On Guha:
The other day, I read Ramchandra Guha's article Adivasis, Naxalites, And Indian Democracy(2007). He explores how the maoists in India have moved into the lives of adivasi . The failures of the state and of the formal political system have provided this space for Naxalites in their lives.This is an example of how force emerges when the total system is in fiasco. The system failed not on its own rather ensued by the inaction of the agency involved. About the inertness of the agency, Guha argues, "Leave alone acting on various reports
documenting the problems faced by the adivasis, the government has often
not even tabled the reports in Parliament". The adivasi of Chattisgargh are victims of its failure and negligence.
More recently, I read news on http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article3590873.ecem about indiscriminate shooting at a small village of the region. Dozens of adivasi were slaughtered who had gathered to discuss a land dispute.Actually,the systematic violence had not loomed so far in public. But this one is a blatant apparition of violence in its physical form. Moreover, the carnage proves Indian government's passivity for political initiative on the adivasi uprising.This will eventually complicate situation as more agitated and frightened adivasi youths are likely to be solicited by the maoists of the region. But, will their joining the maosits redress all the calamities brought by the government?
On a different Note:
This morning , the Hindu brought a sensational issue in light. I would like to co-relate my recent reading of Guha with this news; how systematic violence is persistent from the top to bottom in every social structure. Violence prevails not only in the form of physical form rather it exists in everyday life is the theme I grabbed.
At a private school in a city of Banglore India, children of poor families admitted under the "Right to Education" (RTE) quota were forced to go through an Odyssey of discrimination and humiliation. Very systematically, the school management carried out the most heinous crime of violation of child rights. Following are some outrageous acts they conducted:
-they make the "alien students" to stand separately during the assembly
-these students' lunch boxes are checked before they enter their class
-the teachers did not enlist them in the attendance register.
-the teachers make them sit in the back benches
-they cut off tufts of hair on top of their heads to distinguish these children
These kids are victim of symbolic violence that permeates everyday lives. I do not know, how these little ones react when they grow up.Will this seizure of discrimination and violence in their life remain all over their lives? Will they be able to transform this as an energy to make a counter attack (maybe in a creative and constructive way)?
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3650505.ece?homepage=true
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| adivasi youths in their base |
More recently, I read news on http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article3590873.ecem about indiscriminate shooting at a small village of the region. Dozens of adivasi were slaughtered who had gathered to discuss a land dispute.Actually,the systematic violence had not loomed so far in public. But this one is a blatant apparition of violence in its physical form. Moreover, the carnage proves Indian government's passivity for political initiative on the adivasi uprising.This will eventually complicate situation as more agitated and frightened adivasi youths are likely to be solicited by the maoists of the region. But, will their joining the maosits redress all the calamities brought by the government?
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| more adivasi youths have joined maoists |
This morning , the Hindu brought a sensational issue in light. I would like to co-relate my recent reading of Guha with this news; how systematic violence is persistent from the top to bottom in every social structure. Violence prevails not only in the form of physical form rather it exists in everyday life is the theme I grabbed.
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| victim children at private school |
-they make the "alien students" to stand separately during the assembly
-these students' lunch boxes are checked before they enter their class
-the teachers did not enlist them in the attendance register.
-the teachers make them sit in the back benches
-they cut off tufts of hair on top of their heads to distinguish these children
These kids are victim of symbolic violence that permeates everyday lives. I do not know, how these little ones react when they grow up.Will this seizure of discrimination and violence in their life remain all over their lives? Will they be able to transform this as an energy to make a counter attack (maybe in a creative and constructive way)?
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article3650505.ece?homepage=true
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