Vivek Umrao GlendenningThe Founder and the Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe Vice-Chancellor & Co-Founder, The Gokul Social UniversityThis story starts some years back with a promise with the public by Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, for building an All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS in Varanasi on demand of people of Varanasi and […]
Prof Michael BrennerProfessor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, USAHonourary International Advisor, Ground Report India Emanuel Macron’s ascendance to the Elys ée is trumpeted by the Anglo-American media as an epochal event that ushers in a new Golden Age for France. He is heralded as savior of a failing country – a combination of […]
Ajay Ghosh Urging AAPI to bring in traditional Indian wellness practices to modern medical systems, President describes “AAPI as a link between two vibrant and democratic societies” (Mumbai, India. December 29h, 2018) The Honorable President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the 12th edition of the Global Healthcare Summit organized by the American Association of Physicians […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhD While it is now very late in the life cycle of homo sapiens, with extinction now due to consign us to Earth’s fossil record – see ‘Will humans be extinct by 2026?’ – I would like to make a belated pitch for the importance of the human individual and why nurturing each […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize A “With law shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste.”Njal’s Saga, Iceland, c 1270 AD Quick Navigation The present United Nations CharterWhy call war an “institution”?A World FederationThe success of federationsLaws binding on individualsGreatly increased financial […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaHave you heard the expression ‘climate change’? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate.Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated delusion that generated this benign expression and its twin notions that 1.5 degrees celsius […]
Col Shashi G Dalvi (Rtd)District Manager (Pune)The Climate Reality Project, IndiaDirector, PARJANYA The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is the back-bone for Industrial revolution in the state of Maharashtra. It has about 233 industrial complexes spread over 1,30,000 acres of land all over the state. It provides fully developed industrial plots with all the necessary infrastructure, […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaBritish author and social commentator H.G. Wells may have coined the expression that originally popularized World War I as The War that Will End War, as his book, based on articles written during that vast military conflict, was titled. In any case, in one version or another, the […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonorary Editor, Ground Report IndiaThe continuing rise of fascism around the world is drawing increasing attention particularly as it takes firmer grip within national societies long seen to have rejected it. Some recent studies have reminded us of the characteristics of fascist movements and individuals, particularly as they manifest among politically active fascists. […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize The superficiality of today’s televisionThe wealth and power of the establishmentNewspapers and warThe mass media and our present crisisOur duty to future generations The superficiality of today’s televisionSocial critic Neil Postman contrasted the futures predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhD‘When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.’ M.K. Gandhi As we remember Gandhi Jayanti on 2 […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaDeveloping the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors such as Mills to a transnational power elite centralized on the control […]
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 […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaThere is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations – that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research – that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaGiven the overwhelming evidence that activist efforts are failing to halt the accelerating rush to extinction precipitated and maintained by dysfunctional human behavior, it is worth reflecting on why this is happening.Of course, you might say that the rush to extinction is being slowed. But is it? Even […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaWhile the world watched and waited with bated breath for the outcome of the substantial global effort – involving over 100 cave divers from various countries, 1,000 members of the Thai Army and 10,000 others in various roles – to rescue a team of 12 young football players […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaIn a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists.In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration that is effectively ignored by conflict theorists (and virtually everyone else). This conflict […]
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 […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaIn a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and, among other outcomes, currently resulting in 200 species extinctions daily). I also […]
Dr Robert J BurrowesHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaI would like to tell you something about human depravity and illustrate just how widespread it is among those we often regard as ‘responsible’. I am going to use the Democratic Republic of the Congo as my example.As I illustrate and explain what has happened to the Congo […]
Iwaki, Fukusima, Japan (May 19, 2018) Pacific Islands Forum Leaders and the Prime Minister of Japan, the Hon Shinzo Abe, committed to stronger action on climate change and to the sustainable management, use and conservation of the ocean at the Eighth Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM 8). In opening PALM 8, Forum Chair and PALM Co-chair, the […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace PrizeI would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Information Explosion”. This book discusses the role of information in evolution, and especially in the evolution of human culture. Articles and book chapters that I have previously written […]
ALASTAIR CROOKEFormer British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Nahum Barnea writing in Yedioth Ahronoth sets out, plainly enough, the gamble underway between Israel and Iran (and to which Trump is willing accessory): In the wake of the US exit from JCPOA, Trump will threaten a rain of ‘fire and fury’ onto […]
“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 […]
Ajay Ghosh A community activist & leader, a successful businessman, an industrialist, a scientist, a renowned musician, two young prodigies, an organ donor, and a journalist were honored at a colorful bi-annual NAMAM Excellence Award 2018 ceremony held at the Royal Albert Palace, Edison, New Jersey on April 28th, 2018. What stood out at the long-awaited […]
