Latest News Update: Dec 24, 2009

Thursday, December 24, 2009

[ZESTCaste] Dr Maharaj Kaul's memorial service on 01/30/2009

Dear Donors and Friends,

I informed earlier about the sudden demise of Dr Maharaj Kaul. With it FFEI and I lost one of the best friends who helped us in so many ways. After his demise his sister who took his socail activities continued to help us. I thank her immensly for the help we have been receiving ever since.

Many came to know about his demise through our email communication and contacted me. I am informing and inviting you (on behalf of his sister, Ms Raj Kaul) to the memorial service on January 30, 2010. Details are available at http://www.friends4education.org/scholarship/2009/09maharaj_memorial.htm

I am planning to attened it. I will take this opportunity to meet anyone who is willing to meet me in Bay area on Jan 30 and 31. I like human touch to any relationship and hense delighted to meet and personally thank you for all the help we have been receiving. So, please let me know.

With regards

Ben

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[ZESTCaste] 2009 FFEI donation request

Dear Donors, Friends, and Sympathizers,

To those who celebrate, Merry Christmas, the birth of Jesus, the apostle of peace, compassion, and love.

Please ignore this email if you have already helped us in 2009 with your generous donation.

This is the end of the year and most importantly the season of giving. In this charitable season, can you think of helping an underprivileged child to get good education? If so, please consider our project Friends for Education International (FFEI) that has been helping such children since 2003. By doing so, you may help a kid and take the benefit of tax exemption for 2009 as we are a 501(C)(3) organization in US.

Let me first thank you immensely for all the support you have been extending since 2003. It is your help that sustained us all these years to help kids from the most vulnerable and marginalized sections of Indian society – mostly Dalits or Untouchables. Without your help we wouldn't be where we are now.

More than ever, we need your help now. Last year, in addition to giving scholarships to those who performed well in Tenth (Class 10) examinations, we adopted 50 kids from scavenging families to support them educationally from class I. Without your help, they may have to be dropped out of the school this year.

We have several other projects. You may be interested one of them as well. Please check our website www.friendsforeducation.org.

We believe you support us this year as you have done before. Any donation (small, big, cash, or kind) will be accepted with so much gratitude as every penny will be helpful to us.

These kids future depends on you and so we are counting you on.

We gain donors mostly by word of mouth. We do not have any corporate donors. We entirely depend on individuals.

Please spread the word among your friends, relatives, and colleagues and help us reach as many concerned individuals as we can. Please visit our website www.friendsforeducation.org for more details and write to me if you have any questions.

Please use one of the following to contribute:

Online contribution: http://www.friends4education.org/scholarship/0Main/html/donate_address.htm

To send a check:

In USD (We will provide receipt for tax purposes):

In favor of :FFEI (Friends for Education International)
Bank : US Bank, La Crescenta, CA

Address:
Benjamin P Kaila
2755 Sanborn Ave
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Email: benjamin_kaila@yahoo.com

In Rupees:

In favor of: Friends for Education International (India Chapter)
Bank: Corporation Bank, Nampally, Hyderabad

Mr K L Anand Paul
Gayatri Apartments,
Block 1, Flat 407, APIIC Colony, Jidimetla
Hyderabad, India 500 055

With regards

Ben

Note: I never intend to spam anyone. If anyone thinks so, I am sorry. Please let me know and I will stop sending right away.

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[ZESTCaste] Sops to spur firms to recruit Dalits

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091224/jsp/nation/story_11903585.jsp

Sops to spur firms to recruit Dalits

CITHARA PAUL
New Delhi, Dec. 23: India Inc. doesn't want a job quota forced down
its throat. So the government has come up with an alternative and a
bit of wordplay — "positive discrimination" — with tax exemptions and
other benefits as carrots.

An official said the Centre was thinking of an incentive-linked scheme
to ensure better placements for Dalits in the private sector, a plan
similar to benefits it has proposed for corporate houses that employ
religious minorities on a large enough scale.

"All these affirmative initiatives should be seen in the larger
context of the proposed equal opportunity commission aimed at ensuring
equal representation for all irrespective of sex, religion, caste,
race, birthplace, descent and language," said the official with the
social justice ministry. "All these actions have the potential to
redraw the future of India."

But he made it clear it wouldn't be at the cost of merit. "We are not
asking companies to sacrifice merit. We are just asking them to give
preference to a Dalit candidate if he or she is equally good as anyone
else. It will not amount to reservation but it will be a kind of
positive discrimination," the official said.

Implicit in the words positive discrimination was the hope private
firms would find the proposal more palatable than a job quota which
industry rejected outright saying it would scuttle "meritocracy".

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had to intervene by saying affirmative
action shouldn't be "pushed down anybody's throat", though he reminded
corporate houses of their social responsibilities.

The official said the government would consider incentives like tax
exemptions for companies that give preference to Dalits and added that
the corporate affairs ministry had been assigned the task of working
out the benefits.

The ministry, he added, was in touch with industrial houses, including
the Tata group, which has reacted positively.

The suggestion, mooted by the ministry in line with the UPA
government's commitment to uplift weaker sections, follows the
minority ministry's incentive-linked scheme for corporate houses for
employing religious minorities.

Under that plan, expected to be implemented by the end of next year,
the government would train a certain number of minority job seekers
for private-sector employment at its own cost, a source in the
minority ministry had said.

Sources in the social justice department said their ministry, too, was
working on a public-private partnership model to encourage private
sector companies to step up hiring from disadvantaged sections,
particularly Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. "We are planning
to give training to candidates keeping an eye on the requirements of
the private sector job market," the official said.

While ministry officials fine-tuned the plan, a Dalit organisation
said its leaders would go on a fast-unto-death for private sector job
quota.

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[ZESTCaste] Interview With Manda Krishna Madiga

http://www.cinegoer.com/telugu-cinema/interviews/interview-with-manda-krishna-madiga-241209.html

Interview With Manda Krishna Madiga

December 24, 2009 Y. Sunitha Chowdhary

Every family is splitting, 99 per cent families are disintegrating.
The best example of a perfect government and governance is USA. The
country has nearly 30 crore population living in 51 states.
Chandrababu Naidu has neither vision or credibility. He has failed his
people, his Party and cadre, never stood on his word. Yanamala said
don't use the word Telangana in 1999. It's been 25 years and the
Government has not brought in GO 610, they said it would come into
effect in 3 months but we had to wait this long.

YSR fooled the Telanganites too. As the poll campaign was on he spoke
in such a way that convinced Telangana people and he assured them but
the moment election got over in Telangana he said people will require
a visa to come to Hyderabad if they vote for TRS. In 1971 he took
active part in Rayalaseema Vidroha Dinam. How can this man be a
Samaikhyavadi? YSR organized a meeting in Sudha Residency with
Rayalaseema leaders. He too is two-tongued man. Infact both the chief
ministers CBN and YSR used the people for their selfish ends. Each one
of them supported and ditched Telangana as and when it suited them.

It is immaterial for MRPS whether KCR is into match fixing with Sonia
or not. All we want is a separate Telangana. MRPS is committed to
supporting people in their fight. Now we are supporting people for
separate Andhra. I plead all of you to go separate ways otherwise we
will have problems in the future, let's divide our assets don't we do
it in the family? They have been promising Telangana since 50 years,
now we are not prepared to wait.

I added Madiga to my name in 1994. People now call me with respect,
they address me as Krishna Madiga garu. It is not wrong to love one's
caste but it is wrong, an offence to abuse other's caste..people have
been since long ridiculing Madigas as Madigodu, Maalodu. MRPS is
committed to doing good to the society, we have contributed in a major
way.

YSR admitted that Arogyasri was inspired by me..he said that four days
before he died in the Assembly in his thanksgiving speech to the
Speaker. A girl from Madira in Khammam district required one lakh 40
thousand for a heart operation. She was a Muslim. Her name is Naseem.
I took her to YSR and he gave only 25 thousand. When I asked him for
the rest he refused, he asked her to accumulate the rest on her own.
When I insisted he said if he concedes to the demand, everyone will
approach him with the same request. He even threatened to kill me if I
pursued the demand.

He then came up with Arogyasri and started doling out to kids
operations and then extended it to adults as well for the election.
This is one contribution of MRPS. He applied it to handicapped people
and for the pension as well. MRPS has 80 lakh followers, we began with
20 people. I was 6 years old when I was going with my mother to
collect her day's wages. I had a stick in my hand and was playing with
it. It accidently touched her employer. He hit me so hard with that
stick and abused our caste. My mother instead of consoling me fell at
his feet and begged, apologized. That left an indelible impression on
my mind.

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[ZESTCaste] Fwd: Press release: Opinion poll on caste discrimination in The Netherlands

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From: <g.oonk@indianet.nl>
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Subject: Press release: Opinion poll on caste discrimination in The Netherlands
To:

Dear reader,
Please find below the following press release by the Dalit Network
Netherlands (DNN):
Opion poll in The Netherlands:
Companies and government should take a stand against caste discrimination
You can find the press release here: http://www.dalits.nl/pdf/pb091223.pdf
Happy Christmas and Fair and Healthy New Year.
Kind regards,

Gerard Oonk
co-ordinator Dalit Network Netherland
and
director India Committee of the Netherlands

Mariaplaats 4e,
3511 LH Utrecht
The Netherlands
tel. 030-2321340;
fax.030-2322246