Human kind is now passing through an era of extreme divides where the inequality levels have been so high and visible. Apart from economic divides there are innumerable types of socio, cultural and knowledge divides clamoring around us. Even some of the divides that we were trying to mitigate through years of struggle and suffering are coming back with a vengeance. The caste and religious divides are wearing new masks and taking new shapes. The gulf between the village and the city is increasing briskly in the context of the imperialist, neo-liberal, socio-economic policies being pushed by the capitalist world in partnership with Indian ruling elites. Any field viz. education, gender, culture, it is stunning that the divides are getting stronger with time.

It is in this milieu of ever increasing socio, economic, cultural divides that are perpetuating in our country and the rest of the world that the BGVS has decided to organize a nationwide Janadhikar Kalajatha during October – November 2007. Janadhikar Kalajatha is meant to expose the divides in our society and policies that allow continuation of such divides.

Janadhikar Kalajatha organised in 22 states of India simultaneously by respective state teams. These teams together gave performances in approximately 3000 points where most of them were at village and block levels. A whole range of street plays, dance dramas, songs and theatrical performances was prepared for this purpose. This opportunity was also intended to release and propagate a whole series of interesting books on varied topics which initiated and inculcated a new culture of reading that delineated the groundwork for people’s confrontation against the deplorable divides.

The Janadhikar Kalajatha was a fabulous endeavour against socio, economic and cultural divides and in the long run empowering us to resist these divides and its perpetrators.