Right to Dignity & rajani's suicide
Anivar Aravind
At least go through a quick googling before commenting on a Rajani's
Suicide( Your views is quite similar to manorama reports on those days)
a quick link is here http://www.deccanherald.com/Archives/july242004/n10.asp
I Feel Rajani commit suicide because of the situation that questioned
her Right Dignity. Deepak you are still questing her dignity again
Reportedly, Rajani reached the end of her tether when she was forced to
discontinue studies due to her inability to pay the tuition fees. She
also reportedly failed to secure an education loan, after having knocked
at the doors of public sector banks.
Why Rajani was asked to remit tuition fee since her fee used to be
remitted in time (?)by the Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes Welfare
Department? A lot of students are trapped by the same issues. After
Rajani's suicide at least 10 similar kind of stories are came up and
Students boldly told it to press. Ajay (in this group)was involved such
a case in Kodungalloor
Media reported that she was stayed in an NSS hostel ( College dont have
the hostel facility) where the fee was 1500/month. The absence College
hostel (free for dalit students) and absence of grant in time resulted
in due & insults at hostel.
I need to write more. But time and work does not allows. Anyway starting
a new Thred. Let Prisoners right thread focus on the subject itself
Anivar
deepak p wrote:
> rajini wasnt struggling to enter the professional college.. she was a
> 2nd or 3rd year student.. she had been provided with accomodation
> for free by a hostel.. she failed in 8 (or was it 9) out of the 10
> subjects in the first year.. and has never attended college after
> that.. one fine morning, she was found dead in front of the CEE
> building at tvpm... and unfortunately for the people of kerala, the
> fact that she chose the CEE building to jump from (for the
> aathmahathya) was used as a reason to bring the state to a halt for
> 4-5 days.. and after 2 years when the anweshana report confirmed that
> her aathmahathya was not due to her being unable to cope up with the
> fees of the professional college (and was due to various "other"
> reasons), pinarayi said that he would not approve the report unless
> it says that UDF's swaashraya nayam caused her death.. its kerala
> janatha who are at a loss, 5 of their days were "killed" by the LDF
> just because she jumped from the CEE building.. this is sheer
> nonsense from the part of the LDF.. and do you mean to say that the
> kerala janatha has no right to know about what led to rajini's
> aathmahathya? do you want to hide the report because it talks ill of
> her?
--
Anivar Aravind
moving Republic
Peringavu.P.O
Thrissur-18
Kerala
http://anivar.movingrepublic.org/about
Ranjit Ranjit
Ranjit Ranjit
Anil
Dalit students get. Do thay actualy get it in hand. For example I have
passed out from a college in Maharashtra two years back, the dalit
students oer here are yet to get their stipends to which the concerned
college has to issue cheques and they do it and would not do the
appropriate followup and the cheque bounces. This has been a regular
feature. This has to do with the Brahmanical structures operating at
all levels. A study must be done in Kerala as to what does the
management college does to the funds which come in the name of the
students. And these issues will never be taken up by the so called
'left' student organizations in their life.
Anil
Dalit students get. Do thay actualy get it in hand. For example I have
passed out from a college in Maharashtra two years back, the dalit
students oer here are yet to get their stipends to which the concerned
college has to issue cheques and they do it and would not do the
appropriate followup and the cheque bounces. This has been a regular
feature. This has to do with the Brahmanical structures operating at
all levels. A study must be done in Kerala as to what does the
management college does to the funds which come in the name of the
students. And these issues will never be taken up by the so called
'left' student organizations in their life.
Anil
On Aug 7, 8:57 pm, "Ranjit Ranjit" <ranjit.ran...@gmail.com> wrote:
aryakrishnan ramakrishnan
Two things I want to say
Suicides don't happen in a vacuum. And it cannot be understood in an
isolated manner, as any other human actions. It is an act (Thanks to
Durkheim), which is very much rooted in the socio political
conditions. Look at the suicides of women loving women in Kerala, many
of them belonged to Dalit Adivasi families. There was a pattern in
those suicides; it was not the love which forced them to commit
suicides, but the societal attitudes and the violence of homophobia.
In a society where one cannot live with dignity, in a system which
doesn't provide any social security, one doesn't have to look for the
reasons in the 'enquiry report'.
Deepak looks at Rajani Anand as a 'student' who has no other
identities, which is actually not the case. There are multiple
discriminations a dalit woman goes through in life in general and in
the education system. Even in liberal universities/colleges there are
many documented and undocumented cases of violence against Dalit
students. This violence happens on an every day basis. And I don't
see any golden opportunities or encouragement existing in Kerala for a
dalit woman student. For the privileged all spaces are neutral and
liberal but that is not the case for many others.
It is a pity that our conversation also carry some sort of
post-mortem of Rajani, instead of desecting the casteisst society.
Though nobody can claim the 'real reason' behind a suicide, I strongly
believe that the social environment in progressive Kerala is not
inclusive for everybody. And Rajani's suicide should be seen in this
context.
Aryan
--
"...ironically, perhaps, the best organised dissenters in
the world today are anarchists, who are busily
undermining capitalism while the rest of the left is
still trying to form committees."
-- Jeremy Hardy, The Guardian (UK)