...EWS ON UNTOUCHABILITY W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache e-mail:... ...andasamy HEXIS Phoenix, Arizona 2005 2 This book can be ordered in a paper bound reprint from: Books on Deman... ...m ISBN: 1931233-00-4 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 3 PERIYAR, THE P... ...s vigorously to spread the revolutionary principles of his mentor and he has established numerous institutions as permanent memorials to Periyar. ... ...ies die more often than boy babies even though medical research has long ago established that girls are generally biologically stronger as new-born... ...truggle had far-reaching impact in the Tamil society. Always a leader of mass organizations, he served as the State President of the Congress party,... ... Phule (1827 -1890) the earliest pioneer of the non-Brahmin movement in India established the Satyashodhak Samaj (the society of seekers of the Trut... ...since the British took steps to ban the Communist Party of India and similar organizations, Periyar toned down his socialist activities. Because of... ...n-Brahmin Congress? [Kudiarasu, 5-6-1927] Hindu Mahasabha and other Hindu organizations Will the Varnasharma dharma Paripalana Sabha that is sa...

...K.R.Narayanan was a lauded hero and a distinguished victim of his Dalit background. Even in an international platform when he was on an official visit to Paris, the media headlines blazed, ‘An Untouchable at Elysee’. He was visibly upset and it proved that a Dalit who rose up to such heights was never spared from...

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...l Carroll, and Eric Saltzman were on the midwife team for the birth of those organizations and became close friends in the process. Since the entire C... ...al process was going to be particularly vulnerable to problems of capture by established industries, many of whom would (rightly) see the Internet as ... ... to use their service! No one is going to sue Apple now, of course. In fact, established players in the marketplace are probably fairly safe (and have... ... “search and replace” songs by substituting a woman for the deity in already-established hits. But if that is our conclusion, it merely proves that ou... ...fessional” and distribute outside the chains of commerce. I have worked with organizations that make it easier to do this. But I also be- lieve in the... ...erserved clients such as documentarians. But beyond academic work, there are organizations that have dedicated themselves to advocacy and to litigatio...

...ll depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent,...