In the country side of indigenous peoples, often schools are standing without teachers and students. A times for days together no classes. Of course definitely the schools may be on records, including teachers, but in actual situation it has no existence . In this case government has opened a school for the tribal or indigenous children education to respect their educational rights. Mother makes an appeal to her girl child to go to school. It is a rare chance and a priviledge. The poem narrates a simple appeal to her small daughter.
In our village
There is a school
Daughter, go to study.
In our home
When you are educated
There shall be tremendous joy
Darling,
Go to school
If fees demanded
Shall pay willingly
Darling,
Study with other children
It shall be
Beneficial to study
Darling,
Go to school.
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
CLEARING THE FOREST
This poem is originally composed in an indigenous language of India called Bhili by Mahipal Bhuriya a tribal poet or Adivasi or indigenous himself and a tribal human rights activist in India. It is based on the environmental issues relating to deforestation that is taking place rapidly in the land of indigenous or Adivasi peoples in India by the non tribals. After the clearing of the indigenous peoples forests the blames are normally put on the tribals. The poem is sung by the Bhils of Jhabua (MP). The poem's folk tune is also an indigenous one.
Mr. Minister,
Clearing the forest
You turned my mountain naked
Why didn't you come to this mountain...?
If you came yourself to my mountain
Would see the hopelss sight
My mountain weeps standing
Monkies of the mountain have gone afar
And no rains ever come now on it
No monsoon clouds fly that side anymore
No vegetable creepers of Kakoda
And bhabhadi grows on the slopes any more
And hania too
No more beautiful Musli herb
Alas no children come to the mountain
Mr. Minister,
My mountain is bold totally
Soon you come
And see my mountain
Seeing the mountain
My heart burns within me
Will ever this mountain
Be green any more.....?
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Mr. Minister,
Clearing the forest
You turned my mountain naked
Why didn't you come to this mountain...?
If you came yourself to my mountain
Would see the hopelss sight
My mountain weeps standing
Monkies of the mountain have gone afar
And no rains ever come now on it
No monsoon clouds fly that side anymore
No vegetable creepers of Kakoda
And bhabhadi grows on the slopes any more
And hania too
No more beautiful Musli herb
Alas no children come to the mountain
Mr. Minister,
My mountain is bold totally
Soon you come
And see my mountain
Seeing the mountain
My heart burns within me
Will ever this mountain
Be green any more.....?
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HUMAN RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN
Their Plight in Search for Human Rights and Women's Identity .....?
All over in urban or rural India, the 80% of the indigenous populations of the country, whom we call SC, ST & OBC, let it be work sites of constructions, roads, pavements, fields of landlords, domestic households, offices, etc are very badly treated and leading inhuman lives even today. Even though Indian social sciences and technology have enormously advanced, we have developed competency to reach moon and beyond, but Indian indigenous peoples' human rights and treatments towards them are in filthy gutters. This is not due to the lack of awareness in Indian society and social thinking for making good policies , but traditionally well planed social strategy to let them remain low, impoverished in all resources so that they can diminish decades after decades in quality of life and then gradually vanish. They are oppressed and suppressed from the time of the period of Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata, calling them with various derogatory names such as Asuras, etc. Now, just 60 years of reservations for SC, ST and OBC mostly on papers in a very well planned strategic manner for further deprivation by not implementing properly these provisions, not going to salvage their historical social ills. It needs much better policies and longer span of time. No doubt, some provisions are there but not enough and implemented.
In such as a precarious situation the major political parties have no genuinely committed social agendas to make salvage operations on priority. Now the new policies are further being envisaged to keep them out in the fields of education and research are still worse. Possibly planned to keep the indigenous students and their growing talents low, underdeveloped and these societies traditionally deprived and under normal control. For the restoration of the traditional human rights, cultural rights, or indigenous rights the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has an ideal vision which too is being resented by the upper castes in the country. If at all the frightened and suppressed folks of SC, ST and OBC charismatically rise to the national scene with their only Messiah and future hope in Indian politics Mayawati.
In this chaotic social situation and redundant social policies, the situation of indigenous women at home and at the work sites is growing intolerable beyond imagination. The indigenous women in the country due to lack of respect for their human rights are physically, socially, culturally, emotionally, deteriorating. Only a small % is seen in the public places maintaining standards because of their large population in the country. Physiologically they are becoming victims of many un-diagnosable diseases. If at all diagnosed in time, no remedies since the civil hospital have any drugs for them to cure. At home Indian patriarchal society too keeps them under various socially, culturally sanctioned controls. On the work sites, their life appears to be hell, submitting even to the work masters for satisfying their various undeclared needs thus even getting fatally ill. Against such an advanced society of India, can we see that the indigenous population and in this case women are suffering due to the lack of awareness or these are sheer planned strategy to let them remain a work force with unjust amenities, social order and thus in the course of time die before completing their life expectancy .....?
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All over in urban or rural India, the 80% of the indigenous populations of the country, whom we call SC, ST & OBC, let it be work sites of constructions, roads, pavements, fields of landlords, domestic households, offices, etc are very badly treated and leading inhuman lives even today. Even though Indian social sciences and technology have enormously advanced, we have developed competency to reach moon and beyond, but Indian indigenous peoples' human rights and treatments towards them are in filthy gutters. This is not due to the lack of awareness in Indian society and social thinking for making good policies , but traditionally well planed social strategy to let them remain low, impoverished in all resources so that they can diminish decades after decades in quality of life and then gradually vanish. They are oppressed and suppressed from the time of the period of Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata, calling them with various derogatory names such as Asuras, etc. Now, just 60 years of reservations for SC, ST and OBC mostly on papers in a very well planned strategic manner for further deprivation by not implementing properly these provisions, not going to salvage their historical social ills. It needs much better policies and longer span of time. No doubt, some provisions are there but not enough and implemented.
In such as a precarious situation the major political parties have no genuinely committed social agendas to make salvage operations on priority. Now the new policies are further being envisaged to keep them out in the fields of education and research are still worse. Possibly planned to keep the indigenous students and their growing talents low, underdeveloped and these societies traditionally deprived and under normal control. For the restoration of the traditional human rights, cultural rights, or indigenous rights the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has an ideal vision which too is being resented by the upper castes in the country. If at all the frightened and suppressed folks of SC, ST and OBC charismatically rise to the national scene with their only Messiah and future hope in Indian politics Mayawati.
In this chaotic social situation and redundant social policies, the situation of indigenous women at home and at the work sites is growing intolerable beyond imagination. The indigenous women in the country due to lack of respect for their human rights are physically, socially, culturally, emotionally, deteriorating. Only a small % is seen in the public places maintaining standards because of their large population in the country. Physiologically they are becoming victims of many un-diagnosable diseases. If at all diagnosed in time, no remedies since the civil hospital have any drugs for them to cure. At home Indian patriarchal society too keeps them under various socially, culturally sanctioned controls. On the work sites, their life appears to be hell, submitting even to the work masters for satisfying their various undeclared needs thus even getting fatally ill. Against such an advanced society of India, can we see that the indigenous population and in this case women are suffering due to the lack of awareness or these are sheer planned strategy to let them remain a work force with unjust amenities, social order and thus in the course of time die before completing their life expectancy .....?
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
HUMAN RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS WAY OF HEALING IN ADIVASI INDIA
The Adivasis India till the British Government and later Indian Government interfered had their own traditional way of healing, effective all through the past centuries, by the traditional use of herbs, shamans, other para medical healings and healers. The tribal system of healing or the indigenous practices of traditional healings are popular even today, times more effective when modern medicinal system fails. Among the Bhils of Jhabua there is popular saying that the traditional Bhil healers 'Martaan nen jivad de' meaning even the dead are brought back to life. But in the last two or three decades, an enormous harm is done to the traditional, tribal, indigenous or Adivasi way of healing, in the sense the forests are cleared by the non tribals and the Government, traditional practices are prevented, as the faked doctors take control of the tribal or the Bhil health in the country side. Instead of empowering, enriching and further elevating the tribal healers by training they destroyed the tribals in several ways and one is this by impoverishing them, in their own health and healing context. Today in the town like Jhabua and other places in the same district, faked doctors regularly healing the Bhils and outdated medicines are being sold freely with no control. Every now and then media persons bring these to light and Government does symbolic gesture to control the vice with no serious interest and proper effect.
The Bhil Badwas (priests and medicine men) assert when the tribal patients are brought to them for indigenous healing and they say, ' if the patients suffer from genuine sickness or affected by some spiritual powers, they can help , but if made sick by doctors, taking faked medicines, then we are helpless to do any indigenous healing.' Due to the interferences in the tribal or indigenous systems or traditional knowledge, the traditional and beautiful skills are vanishing in indigenous India and expensive as well faked system is overtaking and being imposed by the non tribals since over three decades on the tribals which they hardy can afford except at the cost of their land, cattles, other wealth and savings.
Considering the positive aspects and traditions of Bhil healing, Mama Baleshwar Dayal appealed to Government of India in last century, for studying systematically the indigenous health system of the Bhils and to get it approved for their chealy available local healing. The Government of India did respond positively then, and made a study of some 241 herbs used by the Bhils for the medical healing where as there were over one thousand or more. The work was not satisfactorily complete and the files were closed.
Mama Baleshwar Dayal the renounced socialist leader of the country had vision to produce these indigenous herbal medicines in cheaper way, for the tribal India, so that the huge tribal funds spent by the poor Bhils would be saved for more creative purposes. His vision never saw the light up to today and no NGOs also paid any attention in Bhilanchal region, except for the expensive tribal projects, through which they can help themselves. A great damage is continuously being done by the non tribals to the tribal funds, health and the indigenous system. Besides there is no respect for the tribal cultures in India by the non tribals on the contrary the faked and expensive systems of allopathic is being imposed for impoverishing and looting the tribal money by the non tribal doctors. Is justice being done to the tribal/indigenous/Adivasi traditional human rights today.....?
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The Bhil Badwas (priests and medicine men) assert when the tribal patients are brought to them for indigenous healing and they say, ' if the patients suffer from genuine sickness or affected by some spiritual powers, they can help , but if made sick by doctors, taking faked medicines, then we are helpless to do any indigenous healing.' Due to the interferences in the tribal or indigenous systems or traditional knowledge, the traditional and beautiful skills are vanishing in indigenous India and expensive as well faked system is overtaking and being imposed by the non tribals since over three decades on the tribals which they hardy can afford except at the cost of their land, cattles, other wealth and savings.
Considering the positive aspects and traditions of Bhil healing, Mama Baleshwar Dayal appealed to Government of India in last century, for studying systematically the indigenous health system of the Bhils and to get it approved for their chealy available local healing. The Government of India did respond positively then, and made a study of some 241 herbs used by the Bhils for the medical healing where as there were over one thousand or more. The work was not satisfactorily complete and the files were closed.
Mama Baleshwar Dayal the renounced socialist leader of the country had vision to produce these indigenous herbal medicines in cheaper way, for the tribal India, so that the huge tribal funds spent by the poor Bhils would be saved for more creative purposes. His vision never saw the light up to today and no NGOs also paid any attention in Bhilanchal region, except for the expensive tribal projects, through which they can help themselves. A great damage is continuously being done by the non tribals to the tribal funds, health and the indigenous system. Besides there is no respect for the tribal cultures in India by the non tribals on the contrary the faked and expensive systems of allopathic is being imposed for impoverishing and looting the tribal money by the non tribal doctors. Is justice being done to the tribal/indigenous/Adivasi traditional human rights today.....?
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HIV/AIDS AMONG THE BHILS OF JHABUA
The widely and fast spreading disease like HIV or AIDS was unheard among the Bhils of Jhabua, MP, India until they started to migrate some 30 years ago to Gujarat and other places due to two major failures: rains and Government. First failure is unpredictable and natural but the second one is calculated in depriving the tribals of their human rights to food, employment, and above all to their social survival, much due to their own corruptions in administration. In the case of second failure much is assured for the relief to the tribals and in fact the funds and help does arrive in abundance, but in reality it hardly reaches, where as 70% or above these days find their own employment thus proving that they are independent, self sufficient and self employed.
According to one of the leading HIV/AIDS social worker Jimmey Nirmal(30) running a center for patients of this particular disease at Jeevan Jyoti Hospital Meghnagar, says, that there are already 150 identified and registered cases with the state Government of Madhya Pradesh, receiving the treatment. Earlier some 60 to 70 patients died of HIV/AIDS without being registered Jimmey Nirmal confirms. According to him the causes of this illness is migration and in the places of work where the Bhil males mainly make sexual contacts with other opposite and non tribal partners in the cities of Gujarat like Baroda, Ahmadabad, Surat , etc. He says 48 cases of the AIDS are of advance stage and the remaining ones are of HIV. These patients are mainly between the age of 30 to 40 years.
Tribals are ignorant of the disease including the Government schemes for the treatment. It has come to them from outside due to sheer poverty, ignorance and temporary joy. There may be more than 50 cases of this disease still to be identified in this region. One of the Ayurvedic doctors in the Jhabua district is of the opinion that there is one HIV patient per 1000 Bhils in Thandla area. But according to Jimmey who is well informed in this context, says that there must be 1 HIV patient per 700 Bhil persons in the district.
In this region Government policies are slacking for the care of the HIV/AIDS patients due to which patients are suffering much. Their finances get over, no income at home, unable to work, community members maintain sufficient social distance, suffer slow but steady death, family gets impoverished in all perspectives, sell all the resources at home, affected persons of the family mainly parents die and children are rendered orphans in the course of time.
Jimmey Nirmal says that there is a lot to be done in this field and he intends to dedicate himself for the care of HIV/AIDS patients as a full timer in the near future.
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According to one of the leading HIV/AIDS social worker Jimmey Nirmal(30) running a center for patients of this particular disease at Jeevan Jyoti Hospital Meghnagar, says, that there are already 150 identified and registered cases with the state Government of Madhya Pradesh, receiving the treatment. Earlier some 60 to 70 patients died of HIV/AIDS without being registered Jimmey Nirmal confirms. According to him the causes of this illness is migration and in the places of work where the Bhil males mainly make sexual contacts with other opposite and non tribal partners in the cities of Gujarat like Baroda, Ahmadabad, Surat , etc. He says 48 cases of the AIDS are of advance stage and the remaining ones are of HIV. These patients are mainly between the age of 30 to 40 years.
Tribals are ignorant of the disease including the Government schemes for the treatment. It has come to them from outside due to sheer poverty, ignorance and temporary joy. There may be more than 50 cases of this disease still to be identified in this region. One of the Ayurvedic doctors in the Jhabua district is of the opinion that there is one HIV patient per 1000 Bhils in Thandla area. But according to Jimmey who is well informed in this context, says that there must be 1 HIV patient per 700 Bhil persons in the district.
In this region Government policies are slacking for the care of the HIV/AIDS patients due to which patients are suffering much. Their finances get over, no income at home, unable to work, community members maintain sufficient social distance, suffer slow but steady death, family gets impoverished in all perspectives, sell all the resources at home, affected persons of the family mainly parents die and children are rendered orphans in the course of time.
Jimmey Nirmal says that there is a lot to be done in this field and he intends to dedicate himself for the care of HIV/AIDS patients as a full timer in the near future.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
TUBERCULOSIS KILLING THE TRIBALS OF INDIA
The Bhils of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra are being fatally affected by a deadly disease called Tuberculosis, commonly called T.B. in Bhili the language of the Bhils. The state Governments of the Bhilanchal region, are calm and cool about it, as the fatal disease is spreading widely, day by day in more and more families and the whole of countryside of Bhilanchal. The main reasons for the spread of this deadly disease is malnutrition among the Bhil children, heavy physical works with lesser wages, spurious liquor, for the adult Bhils in the various states and work sites they migrate in large percentage from their tribal habitats in Bhilanchal or in their own home places. Some social workers who have close connections with the Bhils of Jhabua, that some 25% to 30% of the Bhagoria Bhils are affected by T.B. A senior doctor working in the Bhil region of Bajana (Ratlam District of MP) has observed that some 80% of the Bhils are affected by this disease or some other, for which nothing is being done on large or small scale by the responsible agencies.
UNICEF has offered its valuable help, but as usual it does not reach out to the poor Adivasis or tribals and no one is there to fight for their basic and most basic human rights for survival, since it appears that the vested interests want them to vanish from the face of the earth. Since no employment is available at home, the Bhils of Bhilanchal migrate in large numbers, to the places of work in far away places, from where bring back home diseases they contacted, developed or inherited like Tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS, Cancer, malnutrition, sexually transferable diseases such as S.T.I, etc and the Governments at home ignore their cure. The NGOs at home are certainly enjoy their developmental funds received in the forms of tribal projects with no intentions of their tribal development, but for lavishly maintaining their own life styles which has become a fashion or standard of life based on the tribal funds in Bhilanchal.
Now the among social workers, NGOs, tribal developmental workers, including the missionaries run organizations, Adivasi Seva or tribal service has spread like the diseases mentioned above. They are prospering very well on the tribal funds for the decades. And the tribals have remained stagnated and deprived at home, with no hope for the tribal development. In such a lethargic and hope-less situation, is there any cure for both....?
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UNICEF has offered its valuable help, but as usual it does not reach out to the poor Adivasis or tribals and no one is there to fight for their basic and most basic human rights for survival, since it appears that the vested interests want them to vanish from the face of the earth. Since no employment is available at home, the Bhils of Bhilanchal migrate in large numbers, to the places of work in far away places, from where bring back home diseases they contacted, developed or inherited like Tuberculosis, HIV, AIDS, Cancer, malnutrition, sexually transferable diseases such as S.T.I, etc and the Governments at home ignore their cure. The NGOs at home are certainly enjoy their developmental funds received in the forms of tribal projects with no intentions of their tribal development, but for lavishly maintaining their own life styles which has become a fashion or standard of life based on the tribal funds in Bhilanchal.
Now the among social workers, NGOs, tribal developmental workers, including the missionaries run organizations, Adivasi Seva or tribal service has spread like the diseases mentioned above. They are prospering very well on the tribal funds for the decades. And the tribals have remained stagnated and deprived at home, with no hope for the tribal development. In such a lethargic and hope-less situation, is there any cure for both....?
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LANGOTI
A Loin Cloth Wrapped on Bhil Waist
Langoti is one of the cheapest and poorest ways of dressing in a disgraceful manner on the bodies of the Bhils and other parts of tribal India. Today no Bhil would like to dress with Langoti a rag of piece of possibly white cloth on Bhil bodies. Formerly some 30 years back Langoti was popularly seen in the Bhilanchal, but today it has vanished from the sight in Bhilanchal except in rare cases. Langoti was a sign of Bhil culture, deprivation, oppression, exploitation, freedom, etc. Whatever may be the social and cultural value of Langoti, but today no one would dare to dress in Langoti.
Mahipal Bhuriya has a beautiful poem expressing the Bhil economy and developmental acheivements of Indian Government. Its title itself is LANGOTI translated from original Bhili to Hindi, English and German.
In the 4th, 5th decades and early 6th decades of the last century, Mama Baleshwar Dayal started a big and socially popular movement in Bhilanchal to appeal the Bhils to abandon Langoti. Those who wore Langoti in Bhilanchal, the rulers, Ranjputs, and other members of high caste peoples disliked and disrespected the Bhils. Hence the Bhils were called unequivocally 'Langotias' terms of references like this are prohibited by law, by Government. A good thing the Government has done in rare cases.
Mama Baleshwar Dayal prompted by love and concern for the Bhils, more than the Government started a drive to abandon Langoti. He went in the weekly Bhil markets in Bamania, Thandla, Jhabua, Banswara, Petlawad and other places making the Bhils to abandon Langoti and put on long or short dhoti as a sign of respect. Similar appeals he made in the Bhil areas in Gujarat, Maharashtra and other parts of Rajasthan, the thickly populated regions of Bhilanchal. The author’s relatives too were the part of this drive either to abandon Langoti or to help others in abandoning it.
Mama had first seen the Bhils wearing Langoti in the village of Chandrashekhar Azad called Bhabhra (Dist. Jhabua). He was pained to see the Langoti of the Bhils as the sign of disrespect and of economic development. A news paper published from Petlawad(Dist. Jhabua) called Langoti Swar is still preaching the messages of Mama.
Today Langoti has disappeared, but the symbol of Langoti has not vanished, still visible among the Bhils, and if Mama Baleshwar Dayal revisits Bhalanchal today, he shall be much more disappointed to see much worse situation prevailing and developing in Bhilanchal.
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Langoti is one of the cheapest and poorest ways of dressing in a disgraceful manner on the bodies of the Bhils and other parts of tribal India. Today no Bhil would like to dress with Langoti a rag of piece of possibly white cloth on Bhil bodies. Formerly some 30 years back Langoti was popularly seen in the Bhilanchal, but today it has vanished from the sight in Bhilanchal except in rare cases. Langoti was a sign of Bhil culture, deprivation, oppression, exploitation, freedom, etc. Whatever may be the social and cultural value of Langoti, but today no one would dare to dress in Langoti.
Mahipal Bhuriya has a beautiful poem expressing the Bhil economy and developmental acheivements of Indian Government. Its title itself is LANGOTI translated from original Bhili to Hindi, English and German.
In the 4th, 5th decades and early 6th decades of the last century, Mama Baleshwar Dayal started a big and socially popular movement in Bhilanchal to appeal the Bhils to abandon Langoti. Those who wore Langoti in Bhilanchal, the rulers, Ranjputs, and other members of high caste peoples disliked and disrespected the Bhils. Hence the Bhils were called unequivocally 'Langotias' terms of references like this are prohibited by law, by Government. A good thing the Government has done in rare cases.
Mama Baleshwar Dayal prompted by love and concern for the Bhils, more than the Government started a drive to abandon Langoti. He went in the weekly Bhil markets in Bamania, Thandla, Jhabua, Banswara, Petlawad and other places making the Bhils to abandon Langoti and put on long or short dhoti as a sign of respect. Similar appeals he made in the Bhil areas in Gujarat, Maharashtra and other parts of Rajasthan, the thickly populated regions of Bhilanchal. The author’s relatives too were the part of this drive either to abandon Langoti or to help others in abandoning it.
Mama had first seen the Bhils wearing Langoti in the village of Chandrashekhar Azad called Bhabhra (Dist. Jhabua). He was pained to see the Langoti of the Bhils as the sign of disrespect and of economic development. A news paper published from Petlawad(Dist. Jhabua) called Langoti Swar is still preaching the messages of Mama.
Today Langoti has disappeared, but the symbol of Langoti has not vanished, still visible among the Bhils, and if Mama Baleshwar Dayal revisits Bhalanchal today, he shall be much more disappointed to see much worse situation prevailing and developing in Bhilanchal.
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