SOME OF THE GREATEST DISPARITIES EXIST IN URBAN AREAS
Urbanisation leaves hundreds of millions of children in cities and towns excluded from vital services, UNICEF warns in The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World. (...)
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Cities Are Failing Children Warns UNICEF
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Challenges before Children Growing Up in Cities
4 March 2012UNICEF REPRESENTATIVE IN INDIA ON GREAT INEQUITIES, OPPORTUNITIES AND DEPRIVATION IN TOWNS AND CITIES
[The following are excerpts from the speech by Karin Hulshof, the UNICEF Representative in India, at the launch of The State of World’s (...) -
Dangerous Trend
4 March 2012COMMUNICATION
Amitava Mukherjee in his “West Bengal Notebook” (Mainstream, February 25, 2012) has gone overboard in showering unnecessary praise on Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal CM, when she should have been roundly criticised for being (...) -
Need for Indo-Russian Partnership in BMD
4 March 2012by T.R. SUBRAMANIAN
China is rapidly developing its capabilities to launch anti-ballistic and anti-satellite missiles (ABMs and ASMs). This could tilt the regional balance in the not-too-distant future thereby endangering India’s security. (...) -
The Wild Animals of Politics have Sensed that the Day of Reckoning is Here
4 March 2012, by T J S GeorgeThis week the citizens of India can look at themselves and say: It’s going to be all right. The second freedom struggle—for freedom from corruption—is beginning to show some signs of a satisfactory solution. The rise of public opinion in (...) -
Timely Invervention
27 February 2012, by SCThere have been several sordid incidents in recent days. Besides the ‘porngate’ in Karnataka, the rape of a young Anglo-Indian lady in Kolkata (that hogged the headlines because of certain remarks by the West Bengal CM considered to be (...) -
How War on Terror triggers Renewed Terror
27 February 2012, by T J S GeorgeCaught between anti-corruption hypocrisies and pre-election manipulations, we are failing to notice the gathering clouds of a new kind of terrorism. Many perceptive observers had commented that America’s “war on terror” would in fact inflame (...) -
Church and Education in Kerala
27 February 2012, by V Mathew KurianI. Introduction
Education is critically important to social development. According to Amartya Sen, it helps in building up human capabilities. Educational attainment is one of the main criteria in indexing human development. Among Indian States, (...) -
New Questions in Naya Bihar: The Cry of Vernacular Academics
27 February 2012, by Dev N Pathak“I wonder whether Nitish Kumar is an offshoot of Jayaprakash Narayan’s movement; he seems to have emerged from Laloo Yadav’s movement,” said Prof Nawal Kishor Chaudhury, with a wink of sarcasm, in an informal conver-sation during a seminar in (...) -
Electoral Mandate, Fake Encounters and Rule of Law
27 February 2012by R.B. SREEKUMAR
The Apex Court order (January 25, 2012) entrusting the inquiry to a retired Supreme Court judge, Justice M.B. Shah, of all 21 extra-judicial killings by the Gujarat Police from October 2002 to December 2006, is welcomed by all (...)
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