Visitors: 414 Leo F. Saldanha Coordinator, Environment Support Group Sanjeev Kumar Delhi Forum [themify_hr color=”red”] We write as concerned citizens and environmental justice activists in support of Piyush Sethia of Salem, Tamil Nadu who has been arrested, denied bail and beaten inside Salem Central prison. Piyush is a noted environmental activist of Salem Citizen’s Forum […]
Visitors: 367Jason Hickel PhD [themify_quote]It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion[/themify_quote] Earlier this year media outlets around the world announced that February had broken global temperature records by a shocking amount. March broke all the records too. In June, our screens were covered […]
Visitors: 267The President of Swarna Bharat Party, Mr Vishal Singh, said that chanting slogans won’t deliver a Swachh Bharat. A rubbish-free India simply cannot be delivered under the current governance system. The cause of the vast amounts of filth that litters Indian streets, rivers and lakes has nothing to do with the habits of the […]
Visitors: 358 Natural disasters, wars, communal conflicts, political diktats often force people to leave their homes. Armed only with hope for a better future, they seek refuge in different lands. Sometimes “aided” by human smugglers, refugees travel by whatever means of transportation they can afford. Some meet their end without reaching their destination. Others are […]
Visitors: 492 Indian society has always considered the mother to be a better parent and the father to be there only for making financial and major family decisions. However, with in recent times, Fathers are playing a larger role in day to day activities of raising their children like changing diapers, getting them ready to […]
Visitors: 415AAPI Convention has come to be recognized for its ways of catering to the varied needs of the delegates from across the nation. A ways of networking and strengthening bond, AAPI convention offers events, programs and services, always striving to provide the best in the world to the participants. While AAPI convention is packed […]
Visitors: 424Abha Khetarpal President, Cross the Hurdles Counselor for the students with disabilities University College of Medical Sciences, UCMS & GTB Hospital, Delhi Non-institutional expert, Equality and Diversity Committee, Enabling Unit, UCMS & GTBH Today I sit to write to you, because like so many fellow citizens of my country, I am also feeling suffocated, disappointed, somewhat […]
Visitors: 500 The successful partnership between the European Union and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) has been commended during an official joint New Zealand Government and European Union development mission to the Pacific. As part of the official visit, European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Mr Neven Mimica, formally handed […]
Visitors: 584Vivek Umrao Glendenning “Social Nomad”, the founder of Ground Report India group and the author of a hindi book “Mansik Samajik Aarthik Swarajya ki Oor“, has been working on an idea of establishing awards for the people work for indian communities. Introduction of the book is available in Hindi at http://groundreportindia.org/books/introduction-towards-consciousness-social-economic-self-sustainability/ and of Vivek […]
Dr Gursharan Singh Kainth,Dr Rajinder Singh Bawa, andNavdeep Singh KainthAgriculture industry in India is proverbially called a “Gamble on the Monsoon”. The Indian agricultural environment has undergone numerous structural changes due to changes in the government policies. Farmers face floods, drought, pests, disease, and a plethora of other natural disasters. The weather is their greatest […]
Visitors: 450Now, Adhyayan Suman has become icon of Men’s Right Activists in India. They have given a call to all young men in India to stand up for their rights, if they are abused by their girlfriends. Adhyayan Suman had alleged that his former girlfriend Kangana Ranaut had hit him and she even abused his […]
Visitors: 305The urgency to intervene in defense of democracy, secularism and justice has never been more pressing than in the conditions prevailing in the country today. There is a recognizable change in the general tenure of public discourse; unlike in the past, it is informed more by the communal than by secular ethos. The prejudices against the minorities […]
Visitors: 317A five member committee appointed by the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi has recommended that a few students, who are found guilty of indiscipline and even sedition charges, have to be punished suitably. While the committee has decided the quantum of punishment, JNU student union and JNU teacher’s association members have burnt the pages of the committee […]
Visitors: 398The issues related to our educational institutions-patriotism started coming up to the fore with this Government coming to power (May 2014). One after the other news of Government intervention in different institutions, more so the nationally well known ones started disturbing us. There was the case of IIT Madras where Periyar Ambedkar Study Circle was banned. Then IIT Bombay […]
Visitors: 374 It is distressing to learn about the accident in a temple in Kollam, Kerala where more than one hundred unfortunate persons have perished and many others have been injured. It causes concern that safety measures in many temples are taken for granted , exposing the pilgrims to potential danger. Conditions in Tamil Nadu temples are no […]
Visitors: 480Jason 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 is […]
Visitors: 271Mr 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 oldest […]
Visitors: 357Dr 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 Director […]
Visitors: 556Kareena 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 take […]
Visitors: 304Swarna 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, and […]
Visitors: 321The 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 jugglery. It […]
Visitors: 397 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: 4,117Jason 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 transforming […]
Visitors: 307 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 […]