2006-11-10 15:28:55

India Social Forum to “build a better world”


(10 Nov. 2006) : A five-day seminar of secular and Catholic organizations committed to tackling the most urgent challenges facing Indian society like nuclearization and the rise of fundamentalist forces, opened Thursday in India’s capital city – New Delhi. The India Social Forum meting under the theme ‘Building Another World: Visions For The Future’, seeks to promote a different vision of globalization that would abolish the caste system, militarization and sectarian violence.

One of the speakers, Jesuit Cedric Prakash, told AsiaNews: “This Indian meeting is a milestone for those who believe in the possibility of a better world.” He continued: “The meeting is particularly important for us, given that it focuses on specifically Indian issues, like nuclearization, mega projects that destroy the ecosystem and local communities and especially the growing clout of fundamentalist forces in the country.” Fr Prakash said: “Bringing together those people marginalized by Indian society, like Adivasis and Dalits is a challenge to those powers that have systematically tried to keep the masses in impoverishment and powerlessness to exploit them.”








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