लिंग
March 8, 2016
500 women from 21 women’s organizations which have been working for women’s rights for two decades or more will be marching from Kotwal Gardens, Dadar West to Amar Hind Mandal, Dadar West.
Main Speaker: Ms Suhasini Ali, President of the All India Women’s Democratic Association
Songs and a Play on the Women’s Movement will be presented by Stree Mukti Sanghatana
Date...
February 25, 2016
The country witnesses its first experience governance in Shivaji’s swarajya. It was not supported by education the country remained impoverished intellectually. One dimension of the nation was strengthened by practical experience. Those who had become impoverished and were insignificant started performing miraculously heroic deeds. The Brahmins subsisting on alms turned into statesmen;...
February 25, 2016
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Muslim Auraton ki Awaaz: Sadak se Sansad tak
Dear Friends and Comrades,
Let us all gather in the national capital on 27th and 28th February 2016 to demand the fundamental rights to life, dignity, equality and non-discrimination, for freedom of religion and expression for Muslim women. Let us bring together the visions and struggles of women’s movements,...
February 18, 2016
भारतीय समाज की सबसे निचली सीढ़ी पर खड़ी दलित स्त्री ने समाज की वर्जनाओं निषेधाज्ञाओं को लांघते हुऐ ब्राह्मणवादी व्यवस्था केमुख्य आधार स्तम्भ; पितृसत्ता, धर्म और जातीयता को हमेशा कड़ी टक्कर दी है। चाहें वह चिन्तन का क्षेत्र हो अथवा संघर्ष का, दोनो स्तरों पर उसने अपने अस्तित्व व अस्मिता की लड़ाई को प्राचीन काल से लेकर आज तक जारी रखा है।
आधुनिक महिला आन्दोलन की शुरूआत 18वीं शताब्दी से...
February 10, 2016
It is paradoxical in the extreme; it’s also a fact of life. Muftis, qazis, maulanas and molvis in India keep proclaiming that Islam has given justice and rights to women that no other religion has. The fact however is that thanks to the clerics, in the name of the Muslim Personal Law in India, when it comes to gender relations, the plight of Muslim women in secular democratic India is far...
February 2, 2016
INVITATION:
Performance and Talk by Shital Sathe and Troupe Venue: Press Club, New Delhi
Date: Sunday, 7 Feb. 2016
Time: 3 to 5 pm
Shital Sathe, the dynamic poet-singer from Kabir Kala Manch (KKM) and some of her new co-performers will sing and speak at the Press Club at 3 pm on Sunday.
It may be recalled that the KKM, a working class and mostly Dalit cultural troupe...
January 27, 2016
First Published on: January 21, 2016
Ban on menstruating women entering the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple is a violation of core Indian Spiritual values and the Constitution of India.
Perverted practioners of status-quoist traditionalism have been opposing the entry of menstruating women for worship in the Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in Kerala. This ban effectively seeks to...
January 12, 2016
Founder of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakthi Sanghatan (MKSS), Rajasthan, a Magsaysay awardee and a Campaigner for the Right to Information Act and India’s Rural Works Programme, Aruna Roy speaks to Communalism Combat’s Teesta Setalvad in this exclusive interview
Aruna Roy (HINDI) on People's Movements, Attack on Labour and Land Acquisition Laws - Part 1
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January 11, 2016
Image Courtesy: Jiaur Rahman: Tribal Dance
किसी भी देश के लोकगीतऔर लोकगाथाएं उस देश की आम जनता की भावना, संस्कृति, राग-द्वेष, दुख दर्द, भावनाओं और उनकी सांझी विरासत का दर्पण होती है। लोकगीत और लोकगाथाओं का सृजन आम जनजीवन कीभावनाओं की उन्मुक्त स्थिति है। समाज में जैसा भी अच्छा-बुरा, सुंदर-असुंदर, रहा है, उसके प्रति साधारण जन मानस की भावनाएं लोकसाहित्य में ही दिखती है। लोकसाहित्य से ही...