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ReportsDalits: Such a long journey
Two books -- one offering a historical perspective, the other bearing the immediacy and thrust of the present -- focus on the prejudices and oppression faced by dalits in India, and on ‘battles’ fought, won and lost in their ongoing struggle More... Ideas of justiceLawrence Liang is disappointed with Amartya Sen’s ‘The Idea of Justice’, which seems to offer us a competing political theory, but not necessarily a competing political vision More... Indian police: A law unto themselvesThe new Human Rights Watch report is a damning indictment of dysfunction, abuse and impunity in the Indian police system, says IPS veteran K S Subramanian More... Saffron politics and dalit mobilisationBadri Narayan’s book Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation attempts to deconstruct the tactics used by the Hindutva forces to politically mobilise dalits to its side. It explains how community myths have been appropriated and twisted to oppose the composite heritage of the people More... Savitribai Phule: Forgotten liberatorSavitribai Phule’s name is not in the history books alongside the Rani of Jhansi and others. But it deserves to be. She, along with her husband Jotiba Phule, was a pioneer in the struggle against oppression of women, dalits, adivasis and religious minorities. A new book sketches her life and work More... Fugitive histories as fictionGitha Hariharan’s ‘Fugitive Histories’ provides a long list of reports, interviews, witness accounts and the writer's own impressions of Ahmedabad and its environs after the Gujarat riots of 2002 More... Orissa needs long-term strategy to promote peace and secularismA fact-finding team that visited the camps and villages of Kandhamal district in Orissa, where the latest bout of violence against Christians has rendered thousands homeless and killed more than 25 people, finds the attacks by Hindu fundamentalists pre-planned and the government’s response inadequate More... India practises 'hidden apartheid' against dalits: reportA new report by the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice and Human Rights Watch documents India’s systematic failure to respect, protect and ensure the fundamental rights of its dalit population More... The violent fingerprint of warIf we can look conflict straight in the face, through the eyes of the young diarists who are included in Stolen Voices, we might be in a better position to deal with it, feels Zlata Filipovic, whose teenaged chronicle of a war-torn Sarajevo became a bestseller recently More... |
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