Building Discourse in Education (II)

Hakim Samaae MA.Education, Final JMI

=> Journalist and Activist : seeking justice on Muslim minority, Dalit rights, gender issues, women’s education, and victims & survivors of sexual violence in communal conflict .

=>Founders of Nirantar (NGO:gender & education) and Khabar Lahariya ( rural women’s awarded newspaper )

=>Board of Oxfam India and of PAHAL

=>Member of Planning Commission Steering Committee (Women, Child and Empowerment of Minorities)

=>MA. in Social Anthropology and Education, Columbia University, USA.

Farah Naqvi

The battle against forgetting The Hindu, February 28,2012

Keywords: 

- 2002 Godhra Train Carnage

- Post-Godhra riots

- Shah-e-Alam Relief Camp of Ahmedabad

- Emergent state's role in the violence

- Calling for Federal Intervention

Shah-e-Alam Relief Camp, Ahmedabad

“Balatkar ka matlab jab aurat ko nanga karte hain aur phir use jala dete hain”

"women were stripped, raped and burnt.” State colluded in the

massacre of its own citizens

mutilated women

scarred by this macabre, twisted image of rape

Butchered got away

Survivors relegated to the margins of Gujarat's towns

Victims were life sentenced

Remain Wound Challenges

-Nobody wants to remind this violent

-The court narrative is still “unfolding”

-State fails to give “justice and protect rights of minority”

-Justice “eludes” the victim of Gujarat

-We cannot “legislate to ensure justice”

-Victims are calling us to “restore equality of the law”

-We have to fill the “lacunae”

-We have to ensure criminal culpability for those in command.

-To caught the murders with “the knives in their hands”

-But, now we still give up : the hope of better India

A loops of one’s own The Hindu, October,2012

TOILET = ugly, funny, dirty, joke ?

- Toilets appear trivial and become low down list of stated development priorities.

-To clean up our streets and road sites = to remove the slum dwellings=to remove the eyesore.

-Never thought that to provide equality

-We use private toilet, many people use "open defecation"=that is open air toilet

OPEN AIR TOILET : Uttar Pradesh

ASSAM VISIT

Out of sanitation issue, TOILET is considered for health, privacy, dignity and gender rights issue.

-There 12,000 people are crowded in tents

-Everyone defecate at the same place as draw water for cooking

-Water kept for bathing at the same place as they defecate

- Women needed toilet desperately, nobody will know when use it, to “hold on the dignity”

Farah Naqvi and Education for Minority, Woman, and Girls

Education for Minority Woman

1. Broadly Education

Right to Education Act Schooling aged

6-14

Minority, Muslim,

Dalit, Tribal

Adult s, (never go school) included, underscored, in

Act of Woman’s Right Education

2. Democratic New Media

Democratic Media

=Access of

Democratic Power

Equal Opportunity to access “New”

=New media of any

time, where, contents

Ability to tell their own stories&images

= Available forms of

new media (N.paper,books,

journal&ICT)

A weekly newspaper run by a group of women from various sections of the society, UP. Objective is to reach out to villages and provide them with ‘infotainment’.

3. Leadership Training Model

Gender Empowerment

Needs

Politics, Legal,

Literacy, Justice

Learn the best practice

across country & abroad

Interacting w/t Civic Authorities, School System,

Local Government &

Police

Improve livelihood skills

given by Vocational

training

Education for Minority Girls

Anti-Discrimination Legislation

Public Schools, Media or and Educational Institutions

(Formal & Non-formal)

Dignify and Empower Sense

of Dignity

Outcomes of Expanded mind and Expanded

job opportunities

Thank You