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Adivasi rice beer – ceremonial drinking vs bondage caused by strong liquor

Posted on 10/03/2021 by website administrator

Adivasis and alcohol Historically, ‘pioneers’ of ‘civilized’ dominant (‘mainstream’ is politically incorrect) society have used alcohol to enslave and destroy the indigenous communities they invaded. Like exploitative marauders, they credited themselves with finding ‘new’ lands, sweepingly declaring them Terra Nullis … Continue reading →

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Ekalavya the archer prodigy: The unresolved question of submission to bondage in “moral stories for children”

Posted on 01/07/2020 by website administrator

Watch this story on Youtube including the self-mutilation scene [11:32]: Eklavya (Mahabharat) Kahaniyaa video channel: Moral Stories For ChildrenURL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgl0L401VkIDate visited: 11 July 2021 3D Animation For Children forms the best Mahabharat Short Movie In Hindi from Kids Cartoon Movies >> गुरू भक्ति /Gurū bhaktiAuthor: … Continue reading →

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Education, development, and reform to counter debt bondage: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights revisited

Posted on 18/11/2015 by website administrator

A Report on Debt Bondage, Carpet-Making, and Child Slavery In Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Dr. Kevin Bales estimates that there are at least 27 million slaves in the world today – more than at any other … Continue reading →

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Tagore’s call to end the enslavement of India’s peasantry remains relevant today: Modern slavery is still very common – Global Slavery Index & UNICEF

Posted on 10/09/2021 by website administrator

Tagore’s alienation and the zamindari system [Rabindranath Tagore] conspicuously distanced himself from the middle class, or the bhadralok, although they constituted the head and front of his audience as an author. Tagore’s alienation from such people can be contrasted with his … Continue reading →

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Schooling vs child labour – an unfinished agenda by Harsh Mander

Posted on 10/09/2021 by website administrator

Millions of our children still labour today, in factories, farms, kilns, mines, homes and city waste dumps, when they should be in school or in a playground. We profoundly fail these children, collectively depriving them of education, play, rest, healthy … Continue reading →

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