Simpe, gentle and golden quality, Ravi you have got the creative talents and fine writing quality, that can send thousands of arrows into casteistic people's heart, yeah, straight into their heart!.
Ravi - Birmingham Jan 18th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wellsPumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold minesDiggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I riseUp from a past that’s rooted in painI rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I riseInto a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I riseI riseWe riseWe rise
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Anti-Conversion Law- This is a disgrace to India and disgusting to the society
Anti-Conversion Law- This is a disgrace to India and disgusting to the society.
State governments after state governments in India are becoming cruel to Dalits in their administration by passing such barbaric laws like anti-conversion laws to prevent people from choosing the religion or beliefs of their choice.
States such as Tamil Nadu alredy bitten the dust in creating a anti conversion law that is against the very human rights and the anti-conversion law in TN was later revoked what a shame on this Jayalalitha and those involved in such crimes. And now, Himachal Pradesh became a clown state among the clowns who are destroying the dalit's progress and their basic rights.
These leaders and the law makers are nothing but goons and scoundarals of the nation of India and must be funished with highest legal actions for voilating the human rights in India by illegal laws and legal mishandling of the state administration.
They all must go to jail for discriminating and humiliating dalits using anti conversion law.
The governor of Himachal Pradesh state, Shri Justice Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje, has given his assent to the anti-conversion law passed by the state legislature in December 2006. The bill has now passed into law.
Minority groups had expressed grave concern that the ‘Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2006’ was passed by the secular Congress Party, after similar laws were passed and strengthened in states ruled by the Hindu fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last year, report human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). CSW partner organisation, the All India Christian Council (AICC) is considering a legal challenge to the law at the Supreme Court.
CSW previously reported that Christians faced a fresh wave of harassment by Hindu extremist groups after the bill was passed. Further attacks have subsequently takenplace.
Dr Joseph D’souza, President of the Dalit Freedom Network and the All India Christian Council, said, “It is highly regrettable that the secular Congress government in Himachal Pradesh has chosen to pass this law, which severely undercuts the fundamental right to freedom of religion, particularly for exploited Dalits and tribals.
“The assent of the governor amounts to an endorsement of the discrimination and persecution against religious minorities in that state, which has already begun since the bill was passed on 29 December.”
CSW’s Advocacy Director, Tina Lambert, said, “Hindu extremist groups already seem to have been bolstered by the passage of this law, encouraged by the state-sponsored religious freedom restrictions which are becoming ever more common across India. This is a very troubling trend, and we urge the international community to make urgent representations to the Indian government about the proliferation of anti-conversion legislation.”
State governments after state governments in India are becoming cruel to Dalits in their administration by passing such barbaric laws like anti-conversion laws to prevent people from choosing the religion or beliefs of their choice.
States such as Tamil Nadu alredy bitten the dust in creating a anti conversion law that is against the very human rights and the anti-conversion law in TN was later revoked what a shame on this Jayalalitha and those involved in such crimes. And now, Himachal Pradesh became a clown state among the clowns who are destroying the dalit's progress and their basic rights.
These leaders and the law makers are nothing but goons and scoundarals of the nation of India and must be funished with highest legal actions for voilating the human rights in India by illegal laws and legal mishandling of the state administration.
They all must go to jail for discriminating and humiliating dalits using anti conversion law.
The governor of Himachal Pradesh state, Shri Justice Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje, has given his assent to the anti-conversion law passed by the state legislature in December 2006. The bill has now passed into law.
Minority groups had expressed grave concern that the ‘Himachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Bill, 2006’ was passed by the secular Congress Party, after similar laws were passed and strengthened in states ruled by the Hindu fundamentalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last year, report human rights organisation Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). CSW partner organisation, the All India Christian Council (AICC) is considering a legal challenge to the law at the Supreme Court.
CSW previously reported that Christians faced a fresh wave of harassment by Hindu extremist groups after the bill was passed. Further attacks have subsequently takenplace.
Dr Joseph D’souza, President of the Dalit Freedom Network and the All India Christian Council, said, “It is highly regrettable that the secular Congress government in Himachal Pradesh has chosen to pass this law, which severely undercuts the fundamental right to freedom of religion, particularly for exploited Dalits and tribals.
“The assent of the governor amounts to an endorsement of the discrimination and persecution against religious minorities in that state, which has already begun since the bill was passed on 29 December.”
CSW’s Advocacy Director, Tina Lambert, said, “Hindu extremist groups already seem to have been bolstered by the passage of this law, encouraged by the state-sponsored religious freedom restrictions which are becoming ever more common across India. This is a very troubling trend, and we urge the international community to make urgent representations to the Indian government about the proliferation of anti-conversion legislation.”
Jaykanthan- A Socially Consious Writer
A Tamil Writer very well regarded for his intellectually stimulating short stories and tamil literature in the modern years. His ability to bring the life of downtrodden people to the mainstream thinking and to the public is something very special, only a few can accomplish with a style and genuine interest.
The following review by S.Viswanathan on the work of Jayakanthan is very interesting and informative.
A writer in his world
S. VISWANATHAN
in Chennai
An outstanding oeuvre that reflected the travails of the downtrodden and challenged the belief systems of the middle class wins the Jnanpith Award for the Tamil writer Jayakanthan.