Wednesday, September 7, 2011

[ZESTCaste] 25 of 29 failed students were Dalits, admits college

 

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25 of 29 failed students were Dalits, admits college
PTI | 06:09 PM,Sep 06,2011

Kanpur, Sep 6 (PTI) Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Medical College here,
where three students attempted suicide after failing in an examination
last week claiming that they were deliberately failed by the teacher
because they were from a "lower caste", today admitted that most of
the failed students belonged to the Dalit community. "25 out of the 29
failed students belong to Dalit community," Anand Swaroop, principal
of the college, said, adding that parents of these students are learnt
to have approached CSJM University here seeking re-checking of their
answer sheets. Three students of the college -- Shobhit, Sanjeev and
Vivek -- had attempted suicide by consuming poison on September 2
after they failed in their Biochemistry exam. The issue took a
casteist turn after the aggrieved students and their families blamed
two lecturers of the college for making casteist remarks against them,
following which the college administration constituted a committee to
probe the allegations. Swaroop asserted that although the entire case
smells foul, no conclusion should be drawn until the probe is over.He
also assured stern action against those found involved in carrying out
casteist acts.

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[ZESTCaste] Lalu meets tortured dalit woman

 

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Lalu meets tortured dalit woman
PTI | 08:09 PM,Sep 06,2011

Biharsharief, Sep 6 (PTI) RJD chief Lalu Prasad today met a dalit
woman undergoing treatment in a hospital here after beaten up
allegedly by some upper caste people and said his party would bear the
expenses of her treatment. Demanding immediate arrest of all culprits,
Prasad said immediate steps should be taken to shift the victim to
Patna Medical College Hospital (PMCH). Announcing Rs 10,000 for her
from RJD fund, he charged the Nitish Kumar Government with patronising
feudal forces. According to reports, Nagina Devi, who hails from a
backward class family, was beaten up with hot iron rods allegedly by
an upper caste family at Pokharpur in Nalanda hospital a couple of
days ago. Police named six persons, but one person had so far been
arrested in connection with the incident.

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[ZESTCaste] After 35 years, gate erected by caste Hindus to be removed

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/article2430381.ece

HOSUR, September 7, 2011
After 35 years, gate erected by caste Hindus to be removed
R. Arivanantham


It was to prevent Dalits from entering the area

A gate erected on Dalit Street 35 years ago to prevent Dalits from
entering the area occupied by upper caste Hindus will be removed.

Though it was kept open in the last five years, the 75-odd Dalit
families used to avoid the street out of fear. They used to go to the
MGR market via Royakottai main road.

The street falls in Reserved Ward No. 5 in Hosur Municipality.

The Dalits were also denied basic amenities such as drinking water,
drainage and toilet facilities. Many times they were attacked by caste
Hindus when they raised their voice against such discrimination.

About 75 families are living in 25 houses allotted by the government
when Appavu Pillai was the president of Hosur panchayat. Eighteen
members of four families are forced to live in a small house built on
436 sq ft in Dalit Street near the Therpettai Eri and Government Boys
Higher Secondary School.

When drinking water connections were provided to the residences of
caste Hindus, only two public taps were provided to Dalits. Even these
were not properly installed.

Devi and M. Pappamma said that if water spilled out of the pot on to
the street caste Hindus would abuse them. As a result, the Dalit
families did not clean the entrance to their houses with water or draw
'kolam,' something they used to do early in the morning.

Only 17 of the residents have toilet facilities. The rest used open
space. A toilet for the Dalit Street was constructed three years back
at Kamaraj Colony. But to use it the Dalits have to take the
Hosur-Royakottai State Highway, says Kutty, an auto driver.

Devi, a resident of Dalit Street, told The Hindu that she constructed
a small septic tank in front of her house and cleared it once in three
months, as there was no drainage facility.

On September 4, caste Hindu boys riding a two-wheeler hit a Dalit, R.
Seena alias Srinivasan. He has been admitted to NIMHANS Hospital in
Bangalore with severe head injury. His wife S. Pallavi is nine month
pregnant. The caste Hindus also attacked the house of Srinivasan.

The police have arrested G. Mohan, Sekar, Saravanan, Babu and Murali
in this connection. A case has been registered under the SC/ST Act 3
(1) (X). Search is on for Bapanna, another accused in the case.

V. Sethu Madhavan, CPI (M) union secretary; P. Muniraj, member,
district committee, and L. Aswath Narayanan, district secretary,
Democratic Youth Federation of India, visited the area on Tuesday.


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[ZESTCaste] Three Dalit Youths Found Murdered in Uttar Pradesh

 

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Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:21:03 PM (IST)
Three Dalit Youths Found Murdered in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Sep 7 (IANS): The bodies of three Dalit men in their 20s were
found in a pond in an Uttar Pradesh town, police said Wednesday,
adding that there were signs of injuries with a sharp edged weapon as
well as strangulation.

There was panic in Sikandra of Bulandshahr district, about 400 km from
here, after Nityanand, Santkabir and Hansraj - between the ages of 21
and 26 years - were found dead on the outskirts of the town.

"The three youths are from different families. Though they had
multiple injuries inflicted by a sharp edged weapons on their faces
and chest, it appeared all of them died of strangulation," police
inspector O.P. Chaudhary told reporters in Bulandshahr.

"We are yet to ascertain the motive behind the killings," he added.

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[ZESTCaste] ‘Apologise, admit mistake,’ Assange hits back after Mayawati’s asylum offer

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'Apologise, admit mistake,' Assange hits back after Mayawati's asylum offer

FP Editors Sep 6, 2011

Earlier in the day, reacting to the damning US diplomatic cables
revealed by WikiLeaks recently, Mayawati had said that the "owner of
WikiLeaks needs to be in a mental asylum''. Calling the content of the
cables "mischievous, baseless, wrong and shameless", she had offered
to find a place for Assange in the mental asylum near Agra if his
government failed to do so.

The cables call her "a first-rate egomaniac" who wants to be the Prime
Minister of India and a virtually "paranoid dictator'' among other
unflattering things. They also say that she once a sent a private jet
to Mumbai for a pair of shoes and that she had institutionalised
corruption in the state.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters

Mayawati, without naming Assange, said he was either working with her
political opponents or had "gone mad". On the shoes issue, which has
generated a lot of curiosity, she said, "As far as I am concerned, I
do not know of any such thing. But if WikiLeaks and BJP leaders are
making such a wild claim, then I would like to ask them, if they also
flew down in that plane to get me those special sandals?"

She said the WikiLeaks was "playing into the hands of opposition parties".

Replying to her, Assange said, "Mayawati has betrayed rational
thought. The question is, has she also betrayed the Dalits? There is
no question that the documents are official papers from the US
embassy. These papers have been proven the world over, including by
the aggressive persecution of our people by Washington.

The allegations within them are made by US diplomats in their private
communications back to Hillary Clinton. If Chief Minister Mayawati has
a problem with the contents of these communications she need to take
it up with Hillary."

Assange asked Mayawati to admit her error and apologise. "Should she
fail to do so, she is welcome to send her private jet to England to
collect me, where I have been detained against my will, under house
arrest, for the last 272 days. I would be happy to accept asylum,
political asylum, in India–a nation I love. In return, I will bring
Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear."

Senior BSP leader Satish Chandra Mishra termed the WikiLeaks report
about Mayawati as "baseless and wrong" and said there was a conspiracy
against the party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

"This is an absolute lie and is totally baseless. Whosoever has
published this, should have verified and then gone ahead with this
news," he told reporters in New Delhi.

He said newspapers should have considered this before publishing the
contents of the cables. "That is why we have decided that we will take
legal action against the newspapers and TV channels who have shown it
and the people behind this will soon be exposed," he added.


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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati needs to speak to US if she's upset with cables: Assange

 

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Mayawati needs to speak to US if she's upset with cables: Assange
Agencies Posted online: Tue Sep 06 2011, 19:56 hrs
London : Hitting back at Mayawati who wants him to be put in a 'mental
asylum', WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the UP Chief Minister
needs to take up her case with the US if she has a problem with the
contents of American diplomatic cables that painted her as an
'egomaniac.'

His statement came hours after Mayawati slammed him over the US
diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks last week that described how
the BSP supremo once allegedly dispatched her empty private jet to
fetch her favourite sandals from Mumbai.

The cables also claimed that Mayawati had food tasters to sample her
meals and a 'security entourage to rival a head of state.'

In a press statement, Assange said that "Mayawati has betrayed the
rational thought. The question is, has she also betrayed the Dalit?"

"There is no question that the documents (leaked US cables) are
official papers... from the US embassy. These papers have been proven
the world over, including by the aggressive persecution of our people
by Washington," he said.

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[ZESTCaste] Anna’s social fascism (Kancha Ilaiah)

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Anna's social fascism
Kancha Ilaiah

September 7, 2011

The recent happenings in Delhi around the issue of the Lokpal Bill
have been celebrated by the media as people's victory, pinned down on
Team Anna Hazare. But the majority of the "masses" of this country,
living in institutional caste and class enclosures, are not yet part
of the "civil society" that the victorious group was talking about.

The so-called anti-corruption movement, therefore, needs to be
examined from a multi-dimensional perspective. For example, I see it
as a modern Manuvaadi Leviathan's victory. Manu's modern disciples
walked into the Ramlila Maidan to celebrate the rise of a modern
Levia-than, decorated in Gandhi topi.

This 21st century "social" Leviathan walked into the maidan as the
enemy of corruption, but he sought to set aside the Constitution
(maybe because it was drafted under the chairmanship of a dalit) and
throw overboard the supremacy of Parliament that came into existence
to dismantle the fascist social structures that existed for centuries
in the form of Varna Dharma. Vande Mataram was its slogan and the
national flag (not its own flag) became the symbol of its street
power.

Social fascism becomes the reality of a civil society that constructs
a moral basis of its own. A middle class like the Indian one, which
has erected strong caste enclosures around itself, looks for morality
to serve its own interests. Corruption in general becomes a buzzword
of condemnation within its day-to-day discourse, despite the fact that
it lives with corrupt practices on a daily basis. For example, a
middle-class government or NGO functionary does not hesitate to take
Rs 1 lakh or more as salary, plus thousands of rupees of honorarium
and sitting fees, but that same person would treat a chaprasi, who
works for a Rs 5,000 monthly salary, as corrupt if he/she asks for Rs
200 for extra work.

The civil society that led the anti-corruption crusade also does not
see corporate houses paying hundreds of crores of bribe money as
corruption, but, a minister, an MP or a government official, who takes
such bribe money is seen as corrupt because the corporate houses are
still in the hands of "their people", while the political and
bureaucratic positions are slipping into the hands of people who are
"corrupt by birth".

Take, for example, A. Raja and Kanimozhi. They are treated as corrupt
but the corporate houses that gave kickbacks and took huge contracts
at throwaway prices are not treated as corrupt. The same corporate
houses and their media boxes have been mobilising civil society of
Gandhi topi into maidans to fight corruption.

In an unethical capitalist market like ours, whoever takes more space
in English TV channels can portray themselves as clean. That very
media can become a source of mobilisation of mobs to define corruption
as they want. Any other mode of defining corruption is treated as
illiterate rhetoric.

If the chant of Vande Mataram has the power to empower civil society,
it also has the power to destabilise democratic institutions that gave
life to the poorest of the poor and the lower castes, particularly
India's Muslims.

The high moral ground on which the Hindu middle class stands is a
breeding ground for social fascism. The poor and lower castes have
fought huge battles to checkmate saffron social fascists in the last
20 years. Now the same forces have come to occupy centrestage wearing
the Gandhi topi.
I wish all those who came to Ramlila Maidan in Gandhi topi would also
send their children to schools in Gandhi's dress code.

But back home they prefer suits and boots for their children who go to
a St. Mary or St. Peter's, and not to a Mahatma Gandhi or a St. Hazare
school. Corruption is not just economic practice; it is also cultural
practice. Social fascism does not want us to see that inter-linkage,
though it knows that such linkage exists.

Social fascism always lives in duplicity. It uses Sanskrit as its
temple language, Hindi for maidan speeches and English as its office
language. Hypo-crisy is its innate cultural being. It pretends to be
simple in public life but its dining table has to have all items that
the corporate market supplies with brand names.

Team Anna does not think that the Indian corporate houses are corrupt
because they are supplying all the cameras that show them as crusaders
out there in the new avatar of Gandhi. The social fascist ideology
treats corruption as a one-way process. Any process of flow of money
to the poor and lower castes in the Indian context is treated as a
process of corruption or economic waste. But de-ployment of market
prices by monopoly traders that acquire huge margins of profits,
without subjecting themselves to state regulations, is not treated as
corruption.

Take, for example, all Bollywood heroes and heroines who joined the
anti-corruption bandwagon — most are people who evaded taxes. Team
Anna believes that the agendas that have the potential to establish
equa-lity among people or at least change the basic life of the
oppressed masses need not exist in the national discourse at all. The
nation is being shown in the image of Bharat Mata who controlled and
manipulated the consciousness of oppressed people for decades, and
that image is being shown to the others, minute by minute, 24x7,
making them shiver.

Fascism now lives in pucca houses and democracy has been sent to a
shed. Social fascism treats hierarchical ordering of the society as
natural. Any economic redistributive mechanism put in place by the
state or a civil society organisation is treated as corrupt and
unethical. When corruption is seen through the glasses of this upper
caste middle class, it appears to them that it has a legal solution
and that legality is crafted in its own terms. It doesn't want to
understand that the dharma of the oppressor has always worked against
the interest of the oppressed.

Social fascism emerges when a nation is in a deep crisis of moral
confidence. It formulates itself in the layers of civil society and
moves on to occupy the portals of political power. This happened in
many countries — Germany, Italy and so on. In all countries where
social fascism emerged victorious, it emanated from the fold of middle
class that asserts a high moral ground for itself. That high moral
ground generally gets established around the theory that it is
non-corrupt.

Kancha Ilaiah is director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion
and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad


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[ZESTCaste] Jan Lokpal Bill Contents Draconian Clauses

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Jan Lokpal Bill Contents Draconian Clauses
- Citizens for Social Justice -

Hyderabad, September 6, 2011,

Jan Lokpal Bill Contents Draconian Clauses

Citizens for Social Justice
P. O. Box 2174,
Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, 500003

Jan Lokpal Bill Contents Draconian Clauses
Team Anna's Civil Society Does Represent the Nation
Let 2014 General Election Decide on Jan Lokpal Bill

Citizens for Social Justice consisting of Prof Kancha Ilaiah, Dr. John
Dayal – member of National Integration Council, Dr. Joseph D'souza –
President of All India Christian Council and many eminent leaders from
Muslim, Dalist and OBC address in a press conference held at Hyderabad
on Jan Lokpal Bill.

The Jan Lokpal prepared by the Anna Hazare's Team has such draconian
clauses if that institution is established as they suggested, the
Indian constitution and the parliamentary democracy will simply get
into a crisis."

We as the representatives of the SC/ST/BC Minority communities are of
the firm opinion that only after this constitutional governance is put
in place, as it was laboriously institutionalized by Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar and other nationalist leaders, the representatives of these
communities, even in a marginal way, occupied some positions in the
state sector. The system has improved the socioeconomic status of the
historically oppressed masses in a marginal way. But for the present
constitutional system even that would not have been possible.

Our experience is that normally the best of the upper caste forces
hesitate to implement reservations keeping thousands of posts vacant.

Though very few could occupy the unreserved higher positions, the way
in which the upper caste media and officialdom choose and pick
Dalits/OBC and Minorities' representatives in the administration and
harass them is shocking.

A Lokpal Bill of such powers (whether of Government or of other
groups) should be placed before the people as part of political
parties' manifestoes in the general elections. If the BJP and the Team
Anna think that the entire nation is with them they should go to
election with Jan Lokpal Bill in 2014 and get the approval of the
majority."

Even the Government Bill, in whatever form it could be, has to be
debated by the whole nation in the elections of 2014.

They cannot make us believe that corruption cannot be handled with the
existing laws just for two more years. In India's caste culture if a
Dalit or Aadivasi comes to position of eating two meal a day and can
send one's children to school he/she is branded as corrupt. And if an
upper caste person builds a house of 400 crore rupees for a small
family living he/she is not treated as corrupt. The definition of
corruption differs greatly between Dalit-Bahujan, Minorities and
Hindutva Anna Hazare forces. Only a national referendum on this issue
protects the constitution and democracy.

We appeal to all the SC/ST/BC and Minority law makers of the country
to oppose this mode of introduction of Lokpal Bill and stop it as they
have done in the case of Women's Reservation Bill. We appeal to the
ruling UPA not to yield to the Hindutva Hazare's political blackmail.
The SC/ST/BC and Minorities cannot be deceived with hunger strikes as
they were at the time of the POONA PACT.

Released by
Moses Vattipalli,
Media In charge


* This Press Release was sent by All India Christian Council
The sender can be contacted at aiccdelhi(at)gmail(dot)com
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