 others from ...
  3 weeks ago

• Books and Blogging: My Side of the Story

  
  Meena Kandasamy — Authority: 98
  This presentation was made at the Panel Discussion on The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media , Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library as part of the 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium PLATFORMS FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARS. Professor Teresa Mangum at the Department of English, University of Iowa invited ...
  3 weeks ago

• Justifying reservations

  
  Blogbharti — Authority: 428
  Winnowed argues for caste-based reservations: In my opinion, purely caste-based reservations do perpetuate caste divisions in the short term. However, they also uplift untouchable and backward castes, to a large extent, though it is at the expense of the upper castes. If (social and economic) upliftment of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Dalits of Europe

  
  Blogbharti — Authority: 428
  Jai Bhim Network is a group that is working among the Romas (derogatorily referred as Gypsies) in Hungary. In their effort of creating linkages with the Dalit movement of India and draw inspiration the network has been in constant interaction with many of the young Dalit activists in India. The network is also ...
  4 weeks ago

• Remembering K.Balagopal

  
  Blogbharti — Authority: 428
  A site dedicated to the memory of human rights activist Balagopa l who passed away recently. Anand Teltumbde recalls his association with his ‘dearest friend and comrade’: I knew Balagopal since 1980s and admired him for his sharp intellect and deep commitment to human rights. Not many in the movement knew ...
  4 weeks ago

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