Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Currently, I am in Vanice of Italy

I have been vanice of Italy at this time. Therefor, I couldnot be in touch all of you.So , wait me for 15 days, I would update about Vanice Film Festival and my journey to Vanice, Italy and news of Nepal.

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Purna
Lido of Vanice, Italy

Monday, August 20, 2007

Badis protesting at Maitighar Mandala

Badis protesting at Maitighar Mandala demanding employment, food, shelter and rehabilitation. They have also demanded fundamental rights and equality in society, Monday, Aug 20 07. nepalnews.com/ANA






People from the Badi community organize a sit-in demanding an end to Deuki, Badi and Jhuma traditions prevalent in western Nepal at the Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu on Monday.
(Photo: TAPAS THAPA
Badis demand 2 seats in CA, alternative livelihood
BY BABURAM KHAREL

KATHMANDU, Aug 20 - As sex workers, they always had to struggle to make ends meet every day until quite recently. Now they want to turn their backs to a sordid past.
About 400 members of the Badi community are now in the capital for a different struggle - a struggle for social respect and an alternative source of livelihood.
Demanding at least two seats for the Badi community in the Constituent Assembly and farm lands for alternative means of livelihood, the Badi people have launched a series of protest programs. The latest being picketing the Prime Minister's residence Saturday and rallying around Singh Durbar Sunday.
"We are no more sex-slaves and objects of entertainment for other people, we want equal rights to live freely without any interference from those higher in the society," says Durga Badi, a 30-year-old lady from Bardia. "The way society treats us is no more acceptable to us. We are no more untouchable and we want to live as human beings."
Durga is one among the Badi people who traveled to Kathmandu from the south western plains to exert pressure on the government to heed to their 12-point demand, passed recently by a national meeting of the National Badi Struggle Committee. Based on the conclusion that alternative source of income would eventually reinstate the Badi community, the meeting decided to press for land, along with their representation in the constitution-making body to be elected in November.
"As we have a low status in society and don't own any land, we should be provided alternative employment to survive," says Rukmani Badi, 40, from Kailali.
Every Badi has a terrible tale to tell, according to Nirmal Nepali, a 23-year-old male member of the community from Kailali. "Most Badi people live miserable lives along the banks of rivers and can survive only by resorting to the sex-trade and other humiliating professions."
"Now their patience has snapped as all successive governments have been neglecting their misery," he adds.
It is for the first time the neglected Badi community has launched an organized struggle for their right to self respect and alternative livelihood. And, they want to make it last too. "We won't go home until we are guaranteed social respect and alternative means of livelihood," said Nepali. "We are also from this land, we too deserve a right to take part in the process to shape our country's future," Nepali adds.
Posted on: 2007-08-19

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Way of Life...

Way of Life will be posted soon. 

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Hunger Strike - over

The Dalit Civil Movement,which was begun since tuesday a 24-hour relay hunger strike at Maitighar Mandala, Kathmandu. They were stating that the government ignored their 15-point demands.
Among others, the Dalits have demanded proportional representation in the upcoming constituent assembly. They have demanded that at least 20 percent Dalits should be included in all government agencies. More than 500 Dalit activists including Motilal Nepali,Binod Pahadi, Sahek B.K., Purna Singh Baraily, Dilip Kumar Nepali, Rem B.K., Suvash Kumar Darnal, Ram Nepali, Gaura Nepali, Shankar Biswakarma were sitting in the relay strike.
The agitators had also submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, to which the agitators said government turned deaf ear.

The hunger strike was over today. nepalnews.com

Thursday, August 9, 2007

दलित आन्दोलनकर्मी आठ घण्टा पछी रिहा


दलित नागरिक आन्दोलनले संघीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्रको घोषणा गरी संविधानसभा लगायत राज्यका हरेक निकायमा दलित समुदायको समानुपातिक २० प्रतिशत प्रतिनिधीत्व हुनु पर्छ भन्ने लगाएतका मागहरु लिएर आन्दोलनका कार्यक्रमहरु संचालन गर्दै आई रहेको छ । त्यसै अनुसार विगत २ दिन देखि अवज्ञा आन्दोलन निषेधीत क्षेत्रमा प्रर्दशन गर्ने क्रममा िसंहदरबारको दक्षिण गेटमा प्रदर्शन गर्दा आज प्रहरी र प्रदर्शनकारी विच करिव एक घण्टा झडप भएको थियो । सोही झडप पछि प्रहरीले ४९ जना दलित आन्दोलनकारीलाई गिरफ्तार गरि कमलपोखरी र अनामनगर प्रहरी कार्यालयबाट आठ घण्टा पछी साँझ छ बजे रिहा गरेको छ।
गिरफ्तार पछि प्रहरीले महिला आन्दोलनकारी माथि अभद्र व्यवहार गरेको पनि अनामनगरमा रहेका आन्दोलनकारीहरुले बताएका छन् ।
गिरफ्तारमा परेका आन्दोलनकारीहरुको नामावली यसप्रकार रहेका थिए । कमलपोखरी वडा प्रहरी कार्यालयमा मोतीलाल नेपाली अर्जनकमार वगाले पूर्णिसंह बराईली दिलीप नेपाली गौरा नेपाली सहेस विश्वकर्मा सीताराम विश्वककर्मा जयराम नेपाली बुद्धिराम विश्वकर्मा श्यामकुमार विश्वकर्मा कृष्ण रणपाल अमृत विश्वकर्मा राजकुमार परियार चक्र बराईली कृष्णबहादुर रणपाल रामकुमार सुनाम निर्मल िसंह सन्तोष दर्नाल शैलेन्द्र परियार हरि विक माया लम्साल मिना शंकर सुरेश गान्धारी रहनु भएको थियो भने अनामनगर वडा प्रहरी कार्यालयमा विनोद पहाडी दिपक परियार सुभास दर्नाल ललित परियार राम नेपाली सरिता परियार ओमअधिकारी परियार विनोद परियार अर्जन राई चरिबहादुर गहतराज अर्जन विश्वकर्मा मोहन शंकर ओमप्रकाश रामदाम अशोक दर्नाल पाण्डप केसी शोभा विक रेम विश्वकर्मा सुनिता कटुवाल हरि नेपाली पुजन विश्वकर्मा विरेन्द्रिसंह पुरी विना सुनार प्रकाश महरा भागीरथ चापागाई दिपक विश्वकर्मा केशव न्यौपाने रहनु भएको थियो

Police arrest Dalits








Police arrested more than five dozen activists of the Dalit Civil Society Movement when they were trying to stage demonstration at the southern gate of Singha Durbar, the seat of the government, on Thursday. According to the police, the Dalit activists were arrested for breaking the ‘prohibitory orders’ in Singha Durbar which bars all kinds of protests in the area.

The Dalits are calling for the fulfillment of their demands, which includes 20 percent reservation for people from Dalit community in Constituent Assembly including all the state organs, scholarships and free edu cation for Dalit students. The Dalit activists had just started their sit-in protest at 10 am when the police intervened and arrested 49 of its activists.
According to the leader of Dalit Civil Society Movement, Binod Pahadi, there was no reason for the police to have resorted to force to quell the peaceful demonstration. He also accused the police of misbehaving with woman agitators. He said in the process, two of its woman activists sustained injuries. From nepalnews.com

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