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Debating Community, Print and Dalit in Kerala, India
Get PDFThe emergence of print within Dalit publics, which acts as the modern cultural site of individuatedand communitarian political articulations, rekindles the cultural tensions in the community‘sencounter with modernity and also within the evolution of the Dalit political subject. The differingsignifying practices of the modern articulations of the Dalits are represented in the discursive printspace of Malayalam Dalit magazines.This paper looks into the Dalit debates in the Malayalamspeaking regions of Kerala, by locating it at the narrative praxis of print culture as represented insome of the literary spaces and in the little journalistic space of Dalit magazines. The attempt is tounderstand the latent socio-cultural process which shapes the community formation among Dalits inthe sub-national space of a post-colonial region known as Kerala in India. The assumption is thatsuch an inquiry into Dalit discourses of the region would reflect upon the nuances of socio-culturaltransformation taking place in the society, the locus point being the structural power relationscentred and based primarily on the institution of castes
Book Review :NGO and Social Development
Get PDFNGO and Social Development. A.S. Sujatha, 2013, New Delhi, ALP Books, ISBN: 978-93-8221
Crop Diversification and Food Security in Kerala
Get PDFThe recent developments in agriculture in Kerala show crop diversification.The process of diversification is evident in different forms such as thecultivated area under food grain crops to non-food grain crops and onenon-food grain crop to another non-food grain crop. During the early 1960s,the order of the first five preferred crops were rice, coconut, tapioca, rubberand pepper, in descending order of proportion to the total cropped area.But today the preferred crops are coconut, rubber, rice, pepper andarecanut. Rubber came in the second position. Coconut, rubber and peppertogether constituted a major portion of the total cropped area. The maincrops losing area were rice and tapioca. The crop diversification indicesfor all Kerala and districts revealed less diversification in the pre-1991 periodcompared to recent years. This has created an imbalance in the croppingsystem with serious economic and environmental consequences. Reductionin rice production, decline in the availability of livestock and its products,decline in food availability, and changes in the employment pattern inrural areas are some of the important economic consequences of cropdiversification. Food security, particularly in the case of rice, is the vitalissue for Kerala at present. This study shows that there will be an increasingdemand for rice in Kerala in the coming years. This will enlarge the supply.demand gap of rice in Kerala in futur
Book Review : Society and Social Justice: A Nexus in Review
Get PDFSociety and Social Justice: A Nexus in Review. Brij Mohan, 2012, Bloomington, iUniverse.ISBN:978-1-4759—0796-4(sc)pp.xx+102, Price.$13.9
Indian Domestic Violence Law with Reference to Section 498A IPC
Get PDFDomestic violence in modern India is endemic. Women victims are protected from domesticabuse under the civil law, namely, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005.Section 498A on cruelty against wives by husband and his relatives was inducted to Indian PenalCode as early as 1983. Though it is made for addressing cruelty arising from dowry related issues,its definition is wide enough to address other situations of matrimonial domestic violence as well.The response of the society against the law has been unparalleled owing to the fact of its sporadicmisuse by women. It is alleged that women ―misuse‖ the law. Patriarchal allegations of misusehave sprung up from men‘s fear of the appropriate use of the sting in 498A. There have beendesperate demand for diluting, deleting the sting by making the law compoundable, noncognizable,and bailable. This paper discusses the predicament of women and the reasons leadingto it. The need to take precautions to stop the aberrational misuse is emphasized. The paperexamines the trueness of the allegations of women‘s misuse of the law by referring to case laws.Besides, it proposes some preventive measures. The co-ordination of civil and criminalmechanism to combat domestic violence can lead to checking the potential misuse
SuchitwaBodhanaYajnam A Citizens’ Movement for Cleanliness
Get PDFSuchithwa Bodhana Yajnam (SBY) is a pilot movement of the people, bythe people and for the people intended to make an existing district inKerala a model for cleanliness, environment protection and health care.The district chosen is Ernakulam, the industrial and commercial capital ofKerala. The zeal of the movement is to lead the district to sustainability inenergy, food and waste management in due course. The movement issupporting the attempts of the State Government in this direction, especiallythe Suchithwa Mission of Kerala. Started in 2010 under the initiative ofRenewable Energy Centre, Mithradham, Chunangamveli, coordinated bythe Rajagiri Outreach, Kalamassery and Sahrudaya Services and Charities,Rajagiri, the movement has added to its ranks and files many institutions,organizations and individuals of the district in three years time. Citizensare welcome to join the movement without any form of discrimination.Institutions and individuals working with similar vision are seen as cotravelers.and not as competitors by all the existing partners of SBY. Theco-travelers will be supported by all possible means to achieve our commongoal. The dynamics of the movement is documented for replication toother districts of India and other developing countries facing similarproblems
Towards A Rights-Based Approach to Child Protection
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Education And Socio-Cultural reproduction: Development of tribal People In Wayanad, Kerala
Get PDFThis paper discusses how schooling reproduces socialinequalities and cultural asymmetries in contemporary India byexamining the experiences of two tribal communities (the Paniyas andthe Kurichiyas) in the Wayanad district of Kerala. There are notablesocio-economic and cultural inequalities between these two tribalcommunities. The Paniyas are more backward and disadvantaged thanthe Kurichiyas. This social differentiation is reproduced through thepresent schooling system. The Paniyas experience discrimination inschool and lag behind the Kurichiyas in educational achievement. Animportant pedagogic problem faced by the Paniyas in school is theirinability to cope with the schooling provided through a language thatis not their mother tongue. Land ownership, and the cultural and socialcapital resulting from it place the Kurichiya community at acomparatively better position than the Paniyas, who have a labour.class and slave caste identity. Access to land is critical for the socioeconomicand educational development of tribal communitie