[Reader-list] "Living Outside the Track"- A Woman Worker's Struggle Against Caste and Patriarchy in Kerala

[Venugopalan K M]

This is the report of a solidarity mission that was invited by
Feminists Kerala Network to visit Payyanur and attempt to ascertain
the facts around an incident of violence involving Chithralekha, a
Dalit woman auto driver, on January 20, 2010.

Feminists Kerala Network is a loose network based in Kerala and
outside, of feminists, Dalit activists, queer activists and other
individuals involved with new social movements in Kerala.

The solidarity mission consisted of

Gail Omvedt, Professor, B. R. Ambedkar Chair at Indira Gandhi National
Open University, Delhi; V Geetha , Publisher (Tara Books), author and
social activist, Chennai; K.K Preetha, Advocate, Kerala High Court,
Ernakulam; Nivedita Menon, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Delhi.

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You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot
build up a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you
will build on the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a
whole.
-AMBEDKAR



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