PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2008 ID-9765
.
JNUSU Public Meeting.
.
26.9.08 Khairlanji and The Ongoing Saga Of Atrocities On Dalits : Challenges Ahead.
speaker Prof. Gopal Guru CPS, JNU.
.
Sutlej Mess 26.9.08(Tonight) 9.30pm.
.
After nearly 60 years of having a constitution which prom- needs to be addressed..
ises a dream where caste-based discrimination belongs to a.
distant past, we still witness the most gruesome and barbaric In this incident, an objection was raised when a dalit stu-.
incidents of atrocities on dalits. In 2006, an entire dalit family in dent wanted to put up a picture of Dr. Ambedkar in his room..
Khairlanji was murdered and the women raped. This incident The manner in which the hostel administration dealt with this.
shockingly took place in full public view, with the connivance situation reveals the open reluctance to strongly oppose a.
of hundreds of onlookers. Their only crime was that they had casteist mentality. By his own admission, the Chief warden.
dared to be educated and break the shackles of an exploitative treated this incident as a simple case of a mild difference of.
caste order. Two years later, 6 people have been sentenced to opinion of two roommates over something innocuous. The chief.
death, and two with life imprisonment. The caste dimension of warden openly states that he does not see a caste dimension.
this incident was always clearly evident, and yet the guilty were in this incident!.
charged under the IPC, and not under the SC/ST (Prevention.
of Atrocities) Act. This attempt to sanitize the brutality of its Education is supposed to be about learning and inter-.
casteist intent belies any claim of honestly in dealing with the nalizing new values. It is the responsibility of a campus to.
entrenched casteism in society. inculcate democratic values in students. In the Periyar hostel.
case, ideally, the Chief warden should have explained to the.
Khairlanji is most unfortunately not an aberration or roommate of the dalit student that any opposition to the pic-.
an isolated incident. Caste-based discrimination and caste ture of Dr. Ambedkar reveals a casteist bias. Intolerance to a.
atrocities are a chilling reality in every part of the country. Just symbol of dalit assertion is the first step towards segregation..
to remember some of the cases reported in 2008 alone: In Such an attitude is plainly unconstitutional, and should not be.
a bizarre New Year Eve honour killing, an Indian father set entertained at any cost..
fire to his daughter's home in the USA killing his pregnant.
daughter, son-in-law and their three year old son, because Instead, the Chief warden chose to ignore the entrenched.
he could not bear the fact that she had married a lower caste casteist mindset that this incident revealed. In his own words,.
immigrant. In January, the eye of a dalit youth in Mahar- he tried to "negotiate", and "mediate" between the students,.
ashtra's Nanded district. was gouged out and acid from by asking the complainant to remove Dr. Ambedkar's portrait,a.
a car battery poured into it, simply for eloping with a minor suggestion which the warden thinks has "no problem"..
girl belonging to the upper caste Marathas. In Jan, a brahmin.
priest in Kanpur abused and beat up a dalit and his three Dr. Ambedkar had warned that simply instituting laws is.
friends on Tuesday when the latter tried to enter the fa- not enough to tackle a centuries old exploitative Brahminical.
mous Mahadev temple to offer prayers. In Feb, the owner of caste order..
a sweets shop pushed his dalit employee into a large pot.
of boilinIg oil, resulting in his death, after the man refused "Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of.
to work for him in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district. In Oct, a social organization....[the formal framework of democracy].
dalit woman committed suicide in front of the Betul district involves ...an attitude of mind, and attitude of respect and.
Collectorate, when no action was taken the sarpanch's son, equality towards their fellows.".
who had raped her twice. These are just some of the incidents.
of caste brutalities. We are currently seeing an extremely dangerous trend in.
JNU, wherein attempts are being made to convert JNU into a.
Even in UP, where Mayawati's victory sharpened the laboratory for fanning a communal frenzy. Instead, this cam-.
aspirations of dalits for democracy and empowerment, dalits pus should become a platform where democratic secular and.
continue to bear the brunt of casteist assaults and atrocities. egalitarian values are inculcated..
We have not forgotten how a young dalit student, Chakrasen.
was murdered in Pratapgarh after he got admission into Join a public meeting tonight (Sep 26) at 9.30 pm, Sutlej.
an engineering college. mess on "Khairlanji And The Ongoing Saga Of Atrocities.
On Dalits: Challenges Ahead" to be addressed by Prof..
`He is fulfilling his jatigat kartavya (caste obligation).' - Gopal Guru..
that's what the President of the BSP Pratapgarh Unit said when.
asked about the local Brahmin BSP MLA who had harboured Regarding the case of caste abuse and victimization of a dalit.
(in his own home) the killer of Chakrasen (reported in Tehelka, student in Periyar hostel, JNUSU demands that the Equal Op-.
25 August 2007) portunities Office looks into the matter in all its seriousness..
Today, the JNUSU President went to the Periyar hostel office as.
Educational institutions also reveal this entrenched per yesterday's understanding that was reached following the.
casteist mentality. We have seen how SC students in AIIMS protest demonstration and collected the necessary documents..
are subjected to segregation, caste abuse and victimization..
In our own campus, we have seen how casteism is prevalent, Before the warden came to the office, a student who happened to.
abetted not just by some sections of the student community be present used unfair and objectionable language. We strongly.
but also by the JNU administration. The recent incident of disapprove and condemn such behaviour. We also strongly.
caste abuse in Periyar hostel is an eye-opener for those who condemn the subsequent response of some of the residents of.
live under the illusion that casteism is no longer a threat that Periyar hostel belonging to the ABVP, who gathered and physi-.
cally forced him out of the hostel..
Sandeep.
Md. Mobeen Alam.
President, JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA chits - 2008 ID-9765
.
JNUSU Public Meeting.
.
26.9.08 Khairlanji and The Ongoing Saga Of Atrocities On Dalits : Challenges Ahead.
speaker Prof. Gopal Guru CPS, JNU.
.
Sutlej Mess 26.9.08(Tonight) 9.30pm.
.
After nearly 60 years of having a constitution which prom- needs to be addressed..
ises a dream where caste-based discrimination belongs to a.
distant past, we still witness the most gruesome and barbaric In this incident, an objection was raised when a dalit stu-.
incidents of atrocities on dalits. In 2006, an entire dalit family in dent wanted to put up a picture of Dr. Ambedkar in his room..
Khairlanji was murdered and the women raped. This incident The manner in which the hostel administration dealt with this.
shockingly took place in full public view, with the connivance situation reveals the open reluctance to strongly oppose a.
of hundreds of onlookers. Their only crime was that they had casteist mentality. By his own admission, the Chief warden.
dared to be educated and break the shackles of an exploitative treated this incident as a simple case of a mild difference of.
caste order. Two years later, 6 people have been sentenced to opinion of two roommates over something innocuous. The chief.
death, and two with life imprisonment. The caste dimension of warden openly states that he does not see a caste dimension.
this incident was always clearly evident, and yet the guilty were in this incident!.
charged under the IPC, and not under the SC/ST (Prevention.
of Atrocities) Act. This attempt to sanitize the brutality of its Education is supposed to be about learning and inter-.
casteist intent belies any claim of honestly in dealing with the nalizing new values. It is the responsibility of a campus to.
entrenched casteism in society. inculcate democratic values in students. In the Periyar hostel.
case, ideally, the Chief warden should have explained to the.
Khairlanji is most unfortunately not an aberration or roommate of the dalit student that any opposition to the pic-.
an isolated incident. Caste-based discrimination and caste ture of Dr. Ambedkar reveals a casteist bias. Intolerance to a.
atrocities are a chilling reality in every part of the country. Just symbol of dalit assertion is the first step towards segregation..
to remember some of the cases reported in 2008 alone: In Such an attitude is plainly unconstitutional, and should not be.
a bizarre New Year Eve honour killing, an Indian father set entertained at any cost..
fire to his daughter's home in the USA killing his pregnant.
daughter, son-in-law and their three year old son, because Instead, the Chief warden chose to ignore the entrenched.
he could not bear the fact that she had married a lower caste casteist mindset that this incident revealed. In his own words,.
immigrant. In January, the eye of a dalit youth in Mahar- he tried to "negotiate", and "mediate" between the students,.
ashtra's Nanded district. was gouged out and acid from by asking the complainant to remove Dr. Ambedkar's portrait,a.
a car battery poured into it, simply for eloping with a minor suggestion which the warden thinks has "no problem"..
girl belonging to the upper caste Marathas. In Jan, a brahmin.
priest in Kanpur abused and beat up a dalit and his three Dr. Ambedkar had warned that simply instituting laws is.
friends on Tuesday when the latter tried to enter the fa- not enough to tackle a centuries old exploitative Brahminical.
mous Mahadev temple to offer prayers. In Feb, the owner of caste order..
a sweets shop pushed his dalit employee into a large pot.
of boilinIg oil, resulting in his death, after the man refused "Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of.
to work for him in Uttar Pradesh's Etawah district. In Oct, a social organization....[the formal framework of democracy].
dalit woman committed suicide in front of the Betul district involves ...an attitude of mind, and attitude of respect and.
Collectorate, when no action was taken the sarpanch's son, equality towards their fellows.".
who had raped her twice. These are just some of the incidents.
of caste brutalities. We are currently seeing an extremely dangerous trend in.
JNU, wherein attempts are being made to convert JNU into a.
Even in UP, where Mayawati's victory sharpened the laboratory for fanning a communal frenzy. Instead, this cam-.
aspirations of dalits for democracy and empowerment, dalits pus should become a platform where democratic secular and.
continue to bear the brunt of casteist assaults and atrocities. egalitarian values are inculcated..
We have not forgotten how a young dalit student, Chakrasen.
was murdered in Pratapgarh after he got admission into Join a public meeting tonight (Sep 26) at 9.30 pm, Sutlej.
an engineering college. mess on "Khairlanji And The Ongoing Saga Of Atrocities.
On Dalits: Challenges Ahead" to be addressed by Prof..
`He is fulfilling his jatigat kartavya (caste obligation).' - Gopal Guru..
that's what the President of the BSP Pratapgarh Unit said when.
asked about the local Brahmin BSP MLA who had harboured Regarding the case of caste abuse and victimization of a dalit.
(in his own home) the killer of Chakrasen (reported in Tehelka, student in Periyar hostel, JNUSU demands that the Equal Op-.
25 August 2007) portunities Office looks into the matter in all its seriousness..
Today, the JNUSU President went to the Periyar hostel office as.
Educational institutions also reveal this entrenched per yesterday's understanding that was reached following the.
casteist mentality. We have seen how SC students in AIIMS protest demonstration and collected the necessary documents..
are subjected to segregation, caste abuse and victimization..
In our own campus, we have seen how casteism is prevalent, Before the warden came to the office, a student who happened to.
abetted not just by some sections of the student community be present used unfair and objectionable language. We strongly.
but also by the JNU administration. The recent incident of disapprove and condemn such behaviour. We also strongly.
caste abuse in Periyar hostel is an eye-opener for those who condemn the subsequent response of some of the residents of.
live under the illusion that casteism is no longer a threat that Periyar hostel belonging to the ABVP, who gathered and physi-.
cally forced him out of the hostel..
Sandeep.
Md. Mobeen Alam.
President, JNUSU Jt. Secy., JNUSU.
..