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By Martin Macwan
We, his friends and colleagues, lovingly called him Indubhai. He is no more. The vacuum created by his departure into a shrinking space for social activism will be difficult to fill. In his 77 year age, he spent 41 long years, serving the most marginalized through multiple activities, especially through his writings.
Towards the end of his life he sounded hopeless. The dominant exploitative structures were increasingly getting powerful, in his opinion, leaving little hope for the poor to get any justice. It was difficult to sit with him and confront his hopelessness.
Indeed, it becomes unbearable for people who have major part of their life worrying for the poor to take a great deal of personal risk and social isolation to witness the deteriorating judicial-moral standards in society.
An anti-untcouchabiliity meet at Dalit Shakti Kendra (DSK)
By Martin Macwan
The news were disturbing. There was unruly confrontation between the District Magistrate and an elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat. Amrabhai Boricha, a head of the lone Dalit family in the village was brutally murdered in the presence of his family members and the police guards assigned to protect his life. There have been several incidents in the country where Dalits, even on their way to court to depose in the murder case of their own kin, are murdered in broad daylight, when officially they are protected by the State.