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The unique sewing skills and designs of the Huayao people are helping mountain villages in Hunan overcome poverty while breathing new life into their culture, Li Yingxue and Feng Zhiwei report. Almost every Huayao woman can do tiaohua, or cross-stitching, and each piece embodies its maker's own understanding of, and reflections on, life. The Huayao people are an ancient branch of the Yao ethnic group. Huxingshan Yao town is home to around 7,000 Huayao people, but it was also one of the most impoverished and remote towns in Longhui county, Shaoyang, Hunan province. For the best part of a decade, a team from Hunan University has been helping Baishuidong village in the town to overcome poverty and inherit the cross-stitching skill by promoting its cultural and creative products and boosting local tourism, trying to put the small village on the map. Yang Min, the head of the town, says, "The goal has changed from poverty alleviation to overcoming poverty, which inspires our ... » Learn More about Stitching together a better life

'To selectively look at the operation of certain laws -- in a manner that ignores the realities of caste and gender injustice in India -- and conclude that they are being particularly misused, is plain wrong,' says Aakar Patel. IMAGE: Dalits block a highway in Mumbai during a bandh to protest the violence at an event to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon. Photograph: Rajesh Alva/ Rediff.com Our Supreme Court's campaign against the 'misuse' of special laws continues. A few days ago, a two-judge bench of Justices A K Goel and U U Lalit issued new directions to prevent what they say is the 'rampant misuse' of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. What these directions are actually likely to do is gut a law crucial to protecting Dalit and Adivasi rights. On the face of it, much of the judgment aims to uphold the fair trial rights of criminal suspects. The Court rightly observes that wrongful arrests and ... » Learn More about Supreme Court verdict is a blow to Dalit, Adivasi rights

'Emboldened by the BJP victory, the upper castes feel they must assert themselves and regain dominance over the rural power structure.' IMAGE: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, left, and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati Realpolitik can make political parties do the unthinkable, and that is what the BJP has forced upon the two arch rivals of UP politics. The coming together of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav for the March 11 by-election in Uttar Pradesh marks a big shift in the politics of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party, two bitter enemies in UP politics. Twenty-three years after the BSP-SP alliance ended bitterly, the two parties have come together to counter the BJP in the Lok Sabha by-election in Gorakhpur and Phulpur. The Gorakhpur seat was represented by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from 1998 to 2017. Phulpur, represented once by Jawaharlal Nehru, was won by Keshav Prasad Maurya, now UP's deputy CM by a record margin in 2014. "Akhilesh and ... » Learn More about Explained: Why Akhilesh, Mayawati joined hands

'The Constitution, which talks about democracy and equality, is something that will be applied in this country, and not Manusmriti in which the RSS believes.' IMAGE: Dalits protest during the Maharashtra bandh on Wednesday, January 3, in Dharavi, Mumbai. Photograph: Sahil Salvi As violence in Pune spread to other parts of Maharashtra on Tuesday, January 2, the Pune police said it had received a complaint against Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and student leader Umar Khalid for 'provocative' speeches at an event in Pune on December 31. Mevani and Khalid had attended the Elgar Parishad, an event organised to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Bhima Koregaon, at Shaniwar Wada in Pune. Khalid, who left Pune a day before violence broke out, spoke to Rediff.com 's Syed Firdaus Ashraf about Dalit politics in India. Tell us about the meeting you attended in Pune on December 31. The meeting was about the celebration of the battle of Bhima Koregaon in ... » Learn More about ‘BJP hasn’t given up its Brahminical vision for India’

IMAGE: Dalits enforce the closure of markets during a protest in Ahmedabad July 20 against the assault by cow protectors in Rajkot. Photograph: PTI 'Only the smoke is coming out now. Let us prevent the lava from coming out by taking proper measures.' T hough P S Krishnan , 84, retired after three decades of service as an IAS officer in 1990, as the secretary to the Government of India, he continues his work for the socially deprived classes in India. Krishnan, below, left , has been on numerous government committees after retirement, and is currently the advisor to the government of Telangana on backward classes, and the government of Andhra Pradesh on identification of and reservation for socially and educationally backward classes among Muslims. He is also a member of the National Monitoring Committee for Education of SCs, STs and Persons with Disabilities, and a member of the Central Monitoring Committee of the National Mission for Empowering Women. One of the ... » Learn More about ‘You are sitting on a volcano of Dalit anger’

Maharashtra government plans to launch a ‘Covid War Memorial’ to honor the frontline workers, who sacrificed their lives while fighting the deadly Coronavirus. The memorial will also remind the sacrifices to the future generations. “This is a very unique and innovative idea which will boost the morale of not only medical fraternity but also inspire every segment of people who have worked to fight Covid -19 , government of Maharashtra will definitely work on this proposal & possibility on-ground implementation in Maharashtra very soon,” Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra health minister said. This comes after senior Radiologist, Dr. Sunita Dube also founder of Medscapeindia , proposed to the health ministry of Maharashtra to set up the memorial as a reminder for future generations to remember and prepare people for future pandemics. According to Dube, the new memorial will include a monument, Doctors' statue, immunity booster, laser light shows, to portray COVID war journey, ... » Learn More about Maharashtra plans ‘Covid War Memorial’ to honor frontline workers

Video Player Close WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's success in poverty alleviation cannot be achieved without the "remarkable commitment" made by a "strong, command-down" government led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), a leading U.S. expert on China has said. "China's poverty alleviation story is one of the great stories of the world. I believe future historians will look back to (it) as a defining feature of our age. Certainly, it is China's great achievement," Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, told Xinhua in a recent interview. Those who recognize China's unprecedented poverty-alleviation success must also "recognize its causal relationship" to China's system led by the CPC and a strong government, Kuhn said. The expert believed that Chinese President Xi Jinping's leadership and commitment to poverty alleviation are one of the prime reasons for such an achievement. It is a "remarkable commitment" that Xi, also general secretary of the ... » Learn More about Interview: Strong, committed government assures China’s poverty alleviation success — expert

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New Delhi: A farmer from Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh died near the Ghazipur border on Friday (January 1) while protesting against the newly enacted farm laws by the Centre. The farmer, Galtan Singh (57), was a resident of Bhagwanpur Nagal village in Baghpat district of Uttar Pradesh. Galtan Singh was rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead. Indirapuram DSP Anshu Jain told PTI that as per medical information, the farmer died of a heart attack. The body has been sent to his village. Commenting on Galtan Singh's death, the state president of the BKU, Rajbir Singh, reportedly said that all those farmers who died during the protest against the farm laws must get the status of a martyr. Galtan Singh's body was wrapped in a BKU flag, and BKU leader Rakesh Tikait paid homage to him . A tribute was also paid to all farmers who died during the protest on the eve of the New Year. The BKU also took out a candlelight march. Bharatiya Kisan ... » Learn More about Farmer from Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh dies at Ghazipur border protest site