Thursday, January 21, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Reservation to SCs, STs in polls: UP Houses support amendment

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Reservation-to-SCs--STs-in-polls--UP-Houses-support-amendment/570159/

Reservation to SCs, STs in polls: UP Houses support amendment
Agencies Posted: Jan 21, 2010 at 1948 hrs

Lucknow The two Houses of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature on Thursday
unanimously passed a resolution supporting the 109th amendment in the
Constitution for continuing reservation for the Scheduled Castes and
Tribes in the Lok Sabha and the state Vidhan Sabhas.
The resolution moved by Chief Minister Mayawati in both the houses,
for continuing with the reservation of seats for the SCs and the STs
for another ten years, was unanimously passed.

The scheduled tenure for the reservation of seats – in place since
sixty years -- was coming to an end on January 25 and a constitutional
amendment Bill to enhance the period by another ten years has already
been passed by Parliament.

Meanwhile, an official release here said the Budget session of the
state legislature which is traditionally convened in February was
preponed for getting the bill passed within time.

"Chief Minister Mayawati is of the view that SCs and ST's social,
educational and economical progress has not been up to the mark
therefore there is a need to extend the reservation further," the
release added.


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[ZESTCaste] Villagers stop mid-day meal cooked by Dalit women

 

http://www.ptinews.com/news/478675_Villagers-stop-mid-day-meal-cooked-by-Dalit-women

Villagers stop mid-day meal cooked by Dalit women

STAFF WRITER 16:48 HRS IST
Kendrapara (Orissa), Jan 21 (PTI) The mid-day meal (MDM) in a
government primary school in Orissa's Kendrapara district was stopped
after a section of villagers registered their protest allegedly
against the food being cooked by women of a particular caste.

MDM was stopped at Sidha Marichani primary school at Sanamarichapalli
village in Rajnagar tehsil yesterday. Some members of the Village
Education Committee (VEC) made their way to the school kitchen and
forced the cooks to stop cooking the noon meal, officials said today.

Two Dalit cooks were reportedly locked up inside the kitchen for over
an hour before the school headmaster rescued them, they said.

Meanwhile, Maa Ambika women self-help group, running MDM in the
school, expressed unwillingness to shoulder noon meal responsibility.
A complaint has been lodged in this regard by the SHG before the
Rajnagar block officials.

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[ZESTCaste] Jharkhand to probe officer’s misbehaviour with woman staff

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/jharkhand-to-probe-officers-misbehaviour-with-woman-staff_100306893.html

Jharkhand to probe officer's misbehaviour with woman staff

January 20th, 2010 - 6:31 pm ICT by IANS -
Ranchi, Jan 20 (IANS) A probe has been ordered into the alleged
misbehaviour of an education officer with a Dalit woman warden of a
Ranchi residential school.
Veena Kumari was a warden in Kasturba Gandhi Girls Residential School
situated at Ormanjhi block of Ranchi. She was sacked from the post in
October last year.

Her father lodged a First Information Report (FIR) in September last
year against District Education Superintendent Pradeep Chaube,
alleging that he abused and misbehaved with his daughter. No action
was taken despite the FIR.

State Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Hemlal Murmu told
reporters Wednesday: "We have come across the case. We will look into
it. If probe will find the officer guilty, we will take suitable
action."

Ranchi Deputy Commissioner K.K. Soan had ordered a probe in the entire
episode. An Additional District Magistrate rank official will probe
into the case and submit a report.


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[ZESTCaste] “Dr Ambedkar’s Buddhist movement is, I believe, the best hope for Buddhism in the world today” - An interview with Dh. Subhuti

 

"Dr Ambedkar's Buddhist movement is, I believe, the best hope for Buddhism in the world today"

An Interview with Dhammachari Subhuti

By Anoop Kumar

Dhammachari Subhuti, a British born, is an ordained member of International Buddhist order known as Friends of Western Buddhist Order (FWBO). This order was founded in London in 1967 by another British Buddhist monk known as Urgyen Sangharakshita to promote Buddhism in the West. Highly impressed by Babasaheb Ambedkar's interpretation of Buddhism and its role in contemporary times, this Buddhist Order has been working with Indian Buddhists from ex-untouchable communities since last thirty years through its Indian wing known as Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayak Gana (TBMSG).  However, recently the Order has been renamed as the Triratna Buddhist Order(Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha) and the wider movement is called the Friends of the Triratna Buddhist Order or Triratna Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayak Gana in Hindi (TBMSG).


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Dh. Subhuti speaking before Buddhist youth in Baudhgaya, Bihar (December 19th, 2009)

TBMSG has been working for the last thirty years in Maharashtra, and in some other states too, among the Dalits who have embraced Buddhism following in the footsteps of Babasaheb Ambedkar. How did your association with Ambedkarite Buddhism and Dalits begin?

Though our Indian wing was formed in 1979 as Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha Sahayaka Gana, but our relationship with Dr Ambedkar and his Buddhist followers goes long back, even before the time of Babasaheb's conversion to Buddhism in 1956.

Urgyen Sangharakshita, our teacher and the founder of TBMSG, although he was born in England, was at that time living in Kalimpong in West Bengal, where he had settled after his ordination as a bhikkhu. He first encountered Dr Ambedkar in 1950, when he read 'The Buddha and the Future of His Religion' in the Mahabodhi Journal. Read more… »

Read the entire interview at www.blog.insightyv.com 


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[ZESTCaste] Mid-day meal programme sparks caste row

http://www.kalingatimes.com/odisha_news/news2010/20100120_Mid-day_meal_programme_sparks_caste_row.htm

Mid-day meal programme sparks caste row
By Manoj Kar
Kendrapara, Jan. 20: In the latest caste-bound conflict, the noon meal
was yesterday stopped in a government-run primary school in a remote
village under Rajnagar tehsil with a section of villagers registering
their protest against cooking of mid-day meals by scheduled caste
women.

MDM was stopped yesterday at Sidha Marichani Primary School in
Sanamarichapalli village. A section of Village education committee
(VEC) members made their way to school kitchen and forced the Dalits
cooks to stop the noon meal. Their argument was that Dalits have no
right to cook in the school that accommodates the upper caste
children.

Two Dalits cooks were locked up inside the kitchen for over an hour
before the school head master rescued them.

Meanwhile, the Maa Ambika Women's Self Help Group running MDM in the
said school expressed unwillingness to shoulder noon meal
responsibility. A complaint has been lodged in this regard by the
concerned SHG before the Rajnagar block development.

The group alleged that they were being ill-treated because of their
lower-caste root.

Yesterday's incident has set off caste-bound divide in the remote village.

The village has a population of about 700 people of which nearly
one-third are from lower caste origin.

As one passes through the backward village with rows of mud-walled and
thatched houses, deceptive calm pervades the air. The demographic
graph of the village is heavily tilted towards the upper caste. The
upper castes, mostly landowners, are economically better off than the
Dalits.

"The upper caste parents are insistent that Dalit women cooks should
be shown the door. But we can not change the equation as it's the
decision of higher authorities to deploy them for cooking duty",
according to school head master Rabindra Nayak.

It's pertinent to note here that the School and Mass Education
Department was earlier accused of shutting the 'kitchen' doors for
Dalit women on the ground that upper caste children may skip the
mid-day meals. The government agencies monitoring the scheme in the
district had allegedly stopped recruiting the Dalits as cooks.

The retrenchment drive of Dalit cooks had triggered a furore with the
National Human Rights Commission last year directing the
administration to stop the caste-bound and arbitrary practice.

The Women & Child Welfare Department, through a notification had
ordered that the enrolment of MDM cooks in primary schools should be
preferably women from scheduled caste and tribe community. Priority
should be accorded to widows and destitute women from these lower
castes for cook enrolment.


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[ZESTCaste] Des Raj Kali, a Dalit writer, to feature at Jaipur literature fest

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Des Raj Kali, a Dalit writer, to feature at Jaipur literature fest
Amrita Chaudhry Posted online: Thursday , Jan 21, 2010 at 0513 hrs
Ludhiana : Des Raj Kali, a well-known Punjabi novelist, will be a part
of the six Dalit writers that will feature in the upcoming Jaipur
literature festival. This five-day festival opens on January 21 and
has dedicated a special focus on Dalit writing from Punjabi, Tamil,
English and Hindi. The other writers include P Sivakami, Om Prakash
Valmiki, Kancha Ilaiah, Ajay Navaria and Laxman Gaikwad.
According to Nirupama Dutt, who is anchoring the session, the
celebration is dedicated to the poetry of two people's poets of
Punjab, Lal Singh Dil and Sant Ram Udasi. Iqbal Udasi, poet and
daughter of Sant Ram Udasi, will also feature in the session which
will include discussions and rendering of inspirational poetry. The
session named 'A million suns' after a poem of that name by late Lal
Singh Dil will celebrate the Dalit literary traditions of Punjab for
this writing is part of a people's struggle to social justice.

Kali says, "I will be reading the first episode of my novel
Praansehswari. This novel is basically dedicated to the Nath and the
Sufi tradition and through this work I have tried to bring fore the
fact that respect and a sense of equality to the lower castes have
come through these two traditions and not through Sikhism and
Brhaminism, as claimed."

The Dalit Focus at JLF is being coordinated by S. Anand of Navayana
Publishing and Namita Gokhale, founder-director of Jaipur Literature
Festival. "Dalits, who constitute 17 pc of the India's 1.2 billion
population, are subjected to everyday violence and brutalities. It is
from such a context of hidden apartheid that Dalit literature emerges.
The opening panel in the Dalit focus, Outcaste: The Search for Public
Conscience, befittingly derives its title from Ambedkar's anxiety over
the lack of a public conscience in India when it comes to the issue of
discrimination against and oppression of Dalits," says Anand.


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[ZESTCaste] `Improve economic condition of poor, dalits'

 

http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=24931

`Improve economic condition of poor, dalits'
Category » Bhopal Posted On Wednesday, January 20, 2010
By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, Jan 20:
Leader of Opposition Ms Jamuna Devi has sharply reacted over the
proposed 'Madhya Pradesh Banao' Yatra by the Chief Minister Shivraj
Singh Chouhan from January 26 and said that until and unless economic
position of the poor, dalit and adivasis is not improved, such Yatras
would have no meaning.
Mrs Jamuna Devi reminded Chouhan of his innumerable announcements
during his earlier Yatras and said that if these announcements were
converted into action, a large number of villages would have been
developed by now.
She advised the chief minister, during his year and half long Yatra,
to find out about implementation of his announcements. She also told
him to see how much of the Rs 7 thousand crores received from the
Centre were really spent under National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme and how much of the amount went into the pockets of officers.
She also told them to find out why only 20 lakh job cards were made
instead of the proposed 1.15 crore job cards under the scheme.
The Leader of Opposition also advised Chouhan to find out why forests
were deranged in an area of 37 lakh hectares and what happened to the
funds given for their improvement. She also advised the chief minister
how illegal cutting of trees from the forests is being happened.

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[ZESTCaste] Come ye all to Asia’s biggest literature fest

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Come-ye-all-to-Asia-s-biggest-lit-fest/H1-Article1-499984.aspx

William Dalrymple, Co-director, Jaipur Literature Festival,
January 21, 2010
First Published: 01:13 IST(21/1/2010)
Last Updated: 09:11 IST(21/1/2010)

Come ye all to Asia's biggest literature fest

In January in 2004, I was invited to give a reading in Jaipur at a new
festival of music and dance that had just started in the Pink City.
The reading took place in a small room at the back of the university.
No one was able to find it and the event was sparsely attended —maybe
30 people, largely elderly aunties, turned up to hear it.

That evening, I suggested to the organiser, Faith Singh, that maybe
something could be done to start a small literary festival around her
Jaipur Heritage Festival, just as Edinburgh had its Book Festival
running alongside the main Edinburgh International Festival.

Two years later, the festival finally kicked off with 18 authors. All
were Indian-residents, "and two failed to show up," remembers my
co-director, Namita Gokhale, who has done more than anyone else to
make that idea a reality.

Since then, something rather remarkable has happened at Jaipur. The
DSC Jaipur Literature Festival has grown like some creature from the
Puranic myths, so that last year, on our fourth festival, no less than
140 authors from 15 countries spoke to crowds of over 20,000 people.
In a few short years we've suddenly found ourselves running the
largest literary festival in Asia, and the biggest free festival of
literature in the world. Tina Brown of the New Yorker, who visited for
the first time, dubbed us "the greatest literary show on earth".

This year we have no less than 193 authors pitching up from around 30
different countries. No one knows how many punters will turn up.

Several things combine to make Jaipur different from — and a lot more
fun than — any other book festival. First of all, it really is a
festival. The buildings are festooned with streamers, there are always
thousands of people milling around, we let off fireworks at night and
after 6.30 pm, the writers have to shut up and give the stage over to
music and dancing until the early hours of each morning.

Second, it is completely free. Anyone can turn up. It is an exuberant,
joyful, crazy fiesta bursting with writers, readers, students from
Delhi, unpublished poets from Bihar, Bombay socialites, Bengali
political activists, diaspora returnees from New York and London,
autograph-seeking schoolchildren — last year even Julia Roberts and
her new baby.

In the course of things, inevitably, we've run into a few controversies.

Last year everything was thrown into confusion by the terrorist
attacks in Mumbai before Christmas.

One of our themes was to highlight the emergence of a group of
talented young writers in Pakistan such as Mohsin Hamid and Kamila
Shamsie.

But after 26/11, many figures on the centre-left as well as the right
argued for a sporting and cultural boycott of Pakistan, while on the
extreme right, Raj Thackeray called for all Mumbai bookshops that
stocked Pakistani books to be attacked — leading the police to advise
booksellers there to withdraw Pakistani writers, which many did.

We, however, took a view that that books, films, art, music and
literature are what gives South Asians an identity, joy and momentum.

Once you start pulling the plug on writers and artists, the fanatics
have won. We held our ground, and in the end our Pakistani authors
were the stars of the show.

In a standing room only session titled 'Moonlight's Children', Nadeem
Aslam and Daniyal Mueenuddin talked about the wave of terrorism
engulfing Pakistan and how it caused a sort of "premature nostalgia...
writing very fast," said Aslam, "with a quill whose other end is on
fire".

We also try to highlight those Indian authors who write in some of
India's 22 national languages, 122 regional languages and 1,726 mother
tongues.

Many of the most popular events in the festival are in these bhasha tongues'.

Two years ago, for example, we hosted Anupam Mishra whose work has
never been translated into English or any non-Indian language, but
whose non-fiction book on traditional methods of water harvesting has
sold more than a million copies in Hindi.

So this year among our international stars like Wole Soyinka, Hanif
Kureishi, Roddy Doyle, Louis de Bernieres, Vikram Chandra, Amit
Chaudhuri, Anne Enright, Michael Frayn, Claire Tomalin and Niall
Ferguson — we're importing a Nobel laureate, a winner of the Samuel
Johnson Prize, two Booker winners and five winners of the Pulitzer
Prize as well as leading writers from the world of history, biography,
literary criticism and travel — we are also hosting Nirmala Putul, a
poet whose tribe is in Chattisgarh, Sister Jesme, a defrocked nun from
Kerala whose recent book Amen lifted the lid on the sexual and
psychological abuse she says is rampant in the Catholic Church in
India, and a whole raft of dalit writers such as like Kancha Ilaiah,
Bama and OP Valmiki, whose writing highlights the raw power of pain,
anger and affirmation.

The show opens today, and we welcome any book lover willing to make
the pilgrimage to Jaipur to share in the joys of communication and
creativity, debate and argument, intellectual stimulation and, above
all, the pleasure of ideas.

You don't need passes or tickets: just turn up, listen, join in and
become part of something extraordinary.


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