Friday, February 26, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Panchami the Dalits Land

 


 Panchmi  the  Dalit`s  Land....Read.

http://dalitskerala.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/panchami-land-in-tamil-nadu/



The  Dalit  Land  of  Tamilnadu



An educated man without character and humility was more dangerous than
a beast. If his education was detrimental to the welfare of poor, he
was a curse to society.
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[ZESTCaste] Untouchable prejudice

http://www.theage.com.au/world/untouchable-prejudice-20100226-p94d.html


Untouchable prejudice

AMRIT DHILLON, NEW DELHI
February 27, 2010

A Dalit ("untouchable") man sits on the outskirts of the city of
Lucknow. Photo: Reuters

A VIBRATION of sympathy ran through the audience at the recent Jaipur
Literary Festival in Rajasthan as author Omprakash Valmiki, his voice
trembling with indignation, spoke of the daily humiliations suffered
by his community.

As one of India's 160 million ''untouchables'', Valmiki is part of an
emerging genre of writers now telling their stories of centuries of
abuse under the rigid and hierarchical Hindu caste system. Brimming
with anger and bitterness at the injustices meted out by upper caste
Hindus for more than 2000 years, the writing has a singular quality to
it: raw and jagged, full of anger and pain.

His people, Valmiki told the audience, were not allowed to wear decent
clothes, ride on a horse during marriage processions, draw water from
the village well or remain seated while an upper caste person was
standing.

Indeed, the very word ''untouchable'' hurts - denoting a status so
lowly it falls outside the caste system, a system that deems
untouchables too filthy for higher castes to touch, and which has in
the past decreed that molten lead be poured into the ears of
untouchables who tried to memorise Hindu sacred texts, and that the
tongues be cut from upstarts who dared to read them.

Hardly surprising then that many of India's 160 million untouchables
would rather be known by a term of their own choosing, ''Dalit'' - the
word is derived from the Sanskrit for destroyed or crushed - much as
African Americans rejected ''Negro'' during the civil rights movement
in the US.

As Valmiki spoke, the largely upper caste audience almost visibly
winced with embarrassment. Dalit children, he continued, were seated
apart in school, forced to sweep the classroom and given water in
different glasses. Upper caste Hindus refused to be treated by a Dalit
doctor or rent their homes to Dalits for fear of ''pollution''.

The session's title, Why Hindus Feel No Shame, had been chosen by
Valmiki's colleague, Dalit writer and academic Kancha Ilaiah. "Whites
in America fought alongside the blacks in the civil rights movement in
the '70s. White South Africans fought to end apartheid,'' said Ilaiah.
''But which upper caste Hindus have fought to end untouchability?"

In the Hindu system, the four castes are, in descending order, the
Brahmins (priests and teachers), Kshatriyas (rulers and warriors),
Vaishyas (merchants and traders), and Shudras (servants). The
''untouchables'' are outside the caste system and as outcasts, their
very touch pollutes a high caste Hindu who regards them as
''unclean''.

The reason Hindus had never struggled to end untouchability, said
Ilaiah, author of the acclaimed Why I Am Not a Hindu, was because they
felt no guilt, this absence arising from their conviction that the
caste system was morally just. Thus, said Ilaiah, although
untouchability was a much deeper form of human degradation than racial
discrimination, upper caste Hindus could countenance it without
discomfort, the segregation being, in their world view, divinely
ordained.

Racism, he continued, had for many years dictated that black Americans
could not sit next to whites on buses or in restaurants. In South
Africa, it had meant that blacks could not vote. ''But if a white
person touched a black person, he did not have to go and bathe because
the black was 'unclean','' he said. ''The black person was still
regarded as a human being created by God.

''But Hindus have to bathe if they touch a Dalit because God himself,
according to them, created him as an untouchable.''

That Dalit literature was a special theme at a mainstream book
festival such as the now globally known Jaipur Literature Festival,
attended by Indian and international authors, was thanks to festival
co-founder and publisher Namita Gokhale.

''I wanted to bring this genre to the attention of a wider audience.
Their voices, their stories need to be heard. They have a message for
India about the deep injustices in our society that have been glossed
over for millennia," she said.

Although the Indian constitution bans any caste-based discrimination,
the reality is quite different. True, owing to affirmative action in
politics and government jobs, Dalits are more visible than before in
these two spheres of Indian life. But few Dalits can be found in the
world of books, music, film, theatre, art and the media. India has no
famous Dalit actor, model, singer, journalist or television
personality. No Dalit version of the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire
- portraying the lives of Dalits sympathetically - has ever been made.

And even today, Dalits, who form 17 per cent of India's 1.2 billion
people, continue to be subjected to routine brutality.

Against such a backdrop, even the act of writing a book becomes a
powerful gesture, asserting the right to intellectual creativity for a
community that has never before moved beyond simple survival. ''By
writing, Dalits are claiming their right to beauty instead of being
confined to struggling for bare necessities,'' said Dalit novelist
Ajay Navaria, who teaches at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New
Delhi.

Political scientist Christopher Jaffrelot sees Dalit writing as a
specific literary genre. ''It gives us a new history of India, a
history from below, a history that is not found in the textbooks," he
said. It was inevitable, he said, that Dalit works should be full of
rage and rebellion, for it was the first time in their history that
Dalits were narrating their experiences. ''Just as with feminism and
the American civil rights movement, the first wave of writing tends to
be autobiographical.''

This is not to say that upper caste Indian authors have never
portrayed Dalits in their novels. On occasion, they have, but these
characters are invariably drawn as passive victims. ''When Dalits
write about themselves, it is a totally different kind of writing. It
is a cry of anguish. It is very moving and powerful,'' said Jaffrelot.

S. Anand, head of Navayana, which exclusively publishes Dalit works,
believes it is impossible for Dalits to sever their relationship with
pain, which is why their works make uncomfortable reading. ''When your
entire early experience has been shaped by caste cruelties, it can
never be a light-hearted, easy read,'' he said.

The days when untouchables had to wear a bell around their necks to
alert any approaching high caste person so that the latter could
quickly cross to the other side of the path to avoid being
''polluted'' may be over, but other forms of dehumanisation flourish,
particularly in the countryside, where 75 per cent of Indians live.

Valmiki, writing in his book Joothan, describes being forced by the
headmaster to sweep the classroom in the village school he attended
while the upper caste pupils studied, and writes of how his parents,
whose caste required them to remove human excrement from upper caste
toilets, squatted outside the homes of upper caste villagers, waiting
patiently for leftover food to be thrown out.

Years later, Valmiki feels sick whenever the memory of those days
returns. ''It was not so much that we had to eat the leftovers but the
fact that we were so hopelessly poor we relished them. That is what
rankles still.''

Elsewhere in Joothan, he describes how, not being recognised as a
Dalit, he is mistakenly treated with kindness by a family. They invite
him home for tea. Valmiki's heart melts with gratitude on being
treated like a human being. Not all people are wicked, he thinks to
himself. Minutes later, his host asks him his name and, realising his
mistake, throws Valmiki out, hurling obscenities at him.

Valmiki defends the genre against critics who have derided Dalit
writing as lacking in literary merit, dismissed it as propagandist or
claimed that the stark portrayals of injustice have been exaggerated.

''What they don't understand is that the Dalit literary movement is
not just a literary movement. It is also a cultural and social
movement because Dalit books portray the aspirations and wishes of
tormented Dalits,'' he said.

Even at the Jaipur Literary Festival, some people furtively exchanged
quizzical looks as P. Sivakami, until recently a senior civil servant
in Tamil Nadu, spoke about her experiences. Sivakami said caste kept
intruding into her life, no matter how hard she fought to escape it.
As the guest of honour at a school, she had recently stood alongside
an upper caste colleague as they watched a procession of Dalit
students.

''The first thing my colleague said was that they were 'too pretty',
they couldn't possibly be Dalit girls,'' said Sivakami. Her latest
Tamil novel, translated into English as The Grip of Change, marks a
departure from Dalit literary tradition, tackling the male domination
of the Dalit social movement rather than recounting her childhood
experiences.

S. Anand is never surprised at the charge that Dalit authors
exaggerate their suffering or the degree of caste consciousness in
India. As a Brahmin who had a Dalit girlfriend at university, he had
been sceptical too the first time his girlfriend remarked that he was
getting higher marks than her for literature because he was a Brahmin
and the department was full of Brahmin lecturers.

''I was shocked at her assertion. I didn't believe caste played any
part in it. But … once, because she was feeling lazy, I wrote a paper
for her and submitted it in her name. It was good because I worked
hard at it. It got only reasonable marks.

''Later, I wrote a very shoddy and mediocre paper and submitted it in
my name. It got top marks. I realised they were not marking me but
marking me as a Brahmin,'' he said.

Even among his liberal friends, Anand is constantly struck by how
little they realise the unconscious exclusion they practise when it
comes to Dalits. ''They don't realise it is manifested in every choice
we make - who we eat with, what we eat, who we marry. If I point out,
say, that they have never had a Dalit over for dinner, they say it's
not deliberate but that is exactly my point. That we practise
exclusion without being aware of it.''

AUTHORS such as Sivamani represent a new breed of Dalit writers who
are moving away from autobiographies and exploring issues of identity,
patriarchy or sexuality. For example, Anand is publishing an anthology
soon of Dalits writing on love.

And Navaria, a rising star in Dalit literature, has written about a
gigolo's travels in India and recounted his relationships with
non-Dalit women in which a niggling worry is that he might be
attracted to them only because they are not Dalits.

Dalit literature is also slowly emerging as a discipline of academic
study. The department of English at Pune University features Dalit and
African-American literature in a course entitled ''Literature of
Protest''. Jamia Millia Islamia University has received support for an
endowed chair in Dalit studies from the Ford Foundation.

While he welcomes such developments, Ilaiah is convinced that it will
take someone from outside India, perhaps a Hollywood director or a
European author, to make a film or write a book that will make Hindus
ashamed of what they have done to Dalits.

''We need someone who can portray the evil of caste in a way that
captures people's imagination globally, because we have tried and
failed to rouse the conscience of the upper castes,'' he said. ''If
creative Western minds can portray the evils of the Holocaust or
apartheid, why not untouchability?''

Amrit Dhillon is a Delhi-based journalist.


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[ZESTCaste] Ambedkar’s statue unveiled

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/26/stories/2010022652920300.htm

Karnataka - Mysore

Ambedkar's statue unveiled

Special Correspondent

Floral tribute: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's statue was unveiled at Ashokapuram
Park in Mysore on Thursday.

MYSORE: A statue of B.R. Ambedkar was unveiled at Dr. Ambedkar Park in
Ashokapuram here on Thursday by Mayor Purushottam.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Purushottam lamented that the principles
and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar were not being followed. This was
reflected in the failure of the socio-economic development of the
depressed class and socially backward communities in the country, he
said.

Mr. Purushottam described Dr. Ambedkar as a visionary who did not
belong to any particular community. He was a national leader whose
principles should be imbibed by the people, he said.

V. Srinivas Prasad, MLA, stressed the need for converting the Ambedkar
bhavans into centres of learning.

Mysore City Corporation Commissioner K.S. Raykar, corporators Byrappa,
Pushpalatha Chikkanna, and Sunanda Palanetra were among those present.


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[ZESTCaste] No let up in caste-bound tension in Odisha village

http://www.kalingatimes.com/odisha_news/news2010/20100225_No_let_up_in_caste-bound_tension_in_Odisha_village.htm

No let up in caste-bound tension in Odisha village
By Manoj Kar
Kendrapara, Feb. 25: Situation continues to remain surcharged in
strife-torn Rankala village even as panic-stricken Dalits fearing
further attack from upper caste have begun fleeing from the village.

A day after their noisy demonstration in front of the district
collectorate, the dalit settlers are plagued by palpable sense of
insecurity. Despite deployment of armed police, there are reports of
dalits fleeing the village.

Meanwhile, in a latest twist to the caste-bound violence, police have
arrested a man on charge of outraging the modesty of a dailt woman.

Yesterday, two dalit women lodged complaint with the local police that
they were sexually assaulted when the mob went on rampage attacking
the dalit settlements.

Two separate cases have been registered in connection with the alleged
rape charges. Both the victims were medically examined, said police.

"We have taken shelter in dalit-dominated Tunupur village. We are
feeling unsafe. After police arrested trouble makers from the upper
caste groups, there is every likelihood of retaliatory attack. We are
unable to repose faith on law enforcing agency. They are partisan and
tilting towards the upper caste groups. That's why, a large number of
people who resorted to violence are yet to be arrested. They are
roaming free in the village," according to a cross section of dalits.

The ransacked houses in the village, that was witness to bloody
caste-bound battle on 18 February, remind one of the scenes of
devastation of 1999 super-cyclone days.

At least 23 persons mostly dalit women were injured armed upper caste
groups had launched a murderous attack on their houses.

As upper caste groups resorted to dig earth from a government grazing
land in close proximity to dalits' place of inhabitation, the dalits
offered resistance and stopped the digging work. The upper caste who
were lifting the earth for construction work in the local lord
Hanumanjew temple were deeply enraged and attacked the other groups.

An armed mob comprising over 300 people from the group had barged into
dalits' settlement and had let loose vandalism spree. After beating up
the families, they targeted their houses and caused damage to 33
houses and household articles. The incident had occurred when the male
members of the victimized families were away from their homes as most
of them were daily wagers.

Till date, ten persons involved in the violent attack have been taken
into custody. A platoon of armed police is still camped in the
troubled village as a precautionary measure. Situation is fast
returning to normality in the affected village, said Kendrapara
Superintendent of Police, Narasingha Bhol.


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[ZESTCaste] Dalit outfits to contest Arundhathiyar quota

http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Dalit+outfits+to+contest+Arundhathiyar+quota&artid=QfQDhtKFcfQ=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&SEO=&SectionName=rSY%7C6QYp3kQ=

Dalit outfits to contest Arundhathiyar quota

Express News ServiceFirst Published : 26 Feb 2010 03:36:00 AM ISTLast
Updated : 26 Feb 2010 09:17:53 AM IST

CHENNAI: Puthiya Tamilagam (PT) and five other Dalit outfits will file
a case in the Madras High Court against the Tamil Nadu government's
order providing for a three per cent exclusive quota for the
Arundathiyar community (a Dalit sub-caste) within the 18 per cent
reservation for SCs.


The National Commission for Scheduled Castes had recently objected to
exclusive reservation, and the remarks of commission's vice chariman N
M Kambley that the State government was not doing enough for the
welfare of Adi Dravidars has earned the ire of Chief Minister M
Karunanidhi.

A week later, PT founder Dr K Krishnasamy, along with leaders of a few
other Dalit organisations, told the media on Thursday the government
had not filled up over a lakh jobs earmarked for SC candidates in
various government departments.

He also accused the government of not spending the special allocation
made in the Union budget for the welfare of SC people. When the
government had not done these things, what right did the Chief
Minister have to hit out at the SC Commission, Krishnasamy asked.

He demanded a report from the government on the social, economic and
educational development of Dalits in the state and also on how much
land had been distributed to them.


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[ZESTCaste] Road cleared for 33% reservation of all MP, MLA seats for women

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Road-cleared-for-33-reservation-of-all-MP-MLA-seats-for-women/articleshow/5617356.cms

Road cleared for 33% reservation of all MP, MLA seats for women
Himanshi Dhawan, TNN, Feb 26, 2010, 12.34am IST

NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the women's
reservation bill which has been hanging fire for close to 14 years.
And this time, the bill might go through in Parliament as the
Congress, BJP and the Left have pledged support to it. The three
parties put together add up to the necessary two-thirds majority in
Lok Sabha for the constitutional amendment, and falls manageably short
in Rajya Sabha.

In short, astute floor management by the Congress in the 15th Lok
Sabha could see 33% of all seats in Parliament and state assemblies
being reserved for women. Such large women representation in the
legislatures could not only change the emphasis in policies but also
alter the very nature of politics in India.

This gender-bender of a move by the Congress leadership has been aided
by the absence of parties like Lalu Prasad's RJD in the UPA and the
reduced relevance of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Both
OBC chieftains have relentlessly opposed the bill demanding that
one-third of the proposed women's bill be earmarked for OBCs and
minorities.

JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav is another opponent, but BJP, Congress and
Left can help carry the day. They can also bank on the DMK which, once
a backer of the "quota-within-quota' stand, has come around to argue
that the priority is to get the gender quota introduced, while other
details are negotiated later.

If the bill is to become reality, it will require a Constitutional
amendment. For that the bill must get the vote of two thirds of the
members present and voting, but not less than majority mark of the
House. The government -- having cleared the bill -- is not bound by
fresh recommendations or dissent notes made by the standing committee
on law and justice which submitted its report in December 2009.

The bill can be placed for consideration and passing in the form that
it was introduced in Rajya Sabha in 2008 and for this reason is likely
to be placed for consideration in the Upper House first. The
government needs 158 votes to meet the two-thirds mark in Rajya Sabha.
The Congress, BJP and Left add up to 137 MPs in this house, a little
short of requisite figure. It is here that some clever floor
management would be necessary.

Once cleared by the Upper House, the bill is as good as through,
because in the Lok Sabha the three blocs virtually have the requisite
numbers. The government also has the option of holding a joint session
of both Houses as NDA had done to pass the anti-terror POTA bill.

The government managers would also be counting on the support of the
DMK, some smaller groups and independents, as well as on the
possibility of BJD not likely to outright oppose the bill, to get its
numbers. DMK spokesman said T K Elangovan said, "Let the bill be
passed first, we will see quota within quota later."

Even AIADMK supports women's reservation "in principle", while Bihar
chief minister Nitish Kumar does not share the intensity of opposition
of his JD-U colleague Sharad Yadav. MPs, other those of the Congress,
BJP and the Left, who are support the bill in Rajya Sabha are, seven
of AIADMK, 12 of BSP and four of DMK -- sufficient for a two-thirds
majority. In Lok Sabha, the government can count on the support of 19
Trinamool MPs, 18 DMK and nine AIADMK MPs.

BJP leader Arun Jaitley welcomed the move saying his party would
support the proposed legislation in Parliament.

Expressing her party's support for the proposed legislation, CPM
leader Brinda Karat said, "We are glad the bill has got the cabinet
nod but this has happened before and the distance between thSources
said that the bill could be placed in Parliament in this session
itself as suggested by President Pratibha Patil in her address to the
joint sitting of Parliament. The UPA move is powered by the keen
interest of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in the bill. She has batted
strongly for it and has expressed her despair over the aggressive
opposition in Parliament.

If it does actually become law, it will be a fitting tribute by
Congress for the year-long centenary celebrations of International
Women's Day this year. Given the huge political point to be scored,
BJP and Left are unlikely to be found wanting. It is not clear whether
smaller regional parties like BJD or DMK will oppose it outright. Even
if parties like Mayawati's BSP support the bill, it will go through.

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[ZESTCaste] Fwd:

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: gabriel konki <gabrielforblinds@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:23 PM
Subject: thanks a lot for crusading for the daliths awareness
To: mailsiddhartha.k@gmail.com, siddhartha.k@gmail.com

I wish to bring the following wishes to your kind perusal.

1.Here in Amalapuram Parliamentary constituency in East Godavari ,of andhra
Pradesh,

Potential dalith population is here, and abundant water resources are
here,fertile land is suitable for 4 crops besides coconut ,plantons,flowers
and all.

can any dalith scholars here will arrive,bless the and lets start the
vocational living training there in the huts of the daliths, with a black
board the already educated daliths will educate the remaining daliths and
thus every hut is a school for literacy, near the huts in dalith wada we
will grow vegetables, flowers all commercial and other crops,and thus self
sufficient and instead of migration and the education which is not up to the
standards and our dalith children especially girls if they are poor,they are
totally going useless then not able to work in the fields and there in the
job maket they are unable to compete with the other forward caste student
girls, thus especially unable to do long walks to schools, also hostel to
school also long walk ,and thus lot of drop outs,
So is there any Ambedkar like you will born again for them to tell them,need
not go long walks to schools,there in the schools only black board and chalk
piece.Ancient days, teachers are only in the towns not available in dalith
wadas,
now the vast unamployed youth, will become girls to teach girls in dalith
wada and boys to teach boys in dalith wadas and thus why dont we bring a
revolutional dream on the wish of Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar jee?
is there any conferences going on for such discussions we are very much
interested to participate . And we beg you to conduct awareness meetings
gatherings in center villages in our place, please give us positive reply
thanking you
yours in the service of daliths
Gabriel Prakash Raju Konki
Amalapuram

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[ZESTCaste] Fwd: Two teaching posts for SC/ST in computer science (pls circulate)

 

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From: jkjatav jatav <jkjatav@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:17 PM
Subject: Fwd: Two teaching posts for SC/ST in computer science (pls circulate)

pls circulate

Two reserved posts one is Reader (SC) and another is Professor (ST) in
computer scince at SOCIS IGNOU.
Check www.ignou.ac.in, academic post link.
http://www.ignou.ac.in/adv/appointment.htm

With regards
Naveen Kumar

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Ranjit Ranjit <ranjit.ranjit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> dear friends,
>
> i have shifted to Hyderbad and my new contact no. is 09177619254
> best
> --
> Ranjit

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Dr Jitendra Kumar Jatav

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Re: [ZESTCaste] Fwd: President 83rd Marathi Sahiya Sammelan

This is what might be expected from the "all-India" (elite) Marathi sahitya
sammelan!

Gail

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Dr. K. Jamanadas <kjmndas@gmail.com> wrote:

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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dr. K. Jamanadas <kjmndas@gmail.com>
> Date: Feb 24, 2010 8:16 PM
> Subject: President 83rd Marathi Sahiya Sammelan
> To: RAJSHEKAR VT <dalitvoice@rediffmail.com>, dalit <Dalit@yahoogroups.com>,
> BuddhistCircle@yahoogroups.com, kjmngita@gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> President 83rd Marathi Sahiya Sammelan
>
> Dr. K. Jamanadas, "Shalimar", Main Road, Chandrapur 442402
> *Famine stricken Maharashtra celebrates *
>
> While State of Maharashtra is facing severe famine like situation in 20,000...


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