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Aruna Roy - The 2011 TIME 100. Starting from a tiny village in the deserts of Rajasthan in the 1980s, Aruna Roy began a long campaign to bring transparency to India's notoriously corrupt bureaucracy.

Aruna Roy - The 2011 TIME 100

Its signal achievement is the 2005 Right to Information (RTI) Act, a law that has given the nation's poor a powerful tool to fight for their rights and has influenced similar measures in other countries. It has also inspired thousands of RTI activists, who have exposed everything from land scams to bank embezzlement to the misuse of public funds meant for the poor. Since then, Roy, 64, has helped shape an ambitious new rural jobs program and a food-security bill that will come before Parliament this year. Many social activists clamor for India to do more for the dispossessed. Latin American Studies Program. Oiter Jed or Times of Revolution: Ila Mitra, the Santals and Tebhaga Movement ABSTRACT: Cross readings of oral narratives of the Tebhaga leader Ila Mitra with a complex history of violent encounters between the East Pakistani and a tribal population bring to light a unique historical conjuncture that took shape between Santal temporal imperatives and the communist teleology in the 1950's.

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Ila Mitra's articulations and determined resistance reveal a deep identification withthe adivasis that runs deeper than ideological solidarity and has rarely found place in our political cultures. In the contemporary context of political crackdowns on tribal populations, the relation of political parties with the people assumes criticality. Www.kiranbedi.com- First and Highest ranking Indian Woman internationally recognised, of Indian Police Service. Kiran Bedi : Une commissaire de police pas comme les autres.

"Yes Madam, Sir" Official Movie Trailer. Who is Medha Patkar: A short biography of Medha Patkar. Ruth Manorama Nobel altern pour son combat pour les femmes dalits. "...for her commitment over decades to achieving equality for Dalit women, building effective and committed women's organisations and working for their rights at national and international levels.

Ruth Manorama Nobel altern pour son combat pour les femmes dalits

" Ruth Manorama is India's most effective organiser of and advocate for Dalit women, belonging to the 'scheduled castes' sometimes also called 'untouchables'. Dalit women in India Dalit women in India suffer from three oppressions: gender, as a result of patriarchy; class, from being from the poorest and most marginalised communities; and caste, from coming from the lowest caste, the 'untouchables'. Although discrimination on the basis of caste is against the Indian constitution and prohibited by many laws, its practice is still widespread, especially in rural India. Manorama's career. Krishnanmal & Sankaralingam Jagannathan (Right Livelihood Award) "...for two long lifetimes of work dedicated to realising in practice the Gandhian vision of social justice and sustainable human development, for which they have been referred to as 'India's soul'.

Krishnanmal & Sankaralingam Jagannathan (Right Livelihood Award)

" Krishnammal Jagannathan and Sankaralingam Jagannathan are two lifelong activists for social justice, and for sustainable human development, working with those who are at the lowest rung of the social ladder. They have carried the Gandhian legacy into the 21st century, never ceasing to serve the needs of Dalits, landless and those threatened by the greed of landlords and multinational corporations. Early lives (1930-1950)Krishnammal Jagannathan was born to a landless Dalit family in 1926. Shweta Punj : Home. Shabana Azmi. Feminist film criticism. Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film - Jigna Desai - Google Books. Kumkum Sangari.

Femmes du cinéma

Shulamith (1975) by Meera Jacob Mahadevan. Meera Mahadevan. Mobile Creches was founded by Meera Mahadevan in 1969 in Delhi.

Meera Mahadevan

Kalpana Kanabiran sur les Pussy Riots. “We are…stoning you…for blasphemy” (John 10:33 cf.

Kalpana Kanabiran sur les Pussy Riots

Mahadevi Akka. AMMA, la mère de la Compassion. Basava. Basava (Kannada: ಬಸವ) (also known as Bhakti Bhandari Basavanna (Kannada: ಭಕ್ತಿ ಭಂಡಾರಿ ಬಸವಣ್ಣ ) or Basaveshwara (Kannada: ಬಸವೇಶ್ವರ), (1134–1196)) was an Indian philosopher, statesman and a social reformer from what is now Karnataka, India.

Basava

Basava fought against the practice of the caste system, which discriminated against people based on their birth, and other rituals in Hinduism. He spread social awareness through his poetry, popularly known as Vachanaas. Akka Mahadevi. An murti of Akkamahadevi consecrated in temple at her birthplace, Udathadi A popular vachana (poem) composed by Akkamahadevi Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ) was a prominent figure of the Veerashaiva Bhakti movement of the 12th century Karnataka.[1] Her Vachanas in Kannada, a form of didactic poetry, are considered her most notable contribution to Kannada Bhakti literature.[2] In all she wrote about 430 Vachanas which is relatively fewer than that compared to some other saints of her time.

Akka Mahadevi

Yet the term 'Akka' (elder Sister), which is an honorific given to her by great Veerashaiva saints like Basavanna, Chenna Basavanna, Kinnari Bommayya, Siddharama, Allamaprabhu and Dasimayya, speaks volumes of her contribution to the movement that was underway. She is in hindsight seen as a great and inspirational woman for Kannada literature and the history of Karnataka. Mythology[edit] Kamala Surayya. Kamala Suraiyya (born Kamala Das; 31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), also known by her one-time pen name Madhavikutty, was a major Indian English poet and littérateur and at the same time a leading Malayalam author from Kerala, India.

Kamala Surayya

Her popularity in Kerala is based chiefly on her short stories and autobiography, while her oeuvre in English, written under the name Kamala Das, is noted for the fiery poems and explicit autobiography. Her open and honest treatment of female sexuality, free from any sense of guilt, infused her writing with power, but also marked her as an iconoclast in her generation.[1] On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she died at a hospital in Pune,[2] but has earned considerable respect in recent years.

Early life[edit] Vasanth Kannabiran. As she walks towards you slowly, in her crisp cotton saree, with bobbed silver hair and a warm smile, she exudes a radiance that is almost palpable — one that is but a reflection of countless struggles braved, of numerous wars won.

Vasanth Kannabiran

Of a life spent well. Vasanth Kannabiran sits down to talk, with a grace unmatched perhaps by another 72-year-old. Ritu Menon. Vandana Shiva. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Violent economic 'reforms' and the growing violence against women - Opinion. The brave and courageous Delhi gang rape victim breathed her last on December 30, 2012.

This article is a tribute to her and other victims of violence against women. Violence against women is as old as patriarchy. But it has intensified and become more pervasive in the recent past. It has taken on more brutal forms, like the death of the Delhi gang rape victim and the suicide of the 17-year-old rape victim in Chandigarh. Rape cases and cases of violence against women have increased over the years. The movement to stop this violence must be sustained till justice is done for every one of our daughters and sisters who has been violated. And while we intensify our struggle for justice for women, we need to also ask why rape cases have increased 240 percent since 1990s when the new economic policies were introduced. Urvashi Butalia l'éditrice de Kali for woman. Young feminists Bengalore. Anindita Sengupta Executive Editor Anindita is a poet, journalist and freelance writer in Bangalore.

Pinki Virani. Pinki Virani (Bombay-born on January 30, 1959) is an Indian writer, journalist, human-rights activist and author who has won critical acclaim for her four bestselling books "Once was Bombay" (frequently referred to as a “cult book”); "Aruna's Story"; "Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse in India" (which won the National Award) and "Deaf Heaven"[1] Early life and education[edit] Virani was born in Mumbai, India, to Gujarati Muslim parents.

Her father owned a shop, and her mother was a housewife. She attended school in Mumbai, Pune and Mussoorie. She went to the US to study for a Masters in Journalism, from Columbia University, on the Aga Khan Foundation scholarship. Career[edit] She returned to Mumbai and joined MiD DAY as an editor. Gayatri Spivak, les grandes universitaires. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.

She received her B.A. at the University of Calcutta (1959); her M.A. (1962) and Ph.D (1967) from Cornell University. Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Les subalternes peuvent-ils parler ? - Idées. Il était une fois une jeune femme indienne. La jeune femme se pend. Ce n’est pas un conte de fées. Nous sommes en 1926. Sa famille et ses proches expliquent le suicide par une relation amoureuse illégitime. Ammu Joseph journaliste (femmes et médias) Jyotsna Chatterji, une réflexion sur l'action à la base. Biographical Information. Jaya Arunachalam working women forum. Meenu Vadera and Sakha (taxis for woman) team. Kamla Bhasin. From April 1970 to March 1971 Bhasin was a Lecturer in the Orientation Centre of the German Foundation for Developing Countries in Bad Honnef, West Germany. Phoolan Devi, Pulan Devi - (Gorha Ka Purwa, Uttar Pradesh, 10 août 1963 - New Delhi, 25 juillet 2001).

Une femme indienne de basse caste Phûlan Devî naît au sein de la basse caste des mallah, pêcheurs et bateliers, dans un petit village de l'Uttar Pradesh. Elle est mariée par ses parents à 11 ans à un cousin. Malgré l'accord passé entre les familles, exige qu'elle s'installe dans sa maison immédiatement et non le jour de ses 16 ans. Elle est aussitôt employée comme esclave domestique, couche dans l'étable et sa belle-famille la bat régulièrement. Sampat Pal Devi founder of the Gulabi Gang, Gulabi Gang, Sampat Pal, Women for Social Justice in Uttar Pradesh, India's pink vigilante, Indian Rural Areas.

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