Visitors: 417 Dear Friends, As the NDA government completes its one year in office, we come together as representatives of different people’s organisations and civil society to evaluate its promise of “Achhe Din” -What has this meant for people at large, for rights of those living in the margins, for constitutional principles and cultural diversity and the […]
Visitors: 327 N. S. Venkataraman After several years of trial in a killing case, an actor was held guilty by the court and jail term awarded. But, he got bail in a few hours from another judge. After several years of trial in a corruption case, a Chief Minister was found guilty and awarded jail […]
Visitors: 451 Pritam K. Rohila, Ph.D. of Keizer is a retired neuropsychologist. He is the executive director of Oregonians for Peace and Association for Communal Harmony in Asia. Beset with increasing protests against them, governments in many parts of the Middle East are struggling to stay afloat. The law and order situation in Iraq, […]
Visitors: 469 Ram Puniyani In contemporary times, religions’ identity is being used as cover for political agenda. Be it the terrorist violence or the sectarian nationalism in various parts of the World, religion is used to mask the underlying politics. While one was talking of separation of religion and politics many decades earlier, the times […]
Visitors: 533RAJESH 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 Family […]
Visitors: 363 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: 296 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: 499 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: 276 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: 348 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: 389 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: 227 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: 398Neeraj 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 various […]
Visitors: 242 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: 240 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: 354 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: 437 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: 417Rajesh 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 of […]
Visitors: 344 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: 363 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: 915Rajesh 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) are […]
Visitors: 401 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: 290 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: 272 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: 272 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 […]