Share Dissent is not anti-national : Akhilesh Yadav in Independence Day message Dear Fellow Citizens, Exactly 71 years ago in 1947 at the stroke of midnight the freedom and birth of our country was declared. A hope of new dawn had taken birth in the mind and heart of tens of millions of fellow citizens with the unfettering of the chains of their slavery. With the hope of the […]
Share Movie on the conservation of the river Ganga by Mike Pandey Mike Pandey, the National award-winning wildlife filmmaker and environmentalist, released another film in Delhi highlighting concerns about the conservation of the river Ganga. As Uttar Pradesh’s Ecotourism and environment Ambassador, Mike has been working under the state’s Ganga Hritima Abhiyan and this is the first of a series of related events and films envisioned for the […]
Share Upset over anti-male policies by politicians, men’s activists field candidate in Karnataka Assembly elections “A man facing domestic violence or stalking cannot complain. No police will take his complaint or protect him,” say Vijay Sahu, a software professional and men’s activist. Recently, a woman and a man together pushed a 56-year old man in front of a local train in Mumbai just because she thought that he molested her. The […]
Share Is Congress a Muslim Party, is it against interests of Hindus? –Prof Ram Puniyani Prof Ram Puniyani Currently there is propaganda from BJP combine that Congress is anti Hindu party. On every conceivable occasion it states that Congress is insulting Hinduism. In the wake of the verdict of Mecca Masjid blast cases; as the accused got released; BJP spokespersons went hammer and tongs saying that Rahul Gandhi-Congress have defamed […]
Share Human Rights Defender faced intimidation and harassment from police due to his work against impunity Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi My name is Lenin Raghuvanshi. I am a human rights activist and founder and CEO of Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). On the 21st April 2018, my younger brother Kanad was badly beaten by some people while attending a marriage ceremony in my neighbourhood. This resulted in a severe head injury […]
Share Justice Rajinder Sachar : A life dedicated to people’s movement, socialist vision and human rights –by Vidya Bhushan Rawat Vidya Bhushan Rawat One does not remember Justice Rajinder Sachar when he was the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court in 1985 but it is a fact that a forthright person like him was never to the liking of those in power. As a judge in Delhi High Court, he was deeply disturbed and upset […]
Share “GANDHI, UNTOUCHABLES AND ME” : a short movie by Rao Rampilla, an indian origin Hollywood actor, producer and writer Rao Rampilla Rao wrote his participation in the struggle of Dalits at JNU, New Delhi as a play (Gandhi, Untouchables and Me) and to reach greater audience made it as a short film. Attached is a synopsis of the short film. This includes a 40 minutes film and a bonus half an hour episode from Bollywood to Hollywood […]
Share Brain Drain Continues –Chaitanya Davé Chaitanya DavéHonourary Editor, Ground Report India Ever since 1960s, immigration of medical doctors to America and other western countries continues unabated. It is noteworthy that India supplies the largest number of Medical Graduates to the US. With 59,523 physicians of Indian origin working in the English speaking Western world (the US, UK, Australia and Canada combined), India […]
Share CONFERENCE ON “SOCIAL JUSTICE: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE” Samajik Samanta Sangathan 17-18 March 2018,Timing- 9 AM to 6.0 PM, Chief Guest- Uday Narayan Chaudhary Venue- J-12/3, Kan kunj Vaishya samaj, Nati Imli, Bhrat Milap maidan, Panchayati Bhavan, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Our Great social heroes like Birsa Munda, Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Phule, Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar and BP Mandal envisioned an India where all sections of […]
Share Swarna Bharat Party invites young leaders to a workshop in Allahabad in April to change India’s future Mr Rahul Pandit, Working President of Swarna Bharat Party, India’s only liberal party, issued an invitation to those youth of India who are determined to transform India’s future to express their interest in attending a Young Leaders Workshop on 5 and 6 April 2018 in Allahabad. Details are on the party’s website at http://swarnabharat.in/workshop-allahabad. Swarna Bharat Party […]
Share Indresh Kumar, central executive member of Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh RSS, talking on “Peace, Environment and Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch” Indresh Kumar (centre) with Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel (right) and Deputy Speaker Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok (left) of the Tibetan Parliament (Photo-courtesy-tibet.net)Indresh Kumar is the senior member, National Executive, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Indresh Kumar is also the patron and the key person of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organisation of RSS, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Vivek Umrao interviewed Indresh […]
Share Indresh Kumar, central executive member of Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh RSS, talking about Rashtriya Muslim Manch RMM of RSS Indresh KumarIndresh Kumar is the senior member, National Executive, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Indresh Kumar is also the patron and the key person of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organisation of RSS, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Vivek Umrao interviewed Indresh Kumar in January 2010 on various issues.
Share National Campaign: Save the Constitution, Save the Nation Statement approved by participants of National Meeting of Activists organised by Hum Samajwadi to launch nationwide campaign on:Save the Constitution, Save the NationI It was after a long struggle, in which the vast multitudes of our country participated and made innumerable sacrifices, that the country won freedom in 1947. The Indian Constitution embodies the dreams and […]
Share In Conversation witih Mr Arun Kumar, General Secretary, Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisation, UK Mr Arun Kumar is the General Secretary, Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisation ( FABO) UK. He originally hailed from Punjab and migrated to UK in 1977 after completing his matriculation. He has been a very hard worker who had documented huge amount of glorious work done by Ambedkarites in United Kingdom. He lives in […]
Share Has India done enough for Tibet’s cause? N. S. Venkataraman Nandini Voice for The Deprived More than six decades have gone after China forcibly entered Tibet and occupied the land and unjustifiably claimed that Tibet belongs to it.. His Holiness the Dalai Lama had no alternative other than leaving Tibet with his disciples and he entered Indian territory on 31st March,1959. When China […]
Share Musings: Christianity’s social message of Love conquers all still remain most powerful Vidya Bhushan Rawat I never got the luxury of studying in the schools owned by the Christians but learn a few things about them when my daughter got the opportunity to study there. Most of these schools are purely commercial and cater the middle class upper castes. The children will learn values of different faiths in […]
Share Champaran Online: A Gandhi Model Of Journalism Adarsh Shukla Journalism is about asking questions. Credibility has been the key for this profession since inception. Now when the 21st century is about to turn 18 things have changed a lot. President of USA is bashing media on almost daily basis. Questions on Journalism and Journalists is being asked more frequently. Fake News and other […]
Share Is there an alimony scam in India? Rajesh Vakharia There are 500,000 marriages are breaking every year. This number may look small compared to a total population of 125 crores. However when we compared this number with 85 lakh marriages per year, the marriage breakdown rate is almost 7%. One time alimony payments have become a nightmare for separated young men in […]
Share Sunday is International Men’s Day: Men’s Activists demand a discussion on Men’s Issues at Parliament Rajesh Vakharia All over India, people are celebrating Movember to create awareness about Men’s Health and well being are being conducted all over India this month. Men grow mustaches during this month to create this awareness. November 19 is also International Men’s Day, which was first celebrated in the year 1999. Today, people in more […]
Share Three crore men are facing domestic violence: We need laws to protect them Rajesh Vakharia In most countries in the world, the laws against domestic violence provide protection to both men and women. Men can also seek restraining orders from courts, which restrain the abusive partner or wife from perpetrating abuse and even contacting the victim. However, in India family violence against men is almost legal as there […]
Share Scientists discover groundbreaking facts about human gut mesentery: May radically change the fundamentals of anatomy and embryology and related surgical approaches In a breakthrough study, a group of doctors and basic scientists from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Research, (JIPMER) Puducherry have laid the long held debate to rest by validating, in human cadavers, that mesentery is a single entity. This debate is continuing since hundreds […]
Share Inviting you for an education project towards Social Harmony and Sustainability Vivek Umrao Glendenning “Samajik Yayavar” I believe, we need to think about the contents and the goal of the education at each level, primary to higher to research education. We need to redesign our universities, their purpose and the content of the education. At every level, the education must lead towards actual sustainability, peace and […]
Share Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature :: a book by Jairam Ramesh Portrait of India Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi, 1966.Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India for sixteen years, was as charismatic as she was controversialat once admired and criticized for her political judgements and actions. Yet beyond such debate, what has not been fully understood is her life-long communion with nature and how that defined her […]