Citizens for Justice and Peace
रावण को आज़ाद करो हमारी याचिका पर हस्ताक्षर करें
03-Feb-2018
भीम आर्मी के संस्थापक और जुझारू युवा दलित नेता चंद्रशेखर आजाद उर्फ़ ‘रावण’ पर उत्तर प्रदेश की सरकार ने दोबारा रासुका लगा दी है. जिस राज्य के मुख्यमंत्री अपने ऊपर लगे केसों को बेशर्मी से हटा रहे हो, वहां एक निर्दोष इंसान को जेल में रखने का एक ही मतलब है – की वे रावण…
CJP Stands with Dalits Join our campaign to stop the unlawful targeting of Dalits
21-Jan-2018
Citizens for Justice and Peace stands with the Dalits of Maharashtra. CJP has met the Commissioner of Police along with other groups to demand an immediate halt to combing operations all over Maharashtra. We are also preparing a legal intervention in the Bombay High Court against this crackdown. Join us in our campaign.
‘Lower’ Castes Original Producers of Knowledge, ‘Upper’ Castes Simply Accumulated Wealth: Kancha Ilaiah
01-Nov-2017
Author, political theorist and Dalit rights activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd was recently placed under house arrest in Hyderabad and prevented from attending a rally in Vijaywada. The scholar who is also Director for the Center for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University was receiving death threats…
Dalits in the Hindu Rashtra, A Close Look at the Gujarat Model
20-Jul-2016
For years now, we have been fed with stories, lies and half-truths about the Gujarat Model. We should not ever forget that this model began to be ‘sold’ and ‘marketed’ post 2007, in the wake of India’s worst ever genocidal pogrom against Muslims, in 2002. It is not that under other governments and political parties,…
The Christian Community in India 2015
19-Nov-2015
by John Dayal It does not happen to “other people.” It happens to “us,” though this may not be apparent at first sight. This is the sort of saying that social-psychologists, cultural anthropologists and even environmental scientists have been stressing on a range of issues as diverse as the impact of climate change to that…
Hidden Apartheid
01-Apr-2001
By Teesta Setalvad The continuance of manual scavenging, untouchability and other obnoxious practices do not seem to bother the Indian establishment, the intelligentsia included. What does disturb them deeply is the campaign of Dalits to have the indignities of caste recognised internationally as a distinct form of racism. From August 31–September 4, when the World Conference…
Face to Face with Fascism
01-Apr-2000
By Teesta Setalvad Forced ethnic segregation, calculated violence and the blatant misuse of government machinery throttles democracy in Gujarat Muslims and Dalits, masjids and the kachrapeti (the garbage dump), are the symbols of the clear communal and casteist segregation of space in urban Gujarat, be it in Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Surat, Rajkot, or elsewhere. The Muslimvaas…