Friends:
Insight Young Voices, a magazine for Dalit youth, came into being inthe context
of the constant attack by reactionary forces on the aspirations of young first
and secnd generations Dalit students who are just entering the university,
professional and higher education streams in India for very obvious reasons.
The struggle the collective - made of dalit students (who are also the subjects
and the driving force of the magazine) - has faced in keeping the magazine
alive is akin to the struggle the students themselves face even in
universities, which have a progressive image, like JNU, but also the
regressive AIIMS and the IITs and IISc - otherwise known as Iyer-Iyengar
Insititutes of Tech and Science....
But the magazine is alive, and the current issue is on the subject "On
Suicides, Caste and Higher Education". I will try to upload the file on
Jharkand if anyone is interested in reading the same. We are sorry that despite
our best efforts the educational system in our country continues to be a
bastion of exclusion and casteism, but such tragedies, far from causing us
disheartenment, inspires us to greater efforts to be a part of the solution
rather than the problem. An earlier edition of the magazine is available on
www.insightyoungvoices.org.
Cynthia Stephen
Independent Researcher and writer
Bangalore, India
