Kalahandi A Stark Picture

among them in the last years.
The anti-state and rural orientation shown by the women's movement in the sammelan and endorsed by all the participants whatever their difference, was embodied in the fact that the mass meeting was addressed entirely by rural and working class women, with a prominent representation of dalit and adivasis, and that the police could do nothing to prevent the open participation of a banned organisation like the Mazdoor Kisan Sangram Samiti (MKSS).