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Police Arrests Maruti Workers, Negotiations Fail

Jyotsna Singh, Newsclick, Sept 19, 2011

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Sept 19, 2011: The Haryana police arrested two office bearers and one member of the proposed Maruti Suzuki Employees Union at Gurgaon last night. They have been charged for inciting the workers to physically attack supervisors of the company on Friday.

MSEU President Sonu Gujjar, General Secretary Shiv Kumar and member Ravinder were arrested after the negotiations between the workers' representatives and Maruti Suzuki's management broke.

“Our colleagues were arrested as soon as officials of the Haryana Labour Department, who were mediating the talks, left the building. But we know it cannot happen without their connivance,” said Dharamvir, permanent worker, MSIL, Manesar.

“It is unfortunate that the Additional Commissioner of Police of the area was present in the negotiating room. It is no co-incidence that as soon as the talks failed, workers' representatives were arrested,” said Satbir Singh, Haryana State President, CITU.

The talks failed due to the refusal of the management to accept proposal of the labour department to reinstate the terminated and suspended workers over a period of two to three months. The talks did not reach the point to discuss the “good conduct” bond which is at the center of the current stand off.
 

 
Maruti Management Begins Talks
 
Sept 17, 2011: Workers of three plants of Maruti's operations in Manesar staged two days of strike in support of agitating workers of the assembly plant called the Maruti Suzuki India Limited. The strike, started on Wednesday, ended on Friday after the Maruti management agreed to come to the negotiating table.

India Buys More US Weaponry

D. Raghunandan, Newsclick, Jan. 25, 2012

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When India rejected the two US contenders for its prestigious and much awaited $10 billion order for medium multi-role combat aircraft, many in the US raised shrill protests that India was not living up to US expectations and gratefully repaying the US for the Indo-US nuclear deal and for helping India break the international nuclear embargo and related impediments in acquiring other advanced technologies.

Trailer Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyaan

Newsclick Production, Jan. 4, 2011

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Izzatnagari Ki Asabhya Betiyaan... (The Immoral Daughters in the Land of Honour...) A documentary film on the resistance against "honour" crimes and Khap Panchayats.
 
 Duration: 93 minutes (English Subtitled)
 
"Those who threaten our traditional code" , says Jai Singh Ahlawat, the Head of the Ahlawat Khap. "... are the educated youngsters, the Dalit officers, who want everything to be equal... and of course, our "asabhya betiyan", immoral daughters who imagine equality like animals and want our age-old customs to die out..."
 
 
Voices like Jai Singh Ahlwats's belong to the patriarchal and casteist pillars of a feudal society -- the Khaps; those who oppose "self-choice" marriages and deny young people the right to love.
 
 
In Izzatnagari ki Asabhya Betiyaan, we have the stories of five young Jat women who dared to resist. These women take on take on the powerful Khaps and in the process confront "honour" crimes, injustice and social boycotts.
 
 
There's Seema of Haryana, whose brother Manoj and his wife Babli were killed for marrying in the same gotra. Seema and her mother are fighting for justice in the courts against the killers, though they are pitted against khap panchayats across the region and the political establishment. There's Mukesh of Rohtak, who almost became a victim of an "honour" killing herself; how she fought back and and created a new life for herself. Geetika, a student of Delhi University, directs a street play on "honour" crimes. She approaches the play keeping in mind her own need to question the belief systems she was heir to. Monica, is a Jat girl, who married Gaurav Saini, from Delhi. Monica, a Jat girl, who married Gaurav Saini, a boy from another caste. Gaurav tells us about Monica's struggle to lead an independent life and the subsequent problems their marriage faced since they belonged to different castes. Anjali sees education as a way to break out of the arranged marriage and domestic life her family wants for her. Her M.Phil thesis, on honour crimes, is her answer to the voice of tradition.
 
 
These multi-narratives of women are intercut with that of the Khaps. Through these stories, Asabhaya Betiyaan exposes the fissures, hypocrisy and violence in a supposedly modern and
democratic India.
 
 
Crew-
Director- Nakul Singh Sawhney
Camera- Deval Samanta
Sound- Vinit D'Souza
Editor- Neetu Singh
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