[Reader-list] Inviting for the workshop on Dalit Students' Politics and the release of Insight next issue

[INSIGHT FOUNDATION]

Dear Friends,



Jaibheem!



Insight Editorial Collective cordially invites you to the release of the
next issue of *'Insight: Young Voices'* on *3rd February* (Sunday). The
release will be followed by a *workshop on 'Dalit Students' Politics:
Challenges and Directions'*, where Dalit student activists from different
universities/institutions will share their campus experiences as well as
deliberate on the different issues concerning Dalit students.



The recent report of Prof. S.K. Thorat Committee exposing the caste
discrimination faced by the Dalit students in All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS) and complete inaction from the Indian Government has
reinforced the need for a vibrant and autonomous Dalit students' activism.
Dalit movement has a long history of youth participation. However, due to
various reasons, a strong Dalit students' politics, that could have a major
impact both inside as well as outside the campus, has not emerged. Though
every educational campus of this country is simmering with Dalit
Consciousness, yet it will take some time and huge efforts to channelise
Dalit students' energies towards our common cause.



Being itself the product of Dalit students' activism, *'Insight: Young
Voices'* is committed towards a strong and autonomous Dalit student
politics. Apart from regular articles and interviews on various issues, the
cover story of our next issue of *'Insight: Young Voices' *tries to map the
emergence and role of *Dalit students' politics in Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Hyderabad Central University and Meerut University (UP),* as
these have become one of the most important centres of Dalit students'
mobilisation and articulation.





Date: - 3rd February 2008



Time: - 2.30 pm



Venue: - Qaumi Ekta Trust

(Ganesh shankar Vidyarthi Bhawan)

31, Bhai Veer Singh Marg, Gole Market

New Delhi – 110001





Sd/-

Anoop Kumar

Insight Editorial Collective

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