Comments by "" (@mailtorajrao) on "Activist Sudha Bharadwaj walks out of jail after 3 years" video.

  1. Here is a short bio of this "dangerous criminal", an IIT Kanpur '84 batch alumna ---> Sudha was born in Boston, an American citizen, and lived in the United States and United Kingdom as a child. Sudha's mother, Krishna Bharadwaj, was a well known academic and economist, who had founded the Centre for Economics Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University. At age 11, she moved with her mother to Delhi, gave up her US citizenship at the age of 18, and joined the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, to study mathematics, completing the five-year integrated course in 1984. At IIT Kanpur she joined NSS, teaching in the caste-ridden rural neighborhood. Having been exposed to horrific working conditions of laborers in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Bihar during her time as a student at IIT, she moved to work with Niyogi’s Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha in 1986. After finishing the program at IITK in 1984, she taught at DPS, for a couple of years in Delhi. While being associated with Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, Bharadwaj fought passionately against corrupt bureaucrats to ensure proper wages were paid to the workers in the mines and plants located in Bhilai. She also engaged in issues of Dalit and tribal rights, specifically the right for land, the right for education, for health and for security against corrupt landlords. Sudha also wrote a critique of Binayak Sen's imprisonment critiquing the judicial decision and condemning it strongly. Determined to provide holistic development of the workers, Sudha got her law degree in 2000 from a college affiliated to the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University in Raipur.
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