“There is never enough rice to go around for the whole family,” says tribal woman Leela With a handful of grain and a head full of recipes, Leela cooks rice in a pot balanced on three stones in a room with a few bricks knocked out to let in sunlight in this village barely 150 km from Raipur, Chhattisgarh capital. When rice is scarce, she adds more water to make a broth,...
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‘Dalits, tribal people being denied their due'
-The Hindu Speakers at a meeting convened by the Left parties here on Saturday on SC, ST Sub-Plans said that the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in the State were still being subjected to social and government discrimination. Respecting them properly was the prerequisite to the effective implementation of the SC, ST Sub-Plans effectively, they felt. The speakers suggested booking of criminal cases against the officials who fail to spend or divert the...
More »‘Mahatma betrayed Dalits often’
-Deccan Chronicle It was Gandhi Jayanti. But young Dalit poet Meena Kandasamy was not ready to spare the Mahatma. “Like many other Dalit writers, I have reservations about Gandhi,” she said at the DC Kovalam Literary Festival here. “He betrayed Dalits several times.” Ms Meena added the Poona Pact imposed on the nation by Mahatma Gandhi had effectively blocked the political rise of Dalits. “Dr Ambedkar agreed to it since he...
More »Under Mayawati, Muslims fare worse than Dalits in education by Abantika Ghosh
Mayawati may have demanded reservation for the Muslims in proportion to their population, but the community has little to cheer about during her five years' rule in Uttar Pradesh. An analysis of Muslims' share in employment and education shows how since 2007 the Muslims have fared worse than Dalits in UP on the education front. Demolishing the tall claims of the minority concentration districts' programme to smithereens, the study shows...
More »Reading between the Rs32 poverty line
-The Hindustan Times Do these people look well-off to you? The planning commission puts them above poverty line. Basant Kumar, 51 Shopkeeper Kusumpur Pahari slum, Vasant Vihar, Delhi Daily expense: Rs 53 Basant Kumar runs a little shop in a slum in Vasant Vihar, home to over two lakh migrant families. He feeds and clothes his wife and three children on his meagre earnings of Rs5,000 a month. He also works odd-jobs, in construction or with...
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