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Life is visibly improving for Dalit communities in India, who were once known as untouchables. ... Source: isohunt.com --- 26 days ago
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TRIVENIGANJ, India – In the two weeks since a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks, ancient prejudices have run just as deep as the floodwaters. India’s “untouchables” are the last to be rescued – if at all – from a deluge that has killed dozens and left 1.2 million homeless. ... Source: www.iheu.org --- 21 hours ago
Join Humanist s, Freethinkers, human rights activists, intellectuals from Nigeria and Overseas to discuss and debate on how to eradicate Caste discrimination and untouchability in the world. Sponsorships are available for victims of Caste discrimination and untouchability in Nigeria. read more ... Source: littlebang.wordpress.com --- 4 days ago
Thursday 18th September Talk at the Siam Society with David Holmes ‘Buddhism and the Caste System’ (200 baht fee for non-members of the Siam Society) based on a report published by UNESCO in Paris, in 1958, written by two of the topmost Pali scholars of that day, Professor H.N. Jayatilleke and Professor G. P. Malalasekera, citing textual references in the Pali Canon in [...] ... Source: www.topix.com --- 4 days ago
Rome, Sep 2, 2008 .- In an interview with Vatican Radio, the Archbishop of Ranchi in India, Cardinal Telesforo Placidus Toppo, said that the Catholic Church's defense of the sacredness of the human person and ... ... Source: esterknows.com --- 2 days ago
A multi-media installation by Amorette V. Garza ( MFA 1998 Sculpture + Extended Media) and Shreepad Jogiekar Opening: Saturday, Sept. 6th, 6:00 to 8:00 pm K Space Contemporary 415 D. Starr St.Corpus Christi, TX Tele-Caste System: site (un) scene, a multi-media art installation including life-size sculpture combined with drawing, photography and video. The exhibition is the collaborative effort of artists Amorette Garza of [...] ... Source: www.nytimes.com --- 7 days ago
Chandra Bhan Prasad’s argues that India’s economic liberalization is about to destroy the Caste System. ... Source: www.nytimes.com --- 8 days ago
Chandra Bhan Prasad’s latest crusade is to argue that India’s economic liberalization is about to do the unthinkable: destroy the Caste System. ... Source: www.slate.com --- 33 days ago
The most dynamic subgenre of reality television is the Caste-climbing makeover competition, and its essential text is Ladette to Lady, canceled this year after three delightful seasons on the U.K.'s ITV. The program endeavored to instill aristocratic values in its young female contestants who were commoners plucked from a newfound segment of the commonalty. The girls tended to look like a football hooligan's idea of a trollop, and any club-chair sociologist could see that the ladettes had realized the constraints of the local class System and had chosen to opt out of it. Instead, the ladettes established a pseudo-subculture and careered around the kingdom like a roaming gang of slags, taking shelter wherever the sound of Oasis being played very loud was coincident with lager on tap. In the last episode of each season of Ladette to Lady—the reliably precious finishing-school graduation scene—the winner made a kind of debut. She was alleged to know both self-respect and how to set a formal dinner, and we were encouraged to believe that both pieces of knowledge mattered to her moral improvement. She entered small-S society.Matters of class are rather less straightforward on these colonial shores, as evidenced by American Princess (WE). That one whisks its contestants away from Sacramento, Calif., and Pittsburgh to drill them on carriage and elocution in Ye Olde Country. The host is the actress Catherine Oxenberg, who descends from th ... Source: www.stltoday.com --- 2 days ago
For those interested in a more international perspective, check out the web site of the IHEU (International Humanist and Ethical Union) . It's made up of humanist groups from around the world--some identify as religious humanist, others as secular humanist, some probably don't see why it matters (I'm just guessing about that, but I know in Asian countries the line between religions/philosophies/practices is much blurrier). I find it interesting to see what issues are considered Humanist. The IHEU seems to focus on human rights in general, the rights of nonbelievers in countries where open nonbelief is illegal, and international promotion of science. The site has a recent interview with the new Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal , which in its transition to a republic is also transitioning to a secular state. What does that mean? On the good side, it means doing away with the Caste System and the "untouchables." On the… ... Source: books.signonsandiego.com --- 16 days ago
“A very funny, darkly compelling narrative of life among the lower classes in modern India. Our guide, Balram Halwai, considers himself the figurative 'white tiger' – an anti-establishment anomaly who will buck the Caste System. An absolutely brilliant debut.” ... Source: www.lewrockwell.com --- 7 days ago
The collective farms are finally be privatized. And capitalism is subverting the Caste System too. (Thanks to Scott Horton.)... ...
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You may outgrow your high school acne scars, but the emotional scrapes endure. Or so it seems from "American Teen," a slick documentary that suggests we never really outgrow our adolescent cliques. Director Nanette Burstein spent the 2005-2006 school year following five seniors from Warsaw, Ind., population 12,000. There's Colin, the all-star jock; Jake, the band geek; Hannah, the arty rebel; Megan, the prom queen, and Mitch, the heartthrob. If you can't decide whose lunch table you'd gravitate to, you're kidding yourself. Seeing this entertaining, intelligent movie is a reminder that most adult lives are littered with the fallout of those crucial transitional years, with their Caste System, peer pressure and occasional mean-spiritedness. Burstein, an Academy Award nominee who had previously co-directed the boxing documentary "On the Ropes" and the Robert Evans biography "The Kid Stays in the Picture," has a fine-tuned feel for her new subject. Although her five subjects fall into timeless, "Breakfast Club" archetypes, she respects their individuality as they figure out their still-jelling identities. Meanwhile, the group relaxed and behaved naturally as they became accustomed to the camera crews shadowing them. They never seem to be delivering a performance or exaggerating for effect - their self-dramatization is no more nor less that what every teen indulges in. Every romantic breakup is a catastrophe, every makeup is a triumph, ...
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So what are you going to write about today, Matthew? Poodles, Potato Statistics or Toilet Humour? Toilet Humour, today. Well, I say toilet humour. It's more like toilet rage. First off, though, I didn't get time for any lunch yesterday. I was ravenous by late afternoon. We had a bulk load of bulbs to dispatch for Holland last night so it was going to be a late finish and I didn't think that I would be able to hold out. I was naughty and bought a bag of chips on the way back from a meeting in Spalding. I never do that normally, I only have fish and chips once in a blue moon. Anyway. I ate these chips at my desk when I got back so the office reeked of fried food this morning but this was only the start. We have two loos at work. One in the offices and one in the canteen. You might think that it sounds as though that's a workers' loo and an executive loo; a sort of bog apartheid. You are right. A bit Kenneth Williamsy , I know. We are getting quite a few long-distance lorry drivers each day to collect daffodil bulbs to deliver to mainland Europe. They should be using the canteen loo really. The one in reception is for management and customers. We operate a very clear Caste policy on the matter. Anyway today this System collapsed into anarchy - a Dutch lorry driver used the executive loo. It does not smell good. The offices smell, the reception area smells, goodness knows what it actually smells like in the washroom ... Source: www.newsdesk.org --- 33 days ago
Kumari Mayawati, a low-Caste Indian woman and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, led an electoral charge in late July to topple India’s government and lost only by a handful of votes. According to The Age in Australia, Mayawati demonstrated considerable political clout in swaying votes against the Congress Party-led Parliament, and her actions resulted in the formation of a “third party” in the Indian political System. Her ambition has led many to believe Mayawati could be India’s first “untouchable” prime minister from the Dalit Caste. Mayawati’s intentions are under scrutiny: She is chief minister of an enormous state that is home to 10 percent of the world’s poor, but her personal assets last year were valued at $12.3 million -- gifts from her supporters, according to The Age. Nonetheless, the newspaper reports that her dalit constituency loves her, and her popularity seems to be growing beyond Caste lines. --Julia Hengst/Newsdesk.org “New Force in Indian Politics” The Age, July 30, 2008 ... Find more results for Caste System on RSSMicro.com |
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clipped by: Smoke TNT Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk An official in the Indian state of Bihar has come up with a new idea to encourage low Caste poor people to cope with food shortages - rat meat. The Principal Secretary of the state's Welfare Department, Vijay Prakash, said that he was advancing his proposal after "much survey and ground work". It's argued that rats are a good source of nutrition Bihar's extremely poor Musahar community are rat-eaters by tradition. The Musahar are on the bottom strata of the Caste System with the lowest literacy rate and per capita income. Less than one percent of their 2.3 million population in Bihar is literate and 98% are landless. "There are twin advantages of this proposal. First, we can save about half of our food grain stocks by catching and eating rats and secondly we can improve the economic condition of the Musahar community," he told the BBC. According to Mr Prakash, about 50% of total food grain stocks in the country are eaten away by rodents. ...
Filed under: Arkansas , Kentucky , Mississippi , Vanderbilt , SEC As hierarchical as I-A college football is (indeed, much more so than any other American sport), nowhere is the Caste System writ larger than in the SEC, where the good stay good, the bad stay bad, and Phil Fulmer stays comically overweight . Were EPL-style relegation ever to be implemented , you may rest assured that no more than two SEC programs would ever be in danger, and we're lucky enough to meet them both again today (plus a few new friends!). After the jump, the four teams without a prayer of going .500 in the SEC in 2008... ARKANSAS RAZORBACKS Here's the worst thing you can say about a college football team's prospects for an upcoming season: their biggest stories are about people who aren't even there anymore. Those who are left are but sideshows to the larger circus that is Arkanas's impending disaster of a 2008 season. For example: Is Houston Nutt going to be missed? Maybe, though he shouldn't be. Even Herr Wanderlusten Bobby Petrino is an upgrade at the top spot, and Nutt seems perfectly content to crawl into his own SEC grave with the Rebs. Sure, Arkansas is quite vulnerable to a Minnesota-like slide to the muck and the mire, but it was bound to happen anyway. And why are they bound to regress? Let's ask another question instead: Are Darren McFadden and Felix Jones going to be missed? HOLY LORD YES. To call Arkansas's offense moribund is an affront to ...