🔵 The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-ambedkar-touch-in-rethinking-social-justice-policies/article67608373.ece
Modern democracy is synonymous with both the values of social harmony and reforms that ensure dignity and self-respect to its participants, especially the historically deprived and socially marginalised people. Further, democratic institutions are mandated to engage with the worst-off social groups and ensure their substantive participation as a significant governing class in political affairs. The socially oppressed groups in India, especially Dalits, adored and celebrated such modern virtues because of their liberative potential and egalitarian goals. Babasaheb Ambedkar emerged as a torchbearer of liberal enlightened ideas and expected that post-colonial India would be distinct from the exploitative Brahmanical past and invite Dalits and other marginalised communities to be equal shareholders in the nation’s economic and political development. Ironically, the modernist objectives have been partially achieved only today. With the ascent of neo-liberal economic development, the conventional support that Dalits and Adivasis have received from state institutions, has derailed.
#Dalits #Social_Justice
https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-ambedkar-touch-in-rethinking-social-justice-policies/article67608373.ece
Modern democracy is synonymous with both the values of social harmony and reforms that ensure dignity and self-respect to its participants, especially the historically deprived and socially marginalised people. Further, democratic institutions are mandated to engage with the worst-off social groups and ensure their substantive participation as a significant governing class in political affairs. The socially oppressed groups in India, especially Dalits, adored and celebrated such modern virtues because of their liberative potential and egalitarian goals. Babasaheb Ambedkar emerged as a torchbearer of liberal enlightened ideas and expected that post-colonial India would be distinct from the exploitative Brahmanical past and invite Dalits and other marginalised communities to be equal shareholders in the nation’s economic and political development. Ironically, the modernist objectives have been partially achieved only today. With the ascent of neo-liberal economic development, the conventional support that Dalits and Adivasis have received from state institutions, has derailed.
#Dalits #Social_Justice
The Hindu
The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies
It is an appropriate time to imagine how the worst-off social groups can become an integral and substantive part of the new economic order
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🔵 Move away from colonial mindset, encourage use of Bharatiya languages, NCERT says - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/move-away-from-colonial-mindset-encourage-use-of-bharatiya-languages-ncert-says/article67611758.ece
#Education #Colonial
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/move-away-from-colonial-mindset-encourage-use-of-bharatiya-languages-ncert-says/article67611758.ece
#Education #Colonial
The Hindu
Move away from colonial mindset, encourage use of Bharatiya languages, NCERT says
Govt. acknowledges India & Bharat as interchangeable names in Constitution; NCERT to use both in textbooks. CPI MP Santhosh Kumar says India vs Bharat debate is artificially created to divide people; Govt. intent on dividing country exposed.
🔵 Gender Gaps and Gajras in a Women’s World of Science - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/gender-gaps-and-gajras-in-a-womens-world-of-science/article67608310.ece
Motherhood
Other key issues which cropped up during the discussion included a lack of support systems within the industry, how motherhood and family impact women’s science careers, and the gender stereotypes in the industry, among other things. “
,” points out Shekhar.
#Women #Science #Barriers
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/gender-gaps-and-gajras-in-a-womens-world-of-science/article67608310.ece
Motherhood
Other key issues which cropped up during the discussion included a lack of support systems within the industry, how motherhood and family impact women’s science careers, and the gender stereotypes in the industry, among other things. “
I think the patriarchy and the prejudice can sometimes lead to people not being understood, and lead to people feeling that they are not being heard
,” points out Shekhar.
#Women #Science #Barriers
The Hindu
Gender Gaps and Gajras in a Women’s World of Science
There is a tendency to see science as being above society, untouched by the regular society’s biases, points out independent science journalist Nandita Jayaraj, the co-author of Lab Hopping: A Journey to Find India’s Women In Science. “But in contrast, it…
🔵 Concealed Scars Beyond The Frontlines: Women's Health In Conflict Zones
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/concealed-scars-beyond-the-frontlines-women-s-health-in-conflict-zones?s=35
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most constant, prevalent, and ruinous breaches of basic human rights. For example, in Vietnam, the financial repercussions of such violence were believed to account for 1.4 percent of its GDP. Similarly, in Morocco, it is reckoned that about US$308 million is forfeited each year owing to physical and sexual violence. Women and girls in conflict areas grapple with an array of tribulations that imperil their physical and psychological health. The unremitting menace of hostility shatters their everyday existence, curtailing access to vital necessities like medical care. This precarious landscape hems their prospects for economic advancement, fuelling a relentless spiral into impoverishment. Moreover, women find themselves disproportionately afflicted by acts of violence, which encompass sexual abuse, familial aggression, and being sold into coercion against their will. For instance, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and Sudan, it was reported that the army and armed groups continued to abduct women for sexual exploitation, while Yemen, Somalia, and Syria reported cases of sexual slavery and forced marriages to fighters.
#Women #Violence
https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/concealed-scars-beyond-the-frontlines-women-s-health-in-conflict-zones?s=35
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most constant, prevalent, and ruinous breaches of basic human rights. For example, in Vietnam, the financial repercussions of such violence were believed to account for 1.4 percent of its GDP. Similarly, in Morocco, it is reckoned that about US$308 million is forfeited each year owing to physical and sexual violence. Women and girls in conflict areas grapple with an array of tribulations that imperil their physical and psychological health. The unremitting menace of hostility shatters their everyday existence, curtailing access to vital necessities like medical care. This precarious landscape hems their prospects for economic advancement, fuelling a relentless spiral into impoverishment. Moreover, women find themselves disproportionately afflicted by acts of violence, which encompass sexual abuse, familial aggression, and being sold into coercion against their will. For instance, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, and Sudan, it was reported that the army and armed groups continued to abduct women for sexual exploitation, while Yemen, Somalia, and Syria reported cases of sexual slavery and forced marriages to fighters.
#Women #Violence
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Concealed scars beyond the frontlines: Women’s health in conflict zones
Kerala doctor dies by suicide after wedding called off over BMW, gold in 'dowry'
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🔵 The Alienation and Commodification of Nature: Fighting the Fallacious Fetishism of Contemporary Frameworks through a Revolutionary Transition | Economic and Political Weekly
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/alienation-and-commodification-nature-fighting
Modifying and Commodifying Nature
Commodity Fetishism, in Marxism implies that labour power itself becomes a commodity influenced by the evolution of the capitalist economy, which metamorphoses the personal, social and emotional nature of labour relations into an independent, external and objective thing (Martineau and Lafontaine 2019: 489). They are endowed with a life of their own (Jha 2009: 222), and “this fetishism attaches itself to the products of labor as soon as they are produced as commodities” (Marx 1990: 165).
In a capitalist society, according to Marx, even if a thing has a use value, it will not be produced unless it has exchange value (Jha 2009: 221-22), which is determined by the amount of human labour embodied in it. But as the world of commodities becomes dominant, we begin to see the commodity as having value in itself, and we devalue the contribution of those who made the commodity (Marx 2009).
The fetishism of commodities and value that typifies capitalism, for Marx, is evident in “its abstraction from human needs” (Napoletano et al 2018: 94). David Harvey (2017) asserts that the potential of capital to adjust its accumulation strategies and profit from “sustainability fixes” often aggravates, rather than reconciling, the capital’s crises of human development, which are not reducible to “the madness of economic reason.”
Fetishism of commodified nature not only demeans its essence but also makes it difficult for ethical consumers to be effective both in their evaluation of objects available and in influencing the world around them (Carrier 2010: 672). Nature is not presented as a concrete and constantly singular entity, but as a commodified good or merchandise, rendered the same everywhere (MacKenzie 2009: 440-55). Attributing such a form to nature tends to shape people's consciences. It is this aspect that is substantiated by the concept of reification (Martineau and Lafontaine 2019: 489–90).
Reification is a process in which certain entities or social relations take on the character of a thing by being illusorily considered and treated as mere quantifiable objects, concealing the human origin of these entities or human relations (Lukács 1971: 83). The concept of reification can help elucidate how the process of commodifying nature and transforming it into a good, tradable or exchangeable, in the market, affects the inter-subjective meaning of it to individuals, who are ushered to construe nature from a solely utilitarian angle, thereby losing their affective and emotional relationship with nature (Martineau and Lafontaine 2019: 492).
#Marx #Fetishism #Reification
https://www.epw.in/engage/article/alienation-and-commodification-nature-fighting
Modifying and Commodifying Nature
Commodity Fetishism, in Marxism implies that labour power itself becomes a commodity influenced by the evolution of the capitalist economy, which metamorphoses the personal, social and emotional nature of labour relations into an independent, external and objective thing (Martineau and Lafontaine 2019: 489). They are endowed with a life of their own (Jha 2009: 222), and “this fetishism attaches itself to the products of labor as soon as they are produced as commodities” (Marx 1990: 165).
In a capitalist society, according to Marx, even if a thing has a use value, it will not be produced unless it has exchange value (Jha 2009: 221-22), which is determined by the amount of human labour embodied in it. But as the world of commodities becomes dominant, we begin to see the commodity as having value in itself, and we devalue the contribution of those who made the commodity (Marx 2009).
The fetishism of commodities and value that typifies capitalism, for Marx, is evident in “its abstraction from human needs” (Napoletano et al 2018: 94). David Harvey (2017) asserts that the potential of capital to adjust its accumulation strategies and profit from “sustainability fixes” often aggravates, rather than reconciling, the capital’s crises of human development, which are not reducible to “the madness of economic reason.”
Fetishism of commodified nature not only demeans its essence but also makes it difficult for ethical consumers to be effective both in their evaluation of objects available and in influencing the world around them (Carrier 2010: 672). Nature is not presented as a concrete and constantly singular entity, but as a commodified good or merchandise, rendered the same everywhere (MacKenzie 2009: 440-55). Attributing such a form to nature tends to shape people's consciences. It is this aspect that is substantiated by the concept of reification (Martineau and Lafontaine 2019: 489–90).
Reification is a process in which certain entities or social relations take on the character of a thing by being illusorily considered and treated as mere quantifiable objects, concealing the human origin of these entities or human relations (Lukács 1971: 83). The concept of reification can help elucidate how the process of commodifying nature and transforming it into a good, tradable or exchangeable, in the market, affects the inter-subjective meaning of it to individuals, who are ushered to construe nature from a solely utilitarian angle, thereby losing their affective and emotional relationship with nature (Martineau and Lafontaine 2019: 492).
#Marx #Fetishism #Reification
Economic and Political Weekly
The Alienation and Commodification of Nature: Fighting the Fallacious Fetishism of Contemporary Frameworks through a Revolutionary…
With the frantically incessant economic production activity that apparently projects no end, the human-nature relationship seems to have come full circle. As man agonises being manacled by natural constraints, in the form of planetary ecological crises, he…
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🔵 A Legal Study on Issues Faced by LGBTQ During Adoption: In Respect to Human Rights and Adoption Laws in India – Juris Centre
https://juriscentre.com/2023/10/16/a-legal-study-on-issues-faced-by-lgbtq-during-adoption-in-respect-to-human-rights-and-adoption-laws-in-india/
THE CHALLENGES FACED BY SAME SEX PARENTS
The Central Adoption Resource Authority’s requirements are part of the JJ Act (Juvenile Justice Act), 2015, which gives everyone, regardless of religion, the capacity to adopt. No child shall be placed in adoption to a couple unless they have at least two years of a solid marital unity, according to a requirement in the law. Same-sex couples are unable to demonstrate two years of marital stability in India because marriages between the same sexes are not yet recognised in that country. As a result, they are ineligible. Furthermore, the SOCIAL STIGMA associated with these relationships deters the government from approving adoption for such families.[9]
#Adoption #Family #Same_Sex
https://juriscentre.com/2023/10/16/a-legal-study-on-issues-faced-by-lgbtq-during-adoption-in-respect-to-human-rights-and-adoption-laws-in-india/
THE CHALLENGES FACED BY SAME SEX PARENTS
The Central Adoption Resource Authority’s requirements are part of the JJ Act (Juvenile Justice Act), 2015, which gives everyone, regardless of religion, the capacity to adopt. No child shall be placed in adoption to a couple unless they have at least two years of a solid marital unity, according to a requirement in the law. Same-sex couples are unable to demonstrate two years of marital stability in India because marriages between the same sexes are not yet recognised in that country. As a result, they are ineligible. Furthermore, the SOCIAL STIGMA associated with these relationships deters the government from approving adoption for such families.[9]
#Adoption #Family #Same_Sex
Juris Centre
A Legal Study on Issues Faced by LGBTQ During Adoption: In Respect to Human Rights and Adoption Laws in India
People from the LGBT community confront numerous legal and societal challenges in India. Adequate legal safeguards have not been established for various concerns, including adoption rights. Single …
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🔵 Review of Surinder S. Jodhka’s The Indian Village: Invisible India - The Hindu
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar regarded the village as marked by the presence of intractable and oppressive social structures. “What is the village but a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?” he asked.
In his new book, The Indian Village, sociologist Surinder Jodhka points out that the Indian village is not only a lived reality, but also an idea. It was the colonial imagination that first constructed India as a land of tiny, untouched, impermeable village republics frozen in time — a narrative that was deliberately constructed to justify the project of imperialism. A section of Indian nationalists found it useful to build on this idea of India as an ocean of villages but sharing a cultural unity. After independence, a linear narrative of social change, development, and economic growth began to be created which seemed to lead inevitably towards urbanisation. In the 1990s, with economic liberalisation, the village began to slip off the radar of public discourse.
#Villages
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar regarded the village as marked by the presence of intractable and oppressive social structures. “What is the village but a sink of localism, a den of ignorance, narrow-mindedness and communalism?” he asked.
In his new book, The Indian Village, sociologist Surinder Jodhka points out that the Indian village is not only a lived reality, but also an idea. It was the colonial imagination that first constructed India as a land of tiny, untouched, impermeable village republics frozen in time — a narrative that was deliberately constructed to justify the project of imperialism. A section of Indian nationalists found it useful to build on this idea of India as an ocean of villages but sharing a cultural unity. After independence, a linear narrative of social change, development, and economic growth began to be created which seemed to lead inevitably towards urbanisation. In the 1990s, with economic liberalisation, the village began to slip off the radar of public discourse.
#Villages
The Hindu
Review of Surinder S. Jodhka’s The Indian Village: Invisible India
Mahatma Gandhi saw Indian villages as ideal of self-rule & cooperation; Nehru saw them as old social structure; Ambedkar saw oppressive structures. Jodhka's book ‘The Indian Village’ points out that the Indian village is not only a lived reality, but also…
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🔵 An experiment in education at grassroots level schools in Bangladesh - The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/books/an-experiment-in-education-at-grassroots-level-schools-in-bangladesh/article67612300.ece
Bangladeshi preschool teacher Shaheen was only twenty-six, but she was a dynamo, brimming with energy. Married at the age of fifteen, despite all odds, she’d completed her studies. Her preschool students were able to read better than even second-grade students we had met in nearby schools. Shaheen employed a range of innovative teaching aids, including picture cards and abacuses. She showed her students multiple picture cards and combined different words phonetically making it easier for them to grasp. Most importantly, her students understood the meaning of every word they read, not only in Bengali but in English too. She was using a learning method called the Kajoli Early Childhood Education Model.
#Education
https://www.thehindu.com/books/an-experiment-in-education-at-grassroots-level-schools-in-bangladesh/article67612300.ece
Bangladeshi preschool teacher Shaheen was only twenty-six, but she was a dynamo, brimming with energy. Married at the age of fifteen, despite all odds, she’d completed her studies. Her preschool students were able to read better than even second-grade students we had met in nearby schools. Shaheen employed a range of innovative teaching aids, including picture cards and abacuses. She showed her students multiple picture cards and combined different words phonetically making it easier for them to grasp. Most importantly, her students understood the meaning of every word they read, not only in Bengali but in English too. She was using a learning method called the Kajoli Early Childhood Education Model.
#Education
The Hindu
An experiment in education at grassroots level schools in Bangladesh
Swati Narayan travelled across four countries, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, and found that even poorer neighbours were doing better than some States in India on a range of social indicators like health, education, nutrition and sanitation
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Read: Long journey of Revanth Cabinet’s tribal face Seethakka: Naxalite to lawyer to 3-term MLA
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Long journey of Revanth Cabinet’s tribal face Seethakka: Naxalite to lawyer to 3-term MLA
It was during Covid pandemic that the Mulugu MLA came to limelight as she traversed forests to bring food and groceries to tribal villagers
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She is Danasuri Anasuya Seethakka ..
Her story is what is success of social policy looks like
She was part of the left wing extremist group People's War- Group disillusioned with State
She was rehabilitated under the Rehabilitation policy first propounded by the Visionary National Development Council under UPA-1
Which was adopted first by the erstwhile United Andhra Pradesh.
Seethakka was given first chance as a sarpanch, then MPTC and then as a ZPTC member , then MLA
Today she is well known for her Impeccable work ethic, honest public demeanor and was a popular choice for Ministry. So much so that she received the highest Cheer from the public.
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This is the testament of a well formulated & implemented Social policy.
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Her story is what is success of social policy looks like
She was part of the left wing extremist group People's War- Group disillusioned with State
She was rehabilitated under the Rehabilitation policy first propounded by the Visionary National Development Council under UPA-1
Which was adopted first by the erstwhile United Andhra Pradesh.
Seethakka was given first chance as a sarpanch, then MPTC and then as a ZPTC member , then MLA
Today she is well known for her Impeccable work ethic, honest public demeanor and was a popular choice for Ministry. So much so that she received the highest Cheer from the public.
.
This is the testament of a well formulated & implemented Social policy.
#Copied
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Transgender students to get free education in Maharashtra universities
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#Education
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Girls,women, transgenders to get free travel facility in Buses in Telangana
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"Message for those who's name isn't there in the List"
Dear fellow Aspirant we understand poeple will say upsc isn't than just tough but we know the level of competition makes it much more the tough.
We know the level of your physical as well as emotional involvement.
You are targeting most prestigious exam of the country.
We admire your spirit and we don't doubt your capabilities.
Yes it is tough to face failures but in the end its just an exam.
Poeple resign even after selection sometimes.
So let the poeple say whatever they are saying take your time , give yourself sometime to trust yourself once again for a stronger fight this time.
And for the time being leave social media don't absorb if the energy isn't it right reach out poeple who love u the most, spend time with poeple who actually knows your worth heal yourself from this set back and come back to the journey once again.
Keep the spirit high❤️
All the best 👍
Dear fellow Aspirant we understand poeple will say upsc isn't than just tough but we know the level of competition makes it much more the tough.
We know the level of your physical as well as emotional involvement.
You are targeting most prestigious exam of the country.
We admire your spirit and we don't doubt your capabilities.
Yes it is tough to face failures but in the end its just an exam.
Poeple resign even after selection sometimes.
So let the poeple say whatever they are saying take your time , give yourself sometime to trust yourself once again for a stronger fight this time.
And for the time being leave social media don't absorb if the energy isn't it right reach out poeple who love u the most, spend time with poeple who actually knows your worth heal yourself from this set back and come back to the journey once again.
Keep the spirit high❤️
All the best 👍
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