Visitors: 323 Jason Hickel PhD How do we measure inequality? From some angles, things appear to be improving, but from others the situation is getting worse and worse It’s familiar news by now. Oxfam’s figures have gone viral: the richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world’s population combined. Global inequality […]
Visitors: 181 Mr Vishal Singh, President of the Swarna Bharat Party, said that India needs Constitutional nationalism, not sectarian nationalism of the kind that some saffron groups, supported by India’s ruling party, are attempting to forcefully impose on the country. While a nation needs a narrative, a sense of history, India is perhaps the world’s […]
Visitors: 266 Dr M. D. Thomas Chairman and Director, Institute of Harmony and Peace Studies, New Delhi Institute of Harmony and Peace Studies, New Delhi, organized a Round Table Discussion on ‘Harmony among Religions – Do’s and Don’ts’ at The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, on 19 March 2016. Dr M. D. Thomas, Chairman and […]
Visitors: 396 Kareena and Arjun Kapoor starred movie “Ki and Ka” by R.Balki is movie about freeing men from traditional gender roles and expectations. In this movie, Arjun Kapoor’s character Kabir refuses to work for his business tycoon father and instead he chooses to become a home maker, who loves to stay at home and […]
Visitors: 206 Swarna Bharat Party President, Mr Vishal Singh, said that Indian farmers live in a Kafkaesque world of self-defeating government interventions that are divorced from the imperatives of technology and economics. Farmers are held back by restrictions on access to technology and on trade, including on the movement, storage and processing of agricultural commodities, […]
Visitors: 216 The recent assertion by the Chief Justice of India T.S. Thakur that the Judiciary is facing crisis of credibility is a very candid admission of the grim ground reality. The framers of the Indian Constitution had envisaged a free, fair and independent Judiciary. It was never visualized that Courts could end up as dens of chicanery and […]
Visitors: 296 Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF), a human rights NGO fighting for gender equality and men’s rights in India, urges Mr. Modi to hold a discussion in the Parliament of India about the issues faced by Men, in the wake of recent suggestion by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to let only women talk in […]
Visitors: 2,138 Jason Hickel PhD [themify_quote]We need to stop pretending that the United States, France and Britain are benevolent champions of the poor[/themify_quote] When it comes to international affairs, western politicians love to celebrate their devotion to development. In her flagship speech on development as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton offered stories about US aid […]
Visitors: 207 Mumbai, 5th March, 2016: Last week, one of RNA builders’ thousands of cheated flat-purchasers sent the builder a legal ultimatum, and started taking steps for going to court after discovering that their promised 17th floor flat in RNA Regal, a project in Kandivali West, is the proverbial pie-in-the-sky! In February 2011, Sandeep Kothari […]
Visitors: 181 I was out on a run in a beautiful natural garden. Everything seemed so romantic. Beauty still exists in this world. In one corner of the garden, I saw some people cuddling up. There were huge cries. So I ran faster towards the crowd to be part of a celebration. I saw a […]
Visitors: 135 Anuj Agrawal, Editor, Dialogue India Education system of the country is afflicted with a strange clash. Ideological clash is being reflected as hate, violence, anguish, political distance and factions. The education policy and structure followed for the last 67 years witnessed sweeping changes in 1985. It opened the doors for market forces in education. Education […]
Visitors: 199 [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fbklkgwr-4[/embedyt] My dear fellow citizens, Namaskar. While listening to this month’s Mann Ki Baat, my inner thoughts, your mind must also be on your children’s exams which begin soon. Some of them have their 10th and 12th board exams starting from the 1st of March. That must be playing on your mind. […]
Visitors: 289 26 February 2016 PEN International is deeply concerned by the news that Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was sentenced on 20 February 2016 to two years in prison for ‘violating public modesty’ in relation to the publication of excerpts from his 2014 novel Istikhdam al-Haya (The Use of Life) in Akhbar al-Adab magazine, also […]
Visitors: 308 Mumbai, Common people rarely turn up in good numbers to openly speak out against powerful builders, and so it was an unusual sight that about 200 rich and poor persons aggrieved by RNA Corp (owned by late Anil Aggarwal, Gokul Aggarwal, Anubhav Aggarwal and Saranga Aggarwal) stage a roadside gathering near Versova, Andheri […]
Visitors: 270 Holi (pronunciation: /ˈhoʊliː/; Sanskrit: होली Holī) is a spring festival, also known as the festival of colours or the festival of Sharing love. It is an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of South Asia, as well as people of other communities outside Asia (quoted from Wikipedia)- and here in Australia and New Zealand. […]
Visitors: 193 Pritam Rohila, PhD retired neuropsychologist Chair of Oregonians for Peace Football is one of the America’s most favorite sports. But many Americans do not know football players are prone to suffer traumatic brain injuries. It is indeed for this reason a recent USA Today report has described the game of football as “a violent, […]
Visitors: 185 Prof. Ram Puniyani (Rtd) On the back of the death of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University (HCU), one of the most prestigious University of the country Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been targeted by the ruling Modi Sarkar. The frightening things which happened in HCU were just the beginning of attack on […]
Visitors: 237 Prof. Ram Puniyani (Rtd) On the back of the death of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad Central University (HCU), one of the most prestigious University of the country Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been targeted by the ruling Modi Sarkar. The frightening things which happened in HCU were just the beginning of attack on […]
Visitors: 247 Dear Prof. M Jagdeesh Kumar, Late greetings on your taking over as Vice Chancellor of JNU. I saw one of your interview in Navbharat Times (Hindi daily), when your appointment was announced, but you have not yet taken over. Interview was reassuring which mentioned your desire to have very open and frank relations […]
Visitors: 195 [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcdBceUO9U[/embedyt] Respected senior dignitaries seated on the dais, brothers and sisters, Sai Ram. Venkaiah Ji has made my job easier; now I don’t have to spell the names. He is never worried; sometimes some names are left. You heard the speech of Venkaiah Ji like super fast express. A short while ago, […]
Visitors: 232 February 19, 2016 New Delhi Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, This is a joyous happening. We have gathered here to celebrate the conferring of an important award on a distinguished person who has contributed his bit, so meaningfully, to making our world a better place. I felicitate Shri Mumtaz Ali and commend the […]
Visitors: 383 Beirut, Attacks on Azaz and a neighboring town in northern Aleppo, Syria, hit two hospitals and a school used by displaced Syrians, killing at least 20 civilians. Witness statements and evidence of the aftermath indicates that the attacks on February 15, which also wounded 38, were part of the joint Russian-Syrian offensive in […]
Visitors: 238 Beirut, Attacks on Azaz and a neighboring town in northern Aleppo, Syria, hit two hospitals and a school used by displaced Syrians, killing at least 20 civilians. Witness statements and evidence of the aftermath indicates that the attacks on February 15, which also wounded 38, were part of the joint Russian-Syrian offensive in […]
Visitors: 310 Idris Said Aba Arre is a writer, a disabled veteran of the Eritrean war of Independence and a vocal critic of Eritrea’s mother-tongue education policy. He was arrested in October 2001 after denouncing the arrests of the G-15*, a group of politicians detained for publishing an open letter calling for democratic change in […]