Dalit

Part II Dalit History with reference to Beef In the article “beef eating as the root cause of untouchability” Dr. B. R. Ambedkar has explained and linked beef eating practices with Untouchability in Indian society. He gave an account of Census Commissioner of 1910 who have issued a circular to divide the population of India into various categories. In that circular he have mentioned 10 test to differentiate Hindu and non Hindus on the basis of their lifestyle practices. In that test the 10…

Protecting the Youth: A Closer Look at Child Marriage in Nepal Katrina Venta PSY 217 Professor Telk November 6, 2016 Abstract No matter the country or culture, children below a certain age are too young to make informed choices, whether about sex or marriage. One of the 16 sexual rights from the World Association for Sexual Health states that any person has “the right to enter, form, and dissolve marriage and other similar types of relationships based on equality and free consent”…

Mahasweta Devi, a proficient Bengali writer and activist who puts a question mark on the democratic and civilized nation, India. It is imperative to have a clear understanding of “marginalised “in order to understand and appreciate the writings of Mahasweta. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the concept “marginalize” means “to make somebody feel as if they are not important and cannot influence decisions or events; or to put somebody in a powerless position”. Mahasweta empathetically restates…

In today’s fast-paced world, how is the oldest religion in the world dealing with all the new changes being thrown at it? Though there is no exact recorded date of its beginning, Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world. Hindus mainly believe in having a strong respect for the natural world, having the virtues consisting of being honest, generous, and righteous, which are all called dharma, the worship of the Supreme Being Brahman, and the soul of man, atman. “Hinduism” however, is only a…

Indira Gandhi; Mother India or Tyrant Indira Gandhi leaves a divided legacy. To the poor she is a hero. She is Mother India, who helped the underprivileged with her social welfare programs and the mother of the Green Revolution, which helped make India self-sufficient in grain productions. For others she is the architect of the Emergency, a dark period in India’s history when democracy was suppressed and political enemies we put down or…

‘Animals, drums, illiterates, low castes, and women are worthy of being beaten’ (Manusmriti, a book of Hindu religious scripture). No other religion in the world had explicitly divided people on the basis of caste, creed, sex, origin or purity and pollution in the world except Hinduism which is controlled and manipulated by the caste Hindus. In Hinduism, as it is mentioned in Rig Veda, the people are divided into four varnas which was later used by the caste Hindus to divide people into…

Village: A hub of peace and a face natural And cultural India India is a developing country. The villages outnumber the towns and cities in India. Sixty-five percent of the Indian population lives in villages. Almost all villagers are dependent on auricular. Since independence, the villages in India re developing. A village is free from the hustle and bustle of a city life. Life in a village is…

Eastern and western religions are used as an ethical basis for societies and individual believers to adhere to. In understanding this ethical influence of religions, it is essential to understand the fundamental views of time and the afterlife according to each religious tradition. In the following pages, I will analyze and compare the Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian teachings of afterlife, time, and the effects of these teachings on religion-based ethics. Hinduism, founded by Aryans in…

Policies dividing states already troubled by discrimination and gross systemic inequality are perplexing and illogical, more so in countries already plagued by multiple types of division. A special case of this type of rule is the Republic of India, in which the country is divided politically as the cause of different regions taking on different identities through the recognition of multiple languages as being national. This has led to many regions institutionally standardizing different…

The book basically talks about people living in poverty and in deprivation of healthy food, not only in the countryside but even in the shadows of glittering cities. The author, Harsh Mander states that there are about 80 to 230 million men, women and children who sleep hungry every night in our country. Throughout the book he illustrates chronic hunger in which a situation of perpetual hunger, starvation, or famine due to unequal distribution of wealth or other social injustice is shown. The…