HINDUTVA-SPONSORED VIOLENCE IN TRIBAL ORISSA Report of an AIDWA delegation to Kandhamal December 2008
Orissa has long been a site of Hindutva violence against minority groups. From anti-Christian violence in Rourkela in 1964, to the brutal murder of the Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons in 1999, the Sangh Parivar has raised the bogey of forced conversions by Christian missionaries to terrorise Christians in Orissa. In Kandhamal district, as part of its programme of ‘Hinduisation’ initiated in 1969 by Lakshmananda Saraswati and his followers, the Sangh’s socio-economic boycotts and forced conversions over the last two decades – and particularly since the Bharatiya Janata Party's coalition government with the Biju Janata Dal assumed power in the year 2000 – have consistently been accompanied by violence against the Christian minorities.
It is with great pleasure that we would like to inform everyone that the AIDWA Website was inaugurated today September 1 by AIDWA Patron and former General Secretary Brinda Karat. The address of the…
Notified in September 2013 during the last leg of the UPA-II Government’s tenure, the National Food Security Act (NFSA) of 2013 has now been existence for more than 30 months.
Women struggles for development and equality in North east region take place in a very specific content.
Clara Zetkin along with her comrades Alexandra Kollantai and others, moved a resolution at the International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen to observe an “ International Women’s Day.”
The AIDWA central executive committee (CEC) meeting held on March 31- April 1-2, 2018 in New Delhi took several important decisions to mobilise women in large numbers against the severe attacks on…
