India hosts the world.(Comment)(World Social Forum)

From: The Nation | Date: February 16, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Mumbai, India

To the beat of drums by India's Dalits (former Untouchables) and Adivasis (forest-dwelling tribes) celebrating indigenous popular movements that refuse to be subdued, the World Social Forum opened in Mumbai. Nagas and Meiteis from India's Northeast and Bhils and Nimadis from the Narmada Valley joined hands with Dalits from the south and rubbed shoulders with about 100,000 people from 132 countries. This year's forum was the largest gathering since the WSF was set up in 2001, and the first outside Brazil. Even India--perhaps the world's greatest reservoir of ...

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