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[1] From: "C.K. Vishwanath" <ck_vishwanath2000@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Apr 4, 2006 Subject: RE: [indiathinkersnet] RE.reservation for dalits in private sector Exactly right, i fear that Our elite institutes are standing against any quota.Look at the issue of IIM and IIT admission. I. K. Shukla wrote: > The stridency of protest against puny reservations > in favor of the oppressed > and perpetually denied > segments of the populace is mostly couched in the > virtuous verbiage of > merit. ------------------- [2] From: Women's Centre <womcentr@bom7.vsnl.net.in> Date: Tue Apr 4, 2006 Subject: Fw: vidarbha(maharashtra-india) 419 farmers committed suicide inagrariancrisis-list and map attached ammu_abe Forwarding from the Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti. Am aware that the 'suicide list' and the 'suicide map' will not go through. But those who are interested to see them could please get in touch with the email address below. Regards, Ammu Abraham ----- Original Message ----- From: vidarbha janandoan samiti <ryotocidex@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:55 AM Subject: vidarbha(maharashtra-india) 419 farmers committed suicide inagrariancrisis-list and map attached IN VIDARBHA (MAHARASHTRA-INDIA) 419 FARMERS GROWING COTTON COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 2005-06 KARIFF SEASON DUE TO DEBT-TRAP AND CROP FAILURE. SUICIDES ARE CONTINUED BUT NO RELIEF FROM STATE GOVT. PL FOLLOW-UP, REGARDS, SAVE VIDARBHA FARMERS MOVEMENT ------------------------ [3] From: rkurian@bgl.vsnl.net.in Date: Tue Apr 4, 2006 Subject: How Capitalism Threatens Your Health.. http://www.countercurrents.org/eco-edney040406.htm How Capitalism Threatens Your Health By Julian Edney 04 April, 2006 Counterpunch The main event in capitalist free markets is the creation of wealth. The other event is the creation of inequality. Under principles of laissez faire this is not so much a tradeoff, a positive for a negative, as it is two positives. Inequality, the natural outcome of competition, is a sign of healthy struggle on which the whole community is said to thrive. -------------- [4] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Apr 4, 2006 Subject: Lessons in Harmony, the Bengal Madrasa Way Lessons in harmony, the Bengal madrasa way Reuters Posted online: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 at 1127 hours IST Updated: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 at 1140 hours IST Kolkata, April 4: Schoolgirl Julita Oraon, a devout Christian, never misses Sunday mass, but the rest of her week is spent studying Arabic and Sufi literature among other subjects at an Islamic religious school, or madrasa. Oraon is one of tens of thousands of Hindu and Christian students in West Bengal now attending such schools, considered breeding grounds for religious intolerance and even terrorism in much of Asia. In this part of India, madrasas are emerging as beacons of tolerance. A quarter of West Bengal's population of 80 million are Muslims and one percent are Christians. In the wake of violence in the 1960s and 70s after the creation of Bangladesh, officials moved to reform West Bengal's schools and especially its madrasas. In 1977, they started reviewing the Islamic schools, introducing history and social science to the staple of Koranic study. And after 2002, on the recommendation of a specially appointed committee, students had to study science, geography and computing. There are plans for foreign languages soon. The changes have been credited with bringing about a change in the social outlook of the state's various faiths, and have attracted both teachers and students from other religions to the madrasas. School boards have recruited non-Muslims in a bid to find the best tutors for their students. Now about 25 per cent of the 400,000 students who attend madrasas, and 15 per cent of their 10,000 teachers, are non-Muslims, officials say. "In the 1970s, the mistrust grew and Muslims were thought to be friends of Pakistan and mostly spies," says Ahmed Hasan Imran, the general secretary of the Muslim Council of Bengal. "But that perception gradually changed with the reforms in the madrasas as well as other education institutes." Getting along Swapan Pramanik, a leading sociologist and vice-chancellor of Vidya Sagar University in Kolkata, agrees that the reforms have helped bridge the divide. "The conservative outlook of the Muslims as well as Hindus have changed," he says. "The changes have rubbed off on parents and whole communities, who have been able to spread the message of harmony." The reforms have saved lives, experts say. After the Ayodhya incident in 1992 much of India was wracked by deadly communal riots. But in Bengal students from madrasas, both Muslims and Hindus, led processions denouncing the demolition, Imran says. In the aftermath of the Gujarat riots a decade later, Bengal's Hindus, Christians and Muslims were quick to meet to ensure passions were cooled. The state government offered riot victims the chance to come and settle in West Bengal. "People find it difficult to believe, but our madrasas ... are reflecting modern aspirations and expectations of the community irrespective of religion," Kanti Biswas, the state's education minister, told Reuters. "We had carefully planned the madrasa reforms to make young minds understand the values of religious tolerance and it is finally paying off." Top of the class In Jalpaiguri district, about 500 km north of Kolkata, 14-year-old Julita is posting higher marks in Arabic tests than her Muslim classmates at the Badaitari Ujiria Madrasa. "I like the subject very much and that fact that I am a Christian has never been a problem with my Muslim friends." Tapas Layek, the Hindu headmaster of a madrasa in south Kolkata has several co-religionists as colleagues. "We are loved and respected by our Muslim students who are also friendly with their Hindu classmates," he said. Bengali Muslim scholars say that the view that madrasas are simply Islamic finishing schools is a corruption of their traditional role. "Our madrasas are the perfect examples of what such institutes should really be," said Dr. Mohammed Sahidullah at Calcutta University. Renowned Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen, a former jury member at the Cannes festival, said the state's experiment should be copied across the country. "I can't help but be amazed at the way some of these religious schools are working towards communal harmony," he said. Officials from other states -- including Maharashtra and Rajasthan -- have come to West Bengal to see the impact of the changes for themselves, said education minister Biswas. "The perception of the respective communities about different culture and religion has helped residents of West Bengal to bridge the gulf of mistrust and come together," said sociologist Pramanik. "This has been a significant development in madrasas for the entire world to see." ------------------- [5] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Apr 4, 2006 Subject: The Deplorable and Dangerous 'Deal': Hurdles Are Still Formidable [Beyond the invasion of Iraq, few of Bush's decisions have as much potential to shake the international order than his deal with India, supporters and opponents agree.] http://www.washingtonpost.com/?referrer=email Washington Post India Nuclear Deal May Face Hard Sell Rice Set to Defend Landmark Accord She Orchestrated Without Congress By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, April 3, 2006; Page A01 -------------------- [6] From: Parvez Jamasji <parvez1942@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Apr 4, 2006 Subject: Re: The sad silence over Abdul Rahman The biggest hoax of our times is : 1. Only a ""very small minority"" are into Terrorism. We all saw the "very small minority" ONLY a couple of Lakhs carrying Osama Bin Laden posters in UP & Bombay, ostensibly an anti Bush rally. 2. Religions are Peaceful but down the ages it has managed to incite followers to be EVERYthing but ! PRJ AH Venkitesh <ahvenkitesh@gmail.com> wrote: The sad silence over Abdul Rahman http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1473371,curpg-1.cms SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR/TIMES NEWS NETWORK I am aghast at the proposed execution of Abdul Rahman of Afghanistan for what his country considers the capital offence of having converted to Christianity. But I hear no outcry from moderate Muslims or Hindu intellectuals who normally wave the secular flag. |
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