Fwd: [WBNUJS 2009] Let's Get Talking! - Call for entries
Anita Singh
From: Prathima Appaji <prathim...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:51 PM
Subject: Fwd: [WBNUJS 2009] Let's Get Talking! - Call for entries
To: devpurna talapatra <devpu...@yahoo.co.in>, Anita Singh <anitasi...@gmail.com>
From: Prathima Appaji <prathim...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: [WBNUJS 2009] Let's Get Talking! - Call for entries
To: Sriraman Jha <sriram...@gmail.com>
From: Prathima Appaji <prathim...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:34 PM
Subject: Fwd: [WBNUJS 2009] Let's Get Talking! - Call for entries
To: Ruchira Goswami <ruchira...@gmail.com>
We, at the Legal Aid Society in NUJS, believe that differences in opinion are equally, if not more essential than consensus in a democracy. Thus, we seek to collate diverse perspectives yet again in our fourth issue of Let’s Get Talking!, an informal magazine that seeks to compile views on issues of socio-legal relevance. This year we are looking to broaden our reach and include a wider panorama of perspectives from across the country. After exploring the Right to Choice and Age dimension in our previous issue, this time around our theme is Identities: The Existing v. The Evolved.
Andhra Pradesh recently splitting into Seemandhra and Telengana brought to light the host of issues that inevitably crop up every time a new state is formed in India. Logistically speaking, problems concerning irrigation, power, education and employment opportunities are quantifiable. The impact of certain other issues though cannot be measured with the aid of statistics alone.
Article 1 of the Indian Constitution states that India shall be a Union of States. As citizens, however, do we really value our sense of ‘Indian-ness’ over our identities as members belonging to a particular state? For all purposes, there is a sense of belonging among people from a certain state in that they usually speak a particular language, adhere to similar customs and follow the same cultural practices. Have political factions been more instrumental in encouraging a ‘state-identity’ over a ‘national-identity’ in people?
Further, what is it to be ‘Indian’? What is the common thread that envelops people across the length and breadth of Bharat, fostering unity among her people? In fact, is our national identity something that truly exists or is it merely a notion that is constantly nurtured?
Speaking of the international arena,
the Republic of Kosovo proclaimed itself to be an independent state in 2008.
Half a decade later, it receives only partial international recognition. Does a
self-chosen identity not have the right to be recognised as such? Is it not
recognition that actually renders a sense of worthiness to an identity?
This issue of LGT! seeks to look beyond the formation of new states to these very issues of identity that crop therefrom. Send us your opinions, caricatures, experiences, trivia or anything under the sun that makes you wonder whether identity is a pre-existing factor or an ever-evolving dynamic. Mail in queries / contributions to las.letsg...@gmail.com no later than 5th October, 2013 . Do remember to mention your name, the name of your institution and the year in which you are studying. Also, please confine your articles to an upper limit of 700 words and ensure that your caricatures are in JPG format.
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