Examples
- Reverse Migration
- About 300 families of tea garden workers of a tea estate in Assam have left their jobs and gone back to their ancestral places in Telengana for greener pastures. Captains of the 180-year old tea industry in the State are worried that such reverse migration is likely to aggravate the problem of shortage of labour, which the industry has started experiencing.
- North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) chairman Bidyananda Barkakoty revealed this trend during his speech at the 15 {+t} {+h} biennial General Meeting of the association. NETA has also urged the Assam Government to declare tea “the State drink of Assam” and persuade the Centre to declare tea as the National drink of India. Tea already is the national drink of Britain and China.
- The Assam tea industry employs about 5 lakh permanent workers and 5 lakh seasonal workers. Another 10 lakh people are dependent on the industry, be it employment or services. Assam produces more than 51 per cent of India's tea and contributes 13 per cent of global tea production. The total turnover of Assam tea industry is 5,000 crore.
After the annexation of Assam from Burma (Myanmar), the British colonial administration started tea plantations on a large scale in the region. The first tea committee was formed in 1834, and the first tea garden was established in 1837. By 1900, there were 804 tea gardens. The industry soon began facing a shortage of labour. With the native people of Assam engaged in independent farming, a labour class seeking wage employment on a regular basis was not available locally. It, therefore, became imperative for planters to import labourers from outside the State. The Tea Districts Labour Association, constituted under the Tea District Emigrant Labour Act, 1932, started recruiting labour from six labour-surplus provinces — Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Central Provinces, United Provinces and Madras. The first batch of tea garden labourers were recruited from the Chhotanagpur division of Bihar by the Assam Company in 1841. The industry continued to import labourers until 1960.
- Sociological Deviant
- A Norwegian dressed as a police officer gunned down at least 84 people at an island and a bomb blast at Oslo.
- A CISF JAWAN in killed a lady jawan posted at yamuna bank on 5th aug 2011.
- Social inequality
- Wall of shame or Untouchability wall of Salem which stood for nearly two decades as a symbol of discrimination in Salem,TN was pulled down
- Decades of unchecked sex-selective abortions have made the once fertile States of Punjab and Haryana suffer a drought of brides, making human-trafficking a lucrative and expanding trade. Often projected as a voluntary marriage, every year, thousands of young women and girls are lured into the idea of a happy married life with a rich man in Punjab or Haryana. Sadly most ‘purchased brides' are exploited, denied basic rights, duplicated as maids, and eventually abandoned.With skewed sex ratios (Punjab-893, Haryana-877 females per 1,000 males) it is impossible to find a bride for each man, and ‘importing a bride' has become the only solution. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2405228.ece
- Slut walk
- The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, Canada, and became a movement of rallies across the world. Participants protest against explaining or excusing rape by referring to any aspect of a woman's appearance. The rallies began when Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto Police officer, suggested that to remain safe, "women should avoid dressing like sluts."
- India's first Slut Walk, also called as 'Besharmi Morcha' (31 jul 2011). Joined by hundreds of enthusiastic people, the walk drove home the point that sexual violence against women must be stopped and this was the society's collective responsibility. How does it matter what they wear or how they walk or how they talk? It gives no one a right to pass nasty comments or worse, sexually assault them.
The way a woman dresses is not an invitation to sexual assault, It's not about being a slut or not, it's about being human! - Women need to find ways to create their own authentic sexuality, outside of male-defined terms like slut. The deep cultural pull to make women into objects rather than subject.
Ideas
- Aarakshan is the latest in the list to have joined the 'banned'-wagon. Recently, freedom of expression in India has been put to the test in a way that it has not before, barring the Emergency, and we seem to be moving more and more away from the very ideals that shaped our Constitution.
What generated no comments 40 years ago has now become breaking news, despite the fact that as a nation we should have matured and gone beyond such issues. We talk of ourselves as a giant superpower in the making, yet our political parties act with tunnel vision.
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a body set up by the Central government for a definite purpose. The merit or demerit of censorship in a society like ours is a debatable issue, beyond the scope of this piece. But surely it is unacceptable for any group or organisation to object to a film when the CBFC has seen it fit to clear the film for screening.
For State governments to say that a film has the potential to incite violence or create a law and order problem is a specious argument. First, at a fundamental level, how can any government infringe on one's right to choose what to watch or not? Second, is it not the government's first duty to ensure law and order, come what may, in the face of threats by intolerant and unreasonable individuals or groups?
Isn't the Censor Board a Central Government body with representatives from all walks of life? Then why doesn't the Central Government intervene and uphold the Board's Certificate in all States of the country?
SC, A Bench of Justices Mukundakam Sharma and Anil R. Dave, allowing the writ petition filed by producer Prakash Jha, rejected the contention that screenin quashed down the ban holding that the State had no such power after the censor board had cleared the film and It is for the State to maintain law and order. It shall maintain law and order effectively and meaningfully.
