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Bring Justice to ANM Bhanwri Devi: Women’s organisations protest in Jaipur

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This press release was put out by KAVITA SRIVASTAVA on behalf of various women’s organisations in Rajasthan, on 11 November 2011. For a background to the case, see “A CD and a missing health worker“.

  • RAJASTHAN CONGRESS, STOP MISUSING AND EXPLOITING WOMEN IN POLITICS!
  • ARREST MAHILPAL MADERNA AND OTHER POLITICIANS INVOLVED IN THE DISAPPEARANCE BHANWARI DEVI!
  • ASHOK GEHLOT, PRODUCE BHANWRI DEVI DEAD OR ALIVE, OR ELSE RESIGN!
  • BJP WHERE ARE YOUR TEARS FOR BHANWRI DEVI!! STOP PLAYING THE CASTE CARD!
  • MAMTA SHARMA, NCW Chairperson, WHY THE SILENCE ON BHANWRI DEVI!

Raising the above slogans, Women, Dalit and Human Rights Organisation under the leadership of Dr. Pawan Surana ex-chairperson of the state women’s commission, protested today 11 November, 2011 condemning the Ashok Gehlot Government for the disappearance of one the workers of his Government ANM Bhanwri Devi and an aspirant of the Congress party.  Continue reading Bring Justice to ANM Bhanwri Devi: Women’s organisations protest in Jaipur →

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Families and Dynasties, Lettered and Unlettered – Monobina Gupta

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Minister in the Rajasthan government
Golma Devi, Minister in the Rajasthan government

Guest Post by MONOBINA GUPTA

It is jarring, to put it mildly, that Times of India, a leading daily, engaged in a high-profile ‘Teach India’ campaign should publish a front page story mocking the unlettered. This story exhibits a strange callousness in its reporting about the very constituency of people the campaign is hoping to address…or ‘uplift’…
The story published in the TOI on December 20, smacks of arrogance as it speaks disdainfully of an unlettered woman legislator recently elected in Rajasthan’s assembly elections. Golma Devi, elected from the Mahuwa constituency is the butt of ridicule and lament in this article authored by P J Joychen. The author, it seems, cannot get over the fact that an unlettered person like Golma Devi has been elevated to the rank of a minister in the Ashok Gehlot government.

No, she is not a history sheeter; nor does she have a scam hot on her heels. She is nevertheless an offender – in the sense of ‘offending’ your ‘sensibilities’ – in the supercilious eye of the media; an object of ridicule. Her offense: her of lack of reading and writing skills.

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