** * Date:15/02/2011* *URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2011/02/15/stories/2011021561170300.htm* ------------------------------ Back <javascript:history.go(-1)>
*Kerala* <http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/25hdline.htm>* - Kochi ‘Sahodarya movement' to be launched * *Special Correspondent * *KOCHI: A ‘Sahodarya Movement' aiming to foster harmony and friendship among different communities will be launched on February 20 at Cherayi on Vypeen Island, the birth place of Sahodaran Ayyappan who strived to network upper and lower castes in the last century.* *Tamil novelist Chaaru Nivedita will open the meeting that will herald the new movement at the Sahodaran Ayyappan Memorial High School. A large number of social activists, intellectuals, writers and artists are expected to show up for the launch of the movement.* *The idea to launch the movement was the outcome of a meeting organised by the New Democratic Movement at Kochi in October. That meeting, held in the background of increasing communal polarisation in the aftermath of the chopping of the wrist of the Thodupuzha professor, had recommended the building of movement to promote communal harmony, secularism, progressive thinking and bringing to the mainstream of marginalised communities.* *Sunny M. Kapikkad and K.S. Madhusudanan, general convener and chairman of the February 20 meeting, said in a statement that though Kerala is considered a progressive state, communal and political clashes are on the rise. Attacks and discriminations against religious minorities, Dalits, women, backward communities, sexuality minorities and immigrant labour were also increasing.* *It was to check this trend and foster harmony and cooperation among these communities that the Sahodarya Movement was being launched, they sai* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an 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.
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