Visitors: 326 RAJESH VAKHARIA, SIFF PRESIDENT, NAGPUR The U.S is well known for its hegemony and interference in the internal affairs of other countries including India. The covert U.S hegemony and interference in India’s internal affairs by cultivating and funding radical feminists in the guise of “women’s empowerment” has to end, say the NGOs Save Indian […]
Visitors: 235 Ram Puniyani The PEW Research Center has released a report (2nd April 2015); which gives the projections of populations in times to come. It says that in India the population of Hindus will fall down from present 79.5 % to 76.7% and the Muslim population will rise up to 18% by 2050. The […]
Visitors: 187 N.S.Venkataraman, Nandini Voice For The Deprived Indian farming community consist of farmers who own land and workers at unskilled and semi skilled level working on agricultural farms. When government extends subsidy and support to the agricultural farmers in times of distress, it largely reaches the farmers who own land and not the workers who […]
Visitors: 344 Rtd Prof Dr. Ram Puniyani, IIT Bombay In order to gain larger legitimacy, RSS has been making claims of sorts. One of that which was made few months back was that Gandhi was impressed by functioning of RSS. Now on the heels of that comes another distortion that Ambedkar believed in Sangh ideology […]
Visitors: 161 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Unlike the US justice system which has a "witness PROTECTION program", Indian judiciary has a "witness ELIMINATION program". Our courts systematically defeat the good intentions of witnesses, failing which they eliminate the witnesses themselves. They create conditions where witnesses are rewarded for turning hostile, and […]
Visitors: 188 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai To curb courtroom corruption, install CCTV cameras for video & audio recording all courtroom proceedings. Immediately broadcast and upload the proceedings on internet for public viewing — just like Rajya Sabha TV etc. Call it "Justice TV", with local channels for the proceedings of local courts, […]
Visitors: 229 Ram Puniyani Rtd Prof IIT Bombay Our sub continent, which has a common past; shares its history, there are diverse ways of looking at the same history by groups belonging to different political ideologies. With the change of Government in Delhi, the leading institutions are having a major policy shift, organizations like Indian […]
Visitors: 153 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Is judiciary a back-breaking burden that Indian citizens have been carrying since Independence? The only reason judiciary exists in its present form is that very few people believe it is possible to put it down and review the whole thing. Because of such lack of popular […]
Visitors: 251 Neeraj Jain Lokayat Introduction The Union Budget, which is a yearly affair, is a comprehensive display of the Government’s revenues and expenditures. It makes an estimate of the revenues from all sources for the next fiscal year, and outlines the expenditures that the government proposes to make in the next fiscal year under […]
Visitors: 145 Krishnaraj Rao Journalist & RTI activist, Mumbai Litigants and appellants, who are court regulars, know many ugly inside truths about judges. They know about courtroom politics, malpractices, habits and biases of judges, and the channels through which they are routinely approached for corruption. On a conservative estimate, there are a hundred persons in every […]
Visitors: 141 South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (VK), South Asian Dialogues on Ecological Democracy (SADED) and Gandhi Peace Foundation (GPF) are organising a meeting ‘Reflections and reporting of our participation in Tunis W.S.F. 2015’, on 13th April 2015, from 3.00 pm. to 8.30 pm. Sh. Arif Mohammad Khan (Senior Political Leader), […]
Visitors: 246 N. S. Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived It is extremely disturbing to know that 20 persons who are poor and unskilled were shot down by A P police, as they were reported to be cutting down red sanders in Andhra Pradesh. It is said that these poor workers were employed by smugglers, […]
Visitors: 286 Dr. Suresh Khairnar The mythological tale of the demon Bhasmasur is wellknown. On whomsoever’s head he would put his palm on was burnt to ashes. It appears that now-a-day it is the SanghParivar which is bent upon converting itself intoBhasmasur. It has started putting its hand on the heads of many of our national […]
Visitors: 281 Rajesh Vakharia You may have heard of patriarchy restricting and harming women. But, now men’s rights activists are up in arms against patriarchy, as they feel courts are tying them to patriarchal roles, while allowing granting modern privileges to women. Recently, The Supreme Court said the husband would have to arrange for payment […]
Visitors: 229 Dr Ram Puniyani Rtd Professor, IIT Bombay Evangelical Fellowship of India and Alliance Defending Freedom, India EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Christian community in India is concerned at the intensity of the targeted and communal violence directed against it almost on a pan India basis. Violence against Christians picked up in independent India in the […]
Visitors: 253 N. S. Venkataraman Nandini Voice For The Deprived Of late, some IAS officers are seen and heard criticising the government that they serve. They unhesitatingly participate in debates in television media making critical remarks about the ministers and policies and methods of the government. One wonders what is the “Lakshman Rekha” for these […]
Visitors: 617 Rajesh Vakharia Deepika Padukone’s video #MyChoice has created a massive controversy and it has drawn flak even as it divided the people everywhere. It has got almost 4 million views in Youtube and has about 30,000 likes and some 15000 dislikes till now. However, men’s rights activists of Save Indian Family Foundation (SIFF) […]
Visitors: 251 Ravinder Singh Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS, a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power, Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Project. When Morarjee Desai visited a CPWD site in 1978, there was not a drop of water supplied to 600 flats including 30 Senior IAS Officers, I made JUNK […]
Visitors: 151 Ravinder Singh Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS, a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power, Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Project There are just two major dams in Saurashtra & Kutchh regions with 188 mcm [S.No.9] and 299 MCM Live Storages [S.No.8] Bhadar & Shetrunji respectively are practically dry […]
Visitors: 160 Ravinder Singh Inventor & Consultant, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROJECTS, a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power, Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technologies and Project GoI didn’t carryout SURVEY of Lands it had acquired since 1894, Advertise or NOTIFY SURPLUS Land or UNUSED Land with various agencies. Even if we assume 5m Hectare […]
Visitors: 160 Ram Puniyani Rtd Prof. IIT Bombay What has religion to do with politics? What has violence to do with religion? And how does the expression of major political agenda shape itself in contemporary times? Roughly speaking it seems that the religion is being used as a cover for many a political phenomenon. This […]
Visitors: 165 Peace Channel A new batch of Peace Channel Club members were inducted at Assisi Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur on 3rd March, 2015. The chief guest, Rev. Fr. C.P. Anto, Director Peace Channel and Principal of NEISSR exhorted the gathering saying that all the Peace Club institutions should remain as a place of peace. […]
Visitors: 197 Fr. Cedric Prakash sj Citizens for Justice & Peace It is extremely unfortunate that the anticipatory bail application filed by Ms. Teesta Setalvad, her husband Javed Anand and three others of Gulberg Society – Mr. Tanvir Jafri (son of slain MP Ehsan Jafri), Mr. Feroz Gulzar, Secretary and Mr. Salim Sandhi, Chairman of […]
Visitors: 231 Laurent Fournier To: Times of India Dear Sir, First of all my sincere thanks to you and to your photographer, for having spent so much time with us to cover the small gathering of citizens of Kolkata in solidarity with the victims of terrorist attacks in France. However, I must put on record that I did […]
Visitors: 185 Judith Huidina Peace Channel Desk Peace Channel assessing the present scenario of the state, the founder- director, Rev. C.P.Anto, while exhorting the staff, peace club leaders and volunteers of Peace Channel family during the evaluation and planning for the peace programmes for 2014-2016 on the 28th – 29th 2014. In his message said […]