Recently on December 4th 2011, we the students of St Joseph’s College gathered to spend our day with children to celebrate Childhood. Arround 200 kids from Khader Shariff Garden and Lakshman Rao Nagar in Bangalore took part in this joyful event. But unfortunately today not all kids today can lead a happy and funfilling childhood.
The following article is an attempt to address some of the issues raised by Dalit organizations and intellectuals in the light of the recent upsurge of the Anti-Corruption campaign led by Anna Hazare. While rightly pointing out the upper casteist/ class nature of the campaign and the deep mark of saffron values (e.g. slogans of ‘Vande Mataram’) that were all too conspicuous, many of them condemned Anna’s movement for challenging the supremacy of the constitution and undermining parliamentary democracy. Now this has raised the important issue of whether struggle against caste discrimination and its eventual annihilation can ever be achieved within the framework of Indian bourgeoisie democratic constitution?
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