Showing posts with label Lord Buddha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lord Buddha. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Monday, October 27, 2014
Dalit News
Unable to pay fee, dalit students in Faridkot village decide to boycott exam
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Unable-to-pay-fee-dalit-students-in-Faridkot-village-decide-to-boycott-exam/articleshow/44936723.cms
Appoint special task force to probe Dalit killings: Governor to DGP
Dalit family alleges threat to life
Dalits Need True Representatives to Emerge Strong, Says Vundru
No breakthrough yet in Maharashtra Dalit family murder
Daily Words of the Buddha
Daily Words of the Buddha
Māvamaññetha puññassa, "Na mantaṃ āgamissati."
Udabindunipātena udakumbhopi pūrati.
Dhīro pūrati puññassa, thokaṃ thokampi ācinaṃ.
Listen: http://host.pariyatti.org/
Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me."
Drop by drop is the water pot filled.
Likewise, the wise one, gathering it little by little,
fills oneself with good.
Dhammapada 9.122
http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/
The Dhammapada: The Buddha's Path of Wisdom, translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
Daily Words of the Buddha
Daily Words of the Buddha
Attā hi attano nātho,
attā hi attano gati.
Tasmā saṃyamamattānaṃ
assaṃ bhadraṃva vāṇijo.
Listen: http://host.pariyatti.org/
You are your own master,
you make your future.
Therefore discipline yourself
as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.
Dhammapada 25.380
http://tipitaka.org/romn/cscd/
Friday, October 24, 2014
The "untouchable" and her rise to power in India
In the late 1960s, a little girl and her family set out from a Delhi shanty town to visit her grandparents in a distant village. It was a long journey, and her parents began to chat to other passengers on the bus. When they revealed their destination was the chamar mohalla – the area usually found on the outskirts of a village and inhabited by those at the lowest level of the Indian caste hierarchy – the bus fell silent. The little girl’s mother had to explain to her that other Indians considered the caste to which her family belonged to be unclean.
More than 40 years later, that little girl, known simply as Mayawati, is a political hero for lower-caste Indians throughout the north of the country. She is a Dalit, a member of the caste known historically as “untouchables”. And Dalits in the state of Uttar Pradesh hurry in their thousands to her rallies, where she tells them how proud she is to have been born into a Dalit family. “I am the daughter of a Chamar [a Dalit]. I am a Chamar. I am yours.” In May 2007, she became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for the fourth time. On taking the oath of office, she declared that “nobody can stop me from becoming prime minister”. We shall find out soon enough if she is right: India goes to the polls in a general election in April and May this year.
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Dr. Ambedkar and more books - Read in Hindi Now...
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दलितों का गौरवमयी इतिहास
बुद्ध और उनका धम्म - डॉ. बी आर अम्बेडकर
डॉ. बी आर अम्बेडकर द्वारा 22 प्रतिज्ञाएँ
सुत्तसार [पाली त्रिपिटक (तिपिटक) से]
त्रिपिटक सम्बन्धी विपश्यना रिसर्च इंस्टिट्यूट द्वारा हिंदी प्रकाशन
बुद्धं शरणम गच्छामि ! धम्मं शरणम गच्छामि ! संघम शरणम गच्छामि !
जय भीम ! जय बुद्ध ! जय भारत !
Liberty, Equality and Fraternity !
Educate, Agitate and Organize !
BSP to start Punjab Bachao Abhiyaan from November 1
BSP to start Punjab Bachao Abhiyaan from November 1 -
See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ludhiana/bsp-to-start-punjab-bachao-abhiyaan-from-november-1/#sthash.eiFkrV4J.dpuf
In a state-level protest march by the BSP under the leadership of their state president Avtar Singh Karimpuri, it was announced on Friday that the party would start ‘Punjab Bachao Abhiyaan’ from November 1, and drug addiction in the state would be the main issue.
The rally was taken out from Dana Mandi, Jalandhar Bypass. Later, the BSP leaders went to the DC office to give a memorandum addressed to the Punjab Governor.
Karimpuri said that the main issue was rising atrocities against Dalits. He raised the suicide case of Dr Supriya, who was a PG resident at DMCH, and the killing of brothers in Jamalpur. He added that complaints had also come from Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Sangrur, Phagwara and many other areas.
He expressed his concern over conversion of 125 seats of MBBS in ST quota into general category. Prominent among other leaders were Balwinder Kumar and Balwinder Bitta.
BSP won 1 seat in Haryana
Many Congratulations!
BSP got around 4.4%, i.e. 542683 votes and came at 5th position in Haryana.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Mayawati to campaign in Punjab on Jan 21-22 - Hindustan Times
Mayawati to campaign in Punjab on Jan 21-22 -
BSP Supremo Mayawati will address four rallies in Punjab on January 21 and 22 to woo voters, even as the party hopes to fare better in the state assembly elections on January 30.
BSP MP and national general secretary Narender Kashyap said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister will address rallies at Kharar in Mohali and in Nawanshahar on January 21.
BSP MP and national general secretary Narender Kashyap said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister will address rallies at Kharar in Mohali and in Nawanshahar on January 21.
On the next day, she will address meetings in Muktsar and at Chhapar in Sangrur districts.
Kashyap said his party would make significant gains in the Punjab polls.
The party released a list of 21 candidates in addition to the names for 90 candidates announced earlier for the 117-member House.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
The power of Mayawati’s park: Colossal, but not a waste | Firstpost
By Shiv Visvanathan
The political pundits have dismissed Mayawati’s Rs 684 crore Noida park as a colossal waste. It is colossal but it is not wasted. Her idea of monumentality demands excess and exaggeration. Power has to symbolise conspicuous waste. Narendra Modi does it one way, the Congress does it another way. All Mayawati is effectively saying is I can do it bigger and better.
Mayawati’s search for monumentality is interesting. The Indian democratic state hardly builds monuments except as PWD structures. Our great monuments are either Mughal or colonial, as witnessed by the Taj, Red Fort or Lutyens’ Delhi. Our idea of memory does not extend to monuments."
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/the-power-of-mayawati%E2%80%99s-park-colossal-but-not-a-waste-108592.html#.Tp1eabowq-k.facebook
The political pundits have dismissed Mayawati’s Rs 684 crore Noida park as a colossal waste. It is colossal but it is not wasted. Her idea of monumentality demands excess and exaggeration. Power has to symbolise conspicuous waste. Narendra Modi does it one way, the Congress does it another way. All Mayawati is effectively saying is I can do it bigger and better.
Mayawati’s search for monumentality is interesting. The Indian democratic state hardly builds monuments except as PWD structures. Our great monuments are either Mughal or colonial, as witnessed by the Taj, Red Fort or Lutyens’ Delhi. Our idea of memory does not extend to monuments."
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/the-power-of-mayawati%E2%80%99s-park-colossal-but-not-a-waste-108592.html#.Tp1eabowq-k.facebook
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
The four challenges Mayawati has thrown at us in Noida | Firstpost
"The inauguration of the Rs 685 crore, state-funded Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday has been misread by almost all analysts.
The focus of the attacks on Mayawati have been on the size of expenditure involved and use of state funds for a private political project. But in Dalit politics, this is almost a non-issue. More important is the symbolism and challenges it throws up for Indian politics and society."
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/the-four-challenges-mayawati-has-thrown-at-us-in-noida-108558.html
The focus of the attacks on Mayawati have been on the size of expenditure involved and use of state funds for a private political project. But in Dalit politics, this is almost a non-issue. More important is the symbolism and challenges it throws up for Indian politics and society."
Mayawati has flung four challenges at us – and at herself – by inaugurating her 84-acre memorial.
Challenge No 1 is her not-so-covert attempt to make neo-Buddhism a key state project, overturning the general neutrality of the state in religious projects.
The 84-acre Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden is not exactly a religious shrine funded by the state – though there is a Buddha statue and we heard lots of Buddhist chanting in Friday’s ceremony – but the 84-acre Dalit heroes memorial and garden is reminiscent of kings of yore building triumphant temples and mosques to mark their victories and glory.
As Kancha Ilaiah, a Dalit writer said at a TV show the other night, the Sthal is Mayawati’s attempt to challenge the Hindu caste system and ethos pervading Uttar Pradesh (Ayodhya, Kashi, Varanasi) and paint it in Buddhist hue.
Challenge No 2 is the clear political goal of Mayawati: Delhi next. Of course, she still has the Uttar Pradesh elections to win next year, but the key to that election lies in raising Dalit sights further, since her performance in the state has – at best – been patchy. Raising the stakes helps her flock focus on bigger things instead of the non-delivery of any significant improvement in their lives.
Anything Mayawati does is done kingsize. Naresh Sharma
The symbolism of the Sthal is also in its location. Noida overlooks Delhi and is part of the National Capital Region. The location of the Ambedkar park here is indication of Mayawati’s way of saying: “My eyes are on Delhi.”
The Sthal, which hosts 15 statues of Dalit icons BR Ambedkar, Jyotirao Phule and Kanshi Ram apart from Mayawati herself, is a symbol of the Dalit challenge to the current caste dispensation.
Mayawati’s speeches also reflected the same aggression. She castigated Sonia Gandhi for refusing to help her with her CBI cases. She pre-empted the possibility of the Congress placing a Dalit like Meira Kumar in the top job just to fools Dalits. She blasted LK Advani for not starting his anti-corruption yatra in Karnataka, scene of a major illegal mining scam.
Challenge No 3 is shock and awe. Anything Mayawati does is done kingsize. She makes no bones about the size of her birthday cake. She wants expensive cars in her cavalcade. And she is brazen about her use of state funds for party and private purposes – as the erection of 20 statues of her party’s election symbol – the elephant – in Noida and other Ambedkar parks in Uttar Pradesh suggest.
If any other party had done the same thing, there would have been a hue and cry. Sure, parties opposing Mayawati have indeed kicked up a fuss about it. But this is precisely what she wants. When everyone attacks her, the Dalits have no option but to support her.
For Narendra Modi in Gujarat, the more the opposition attacks him personally, the more he consolidates his Hindu vote. This is what Maya is counting on with the Dalit vote, in which Rahul Gandhi is trying to make a dent.
By doing things of huge scale, she is also trying to overawe her Dalit vote and project power – which may go down well with the powerless. To the disempowered Dalit, the fact that Mayawati can cock a snook at her detractors among the upper castes is a matter of pride, not regret.
Challenge No 4 is her political caste combo. The Mayawati coalition is the exact inverse of the Congress coalition before the Babri-Ram Janmabhoomi agitation. The old Congress had the upper castes leading a Dalit and minority combo. Mayawati is going for the same combo with the Dalit on top and Brahmins playing second fiddle in Uttar Pradesh.
The hard act to follow is how she is going to attract the Muslim vote – or even retain the Brahmin and upper caste vote. The Buddha’s main focus of attack was a Brahminical system gone berserk in his time. But the overt return to the Buddha through Ambedkarite neo-Buddhism is not going to be easy to pull off in her current coalition. Neither Brahmins nor Muslims will be comfortable with this assertion.
But she is trying nevertheless.
In a few months time we will know if her strategy works. But no one can accuse her of pusillanimity.
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/the-four-challenges-mayawati-has-thrown-at-us-in-noida-108558.html
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Noida park will be opened by the chief minister Mayawati on October 14
"A 100-foot long pillar has been installed inside the park. It has apparently been designed as a symbol of national integrity. Apart from statues of Mayawati and Ambedkar, those of Kabeer Das from UP, Birsa Munda from Jharkhand, Guru Ghasidas from Chattisgarh, Jyotiba Phule from Maharashtra and Narayan Guru from Kerala too have been installed. "
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/At-Mayas-dream-park-her-family-at-home/articleshow/10307560.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/At-Mayas-dream-park-her-family-at-home/articleshow/10307560.cms
Monday, May 4, 2009
BSP news updates
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