Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi on APN TV

Margins to Centre Stage: Empowering Dalits in India

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Margins to Centre Stage: Empowering #Dalits in #India portrays the journey of the powerless, marginalised Dalits, located in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India to the triumph of hope, courage and social action over despair, poverty, oppression and vulnerability with the help of the relentless efforts put in by the volunteers of People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (#PVCHR), India.

The critique chronicles how the innocent victims of custodial-torture become active human rights defenders or freedom of bonded-labourers is snatched from the confinement of feudal and capitalist oppressors, and the change of weavers’ nightmares transformed into dreams, optimism and motivation.

Authored by Archana Kaushik, Ph D, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Delhi, India and Shruti Nagvanshi, a social activist and co-founder of People’s Vigilance Committee on Human  Rights (PVCHR), India, the discourse would be beneficial for the educators, students and practitioners of social work, managers and administrators in welfare and development sector, NGO workers, policy planners and all those who wish to participate in the future journeys of unwavering human spirit towards emancipation…

Price:                           £14.95, $ 21.95, INR 495

ISBN:                          978 93 81043 17 2                 

Publication Date         15 September 2015

Binding:                       Paper Back Trimmed Page Size: 215 x 140 mm Number of Pages: 294

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Hindu nationalism and Islamic terrorism cast a shadow on Modi’s visit to the Emirates

Talks also centred on the fight against Islamic fundamentalism. Both the Indian and UAE governments condemned the actions of some states that use religion to support and justify violence and terrorism.

However, for Dr Raghuvanshi, India is not immune from religious fundamentalism, which lurks even among members of Modi’s party. "It is essential,” he said, “to break the cycle of poverty and the culture of silence in order to build lasting peace in India and the Middle East, and achieve a society based on justice. This requires confronting the violence of fundamentalist forces.”

“Modi has the right to express his faith,” the PVCHR president said, “but as prime minister of India on an official visit he should have insisted on secular democratic principles rather than promote his religion.

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hindu-nationalism-and-Islamic-terrorism-cast-a-shadow-on-Modi%E2%80%99s-visit-to-the-Emirates-35074.html

Continuation and Expansion of Elementary Education Project for Muslim and Dalit Children in Jaunpur and Varanasi Districts, U.P.

#India is a multicultural, multilingual and multi religious country. The current developments of educational provisions in India are much focused on school education. Basic education for any religious Minority group such as Muslim will be meaningful only if the system could encompass the cultural, linguistic and other social values into it. Educational policies have long ignored the unique educational need of the #Muslim religious group of the country. However, the education system of the country has several issues to address. Among these issues, first is the expanding access to appropriate learning provisions and opportunities and the second issue is making education relevant, useful and desirable for all. Madarsa is the most trusted educational institution of the Muslim to provide cultural education which has been running since long in INDIA and providing education for the Muslim community on traditional style. Many Madarsas all over the country have been registered and included mainstream subjects in their curriculum along with Islamic subjects. This is a new experience for both the #Madarsa organizers as well as policy makers. Achieving quality education along with other several indicators are also very important. This study was intended to evaluate the worked conducted by the #PVCHR entitled, “Continuation and expansion of elementary #education project for Muslim and Dalit children in Jaunpur and #Varanasi Districts, Uttar Pradesh.” and sponsored by Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (#SDTT). 

This evaluation exercise would not have been possible without the hard work and untiring effort put in by everyone who was associated with it. A heartfelt  gratitude to all those who helped in every possible manner. I would sincerely like to thank Mr. Lenin Raghuvanshi Director of PVCHR who gave me this responsibility to evaluate the work done by the PVCHR in Madarsa of Jaunpur and Varanasi.

A special word of thanks to Ms. Saumya Gupta for her hard work and diligence, technical inputs, word processing and final layout of the report. I would also like to express my gratitude, for Dr. Rajeev Singh,Mr. Dilshad Ahmed Khan, and Mr. Irshad Ahmed for their support to the project.

Finally I would like to gratefully acknowledge the time, co-operation and effort of all the Principals/Heads, teachers, staff, students and parents of the Madrasas. We visited across in helping us to complete this evaluation.

Dr. Shaila Parveen

Associate Professor

Department of Social Work,

Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi

Evalution Report PVCHR by Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human rights

People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights

http://www.dreamwallets.com/index.php?route=common%2Fcurated&curatorid=64

Annual report of 2014-15

http://jmntrust.blogspot.in/2015/08/annual-report-of-2014-15.html

https://www.scribd.com/doc/273366767/Annual-Report-of-PVCHR

My 20 days in Germany: Lenin Raghuvanshi

Before leaving to Germany on 4 May, I received an attack of defamation through the collective conspiracy of corrupt elements of police, administration and civil society. Civil society in a democratic state is generally defined as the space filled by non-governmental organisations and institutions that represent citizens' interest and the public will, and which are independent from the state. Hegel, the philosopher of the modern state, considered that civil society, with all its differences, made the nation state more efficient. But the elite section of Indian society, in nexus with corrupt police and administrators, want to maintain status quo of mind, of caste and patriarchy. So, they always desire to silence the voice of dissent, by hook or crook. Many times, they collaborate with international players who think in the same way of manipulation of power grabbing.

https://www.saddahaq.com/my-20-days-in-germany