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Gujarat and Civil Liberties in India
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Gujarat and Civil Liberties in India
Manisha Gupte and Ramesh Awasthi
Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 5:30PM MIT E51-095
Manisha Gupte and Ramesh Awasthi are the co-founders of MASUM (Mahila
Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal), an organization of women from the
oppressed castes and minority religions. MASUM was formed in 1988 and
has evolved as a development group with a feminist perspective to
make the women self reliant and conscious of their human and
constitutional rights; to nurture women's physical and emotional
health; to provide vocational training and credit facilities to women
for self employment and to create a progressive space in society for
all its deprived people, and to specifically resist casteism, sexism
and religious chauvinism.
The rising fundamentalism in the country has tremendous implications
for the democratic, secular and diverse fabric of India. Ramesh will
discuss the curtailment of democratic rights of the people and the
challenges facing NGOs in this scenario. Manisha will focus on the
implications of rising intolerance and violence on women's lives. She
will deal with the shaping of the identity of majority and minority
women in the country, on sexuality, reproductive rights and will
illustrate how women's bodies have been used as battlefields in the
politics of hatred. She will also talk about masculinity in the
context of cultural nationalism in India.
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Manisha Gupte (M.Sc, Microbiology) has been part of the women's
movement in India since the mid-seventies. She has been actively
associated with training, research and interventions in the area of
health, violence, gender and sexuality. She has done training for a
wide range of people (government officials, NGOs and grass root
workers) at the national and international level. She has also
coordinated a one year long state level training on Women and Health
for middle level women from rural NGOs from 1999-2001. She initiated
the formation of MASUM, a rural women's organisation while she lived
in the drought-prone villages of Pune district for five years from
1987 to 1991. She is on the board of several pro-people organisations
such as CEHAT, Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, LOCOST
Standard
Therapeutics and CREA. She spent one year (1997-98) in the Department
of International Health in the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University as a visiting scholar. She is actively associated with
various democratic and secular organisations in India.
Ramesh Awasthi ( Ph.D. Tech, Chemical Engineering and M.A.,
Economics) has been associated with civil liberties and Gandhian
movements since the early seventies. He has been active in
micro-credit, environment, economic development programmes and grass
root mobilisation since then. Having worked with slum communities in
Mumbai to 'legalise' their homes and to organize them for water,
sanitation, electricity and other basic facilities, he moved into the
drought-prone villages of Pune district in 1987. He co-founded
MASUM in the same year. He has been conducting mid-term reviews as
well as end-term evaluations of projects for Action Aid, Swissaid,
Save the Children Canada and CIDA. He has been working on child
labour issues for the past four years and is the advisor to CIDA on
its bi-lateral project on child labour in India. He is on the board
of various organisations such as the Foundation for Research in
Community Health, Shelter Associates and Susamwad. He has spent one
year at the Johns Hopkins University as a visiting scholar. He is
active on issues related to democracy, freedom and secularism.
Sponsored by: Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, South Asia
=46orum at MIT, Project Impact.
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Mich=E8le Oshima
Director, Special Programs
MIT Office of the Arts
E15-205 | 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge | MA | USA | 02139-4307
617-253-4004 tel | 617-258-8631 fax | web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/
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<div><b>Gujarat and Civil Liberties in India<br>
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</b>Manisha Gupte and Ramesh Awasthi<br>
<br>
Thursday, April 24, 2003 at 5:30PM MIT E51-095<br>
<br>
<br>
Manisha Gupte and Ramesh Awasthi are the co-founders of MASUM (Mahila
Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal), an organization of women from the
oppressed castes and minority religions. MASUM was formed in 1988 and
has evolved as a development group with a feminist perspective to make
the women self reliant and conscious of their human and constitutional
rights; to nurture women's physical and emotional health; to provide
vocational training and credit facilities to women for self employment
and to create a progressive space in society for all its deprived
people, and to specifically resist casteism, sexism and religious
chauvinism.<br>
<br>
The rising fundamentalism in the country has tremendous implications
for the democratic, secular and diverse fabric of India. Ramesh will
discuss the curtailment of democratic rights of the people and the
challenges facing NGOs in this scenario. Manisha will focus on
the implications of rising intolerance and violence on women's lives.
She will deal with the shaping of the identity of majority and
minority women in the country, on sexuality, reproductive rights and
will illustrate how women's bodies have been used as battlefields in
the politics of hatred. She will also talk about masculinity in the
context of cultural nationalism in India.<br>
<br>
***<br>
<br>
Manisha Gupte (M.Sc, Microbiology) has been part of the women's
movement in India since the mid-seventies. She has been actively
associated with training, research and interventions in the area of
health, violence, gender and sexuality. She has done training for a
wide range of people (government officials, NGOs and grass root
workers) at the national and international level. She has also
coordinated a one year long state level training on Women and Health
for middle level women from rural NGOs from 1999-2001. She initiated
the formation of MASUM, a rural women's organisation while she lived
in the drought-prone villages of Pune district for five years from
1987 to 1991. She is on the board of several pro-people organisations
such as CEHAT, Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, LOCOST
Standard<br>
Therapeutics and CREA. She spent one year (1997-98) in the Department
of International Health in the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins
University as a visiting scholar. She is actively associated with
various democratic and secular organisations in India.<br>
<br>
Ramesh Awasthi ( Ph.D. Tech, Chemical Engineering and M.A., Economics)
has been associated with civil liberties and Gandhian movements since
the early seventies. He has been active in micro-credit, environment,
economic development programmes and grass root mobilisation since
then. Having worked with slum communities in Mumbai to 'legalise'
their homes and to organize them for water, sanitation, electricity
and other basic facilities, he moved into the drought-prone villages
of Pune district in 1987. He co-founded<br>
MASUM in the same year. He has been conducting mid-term reviews as
well as end-term evaluations of projects for Action Aid, Swissaid,
Save the Children Canada and CIDA. He has been working on child labour
issues for the past four years and is the advisor to CIDA on its
bi-lateral project on child labour in India. He is on the board of
various organisations such as the Foundation for Research in
Community Health, Shelter Associates and Susamwad. He has spent one
year at the Johns Hopkins University as a visiting scholar. He is
active on issues related to democracy, freedom and secularism.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Sponsored by: Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia, South
Asia<br>
=46orum at MIT, Project Impact.</div>
<div>-- <br>
Mich=E8le Oshima<br>
Director, Special Programs<br>
MIT Office of the Arts<br>
E15-205 | 77 Massachusetts Avenue<br>
Cambridge | MA | USA | 02139-4307<br>
<br>
617-253-4004 tel | 617-258-8631 fax |
web.mit.edu/arts/special_programs/</div>
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