{"id":30064,"date":"2018-10-26T14:03:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30064"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T08:33:25","slug":"inclusion-and-the-right-to-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inclusion-and-the-right-to-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusion and the right to dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/inclusion-and-the-right-to-dignity\/article23476363.ece\"><strong>Inclusion and the right to dignity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The onus of battling discrimination must not fall on the shoulders of Dalits alone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In January 2016 the death of Rohith Vemula, in July 2016 the public attacks on Dalits in Una, and earlier this year attacks on celebrations of the historic Bhima-Koregaon battle in Maharashtra<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions raised by the author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need to go beyond headlines and ask why a vulnerable community took to the streets<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What has gone wrong with the project of justice that independent India initiated with a flourish? What has gone wrong with our own sensibilities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why, as per the author, Dalit are so desperate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Uneven results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mixed results of affirmative action policies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unrealised justice project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Till today what caste we belong to continues to profile social relations, codify inequalities, govern access to opportunities and propel multiple atrocities<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shrugging off indifference by other citizens for Dalit causes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is only when we concentrate on the construction of a political consensus in society, that the uncomfortable distinction between \u2018us\u2019 and \u2018them\u2019 that bedevils much of the case for remedial justice will dissolve<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discrimination continues still<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ideology of discrimination continues to dominate despite a multitude of constitutional provisions, laws, affirmative action policies and political mobilisation<\/li>\n<li>The politics of voice can achieve a great deal in the public sphere, but if the ideology of discrimination continues to shape social relations, much of the gains are lost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the most essential goods human beings are entitled to, the right to respect, has not been realised<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is affirmative action?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Affirmative action policies are those in which an institution or organization actively engages in efforts to improve opportunities for historically excluded groups<\/li>\n<li>Affirmative action policies often focus on employment and education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inclusion and the right to dignity Context The onus of battling discrimination must not fall on the shoulders of Dalits alone Recent events In January 2016 the death of Rohith Vemula, in July 2016 the public attacks on Dalits in Una, and earlier this year attacks on celebrations of the historic Bhima-Koregaon battle in Maharashtra&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inclusion-and-the-right-to-dignity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inclusion and the right to dignity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704618617},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}