Monday, February 8, 2010

[ZESTCaste] press question

 

Hello,

My name is Anuj. I'm a reporter with The National, an international daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi.

I'm working on a story on inter-caste marriages in India.

I'm interested in interviewing an inter-caste couple in Pune/Mumbai. Someone who got married in the last year or two -- say, a Dalit married to a non-Dalit, or a couple from two different castes who faced opposition from their families. Do you know of any such couple who would be interested in sharing their inspiring story with the press?

I'd be very grateful to hear from you soon. Many thanks.

Best,
Anuj

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Anuj Chopra
Foreign Correspondent
The National
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[ZESTCaste] Who is the President of SC/ST Forum in parliament

 

Dear friends, if some one knows the name and address of the Presedent of SC/ST MPs forum in parliament please write it to me.  
        
 
Dr. Uaday Singh
Assistant Professor
Deptt. of Mathematics
BHU, Varanasi


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Re: [ZESTCaste] Dalit party wants Sena, MNS derecognised

 

This misleading headline suggests "Dallt party wants Sena" but seeks to have the MNS de-recognized. Perhaps it would have been appropriate if it read: "Dalit Party wants Sena and MNS derecognised.

--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Siddhartha Kumar <mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Siddhartha Kumar <mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com>
Subject: [ZESTCaste] Dalit party wants Sena, MNS derecognised
To: "zestcaste" <zestcaste@yahoogroups.com>
Received: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 6:04 AM

http://in.news. yahoo.com/ 32/20100206/ 1054/tnl- dalit-party- wants-sena- mns-derecogni. html

Dalit party wants Sena, MNS derecognised

Sat, Feb 6 11:35 AM

Lucknow, Feb. 6

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[ZESTCaste] 1 held for assaulting Dalit women cooks

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=1+held+for+assaulting+Dalit+women+cooks&artid=rBWK0c14oWc=&SectionID=mvKkT3vj5ZA=&MainSectionID=fyV9T2jIa4A=&SectionName=nUFeEOBkuKw=&SEO=

1 held for assaulting Dalit women cooks

Express News ServiceFirst Published : 08 Feb 2010 10:50:02 AM IST

Last Updated : 08 Feb 2010 07:04:42 PM IST

KENDRAPARA: A Member of the village education committee in
Sanamarichapli village here, Niranjan Pradhan, was arrested yesterday
for allegedly assaulting and forcibly detaining two Dalit women when
they refused to quit from their jobs as cooks in Maa Sidha Marichandi
Nodal School on January 19. He was produced in JMFC, Pattamundei,
which denied bail and remanded him to judicial custody.


Ketaki Sethi, one of the Dalit women, had filed an FIR against
Niranjan, said Maheswar Sethi, the Officer-in- Charge of Rajnagar
police station.

Cooking mid-day meals at the school was stopped three weeks back after
students belonging to upper caste refused to eat meals cooked by the
two Dalit women. They were instigated by some upper caste persons of
the village including Pradhan.

The authorities had entrusted Ma Ambika SHG to provide mid-day meals
to students and the SHG appointed two upper caste women for the
purpose. But on January 19, the SHG replaced upper caste women cooks
and entrusted two Dalit women - Ketaki Sethi and Sebati Sethi - for
the work. This was, however, not accepted by the upper caste men who
assaulted and locked the two women in the kitchen for an hour before
the headmaster rescued them.

Headmaster Rabindra Nayak said he was being forced by the upper caste
villagers to disengage the two women. "But I pleaded my helplessness
as it was the decision of the higher authorities," he said.

The village has a population of 700 people of which about one-third are Dalits.

An administrative inquiry was initiated.

The situation has worsened to an extent that now both the Dalit and
upper caste communities of the village and its nearby areas are at
loggerheads over the issue. Sources said the upper caster people have
threatened to withdraw their wards from the school if upper caste
cooks are not appointed to prepare the mid-day meals.

District Collector Sishirkanta Panda said that police action would be
initiated against those opposing appointment of the Dalit women as
cooks in the school.


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[ZESTCaste] Memorials will not cost any more money, says Mayawati

http://blog.taragana.com/politics/2010/01/29/memorials-will-not-cost-any-more-money-says-mayawati-15988/

Memorials will not cost any more money, says Mayawati

By IANS

January 29th, 2010
LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday claimed that
the memorials and statues erected by her in Lucknow and in Noida will
not put any further drain on the state exchequer.


Replying to the discussion in the state assembly here on the motion of
thanks to the Governor's address, she said: "I would like to clarify
that we have not made any further allocations towards the memorials
with effect from the next financial year."

Contrary to clear cut allocation of more than Rs.5,000 crore in the
past budgets, Mayawati claimed that only one percent of the state's
annual budget was allocated towards the memorials. Uttar Pradesh's
budget is of the order of about Rs.120,000 crore.

This was at variance with the state government's own admission before
the country's apex court of about Rs.2,600 crore being spent on these
memorials.

Intending to justify the expenditure, she said: "This would not have
been required if the past governments had cared to show some respect
towards different dalit icons in whose memory nothing was ever built".

"On the other hand, successive government - both at the centre and the
states - only concentrated on building memorials in the name of their
own leaders," she said, adding that the upkeep and security of these
monuments have been costing the state exchequer a fortune "about which
no body talks".

Simultaneously, she also blamed the central government for turning
down her repeated demand for a special grant of Rs.80,000 crore for
the desired development of the state's backward regions of Bundelkhand
and Purvanchal.

"The central government has not paid any heed to my repeated requests
for a special economic package of Rs.80,000 crore for Bundelkhand and
Purvanchal," she lamented.

Giving out a long list of development works undertaken across the
state, she flayed the opposition for painting a false picture about
her government's working. "The extent of work that my government has
done for the larger good of the state and its people cannot be matched
by any past government," Mayawati claimed.


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[ZESTCaste] Hate speech II: Varun abuses Pawar, Mayawati

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/hate-speech-ii-varun-abuses-pawar-mayawati/109773-37.html?from=tn?from=rssfeed

Hate speech II: Varun abuses Pawar, Mayawati

IANS

Lucknow: In an apparent reference to Union Food and Agriculture
Minister Sharad Pawar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi
Saturday equated him with mythological demon king Ravana and said
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is his sister Surpnakha.


"A pair of brother and sister is responsible for the inflation in our
country. While the Ravana is a minister and sits in Delhi, his sister
-- a chief minister -- sits in Lucknow," Varun said, addressing a
rally in the Shikarpur town in Bulandshahar district.


Varun accused the two leaders of being "mainly responsible" for
inflation in the country and said that both "indulge in blame game
when it comes to containing inflation."


"Price rise is an issue all right, but we should not forget what our
party was formed for. We should not compromise on our self-respect,"
he said.


"If we don't fight for our self-respect, the Ganga (river), Gau mata
(cows), our temples and the youth, then everything else will fall
apart," he added.


The BJP leader had last year courted controversy for his communally
incendiary speeches against the Muslim community.


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