International Human Rights Prize of the city of Weimar (2010)
Ashoka Fellow (2001)
(Lives in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)
Respected Anna Ji
Regards!
I am full time worker and now work for the Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). To make changes in Indian system I became a full-time activist leaving medical profession. My grandfather Late Sh. Shanti Kumar motivated me very much. He was freedom fighter also was follower of Gandhi. He explained how in the freedom struggle of 1857 the British hanged the people of our family and village. Grandfather used to say that “The next freedom struggle will start from the bottom, changes in system can come only from the bottom of social pyramid”.He said that I must always remember the teachings of Gandhiji that the effects in the life of the last person speak for your actions that what is done?
Following the teachings of my grandfather I started to understand villages and towns then I got opportunity to study and understand the thoughts of Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.I realised I am born in corrupt mobster race who robbed everything from the Dalits.
The people of these mobster races known as upper castes people had been using the products of Dalits as parasites, the habit of parasitism killed the importance of labour. Here, corruption started in our society and we the people of upper castes became a greedy race.
When the British came, from the upper castes so many became Raibahadur and Jamindars and became pets and squires of the British government. By these means the upper caste people gathered enough resources.
If we discuss about the social caste system, which was/is the most corrupt and ruthless system; opens things up even more.
India suffered the worst slavery for centuries then what did the people of KSHATRIYA caste (caste of warriors) do?
India has very high illiteracy in the world then what did the people of BRAHMIN caste (caste of intellectuals) do?
India has very high percentages of poor in the world then what did the people of VAISHYA caste (caste of businesspersons) do?
But SHUDRAs and ATI-SHUDRAs (untouchables) always worked hard to produce food, cloth and the products of needs.
The failures of top three castes to act according to their castes; their mentality to not accept untouchables as human beings; to kill importance of labour was/is not corruption?
India Against Corruption who is the leading organization for anti-corruption and supports you; writes in Facebook that the voices come from the streets of Patna “the people who should look after buffaloes they run government – by Kumar Viswas”. Anna Ji what is this? Is this not corruption?Is this Gandhian ideology?
There are posters and banners of “Kshatriya Mahasabha”, “Revolutionary Manuwadi Front” and “Remove Reservation and bring Jan Lokpal Bill”; what is this, Anna Ji?
Arvind Kejriwal himself attended anti-reservation meeting organized by the anti-reservation group “Youth for the Equality“.
This means the assets, powers and influences captured and made in five thousand years by the upper castes people by suppressing Dalit people are being used with the most corrupt forms in your movement.
Buddha said, “You make the world as you think”. Because you did not oppose supports of Khap Panchayats (caste-based councils) and RSS (Rashtriya Swyamsewak Sangh) while Khap Panchayats do ‘Honour Killings’ fully based on caste-sytems and Guru Golwalkar the second head of RSS opposed the Constitution and Tiranga(tricolour-Indian national flag) in his autobiography.
Why cann’t you and your team resist them to support?So, I need to know what you want to make. With whom, you are in the history?
Here the historical event of 22 to 29 October 1922 is very relevant to introduce. About thirty thousand people of Italy’s civil society surrounded the streets of Rome and the parliament. These people and civil society was supported by corporates of Italy. Then the king replaced the elected government and handed power to Mussolini. This was the first step towards Europe’s expansion, which was ended with the Second World War in which 60 million people were killed.
If you are in favour of this in India? It is not the way of Mahatma Gandhi. It would be betrayal of Mahatma Gandhi and his values.
When you were sent to prison, we opposed government actions. We know very well that the government based on caste system and markets can never be a government of the people.
However, your statement from prison came to the media as a video clipping while you were in jail; it was also a corruption and the risk for the law.
You said on 23th August 2011 morning that you made Dalit’s land free by paying 60000 Rs debt in your village. Maybe it was a great charity. But what percentage of lands are owned by the Dalits in India? Lands were captured by upper castes following betrayals to the nation supporting the British rule in India to become landowners and JAMINDARs.
In Uttar Pradesh, we are being rich by using natural resources of tribal communities.We are generating electricity by capturing their water resources but do not share electricity with tribals and the cities are using the most of the electricity power. It is same way as G-7 country people (the world’ 20 percentages) use the 80 percentages of resources of the world. The same in a village 20 percentages use 80 percentages of the resources. Is this not corruption? Resources always decide the hold in real political power.
Your team and media project you as second Gandhi but Mahatma Gandhi always focused on inner values.
How many people in your movement are against social corruption, dowry menace and caste system?
How many people do not kill babies in the womb? How their families do oppose baby killings?
Media which is run on advertisements; where still ruling class belong to upper castes have played the game in the name of anti-corruption movement to divert attention from many scams. Media’s Radia is stuck in 2G-spectrum scam. Speaking of all scams, but no talk on the coffin scam though the coffin of the martyrs for the nation?
You are associated with Kiran Bedi, his daughter was illegally got admission by misusing Mizoram quota into the All India Institute of Medical Studies (AIIMS) New Delhi by using influence of Kiran Bedi.
Is this not corruption? Or a discount by you for your associate?
We want a strong people Lokpal and for this, we gave a model “Independent Commission Against Corruption“ which is the very successful model of Hong Kong towards ending corruption. We had sent appeal giving this model to the government and are fighting for last two years.
New liberation economic policies increased unemployment, inflation and corruption in India. When will it be opposed?
The revolutions always change the systems, not the power bearers. Does this phenomenon not in your revolution?
World Bank opposes corruption, but never opposes ne
w liberation economy policies, while new liberation economic policies are lobbying to sell all the national and social resources.
Due to new liberation economy, most of the works will go to the corporate and NGO’s sectors.Why were they kept out of Jan Lokpal bill?
Is your movement playing a role of middleman for new liberal economic systems?
My NGO does social audit for last three years. Do NGOs associated with your movement do social audit?
Lenders in village market buy grains from farmers at cheap rates but sells very expensive. Your Jan Lokpal Bill cannot stop this corruption because private businessperson, organizations and non-government funded NGOs does not come under this bill.
How will your Jan Lokpal Bill stop corruption to protect farmers?
To fight capitalism and communal fascism, we must fight together. Our movements are democratic, secular and for the people.
Do you know a person affected by Hinduism in Norway killed many people there? It symbolizes capitalism and communal alliance of neo-fascism.
We have to integrate with most supressed people (also called Dalits) against to neo-fascism alliance.
You should unite Dalits, secular people and progressive people battling against communal fascism also you should maintain the unity of poor people struggling against new liberal economic policies.
We do not oppose a person born into any religion or caste. Similarly, the opposition of new liberal economic systems is not mean to oppose democratic capitalism. We are calling it New Dalit movement because it is the Dalit community, which suffers the most, is tortured most, and is always synonymous for the political struggle.
Please come forward to build a new India, which will lead towards a democratic and social justice system in the world.
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He is USA Vice President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association whose mission is to build a parallel world body to the United Nations, an emerging Earth Federation with a Provisional World Parliament under the Earth Constitution.
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While running his independent clinic, he published over 400 issues of his Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter, which was emailed to a variety of subscribers. (They have not been archived at any website.) In the early 2000s, Dr Kohls taught a graduate level psychology course at the University of Minnesota Duluth. It was titled “The Science and Psychology of the Mind-Body Connection”.
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Prof Johan Galtung was born in Oslo. He earned the PhD degree in mathematics at the University of Oslo in 1956, and in 1957 a year later completed the PhD degree in sociology at the same university.
Prof Johan Galtung received nine honorary doctorates in the fields of Peace studies, Future studies, Social sciences, Buddhism, Sociology of law, Philosophy, Sociology and Law.
State Councilor of St. Petersburg, Russia. Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA) since 2005. Honorary President, GHA since 2016. Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia. Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony. Author of more than 400 scientific publications, including 18 books in 1-12 languages. Author of Tetrism as the unity of Tetraphilosophy and Tetrasociology – science of social harmony, global peace and harmonious civilisation. Director, GHA Web portal “Peace from Harmony”. Initiator, Manager, Coauthor and Editor in Chief of the book project “Global Peace Science” (GPS).
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an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, author, co-author or editor of 40 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.
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is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. He has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including, TMS, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine and Counterpunch.
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He completed the required coursework for a Ph.D. in Political Science-Peace Studies (1994), has a Masters in Political Science-International Relations (1990), and a B.A. in Communication (1988) from the University of Hawai’i.
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John Scales Avery is a theoretical chemist, Associate Professor Emeritus, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is noted for his books and research publications in quantum chemistry, thermodynamics, evolution, and history of science. His 2003 book Information Theory and Evolution set forth the view that the phenomenon of life, including its origin, evolution, as well as human cultural evolution, has its background situated in the fields of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory.
He is an Indian citizen & permanent resident of Australia and a scholar, an author, a social-policy critic, a frequent social wayfarer, a social entrepreneur and a journalist;He has been exploring, understanding and implementing the ideas of social-economy, participatory local governance, education, citizen-media, ground-journalism, rural-journalism, freedom of expression, bureaucratic accountability, tribal development, village development, reliefs & rehabilitation, village revival and other.
For Ground Report India editions, Vivek had been organising national or semi-national tours for exploring ground realities covering 5000 to 15000 kilometres in one or two months to establish Ground Report India, a constructive ground journalism platform with social accountability.
He has written a book “मानसिक, सामाजिक, आर्थिक स्वराज्य की ओर”on various social issues, development community practices, water, agriculture, his ground works & efforts and conditioning of thoughts & mind. Reviewers say it is a practical book which answers “What” “Why” “How” practically for the development and social solution in India.
worked as a mediator for the church in Belfast; as faculty at The School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, and as Executive Director, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. He has founded several Indian NGOs, is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.
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Dr Ron Paul served in U.S. House of Representatives three different periods: first from 1976 to 1977, after he won a special election, then from 1979 to 1985, and finally from 1997 to 2013.
During his first term as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Paul founded the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE), a non-profit think tank dedicated to promoting principles of limited government and free-market economics. In 1984, Paul became the first chairman of the Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a conservative political group founded by Charles Koch and David Koch 'to fight for less government, lower taxes, and less regulation.' CSE started a Tea Party protest against high taxes in 2002. In 2004, Citizens for a Sound Economy split into two new organizations, with Citizens for a Sound Economy being renamed as FreedomWorks, and Citizens for a Sound Economy Foundation becoming Americans for Prosperity. The two organizations would become key players in the Tea Party movement from 2009 onward.
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He is researcher working on: Nature; the Nature, Space and Environment protection; the Climate change system; System thinking; Globalization and global studies; Networking, Complexity and Swarm research: Sustainable Development and Sustainable Future of Humankind. He was among the pioneers researchers (1986 – 1994) to apply nature, space, and environment protection in a local community by activities we call today Local Agenda 21 Processes – a holistic program for survival of our civilization under new challenges of the third millennium.“Commencing from Local Community Sustainable Future and moving towards Sustainable Future of the Global Community of Humankind”.
He is independent researchers with many domestic and international publications and talks. Together with many researchers in co-operation worldwide within philosophy, operational research, global studies, case studies and complex problem solving research, system thinking, requisitely holism, networking and complexity, swarm research, integration and disintegration of matter and energy and universal upbringing, education and lifelong learning. He is contributing a systemic, requisitely holistic and a better understanding of the present. His latest research within the system theory, system thinking, networking, complexity and swarm research may provide a possible answer enabling people to better understand our world of humans.
During 2014 he completed 50 years of research work (1964 - 2014). This year he completed 50 years of been Dr. Vet. Med. Since 1986 he worked on the protection of Humanity, Nature, Space and Environment and completed 30 years of research.
For research on the climate change system and the book “System Thinking and Climate Change System (Against a big “Tragedy of Commons” of all of us), Ecimovic, Mayur, Mulej and co-authors, 2002, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 2003. His work on “The Information Theory of Nature” was his second nomination for The Nobel Prize during 2007 in Physics. His third nomination for The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was for “The Environment Theory of the Nature”, published in the book “Three Applications of the System Thinking”, Ecimovic, 2010. Within last 10 years he has contributed trilogies: “The Nature”, “The Sustainable Future of Mankind” and “The Life 2017” – please see at: www.institut-climatechange.si
I grew up in Chile, got my medical degree there, began an academic career in 1970, and left for the USA due to the military coup in early 1974. My first job in the USA was working as a public nutrition professor in the international programme of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
I started to travel to Africa in 1975, and worked a year in Cameroun in 1980 helping to prepare their five-year nutrition plan. I then moved to New Orleans, to Tulane University’s School of Public Health, and taught in the department of nutrition for ten years, before moving to Nairobi where I was an advisor in the Ministry of Health. Seven years there got me into extensive consulting in Africa, often on nutritional issues. In 1995 moved to Vietnam where I worked for two and a half years in the Ministry of Health as a senior primary health care advisor.
Many years of touching the reality on the ground, in Latin America, then the USA, then Africa and Asia, has made me understand that the real challenge is in the social and political determinants of malnutrition. I have devoted my writings and teaching to that. Over the years, I have found an important shift in my colleagues’ attitude and understanding towards acknowledging the basic causes of malnutrition. But yet I see little happening as a result. I submit that it is our guild’s lack of experience in the political arena that explains this dichotomy. I devote much of my energy to bridge this gap, and am a fervent advocate of empowering claim holders to demand needed changes from duty bearers. Nutrition is a perfect port of entry for that. Equity, social justice and people’s empowerment in a human rights sense is what really will make a difference.
There is no alternative but to deal with nutrition problems as indivisibly linked to social, political and environmental problems. We need to address them as such. The question is: are we all prepared to do that? The answer, in my view, decides whether we are part of the solution or part of the problem. Travelling and living in different parts of the world has reinforced my conviction that we need to get down from our academic ivory towers, and need to change the curricula of our young and upcoming colleagues, to give them the tools to act in such a context. To me, public health nutrition cannot be anything but that.
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gopi kanta ghosh
August 28, 2011 @ 2:27 PM
Right and valid questions raised…thanks Lenin ji