Friday, December 9, 2011

REBUILD MULLAPERIYAR DAM

YFE kerala request both Kerala and tamil nadu to find an amicable solution to the issue of Mullaperiyar dam. it is an issue affecting lives of more than 35 lakh people in Kerala as well as thousands of Tamils. Already reports of violence against Malayalis are coming from T.N. we must not allow the situation to worsen. An agitation started by the people have been turned ugly by politicians

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Youth For Equality

Youth For Equality: "Blackmail justice:Pratap Bhanu Mehta
December 29, 2010: The Indian Express

The Gurjjar agitation in Rajasthan is a microcosm of the absurdities of the Indian state. The state has been, for years, wishing this crisis away. But the agitation keeps recurring with dependable regularity. The simple explanation for the crisis is as a predictable product of the fatal conjunction of identity politics and distributive justice that the Indian state has been promoting. This politics is premised on the fact that caste remains the salient mechanism through which concessions are extracted from the state. The ability of groups to extract such mechanisms no longer rests on claims of justice, but on the sheer flexing of muscle power."