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[1] FDalits thrown out of village for raising voice Tejeswi Pratima http://www.ndtv.com/template/template.asp?category=National&template=dalitatrocities&slug=Dalits+boycotted+for+raising+voice&id=89587&callid=1 Thursday, June 29, 2006 (Hyderabad): Residents of a village in Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa district have reportedly thrown out Dalits for raising voice against alleged discrimination. After being thrown out of their village, denied every opportunity to earn their livelihood a group of Dalits has now come to Hyderabad. The reason for such a harsh punishment was the reported gumption of a Dalit to argue with an upper caste farmer. And even complain to the police when subsequently 80 Dalit families were attacked. "We have been warned by them that either we or even if our cattle venture into the main village or any of their farmlands. They have announced a fine of Rs 5000 and that they will beat us five times with footwear," said Venkatesh, a dalit. What seems like the throwback to a bygone era happened in Kothapally village in Chief Minister YSR Rajasekhar Reddy's native district. "I am not aware of it. Please give me the details and I will definitely get it examined," said Rajashekhar Reddy, state Chief Minister. Social boycott The Dalits say the social boycott has been on for almost a month and they are not allowed to work in their own village nor in neighbouring villages. "How many days should we tolerate being humiliated and beaten in our own village? I have almost grown old and my children will slowly become like me. Enough is enough, we live or we die. This has to come to an end," said Terasamma, a Dalit. "Social Boycott is an inhuman practice because in our civil society there is no practice like that. In olden days there was caste system, untouchability but this is enough evidence that the caste mindset is prevailing in the present society also," said Vinay Kumar, President, Dalit Bahujan Front. Dalits not being allowed into temples and not being treated as equals is not uncommon in several villages of Andhra Pradesh. But with Dalit welfare groups getting into the act, at least in Kothapally, hopefully, the Dalits will be allowed to live and let live. -------------------- [2] From: palash biswas <banga_sss2003@yahoo.co.in> Date: Thu Jun 29, 2006 Subject: Re: [issuesonline] Rent a wife for Rs 8,000 a month in Gujarat Forwarded. Palash Biswas "Dalits; The Seeds of India .." <india4dalits@gmail.com> wrote: Rent wife for Rs 8,000 a month in Gujarat [ Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:52:21 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] http://feeds.indiasnews.net/?rid=5f6850c18f7795de&cat=701ee96610c884a6&f=1 SURAT/VADODARA: You might have heard of rent-a-womb, but who ever heard of rent-a-wife! Certain people, especially in tribal belts of Gujarat, have smelt an irresistible business opportunity in the skewed sex ratio in the state. If many tribal daughters are being sold in marriage, there are also reports of husbands agreeing to their wives staying with higher caste men, who are not able to find a wife in their own community, for a monthly rental. In Netrang taluka in Bharuch, police officials quote the recent instance of Atta Prajapati allowing his wife Laxmi to stay with a Patel in Mehsana for a monthly rental of Rs 8,000. Laxmi has two children back in Netrang, and used to work as a farm labourer at Patel's farm. The demand of brides fuelled by the dwindling number of girls in Mehsana, Patan, Rajkot, Gandhinagar and other districts has inspired many agents and poverty-struck families to capitalise on the situation and make a quick buck. In certain pockets of Netrang, Valia, Dediapada, Sakbara, Rajpipla and Jaghadia, Tribals from Vasava community families can be witnessed entering into financial agreements with brokers, called 'Vachetias' from Banaskantha, Mehsana and Ahmedabad districts to marry off their daughters to Patels or those from the Thakur community for a price. The broker charges anywhere between Rs 65,000 to Rs 70,000 from the Patel and then pay the Vasava families Rs 15,000 to Rs 20,000 for their daughters. ------------------ [3] Well, this just goes to show the postion of Dalit women in Panchayati Raj, and supports my doubts about thier "empowerment". Its a good thing that the NCW has taken action at least in this case. These are the situations where the NCW will be of greatest use; where there may not have been a strong women's liberation movement. Ammu Abraham ----- Original Message ----- From: India Thinkers Net at Zinester.com To: <womcentr@bom7.vsnl.net.in> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 Subject: [ India Thinkers Net ] Dalit oppression news updates ,Doda etc > Read HTML version online: http://archives.zinester.com/76029/97739.html > > > > > [1] > > The Times of India- MP > > > > Dalit sarpanch paraded naked in MP village > > > > > > Suchandana Gupta > > > > [ Thursday, June 22, 2006 11:19:58 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] > > > > BHOPAL: A Dalit woman sarpanch of Mahoikala village in Chattarpur district of MP was beaten up, stripped and then paraded naked by upper caste men for not paying them Rs 50,000 from the village development fund. -------------- [4] CNN IBN- Bihar No last rights for brothel artistes Prabhakar Kumar Saharsa (Bihar): Death is a great leveller, but not for the dancers and musicians in the red-light area of Saharsa in Bihar. For them, ostracism goes as far as graveyards and burial grounds. The dancers and musicians in Saharsa's red-light area have been forced to bury the dead in their courtyards. Society treats them and others associated with the trade as untouchables and they are not allowed to bury their dead in graveyards. "We are artistes, but people don't respect our profession," says Meera Kumari, an artiste in the red-light area . "We aren't allowed to bury the dead in the graveyards, so we have to bury them in our courtyards," says artiste Nejabul. Almost every house in this red-light area has got a grave. While a few have built mazars (tomb) to mark the grave, others who can't afford to do that just plant a tree. Behind their smiles, lies the gloomy tale of the inhuman treatment meted out to them. They cater pleasure to thousands but live with a stigma so strong that they can't even complete their last journey to the graveyard. They live within the four walls of the brothel, work there and die and get buried there. "People look down upon dancers and musicians. We are forcibly turned away when we go to bury our dead," tabla-player, Mohammad Hanif says. http://www.ibnlive.com/news/no-last-rights-for-brothel-entertainers-in-bihar/14012-3.html ----------------- [5] From: Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01@yahoo.com> Date: Thu Jun 29, 2006 Subject: Citing fallout of Bt Brinjal trials scientists call for ban. State urged to reject Bt.brinjal The Hindu, Jun 28, 2006 http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/28/stories/2006062811330500.htm Experts' meet says field trials reportedly yielded 'worst' results http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indiadebates ------------- [6] Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:55 am Subject: US House panel approves bill to implement Indo-US The purported ‘deal’ is an undisguised assault on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and thereby the global non-proliferation regime and the prospects for global nuclear disarmament in so far as the NPT is the only global commitment to universal nuclear disarmament. The deal is an obnoxious bait, by making an impermissible exception grossly and unilaterally flouting the provisions of an international treaty, to which of all the UN members only India, Pakistan and Israel didn't sign, to co-opt India as a sub-junior partner for the execution of the American neo-con project for establishment of unfettered and unilateral global dominance by the US by foregrounding its awesome military prowess, including the nuclear firepower, to make up for the deficiencies of its otherwise huge economic muscles and political/diplomatic clout. Hence this development is to be considered an extremely negative one, though the fight as yet is not all lost. The peace activists all over the world, including those in India and the US, must pull up their socks to defeat this demonic deal and its shameless proponents.] http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=062832 US House panel approves bill to implement Indo-US N-deal PTI Washington, June 27: The landmark Indo-US nuclear deal today crossed its first hurdle when a key lawmakers’ committee approved and decided to sent to the House of Representatives a bill seeking its implementation after defeating three amendments including one that sought India to sign Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The 50-member House international relations committee approved by vote of 37 to 5 the legislation designed to make exemptions in the 1954 Atomic Energy Act to enable US to sell nuclear fuel and technology in return for non-proliferation and safeguards commitments from India. An amendment offered by a lawmaker from California, which sought to add language in the bill to the effect that India should sign the NPT, was defeated 36-4. Another amendment seeking to place limitations on nuclear transfers unless a presidential determination has been made regarding India’s adherence to a unilateral moratorium on production of fissile material was also defeated 31-12. The House international committee, which met for ‘markup’ or fine-tuning of the bi-partisan bill HR 5682, also voted out by 32 to 13 an amendment seeking a presidential determination that India is adhering to a unilateral moratorium on the production of fissile material and also to a multilateral moratorium on the production of fissile material. The committee approved by a voice vote the amendment brought by Mr Joseph Crowley which stipulated that the President would submit to the House and Senate international committees a report describing any nuclear reactors or nuclear facilities that India has designated as civilian and placed under inspection or has designated as military. It also approved by voicevote a proposal by Mr Ed Royce that nothing in the Act or agreement pursuant to the Act shall be interpreted as permitting any civilian nuclear cooperation between US and India that would encourage or assist India to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear explosive devises. The full floor of the House of Representatives would debate next month and vote on the legislation, proposed to be cited as the ‘United States and India Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act of 2006.’ The Senate foreign relations committee is scheduled to take up a similar legislation tomorrow. ----------------- |
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