Vinayakala Korvi Two genuine intellectuals, academicians and crusaders for justice and truth, from EFLU to University of Delhi…Stay strong…more power to you Hany and Jenny. Today my close friend Jenny shared this post on Facebook: ‘Today the Pune police entered our house at 6.30 in the morning. They said that Hany Babu …
Preliminary Report: National Tribunal – Violence Against Dalit Women
National Tribunal – Violence Against Dalit Women Introduction “Hindu Society as such does not exist. It is only a collection of castes. Each caste is conscious of its existence. Its survival is the be-all and end-all of its existence.” Babasaheb Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste, 1937. A caste society is inherently violent in nature and this …
Fact Finding Report on the Alleged Rape and Murder of Dalit girl in Jind
Report of the Fact Finding Investigation conducted to ascertain facts in the case of alleged rape and murder of Dalit girl in Jind district of Haryana Background to the Formation of the Fact Finding Team On 24th August, a 20 year old Dalit girl was brutally raped and murdered in Jind, Haryana, while she …
State expects dead Dalit girl to prove she was violated and killed?
Asha Kowtal and Jenny Rowena On 24th August, a 20 year old Dalit girl was brutally raped and murdered in Jind, Haryana, while she was on her way to write an examination. Her mutilated body was found near a canal the next day by the police. There were cigarette burn marks on her body …
FYUP will cause the entire higher education system to collapse: Jenny Rowena
Gurinder Azad for Neel Kranti Media In the continuing series of protests against the Four Year Undergraduate Program (FYUP) several students groups, including Students’ Union of India and UDSF of Jawaharlal Nehru University, with several activists and faculty groups demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Human Resource Development today i.e. on 11th June, …
FYUP: A critique from a Social Justice perspective
Hany Babu & Jenny Rowena There have been enraged debates against the proposed Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) of the Delhi University that is to be introduced from the next Academic session. A large number of teachers and students have already come out in open protest. However, the Union Ministry for HRD has come …
The Protests in Delhi and the Nationalist Paradigm
Jenny Rowena On a broken tar road in a rather remote area in Kerala (where I am right now), someone has scribbled this with white chalk: Sister, For You, Bad New Year(Sahodari, ninakkuvendi, bad New Year) This statement is addressed to the girl who passed away recently after being brutally raped in a bus …
The ‘Dirt’ in The Dirty Picture: Caste, Gender and Silk Smitha – Part 2
Jenny Rowena Continued from here. My only preparation was to constantly tell myself that I love my body. And I was going to use it as a tool to get what I wanted in life and I was not going to be apologetic about it. So that was what Silk is for me. Therefore there is …
The ‘dirt’ in The Dirty Picture: Caste, Gender and Silk Smitha
Jenny Rowena On first or second Saturday coming after the Hindu New Year’s Day (Gudhi padawa), the devadasis, who are mostly dalitbahujans, were openly sexually enjoyed in public, about hundred years ago. This is now replaced by another tradition called “Okali”, which was in vogue till 1987. It is a festival like ‘Rang Panchami’. The …