Re: [Assam] Uttam is a now a real Hero

[Manoj Das]

Our hero Hiralal! :) so full of energy, enthusiasm and spirit

On 8/20/11, Wahid Saleh - Indiawijzer  wrote:
> With much pleasure and pride I would like to inform that our Uttam ( Parijat
> Academy) is now a Real Hero. He is one of the 24 heroes selected by IBN18
> and was honoured in Mumbai. Please find below a Facebook link with 36 images
> of the function.
>
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2355144842613
>  38346.1369976187&type=1&theater>
> &set=a.2355135482379.2138346.1369976187&type=1&theater
>
> Real Heroes in partnership with Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest
> private sector enterprise is a path breaking editorial initiative from
> Network18. The award recognises and acknowledges ordinary Indians who are
> making a difference to people's lives. In its 4th edition, this annual
> felicitation honoured 24 unknown and unsung heroes of India. The efforts of
> these 24 Real Heroes from across the country in fields as diverse as Women's
> Empowerment, Environment, Youth, Social Welfare, Health & Disability
> ,Education & Children and Sports have indubitably contributed to the
> betterment of their immediate community
>
> The IBN18 Editorial Board drawn from the editorial masterminds of CNN-IBN
> research, deliberate and then finalize the 24 winners keeping in mind their
> contribution to the society in their respective fields.
>
> CNN-IBN Real Heroes Award Function 2011 presented by Reliance Industries
> Limited was on 17th August 2011  at Hotel Trident, Narimon Point, Mumbai.
> There was 24 award winners plus one Lifetime Achievement Award. 24+1=25.
>
> The Regal Room of Hotel Trident packed with about 300 people. Rajdeep
> Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, IBN Lokmat was presenting. The
> Function was started with  Nita  Ambani's  welcome speech and Music
> instrumental play  by Aman  and Ayan  son of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. The
> Award  giving program started with Women and Welfare category and was given
> by  Asha  Bhosle to this  category winner, children and education  winner
> given by Arup Patnaik, Mumbai  Police Commissioner, Sports  by Anil Kumble,
> Social  Welfare category  and Life time Achievement by Mukesh Ambani , Youth
> category  by Vinod Chopra ( film director), Health and Disability category
> by Yesh Chopra ( film director), Environment  category  by Ustad Amjad Ali
> Khan.
>
>
>
> Link to the CNN   IBN Real Hero Award winner  website is
> http://realheroes.com/index.php
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Wahid Saleh
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Re: [Assam] Uttam is a now a real Hero

[Ram Sarangapani]

Thanks for forwarding this, Wahid da.
This is really good news, and congratulations to Uttam. Nice photos.



On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Wahid Saleh - Indiawijzer <
w.sa...@indiawijzer.nl> wrote:

> With much pleasure and pride I would like to inform that our Uttam (
> Parijat
> Academy) is now a Real Hero. He is one of the 24 heroes selected by IBN18
> and was honoured in Mumbai. Please find below a Facebook link with 36
> images
> of the function.
>
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2355144842613
> <
> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2355144842613&set=a.2355135482379.21
> 38346.1369976187&type=1&theater>
> &set=a.2355135482379.2138346.1369976187&type=1&theater
>
> Real Heroes in partnership with Reliance Industries Limited, India's
> largest
> private sector enterprise is a path breaking editorial initiative from
> Network18. The award recognises and acknowledges ordinary Indians who are
> making a difference to people's lives. In its 4th edition, this annual
> felicitation honoured 24 unknown and unsung heroes of India. The efforts of
> these 24 Real Heroes from across the country in fields as diverse as
> Women's
> Empowerment, Environment, Youth, Social Welfare, Health & Disability
> ,Education & Children and Sports have indubitably contributed to the
> betterment of their immediate community
>
> The IBN18 Editorial Board drawn from the editorial masterminds of CNN-IBN
> research, deliberate and then finalize the 24 winners keeping in mind their
> contribution to the society in their respective fields.
>
> CNN-IBN Real Heroes Award Function 2011 presented by Reliance Industries
> Limited was on 17th August 2011  at Hotel Trident, Narimon Point, Mumbai.
> There was 24 award winners plus one Lifetime Achievement Award. 24+1=25.
>
> The Regal Room of Hotel Trident packed with about 300 people. Rajdeep
> Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, IBN Lokmat was presenting. The
> Function was started with  Nita  Ambani's  welcome speech and Music
> instrumental play  by Aman  and Ayan  son of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. The
> Award  giving program started with Women and Welfare category and was given
> by  Asha  Bhosle to this  category winner, children and education  winner
> given by Arup Patnaik, Mumbai  Police Commissioner, Sports  by Anil Kumble,
> Social  Welfare category  and Life time Achievement by Mukesh Ambani ,
> Youth
> category  by Vinod Chopra ( film director), Health and Disability category
> by Yesh Chopra ( film director), Environment  category  by Ustad Amjad Ali
> Khan.
>
>
>
> Link to the CNN   IBN Real Hero Award winner  website is
> http://realheroes.com/index.php
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Wahid Saleh
>
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Re: [Assam] Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle

[Sushanta Kar]

".And if Anna wins, the nature of Indian politics will
change." Only because this I support ANNA.
Students, Police those who indulge in corrupt practices only because system
led by the Higher classes make them compel to do so.
Once the system don't allow them to do so, they will be the most happiest of
all.

Sushanta Kar

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Altaf Mazid  wrote:

> -- Forwarded message --
> From: sachin sharma 
> Date: 19 August 2011 15:37
> Subject: [Fropki] Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle
> To: Fropki Group 
>
>
> Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle
> CP Surendran
> 18 August 2011
>
> A most comical anti-corruption opera is being staged all over the
> country under the leadership of  Anna Hazare, who in his moral tyranny
> is actually beginning to look like Mahatma Gandhi. This itself is a
> bit of laugh: when a man wants to be someone else eventually
> transmigration of the soul and nose happens. It only remains for Anna
> to hold the Dandi March.
>
> But the real reason why this anti-corruption campaign is looking like
> an over-stretched Johnny Lever joke is that the people largely
> constituting the movement have happily externalized corruption as if
> it's an event happening outside themselves.
>
> The fact is that the petite bourgeoisie-auto rickshaw drivers, and
> constables, if Haryana Police Sangathan support for Jan Lok Pal's bill
> is any indication, and low paid government officials and assorted
> elements-have no idea that they are very much part of the corruption.
> They believe it is a disease outside them, primarily endemic to the
> government and its institutions, when they are active players in the
> drama.
>
> The others who are a part of the movement, including the youngsters,
> who this lookist country swears by, are there for an opportunity to
> hold candles and chant Sarojini Naidu kind of poems which normally
> begin: O, deliverer…  The youth will hold a candle and even burn a
> finger from the dripping wax, but when it comes to admission, if an
> IIT director or an engineering college dean will accept cash for
> seats, they will gladly part with it.
>
> For one with passing interest in the Lokpal politics, the only major
> difference in the bills drafted by the government and Anna apart from
> bringing the PM into the bill's ambit, seems to be that the government
> wants to set up a separate investigative agency while Anna and his
> team want an existing investigating agency like the CBI to report to
> the Lokpal committee. That would eventually mean the Lokpal evolving
> into a parallel power vortex, and might make Parliament redundant.
>
> In other words, those whom you elected will not be of as much
> consequence as those self-appointed or government nominated Lokpal
> committee members. That is a fraught process, and actually might
> create more unaccountability and corruption.
>
> That is one part of the joke. The other, equally entertaining part has
> been the Congress-led UPA government's complete and visible bankruptcy
> of ideas to tackle an agitation outside party structures. Much the
> same happened before the Emergency when Jayaparakash Naryan led a
> movement that cut across party lines against the Indira Gandhi led
> Congress government, which panicked and declared an Emergency.
>
> Anna's movement is mostly apolitical. And the support it has drawn,
> for all its faults, is an indication how political parties and other
> democratic institutions have failed to represent people, or inspire
> faith. Across the world, memberships of political parties are
> decreasing. Alternate people's groupings with environmental and
> ethical themes are gaining strength. In Europe and America where
> democracies are institutionally stronger and fairer than in India,
> this could be explained as an evolution.
>
> But, in India where fairness woven into the system is at best fraying,
> when a movement is directed primarily against its institutions and the
> political party in power as well as the ones in Opposition are
> fumbling in their response, a movement like this can have dire
> consequences. Clearly, the parties have failed to represent the
> people, which is why a moral tyrant like Anna is holding the
> government to ransom. When institutions fail, individuals take up
> their role. .And if Anna wins, the nature of Indian politics will
> change.
>
> It'd be fun to see who were the advisors who landed a wimp like Prime
> Minister Manmohan Singh into the Lok Pal soup. A party that can't
> argue its case against a retired army truck driver whose only strength
> really is a kind of stolid integrity and a talent for skipping meals
> doesn't deserve to be in power. Power goes to people who love it. Anna
> Hazare loves nothing more than power.
>
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[Assam] watch - Indians around the world stand by Anna !

[Ram Dhar]

He has struck a chord across the country ...
 
 
Delhi - Anna out from Jaillook  at  thousands of people 
 
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/crowd-cheers-anna-as-he-walks-out-of-tihar-jail/176846-3.html
 
watch IT professions walk out of office in Pune
 
http://www.ndtv.com/video/special/your-best-video-messages-for-anna-531?pfrom=Video-Specials
 
Bombay dabbawallas on strike -
 
http://www.ndtv.com/album/listing/news/india-stands-by-anna-hazare-11154
 
NRIs
 
http://www.ndtv.com/album/listing/news/nris-across-the-world-reach-out-to-anna-11145
  
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Re: [Assam] [assam] Indian Corruption; GANDHI's MANTLE

[bbaruah]

Dear Netters:

As assured in my previous posting, here's the Guardian article on Anna 
Hazare's capaign against corruption in India.



Guardian.co.uk,  Wednesday 17 August 2011 21.51 BST

The practical and sometimes dirty business of power-seeking and 
deal-making has in the past been countered in Indian politics by 
periodic impulses to transform society root and branch. This dualism 
was famously embodied in the divide between Nehru and Gandhi, partners 
but also rivals in the Indian independence movement.


The two men had profoundly different ideas on the direction in which 
India ought to go, Nehru seeing a future India as a great industrial 
and military power, while Gandhi wanted a society which would keep the 
worst aspects of modernity at bay while transcending caste, class and 
religious differences. Although such later figures as Vinoba Bhave and 
JP Narayan carried on to make their mark on India after Gandhi, it has 
become commonplace to say that the Gandhian tradition has largely 
petered out in recent years.


Not quite. Anna Hazare, the 74-year-old former soldier whose 
anti-corruption movement is posing an increasingly serious challenge to 
the Indian government, has certainly borrowed both style and technique 
from the Mahatma. He wears plain white clothes, if not the actual 
homespun on which Gandhi insisted. Like Gandhi, he fasts. Like Gandhi, 
he goes to prison – and sometimes refuses to come out. Like Gandhi, he 
has a model village, in his case in his home state of Maharashtra. Like 
Gandhi, he is against tobacco, alcohol and other drugs. Like Gandhi he 
has mobilised large numbers of Indians, many thousands of whom have 
been demonstrating in New Delhi and other cities after Manmohan Singh's 
government made the mistake of arresting him two days ago. Anger at 
corruption, of both the grand and the petty kind, has never been so 
intense.


The basic issue is simple. Mr Hazare and his followers want a powerful 
anti-corruption agency established, something that various governments 
had promised in the past. The prime minister pushed legislation to 
create such an agency, but without giving it powers to investigate the 
senior judiciary and the prime minister's office, or to pursue the 
lower- level officials who make life an expensive hell for Indians 
seeking driving licences, passports and other documents. Mr Hazare will 
not accept this, while Mr Singh says democracy is being subverted.


Mr Hazare does not have, or aspire to, anything like Gandhi's stature. 
He does not confront, as Gandhi did, his followers' complicity in 
social evils, an aspect of his career underlined by the subtitle – His 
Struggle With India – of a recent book on Gandhi. But Mr Hazare has 
found an issue – and is exerting a leverage which on balance must be 
good for India.




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[Assam] Uttam is a now a real Hero

[Wahid Saleh - Indiawijzer]

With much pleasure and pride I would like to inform that our Uttam ( Parijat
Academy) is now a Real Hero. He is one of the 24 heroes selected by IBN18
and was honoured in Mumbai. Please find below a Facebook link with 36 images
of the function.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2355144842613

&set=a.2355135482379.2138346.1369976187&type=1&theater

Real Heroes in partnership with Reliance Industries Limited, India's largest
private sector enterprise is a path breaking editorial initiative from
Network18. The award recognises and acknowledges ordinary Indians who are
making a difference to people's lives. In its 4th edition, this annual
felicitation honoured 24 unknown and unsung heroes of India. The efforts of
these 24 Real Heroes from across the country in fields as diverse as Women's
Empowerment, Environment, Youth, Social Welfare, Health & Disability
,Education & Children and Sports have indubitably contributed to the
betterment of their immediate community

The IBN18 Editorial Board drawn from the editorial masterminds of CNN-IBN
research, deliberate and then finalize the 24 winners keeping in mind their
contribution to the society in their respective fields.

CNN-IBN Real Heroes Award Function 2011 presented by Reliance Industries
Limited was on 17th August 2011  at Hotel Trident, Narimon Point, Mumbai.
There was 24 award winners plus one Lifetime Achievement Award. 24+1=25. 

The Regal Room of Hotel Trident packed with about 300 people. Rajdeep
Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN, IBN 7, IBN Lokmat was presenting. The
Function was started with  Nita  Ambani's  welcome speech and Music
instrumental play  by Aman  and Ayan  son of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. The
Award  giving program started with Women and Welfare category and was given
by  Asha  Bhosle to this  category winner, children and education  winner
given by Arup Patnaik, Mumbai  Police Commissioner, Sports  by Anil Kumble,
Social  Welfare category  and Life time Achievement by Mukesh Ambani , Youth
category  by Vinod Chopra ( film director), Health and Disability category
by Yesh Chopra ( film director), Environment  category  by Ustad Amjad Ali
Khan.

 

Link to the CNN   IBN Real Hero Award winner  website is
http://realheroes.com/index.php

 

Cheers

Wahid Saleh

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[Assam] HT editorial on fury against corruption --- They are in it togther

[Ram Dhar]

 
 
http://www.hindustantimes.com/They-re-all-in-it-together/H1-Article1-734407.aspx
 
Quote -
"India and Bharat seem to have jumped off their parallel tracks to merge in the 
nationwide fury against corruption. Anna Hazare and his merry band seem to have 
triggered off a tidal wave of anger, beyond their imagination and beyond the 
issue of the government’s lokpal vs the jan lokpal. The breaking point seems to 
have been one mega scam after the other in which the government acted only when 
push came to several shoves.
This explains why young students, middle class housewives, the Indian diaspora 
and the elderly have all come out to stand up and be counted. And in these 
troubled waters, political sharks of different hues have begun circling sensing 
the big kill ahead. 
In scenes reminiscent of the Jayaprakash Narayan movement which bought a mighty 
prime minister like Indira Gandhi to her knees, this hitherto largely unheard 
of man from Ralegan Siddhi seems to have tapped a vein of dormant discontent 
against a system which now seems at odds with the people it is meant for.  
What they don’t realise is that had they been in power and things had come to 
such a head, they would be equally vulnerable to a public which refuses to be 
cowed down anymore.
The era when charismatic and silver-tongued leaders could change the public 
mood with just one stirring sentence appears to be over. The Prime Minister, 
well-intentioned though he might be, was hard put to make himself heard above 
the din in Parliament when he tried to assert the supremacy of elected bodies 
as opposed to street corner rabble rousers. 
He certainly had a point, the problem is that no one is willing to listen 
anymore. 
To hope that he will rise to Churchillian oratory is Panglossian to say the 
least. The government can no longer put people off by promising to act after 
one or other committee looks into matters. 
Given the numbers on the street, the government’s time starts now. 
A magnificent gesture by the PM, a workable solution, a willingness to allow 
democratic dissent, a signal that it will engage in meaningful dialogue are 
just some of the things which could see people go back to business as usual. 
The clock is ticking and we can only hope it is not a doomsday one."















 
  
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[Assam] Friends - Guests of the month August 2011

[Ankur Bora]

To succeed in this competitive global environment, every student needs to have 
high motivation, ambition and perseverance to face the various challenges in 
life. The magazine Friends is a sincere effort in building positive attitude, 
confidence and optimism. For the month of August 2011, we are honored to have 
amidst us, Dr Athiqul H Laskar , ex Commander of NATO. We also are privileged 
to have guest professor, Dr. Baharul Islam, an academician, e-governance 
strategies, BBC World Debate participant and currently Chairman & CEO, South 
Asia Development Gateway, World Bank.  The articles are prepared by Rupkamal 
Sarma and Uttam Kumar Borthakur respectively; we appreciate our author’s 
valuable time and contributions. Please visit
http://magazine.assamfoundation.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=10
 
Ankur 
lehron se dar kar nauka paar nahi hoti
himmat karne walon ki haar nahi hoti... By Harivansh Rai Bachhan
You cannot take your boat across the sea  
If you are afraid of the waves,  
The one who tries 
Never fails.
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Re: [Assam] Carbon Credit Dying?

[Chan Mahanta]

One form of monoculture is no better than another.









On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:36 PM, mc mahant wrote:

> 
> Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects are being canceled left and 
> right. The latest victim is an American Electric Power (AEP) project in 
> West Virginia. AEP ignored a $334 million federal grant underwriting 
> half the cost, blaming changing legislation and unreliable government 
> support. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations due in 
> September will force power plants to capture two thirds of CO2 output. 
> Most CCS projects survive by selling their output to enhanced oil 
> recovery operations, so without a national CO2 pipeline network, 
> prospects for widespread CCS are dim. Should the federal government 
> jump-start a national network?
> 
> Assamnet needs a  serious debate on whether/How we should  go green  for:
> Earning a few Crores of INR  as lollypopEnding the wasteful TEA  plantations 
> introduced by Brit East India Company( now controlled by an Indian) 
> Repopulating all wastelands with  new  SuperBamboo- in lieu of PVWhat to grow 
> and what to eat-- by humans, domestic animals,birds  beasts
> mm
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[Assam] SPONDON : Assamese literature & cultural e-Magazine

[Buljit Buragohain]

SPONDON : Assamese literature & cultural e-Magazine


http://www.spondonsph.com/




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[Assam] "Panbazarot Mahapurush Sankaradevak Bisari" Article in Pratidin

[mayur bora]

Good morning

My article titled "Panbazarot Mahapurush Sankaradevak Bisari" is published in 
Asomiya Pratidin today.

You may click on the link below to read if you feel like.

http://anax1b.pressmart.net/asomiya/PUBLICATIONS/AS/AS/2011/08/20/ArticleHtmls/20082011004011.shtml?Mode=undefined

regards

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[Assam] Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle

[Altaf Mazid]

-- Forwarded message --
From: sachin sharma 
Date: 19 August 2011 15:37
Subject: [Fropki] Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle
To: Fropki Group 


Why Anna Hazare should not win this battle
CP Surendran
18 August 2011

A most comical anti-corruption opera is being staged all over the
country under the leadership of  Anna Hazare, who in his moral tyranny
is actually beginning to look like Mahatma Gandhi. This itself is a
bit of laugh: when a man wants to be someone else eventually
transmigration of the soul and nose happens. It only remains for Anna
to hold the Dandi March.

But the real reason why this anti-corruption campaign is looking like
an over-stretched Johnny Lever joke is that the people largely
constituting the movement have happily externalized corruption as if
it's an event happening outside themselves.

The fact is that the petite bourgeoisie-auto rickshaw drivers, and
constables, if Haryana Police Sangathan support for Jan Lok Pal's bill
is any indication, and low paid government officials and assorted
elements-have no idea that they are very much part of the corruption.
They believe it is a disease outside them, primarily endemic to the
government and its institutions, when they are active players in the
drama.

The others who are a part of the movement, including the youngsters,
who this lookist country swears by, are there for an opportunity to
hold candles and chant Sarojini Naidu kind of poems which normally
begin: O, deliverer…  The youth will hold a candle and even burn a
finger from the dripping wax, but when it comes to admission, if an
IIT director or an engineering college dean will accept cash for
seats, they will gladly part with it.

For one with passing interest in the Lokpal politics, the only major
difference in the bills drafted by the government and Anna apart from
bringing the PM into the bill's ambit, seems to be that the government
wants to set up a separate investigative agency while Anna and his
team want an existing investigating agency like the CBI to report to
the Lokpal committee. That would eventually mean the Lokpal evolving
into a parallel power vortex, and might make Parliament redundant.

In other words, those whom you elected will not be of as much
consequence as those self-appointed or government nominated Lokpal
committee members. That is a fraught process, and actually might
create more unaccountability and corruption.

That is one part of the joke. The other, equally entertaining part has
been the Congress-led UPA government's complete and visible bankruptcy
of ideas to tackle an agitation outside party structures. Much the
same happened before the Emergency when Jayaparakash Naryan led a
movement that cut across party lines against the Indira Gandhi led
Congress government, which panicked and declared an Emergency.

Anna's movement is mostly apolitical. And the support it has drawn,
for all its faults, is an indication how political parties and other
democratic institutions have failed to represent people, or inspire
faith. Across the world, memberships of political parties are
decreasing. Alternate people's groupings with environmental and
ethical themes are gaining strength. In Europe and America where
democracies are institutionally stronger and fairer than in India,
this could be explained as an evolution.

But, in India where fairness woven into the system is at best fraying,
when a movement is directed primarily against its institutions and the
political party in power as well as the ones in Opposition are
fumbling in their response, a movement like this can have dire
consequences. Clearly, the parties have failed to represent the
people, which is why a moral tyrant like Anna is holding the
government to ransom. When institutions fail, individuals take up
their role. .And if Anna wins, the nature of Indian politics will
change.

It'd be fun to see who were the advisors who landed a wimp like Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh into the Lok Pal soup. A party that can't
argue its case against a retired army truck driver whose only strength
really is a kind of stolid integrity and a talent for skipping meals
doesn't deserve to be in power. Power goes to people who love it. Anna
Hazare loves nothing more than power.

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[Assam] :[assam} Re: Indian couple were cast out over wedding: Case could be first of its kind

[bbaruah]

Dear Netters;

Here is an instance of  casteism: we Indians carry it wherever we go 
to. And it happened in a Solicitor's firm of Coventry, UK. Hearing of 
the case is, however, continuing. It is from today's Metro (18 08 2011) 
reported by Aidan Radnedge.


In recent years inter-caste marriages in India  appear to be usual, 
more so in an urban milieu.

-bhuban

Amardeep and Vijay  Begraj outside the employment tribunal Picture: 
Adam Gerrard (Picture not reproduced)
In what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Britain, Vijay 
Begraj and his wife Amardeep claim they were victimised by a firm of 
solicitors because of their social backgrounds.
Mr Begraj, 32, belonged to the Dalits, dubbed ‘the untouchables’ and 
considered the lowest caste in India, while his wife, 33, belonged to 
the high-society Jats, who created the banghra scene.
They met when working for Coventry solicitors Heer Manak but claim 
bosses frowned on their relationship and discriminated against them 
after they got married three years ago.
A senior member of the firm had tried to persuade Mrs Begraj to call 
off the wedding, she told an employment tribunal in Birmingham.
‘He said I should reconsider the step I was taking of marrying Vijay 
because he was a different caste,’ she said. ‘People of Vijay’s caste 
were different creatures. Marriage would be very different from 
dating.’
Her workload allegedly increased while her secretarial support was 
reduced and she was paid less than other solicitors. ‘Vijay was told a 
number of times that his position had been compromised for entering 
into a relationship with me,’ she added.
After eight months off following a car crash, she had a ‘back-to-work’ 
meeting in July 2008 but claimed the firm was reluctant for her to 
return because she might be planning a family.
Mr Begraj, who worked as a practice manager for the firm for seven 
years, was sacked last year. His wife resigned in January.
The firm denies claims including unfair constructive dismissal and 
discrimination and the hearing continue



Read more: 
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/872684-indian-couple-were-cast-out-by-employers-over-class-divide-wedding#ixzz1VNMdndNX




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Re: [Assam] [assam] Protesters selective in their rage

[bbaruah]

Dear Netters:

You can link up the following news relating to Anna Hazare's fast by 
Manu Joseph in the International Herald this morning. The Guardian has 
a nearly
two-page coverage by Chetan Bhagat on the same subject. The learned 
Editor of the Guardian also contributed to the topic which I am posting 
separately. My fellow-netter Mr Ram Dhar has also posted a couple of 
pieces reflecting primarily the reactions in India to Anna Hazare's 
rebellion.


-bhuban

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/world/asia/18iht-letter18.html?scp=1&sq=Protesters%20selective%20in%20their%20rage&st=cse



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