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A Dalit woman was allegedly beaten up and stripped by upper caste political leaders in public, following a dispute over land in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. Eris (Greek) - This Goddess personifies the energies of strife, discord, contention and rivalry. Chitra Ganesh’s installation ‘The Eyes of Time’, Priyanka Paul’s ‘Goddesses’ series, Sam Madhu’s re-imagination of goddesses as everyday women are only few of the art pieces that have garnered appreciation and acclaim. She and other Dalit women in India are concerned that Dalit women will be the most affected by RCEP and that land grabbing for corporate agriculture will impact food sovereignty, rights over land and seed preservation. Dalit women based in the Sangrur District of Punjab came together to form a movement that boycotted these rigged land auctions and reinstated the implementation of land laws in the state. To a dalit, protest is lifestyle. The state has so far purchased 6,070 hectares of land and distributed it to about 6,000 dalit families. ��R�^[4�c��R�~��;g��C'O�`��y���#����q�Ɏ6�ܫ��b�S���C�{���B�y���X�Ϋ%%�"n]_���W8z�5�=U5�]P Fatima Burnad is a member of the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) and she advocates for women farmers’ rights. 1X�I��z�!�B>>�n����(>� �Ϗ���L�.��m��%!Uޙ�)́���>�0��G�v��Ae�# �3S�M�=UI�[� ����9��wfK((����}=���Q�)6�`�#��w�dg��}�^���'N�����v������}��x�"ޫ��W����͓Gj��*i;%�>���������Ƴހ��~ۉ(��S�m���*Fl_�e�\���f��$ϻ����*��w&6���ރ��c�=P{ٛ{EK3&p�XN�m�����s�āX[�;$g��&��H-%�k�3G�'�E�q� To find instances of transnational solidarities of India with its neighbouring country of Nepal, where Nepali Dalit women’s lives too are intertwined with gender roles, casteism and patriarchal subordination, startled me. Goddess Gonti or Gontellamma is dalit version of Sanskritic Kunti. 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