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Fact-finding team claims CRPF killed villagers, not Maoists on June 28-Rakhi Chakrabarty

-The Times of India A fact-finding team of 21 rights groups alleged that joint forces comprising CRPF and state police "killed 17 villagers in cold blood" at Sarkeguda on June 28. "It was plain slaughter that night near Sarkeguda," said Asish Gupta, convener of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations (CDRO) on Wednesday. The team visited the encounter site at Sarkeguda on July 6 and 7. Speaking to reporters, Gupta said, "There were no...

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Pinki Pramanik alleges Police Atrocities on her in custody

-PTI Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik, who on Wednesday walked out of jail after spending 26 days in custody on charges of rape, alleged that police had tied her hands and legs and forcibly conducted the gender determination test on her. The retired middle-distance runner, who was released from the Dum Dum Central Jail after a Barasat court gave her bail on Tuesday, said she kept on crying and resisted the...

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Power, violence and Dalit women-V Geetha

Men from subaltern communities must confront the violence that tears apart some of their homes and families The two books under review are quite dissimilar in what they set out to do. Dalit Women Speak Out comprises a detailed review of a set of related studies carried out in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh on the violence endured by Dalit women. It revisits the notion of ‘atrocity' both...

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Ambedkar, NCERT Textbooks and the Protests-Harish Wankhede

The cartoon controversy provides the possibility of interrogating the functioning of the academic system to understand its relationship with the downtrodden masses. A new deliberation is needed in order to make the academic world more sensitive and responsive towards the issues and concerns of the subaltern-oppressed communities. This will be an ethical incentive for the present-day dalit movement in India and can bring greater democratisation to the education system. Harish Wankhede...

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India makes dubious claims before UN on human rights-Manoj Mitta

It was due to a civil society struggle that the government only last year removed the bar on outsiders from participating in the social audit of projects executed under its showcase legislation of MGNREGA. Barring Andhra Pradesh, no state has so far implemented this reform. Yet, in its report for the ongoing universal periodic review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council, India cited the social audit clause in MGNREGA...

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