[GreenYouth] Re: Fwd: Media and the entrenched Patriarchy!!1
*Maitree, an organisation working for the rights of women, said it was “shocked” to see the graphic on the front page of the paper “where you have portrayed men from the administration in saris suggesting that their inaction makes them women”.* *“The implication, thereby, is clearly that women are inactive and incompetent,” the letter said. “This is both a demeaning and humiliating stance towards women and we are amazed that a leading English daily holds such regressive attitudes and views.” * Suppose, the women administrators were attired in jeans and denim shirts, to show the pro-active atttude,what would've been the reaction? On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Venugopalan K M kmvenuan...@gmail.comwrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Rinita Mazumdar rinita_mazum...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:49 AM Subject: Media and the entrenched Patriarchy!!1 To: santhosh.chandrashe...@gmail.com, kmvenuan...@gmail.com, ckvishwan...@gmail.com Protests against Telegraph visual A STAFF REPORTER Calcutta, July 18: Two women’s organisations today protested against the publication of a graphic in The Telegraph that depicted the state’s top five administrators in saris. The visual accompanied a report about the state of inertia in the administration. In a letter handed over to The Telegraph today, Maitree, an organisation working for the rights of women, said it was “shocked” to see the graphic on the front page of the paper “where you have portrayed men from the administration in saris suggesting that their inaction makes them women”. “The implication, thereby, is clearly that women are inactive and incompetent,” the letter said. “This is both a demeaning and humiliating stance towards women and we are amazed that a leading English daily holds such regressive attitudes and views.” Before handing over the letter, members of Maitree staged a demonstration in front of The Telegraph office, demanding that the paper apologise. The Paschimbanga Ganatantrik Mahila Samity, a CPM-backed women’s organisation, said the visual “exposes very clearly the entrenched patriarchal attitude that lies hidden behind the apparently super-modern and liberal façade of your newspaper”. Referring to a sentence that accompanied the visual — “We apologise to women who may feel the elegant sari has been wasted on our administrators” — the organisation said that “it is, in fact, a crude mockery of women’s sense of seriousness of occasion”. Telegraph replies For some months now, Bengal has looked like a state without an administration. Friday’s bandh and the unchecked vandalism on its eve further demonstrated the lack of will on the administration’s part to enforce the law. In yesterday’s paper, the five top administrators were depicted as men in saris to illustrate the paralysis of government draped in humour. Some of our readers and others have taken affront, seeing in it an assumption that women are weak. It is possible some may have associated the administrators in the graphic with women, which was not the intention of the visual device at all. We are sorry if the graphic gave that impression. Some others have, however, expressed appreciation of the political message we sought to communicate and the humour. The Telegraph practises gender equality. It also believes that women have long grown beyond stereotypes as the weaker sex in saris. Sonia Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee are just two examples of women in positions of strength. There are a million other unknown women — in saris or business suits — in whose daily shows of strength we rejoice in the pages of our newspaper. We hope our readers will see the Gang of Five in Saris in that context. We also hope despite all its divisions, true to 19th century poet Ishwar Gupta’s words — Eto bhanga Bangadesh, tobu range bhara — Bengal still enjoys a good laugh. -- http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Lalgarh Update
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx - 19 Jul 2009 - Times of India New Delhi Edition - Sukumar Mahato - TNN TNN Maoists’ posters threaten to behead 9 CPM leaders Jhargram: A Maoist ‘people’s court’ on Saturday announced that nine CPM members, including a prominent local leader, will be beheaded causing panic across Jhargram town in troubled West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Residents of Manikpara in Jhargram town woke up to see posters allegedly pasted by Maoists on shops at Ramkrishna Bazar, which read: ‘‘ CPM netader shighroi pantha boli dewa hobe (CPM leaders will be beheaded soon)’’. The names of CPM’s West Midnapore district committee member Hiralal Mahato and Manikpara local secretary Shatadal Mahato figured in the ‘death warrant’. A Maoist ‘gana adalat’ (people’s court) held at Manikpara in Jhargram took the decision describing it as CPI(Maoists’) day before West Bengal CM Budhadeb Bhattacharjee’s visit to Purulia, Maoists trigerred a landmine explosion on a railway track near Urma station. Police also recovered a metal object wrapped with wire and a map of Bhattacharjee’s route to Purulia. part of strategy to annihilate ‘people’s enemies.’ The development has renewed fear among residents who had been feeling safe after security personnel stepped into the area. Soon after police removed all the posters from Ramkrishna Bazar, senior district secretariat member Dahareswar Sen rushed to the spot to tell party comrades, some of whom planning to desert CPM, not to get scared. He expressed doubts whether these posters were put up by Maoists. ‘‘I think it’s an attempt by opposition namely Congress and Trinamool Congress. Maoists do not use such foul language though we are opposed to them in theory and practice. We are not giving importance to such posters,’’ he said. Despite Sen’s assurance 30 CPM members from the surrounding villages quit CPM. ‘‘We won’t be alive if we are with CPM,’’ said Tarapada Singh, a CPM member from Barkola. Some villages like Dharampur and Bhulka are close to the police camps set up after the security forces ‘freed’ Dharampur PS from Maoists. Jhargram Congress general secretary Rajesh Mahato rubbished Sen’s allegations. ‘‘We believe in non-violence. CPM leaders are bringing baseless charges against our activists,’’ said Mahato. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] -Reserved Past: De-reserving Future Ram Puniyani (fwd)
--Reserved Past: De-reserving Future Ram Puniyani Reservation has been a big bone of contention in our society. Since last two decades the issue has been expressed in subtle, direct and indirect, forms. In popular psyche while some reservations are desirable and good others are the one which are regarded as an obstacle to social progress and some others are regarded as an obstacle to national integration. Currently the one’s related to Women’s reservation is regarded as being highly desirable, the one relating to Dalit-OBC is thought of as cause of stagnation, obstacle to progress and depriving the more meritorious upper castes from the portals of opportunity, while the mere talk of reservation for minorities is presented as dividing the nation. Despite India coming out of colonial yoke, despite the democracy and modern constitution being in place, the process of transformation of caste and gender has remained half way through. The foundations of these twin transformations were laid during the freedom movement, but since forms of landlordism and hold of clergy continued in society, the caste-gender transformation has not been completed. Nehru expressed this to a French journalist, Andre Marloux, that a secular constitution is there but country is gripped by deep religiosity. Our Constitution makers took up the step of affirmative action for dalits-adivasis, reserving seats for a stipulated period of time. Since the implementation of these policies was in the hands of upper caste, the proper implementation could not take place and the problem lingered on, resulting in every succeeding government extending the period of reservations, part of it was also motivated by electoral compulsions. To add to this came the issue that reservations for these groups were used by a few in the community, leading to creamy sections fattening themselves and a larger sections remaining deprived of the basic amenities and consequent dignity. The process of urbanization resulted in the affluent middle classes coming up and by 1980 they became assertive, and dead against the reservations for dalit-OBC. They crystallized around RSS affiliates and the result was the first major anti dalit violence in Ahmedabad in 1981, this was backed up by the one in 1986 against OBCs in Gujarat. By this time women’s movement was picking up. From last more than a decade women have been demanding their due in the social and political sphere. The RSS support base saw the Mandal, reservation for OBCs, as a big threat to their social status and rallied around Advani’s Rath yatra. Mandal was to be countered by Kamamdal (politics in the name of religion) as Atal Bihari Vajpayee put it. Kamandal spilled the blood on the streets and the issue of reservation went to the back drop and major assault now was directed against, minorities, First the Muslims and the Christians, Pehle Kasai-Phir Isai, as their popular battle cry put it. With the severe security problems of minorities, the question of equity remained in the background. The Muslim community as a matter of fact went down on the social indices as pointed out by the Sachar Committee. With declining economic indices the talk of reservation for Muslims in education and jobs started coming up. But RSS affiliates, working for a Hindu nation, essentially the one with hegemony of upper caste males, struck hard by saying that any reservation for Muslims will mean formation of another Pakistan. One can’t understand the logic of the same, but one can surely understand the threat concealed in this formulation. So now the compromised talk of Equal Opportunity Commission, affirmative action for minorities and the formulation that all steps short of reservation are to be thought-of, is going on. How far Equal Opportunity Commission will achieve the purpose, if the societal thinking is so hostile to the minority welfare, remains to be seen? During this time the Women, another major and deprived section, were given reservation in Panchayats. This effort had all the merits but some deeper flaws prevailed. One was that in most or many Panchayats, where women were Sarpanchs (chief), their Husband or other male relative practically controlled the scene. Despite this, women did make some headway in the direction of empowerment. With this came the demand of reservation for women in Parliament, the highest law making body. Most of the political parties, including BJP, the one controlled by RSS, so inherently believing in the birth based hierarchy of caste and gender, supported it. The only opposition came from the OBC dominated parties, for whom the caste inequality has been the central concern of their politics. Their argument is that at present mainly upper caste and affluent women are in the social space so this move will tilt the caste balance in favor of upper castes. So they say that there should be inbuilt sub quota based on the basis of caste and minority. To say that women are women, no inner differences
[GreenYouth] Is employment of children as domestic and hotel workers really banned in India? - By Karthik Navayan
Dear Friends Please read my article and feel free to comments on the same click the link below http://blog.insightyv.com/?p=370#more-370 Karthik -- Battula Karthik Navayan, Advocate, H.No. 21-7-761, Opp.High Court Post Office, Gansi Bazar, Hyderabad, PIN-52, AP. Cell:09346677007, email:nava...@gmail.com email%3anava...@gmail.com http://karthiknavayan.blogspot.com/ http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Profile.aspx?uid=10379805095932756525 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] (fwd)Article by Ratna Kapur; India: Wom en’s groups and feminists should be particularly encourage d by the Delhi court decision on section 377
Courtesy to South Asian Citizens Wire http://www.sacw.net/article998.html ...Historically, women have been treated as weak, passive and vulnerable and hence in need of protection, not equality. This attitude continues to overwhelmingly inform laws that are ostensibly adopted in women’s interests today, such as anti-trafficking laws and policies or sexual harassment laws.. Ratna Kapur article The Times of India, 8 July 2009 A Vision Correction The Delhi high court judgement on Section 377 is nothing short of historic, bold and revolutionary in ways that extend beyond the rights of gays and lesbians. Section 377 penalises sodomy, an act for which persons could be punished with death and burnt alive in late 13th century Britain. In the contemporary period the specific provision has been used primarily to target gay men as well as stretched at times to include lesbian women. The court recognised the complaint by the petitioner the Naaz Foundation, an NGO doing HIV work among sexually stigmatised groups that the harassment, abuse and torture experienced by gay men was seriously impeding work on HIV and AIDS. But the decision was not driven merely by a concern about containing a virus. It was driven by a commitment to the values enshrined in the fundamental rights of the Indian Constitution that no person shall be denied the rights to equality, freedom of expression, and life, on grounds of sex. The high court decision moves boldly in the direction that regards sex as including sexual orientation and sexual preference. In other words, fundamental rights should not be contingent on an individual’s sexual status or sexual conduct. This in turn has important implications for women and other persons who choose to live life in a manner that does not conform with dominant sexual, cultural and familial norms. For too long, sodomy has defined the homosexual, in the same way as paid sex has defined the sex worker. And it is the sexual act that has been incorporated and invariably criminalised in law. The fact that gay men and women are workers, employers, mothers and fathers, patients and clients, students and teachers, priests, pundits and mullahs, has been marginalised. The striking down of the application of the law opens the way for gays, lesbians, and many other sexual subalterns to challenge discrimination in many areas of their lives on grounds of sexual orientation and sexual identity. The decision lays to rest the claim by the god squad and sexual morality brigade that these practices are antagonistic to Indian cultural values. Indeed, what is so apparent from the decision is that Section 377 is a culturally specific law that emerged in Victorian England and was transported to the colonies through the mechanism of Empire. It was a provision that was designed to reinforce the view that Indians and colonial subjects were sexually perverse and uncivilised and hence undeserving of freedom. The colonial encounter has left an egregious legacy of stigmatising sex and that legacy persists in the present day. The decision affirms that gays, lesbians, and other sexually stigmatised groups are Indian citizens, and belong to an array of religious denominations and cultural communities. Their sexual identity and cultural identity are integral and provisions that force them to choose between one or the other are nothing short of coercive state action that must be and has been in this instance impugned. A further area in which the court broke new ground is in recognising the right to privacy as integral to the right to life. While the court was able to build on previous case law in this area, this is the first time that consensual sexual activity between two adults has been considered to be a private matter. This has enormous implications again for those individuals, gay and straight, who are engaged in consensual sexual relationships outside of procreative, marital sex, to ensure that the line is drawn in their favour. The state should not be allowed to interfere in the private intimate space of individuals in order to uphold its more absolute positions on what constitutes ’’good sex’’ and ’’bad sex’’. Finally, the court’s remarks on equality also marked a significant shift in the recognition of substantive equality, that is, that equality should not be limited to sameness in treatment, but must guarantee equality in result. Once again women will be direct beneficiaries of such a shift. Equality has invariably been interpreted as treating likes alike. The decision opens up space for people to be treated differently in order to have equality in result, to redress historical wrongs, and counter structural and systemic discrimination on grounds of difference, in this instance, sexual orientation or sexual preference. In other words, disadvantage rather than distinction has quite appropriately been recognised as the core attribute of the right to equality. Women’s groups and feminists should be particularly
[GreenYouth] Fwd: Excerpts: Comments by Kalpana Kannabiran on the Delhi HC Judgement On Sec 377,IPC
Excerpt of Comments by Kalpana Kannabiran on the Delhi HC Judgement On Sec 377,IPC in the Hindu article India: From ’perversion’ to right to life with dignity by Kalpana Kannabiran, 6 July 2009, the Hindu ...Perhaps the most important issue the judgment addresses is the meaning of “sex” in Article 15(1) of the Constitution of India: “The state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, place of birth or any of them.” Does the term “sex” in this context refer to attribute or performance? Is sex to be applied in a restricted fashion to gender or can the multiple resonances of its common usage be taken into account, so that sex is both gender (attribute) and sexual orientation (performance)? This is particularly significant because, as the judgment demonstrates through an extensive review of case law and principles from different parts of the world, gender and sexual orientation are an intrinsic and inalienable part of every human being; they are constituents of a person’s identity. In the words of Justice Sachs of South Africa, the constitution “acknowledges that people live in their bodies, their communities, their cultures, their places and their times” (Sachs J. in The National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v. The Minister of Justice). It is this composite identity of every person that is affirmed through a nuanced reading of “sex” in Article 15(1): “We hold that sexual orientation is a ground analogous to sex and that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is not permitted by Article 15 (Para 104)...” -- http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com -- http://venukm.blogspot.com http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] chinese flag ?????
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗെന്നാല് എന്താണ് മുത്തശ്ശീ?http://workersforum.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_8889.html ജനുവരി - 9: സമ്മേളനത്തിനായി എത്തുന്ന മുഴുവന് പ്രവര്ത്തകര്ക്കും കൊടിയുണ്ടാകും. രണ്ടോ മൂന്നോ വലിയ കൊടികളും ബാക്കി ചൈനീസ് നിര്മിത കൊടികളുമാണ് .'' -മലയാള മനോരമ. മലയാള മനോരമയുടെ റിപ്പോര്ട്ട് ശരിയെങ്കില് കൊച്ചിയിലെ റാലിക്ക് രണ്ടുലക്ഷം കൊടികളെങ്കിലും ചൈനയില്നിന്നുവരുത്തണം സിപിഐ (എം). റാലിയില് പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന എല്ലാവര്ക്കും കൊടിവേണമെന്നും ഒരു സംഘത്തില് രണ്ടോ മൂന്നാ വലിയ കൊടികളും ബാക്കി ചൈനയിലുണ്ടാക്കിയ ചെറിയ കൊടികളും ഉണ്ടാകണമെന്നും പാര്ടി സര്ക്കുലര് ഇറക്കിയെന്ന വാര്ത്തയ്ക്ക് മറ്റെന്താണ് അര്ത്ഥം? റിപ്പോര്ട്ട് ശരിയെങ്കില് പ്രശ്നം ഗുരുതരം. പക്ഷേ, കാര്യം നിസ്സാരം എന്നതാണ് സത്യം. പ്രകടനത്തില് 'ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗു'കള് പിടിക്കും എന്നറിഞ്ഞ മനോരമ റിപ്പോര്ട്ടര്ക്കാണ് പിഴച്ചത്. ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗ് എന്നാല് ചൈനയിലുണ്ടാക്കിയ കൊടിയല്ലേ! മധുരം മലയാളം മുദ്രാവാക്യമാക്കിയ മനോരമയുടെ ഇംഗ്ളീഷ് മീഡിയം ചിന്തപോയത് ആ വഴിക്കാവണം. ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗെന്ന് നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിലെ കമ്യൂണിസ്റ്റുകാര് വിളിക്കുന്നത് നെടുങ്ങനെയുള്ള ചുവന്ന കൊടിയെയാണ്. റാലിക്കെത്തുന്ന ഓരോ സംഘത്തിലും ഒന്നോ രണ്ടോ പാര്ടിക്കൊടിയും ബാക്കി ചിഹ്നമില്ലാത്ത ചെറുകൊടികളും ഉണ്ടാകും എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു കേട്ടതാണ് മനോരമയില് ഇങ്ങനെയായത്. റാലിക്കു കൊണ്ടുവരുന്ന ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗുകള് വയലാറിന്റെ കഥാപാത്രമായ 'നാല്ക്കവലയിലെ തയ്യല്ക്കടയിലെ ചാക്കോമേസ്തിരി'മാര് തയ്ചെടുക്കുന്നതാണ്, ചൈനയില്നിന്നു വരുന്നതല്ല എന്ന് അവര്ക്ക് തിരിഞ്ഞില്ല. പത്രപ്രവര്ത്തനം യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റികളില്നിന്നും അക്കാഡമികളില്നിന്നും പഠിച്ചെടുക്കാവുന്നതും വിദേശസ്കോളര്ഷിപ്പുകളിലൂടെ ഇന്റര്നാഷണലൈസ് ചെയ്യാവുന്നതുമായി മാറുമ്പോള്, നാട്ടുനടപ്പ് അറിയില്ലെങ്കിലും ചെയ്യാവുന്നതാണ് എന്നു വരുമ്പോള്, ഇതും ഇതിലപ്പുറവും സംഭവിക്കും. നമ്മുടെ മാധ്യമപ്രവര്ത്തനത്തിന്റെ ഈ വലിയ അപഭ്രംശം പുറത്തുകൊണ്ടുവന്ന മനോരമയുടെ ചിരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന തെറ്റിന് നാട്ടറിവിന്റെ ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗുയര്ത്തി ഒരഭിവാദനം. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Re: chinese flag ?????
hey nice one but a secret.. this manorama reporter was SFI/ DYFI activist during his school/college days. Still he committed this mistake. (?!!) that means even party classes are NOT enough to make one a true party worker and a journalist.. shows the need for funding/fellowships/university departments etc Best 2009/7/19 Abdul Rasheed rasheed...@gmail.com Tuesday, January 20, 2009 ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗെന്നാല് എന്താണ് മുത്തശ്ശീ?http://workersforum.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post_8889.html ജനുവരി - 9: സമ്മേളനത്തിനായി എത്തുന്ന മുഴുവന് പ്രവര്ത്തകര്ക്കും കൊടിയുണ്ടാകും. രണ്ടോ മൂന്നോ വലിയ കൊടികളും ബാക്കി ചൈനീസ് നിര്മിത കൊടികളുമാണ് .'' -മലയാള മനോരമ. മലയാള മനോരമയുടെ റിപ്പോര്ട്ട് ശരിയെങ്കില് കൊച്ചിയിലെ റാലിക്ക് രണ്ടുലക്ഷം കൊടികളെങ്കിലും ചൈനയില്നിന്നുവരുത്തണം സിപിഐ (എം). റാലിയില് പങ്കെടുക്കുന്ന എല്ലാവര്ക്കും കൊടിവേണമെന്നും ഒരു സംഘത്തില് രണ്ടോ മൂന്നാ വലിയ കൊടികളും ബാക്കി ചൈനയിലുണ്ടാക്കിയ ചെറിയ കൊടികളും ഉണ്ടാകണമെന്നും പാര്ടി സര്ക്കുലര് ഇറക്കിയെന്ന വാര്ത്തയ്ക്ക് മറ്റെന്താണ് അര്ത്ഥം? റിപ്പോര്ട്ട് ശരിയെങ്കില് പ്രശ്നം ഗുരുതരം. പക്ഷേ, കാര്യം നിസ്സാരം എന്നതാണ് സത്യം. പ്രകടനത്തില് 'ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗു'കള് പിടിക്കും എന്നറിഞ്ഞ മനോരമ റിപ്പോര്ട്ടര്ക്കാണ് പിഴച്ചത്. ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗ് എന്നാല് ചൈനയിലുണ്ടാക്കിയ കൊടിയല്ലേ! മധുരം മലയാളം മുദ്രാവാക്യമാക്കിയ മനോരമയുടെ ഇംഗ്ളീഷ് മീഡിയം ചിന്തപോയത് ആ വഴിക്കാവണം. ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗെന്ന് നമ്മുടെ നാട്ടിലെ കമ്യൂണിസ്റ്റുകാര് വിളിക്കുന്നത് നെടുങ്ങനെയുള്ള ചുവന്ന കൊടിയെയാണ്. റാലിക്കെത്തുന്ന ഓരോ സംഘത്തിലും ഒന്നോ രണ്ടോ പാര്ടിക്കൊടിയും ബാക്കി ചിഹ്നമില്ലാത്ത ചെറുകൊടികളും ഉണ്ടാകും എന്നു പറഞ്ഞു കേട്ടതാണ് മനോരമയില് ഇങ്ങനെയായത്. റാലിക്കു കൊണ്ടുവരുന്ന ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗുകള് വയലാറിന്റെ കഥാപാത്രമായ 'നാല്ക്കവലയിലെ തയ്യല്ക്കടയിലെ ചാക്കോമേസ്തിരി'മാര് തയ്ചെടുക്കുന്നതാണ്, ചൈനയില്നിന്നു വരുന്നതല്ല എന്ന് അവര്ക്ക് തിരിഞ്ഞില്ല. പത്രപ്രവര്ത്തനം യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റികളില്നിന്നും അക്കാഡമികളില്നിന്നും പഠിച്ചെടുക്കാവുന്നതും വിദേശസ്കോളര്ഷിപ്പുകളിലൂടെ ഇന്റര്നാഷണലൈസ് ചെയ്യാവുന്നതുമായി മാറുമ്പോള്, നാട്ടുനടപ്പ് അറിയില്ലെങ്കിലും ചെയ്യാവുന്നതാണ് എന്നു വരുമ്പോള്, ഇതും ഇതിലപ്പുറവും സംഭവിക്കും. നമ്മുടെ മാധ്യമപ്രവര്ത്തനത്തിന്റെ ഈ വലിയ അപഭ്രംശം പുറത്തുകൊണ്ടുവന്ന മനോരമയുടെ ചിരിപ്പിക്കുന്ന തെറ്റിന് നാട്ടറിവിന്റെ ചൈനീസ് ഫ്ലാഗുയര്ത്തി ഒരഭിവാദനം. -- The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human beings. - Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Re: chinese flag ?????
2009/7/20 ranju radha ranjura...@gmail.com hey nice one but a secret.. this manorama reporter was SFI/ DYFI activist during his school/college days. Still he committed this mistake. (?!!) How could you vouch for that? Are you the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent one? -- Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[GreenYouth] Fwd: [Citizen-Mumbai] Press Conference against illegal arrest - Press Club, 21st July, 4.30pm
From: Feroze Mithiborwala feroze.moses...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:44 AM Subject: [Citizen-Mumbai] Press Conference against illegal arrest - Press Club, 21st July, 4.30pm Citizens' Initiative for Peace To The City Editor, -- -- *SUB:* PRESS CONFERENCE Dear Sir / Madam The Citizens' Initiative for Peace (CIP) has organised a press conference on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, at 4.30 P.M. at the Press Club (next to Azad Maidan) to highlight the issue of grossly undemocratic arrest and detention of Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishor Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi. They were picked up by the Mumbai Police on Friday evening without indicating any ground whatever and kept in respective police stations for over 20 hours. Their arrests are, by all appearance, linked to the visit of the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the city - in an apparent bid to scuttle any possible protests. The press conference will be addressed by Adv. Gayatri Singh. She had visited the MIDC police station for the legal defence of Feroze Mithiborwala and Kishor Jagtap and effect their early release. She will explain ithe legal dimensions of these preventive arrests, without any specific charge, in the broader context of Indian legal regime. It will also be addressed by Feroze Mithiborwala, Kishor Jagtap and Aslam Ghazi. They will narrate their own experiences. Veteran Journalist and *Loksatta* Editor *Shri *Kumar Ketkar would speak on the implications of such arrests on India's democratic credentials and prospects.Customary question and answer session would follow. Please depute your reporter and photographer to cover the event and oblige. Regards, Dolphy D'souza Jatin DesaiSukla Sen (9322255812) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Green Youth Movement group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
