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1. India Tops in Poverty
(The News/Newsflash)
... and UNDP. The measure reveals the nature and extent of poverty at different levels: from household up to regional, national and international level. This new multidimensional approach to ...
Monday, 12 July 2010
2. Ramayana of Valmiki
(Micropedia Dalitica/Micropedia Dalitica from L to R)
... the Indus Valley Civilization. This civilization was renowned for many features it gave to the Indian society e.g. international trade, architecture, drainage system, water-locks, trade, system of standard ...
Monday, 31 May 2010
3. UK India Caste Nexus
(Dalits in Diaspora/Replies to the The Hindu Council/Forum UK)
... of the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), including India and the UK, should enact domestic legislation declaring that descent-based discrimination ...
Sunday, 04 April 2010
4. House of Lords Recognises Caste Discrimination
(Dalits in Diaspora/Replies to the The Hindu Council/Forum UK)
... NSS was given a new focus by the first international conference on untouchability hosted by the IHEU and held in London last summer. Keith Porteous Wood of the National Secular Society commented: "This ...
Saturday, 13 March 2010
5. O - is for our history - Part 1
(Dalits in Diaspora/A to Z for Diaspora Dalits)
... concept such as the grid system city planning, complete with baths and refuse collection systems, duo decimal weights, knowledge of astronomy and hydraulics, international trade etc. etc. as they say. ...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
6. Dalits and the Emanicipatory Sikh religion
(Micropedia Dalitica/Micropedia Dalitica from S to Z)
... Dalits in Regional Context, Jaipur: Rawat, 2004, pp. 132-189; "The Dalit Sikhs", Dalit International Newsletter, Waterford USA, Vol. 9, No.3 October 2004; "Social Exclusion, Resistance and ...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
... the British people and its government some understanding about the Dalit issues and their logical demands. The battle will continue and one is sure the international media will pick up the issue soon.. ...
Sunday, 14 June 2009
8. Outlaw Caste Discrimination in UK - the Legal Case - by Annapurna Waughray
(Dalits in Diaspora/Replies to the The Hindu Council/Forum UK)
... Waughray, an international lawyer, argues for the case of anti-caste legislation to be included in the UK legislation on various grounds, the legal argument being that not to do so would contravene the ...
Monday, 30 March 2009
9. Britain – A Society Free From Caste Prejudice?
(Dalits in Diaspora/Replies to the The Hindu Council/Forum UK)
... to go back to the primeval beginnings of the caste system.  Only Brahminical arrogance can pose such a solution to the caste atrocities in India. Survival International's brief does not extend ...
Sunday, 01 February 2009
10. Valmik Sabha Demands Apology
(The News/Latest)
... is part of an international network campaigning for recognition of the problem of caste discrimination and action for its eradication. DSN has closely co-operated with the British Government The Hindu ...
Sunday, 07 December 2008
11. Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT)
(Micropedia Dalitica/Micropedia Dalitica from A to F)
... distort the textual evidence of the RV to make it fit supposed Harappan fire rituals, the use of the script, a developed town civilization and its stratified society of traders and artisans, and international ...
Sunday, 07 December 2008
12. Ayurveda
(Micropedia Dalitica/Micropedia Dalitica from A to F)
... the incentive to take medicine knowledge further. These people were the Buddhist long distance international traders. There was thus a practical need to develop and codify the existing system of medicine ...
Saturday, 06 December 2008
13. Public Meeting
(The News/Latest)
... Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG Nearest tube:  Goodge Street / Russell Sq Attendance is free Speakers: Baroness Caroline Cox Ramesh Gopalakrishnan (Amnesty International) Bipin Jojo (Tata ...
Thursday, 04 December 2008
14. Survival International Dongria Kond
(Web Links / Human Rights Links)
Dongria Kond Adivasis under threat by mining company Vedanta
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
15. Dongria Kondh
(Web Links / Audio Visual Resources)
Adivasi Dongria Kondhs under threat from Vedanta mulitnational corporation's exploitation of Niyamgiri Hills in India
Thursday, 06 August 2009

Rquotes

Siddha Gorakh Nath

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On Irreversible Changes and Transmigration

Milk does not return to the udder, Likewise butter can never become buttermilk;

The sound of the conchshell does not exist once it is broken;

The blown flower, the fallen fruit do not go back to the tree;
The dead are never born again, never!

On the Importance of Material Body and Materialistic Philosophy

Mistakenly I had believed the body to be imperfect, but within it I realised the Ultimate Reality.

Those who let the body decay, destroy the spirit;
They will not attain the true powerful knowledge.
I have learned the art of how to foster the body.
I fostered the body and I fostered the soul.

On Caste System

We will set fire to the divisions of caste,

We will debate philosophical questions in the market place,

We will have dealings with despised households.

We will go around in different paths.

K. Kailaspathy in Writings of the Sidhas in The Sants, edited by Karine Schomer and W H McLeod, Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi, 1987

Newsflash

The Times of India

8 Indian states have more poor than 26 poorest African nations
PTI, Jul 12, 2010, 04.18pm IST

LONDON: Acute poverty prevails in eight Indian states, including Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, together accounting for more poor people than in the 26 poorest African nations combined, a new 'multidimensional' measure of global poverty has said.

The new measure, called the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), was developed and applied by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative with UNDP support.

It will be featured in the forthcoming 20 th anniversary edition of the UNDP Human Development Report.

An analysis by MPI creators reveals that there are more 'MPI poor' people in eight Indian states (421 million in Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal) than in the 26 poorest African countries combined (410 million).

The new poverty measure that gives a multidimensional picture of people living in poverty, and is expected to help target development resources more effectively, its creators said.

The MPI supplants the Human Poverty Index, which had been included in the annual Human Development Reports since 1997.

The 2010 UNDP Human Development Report will be published in late October, but research findings from the Multidimensional Poverty Index were made available today at a policy forum in London and on line on the websites of OPHI and the UNDP Human Development Report.

The MPI assesses a range of critical factors or 'deprivations' at the household level: from education to
health outcomes to assets and services.

Taken together, these factors provide a fuller portrait of acute poverty than simple income measures, according to OPHI and UNDP.

The measure reveals the nature and extent of poverty at different levels: from household up to regional, national and international level.

This new multidimensional approach to assessing poverty has been adapted for national use in Mexico, and is now being considered by Chile and Colombia.

"The MPI is like a high resolution lens which reveals a vivid spectrum of challenges facing the poorest households," said OPHI Director Dr Sabina Alkire, who created the MPI with Professor James Foster of George Washington University and Maria Emma Santos of OPHI.

The UNDP Human Development Report Office is also joining forces with OPHI to promote international discussions on the practical applicability of this multidimensional approach to measuring poverty.