WEAVING DREAMS, LIVING IN NIGHTMARE: SITUATION OF BANARASI SAREE WEAVING SECTOR OF VARANASI

The present paper looks into the situational analysis of weavers of Banarasi saree, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. The life of weavers is characterized by abject poverty, chronic malnutrition, varied health hazards and even hunger deaths and suicides. In-put cost is unbearable for many and profit is taken by middlemen. Globalization has severely affected economically vulnerable small weavers pushing them below poverty line. State machinery is apathetic and whatever schemes and programmes exist, fail to do any good to weavers who are battling hard to keep this one of the finest legacies of Indian culture alive. Situation of women and children is worse. Women are engaged in mundane work of thread-cutting, zari-filling and the like and are paid merely Rs.10-15 per day for 12-16 hours of work. Children are denied schooling to speed up saree-production. Suggestive interventions are highlighted in the paper.

http://www.practiceinparticipation.org/documents/947/130/weaving-dreams-living-in-nightmare-situation-of-banarasi-saree-weaving-sector-of-varanasi

Submission To The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women by PVCHR

Violation against women is a serious problem in India and it is putting a huge strain on a nation’s social and legal services and leads to heavy loss of productivity. It is an epidemic that losing self-confidence be afraid/angry, and blame/feel guilty. 

Thanks and best wishes to Shruti Nagvanshi and Shirin Shabana Khan from PVCHR

http://www.pvchr.net/2013/04/submission-to-un-special-rapporteur-on_22.html

Caste,Rape and patriarchy: Analysis by Lenin Raghuvanshi

PVCHR: A tale of two villages:a story of Economist

PVCHR: A tale of two villages:a story of Economist: Malnutrition in the area persists, says Lenin Raghuvanshi of a non-governmental organisation in eastern Uttar Pradesh. from the report...

Malnutrition in the area persists, says Lenin Raghuvanshi of a non-governmental organisation in eastern Uttar Pradesh. from the report published in Economist titled Rural India: the story of two villages.

Photo of Shruti at a Musahar ghetto is also published.Please read:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/feastandfamine/2012/10/rural-india
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In Chinese:
http://article.yeeyan.org/view/345520/325966

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