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  Remembering Bindeshwar Pathak | Devaki Jain

  18 August 2023, by Devaki Jain

  We, that is my colleagues in the small women’s study center that was born in the 70s,- and I had a surprise one evening when a tall gentleman dressed in a dhoti and kurta walked into our office He had heard that we were identifying voluntary agencies or non-governmental centers which had been effective. He told us he was deeply engaged in the emancipation of the scavengers, one of Gandhi’s ideals, and he had found his own way of doing that .-Mainly to improve the Latrines/ Lavatories/ the (…)

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  Achyut Yagnik will be remembered as much for his own writings and activism as for helping others | Bharat Dogra

  18 August 2023, by Bharat Dogra

  Achyut Yagnik breathed his last on August 4, Friday. He was one of the most versatile among that rather select number of people who are able to combine a lifetime of writing and activism. However even this introduction would fall short of a very important part of his contributions which relate to the numerous ways in which he helped other writers and activists to make a better contribution to society. As for those working on social issues and history of Gujarat, Achyut Yagnik was an (…)

• With Naveen, Odisha Plays Snakes and Ladders | Radhakanta Barik

  18 August 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  Odisha’s chief minister Naveen Patnaik is 77 years old, just two months away from a birthday. On 22 July, Patnaik achieved a significant career milestone by becoming the second longest-serving chief minister in India, surpassing Bengal’s Jyoti Basu. He became chief minister of this eastern State in March 2000, after the death of his father Biju Patnaik.
  When we look at Naveen, one needs to also keep in mind who he is. Biju was a charismatic leader, a Royal Indian Airforce pilot, Jawaharlal (…)

• Freedom: Corroded And Stained | Kobad Ghandy

  18 August 2023, by Kobad Ghandy

  We have just celebrated the 77th year of our independence. While much euphoria was generated by the media and politicians it is the right time to take stock as to where we have reached in this journey forward and what is the likely future for the new generations growing up.
  Oxfam India’s briefing ‘Inequality Kills’, published Jan 16 2023, has revealed “that the collective wealth of India’s 100 richest people hit a record high of Rs. 57.3 lakh crore (USD 775 billion) in 2021. According to (…)

• Why PM Modi’s Thousand-Year-Old Slavery Narrative in His Independence Day Speech Distorts History and Negates the Vision of Gandhi, Nehru and Netaji Subhas Bose | S N Sahu

  18 August 2023, by S N Sahu

  Prime Minister Modi while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on 15th August 2023 stated that India suffered slavery for a thousand years following the defeat of a small kingdom of India 1000-1200 years ago. He is the first Prime Minister of India to have said so while delivering his speech on independence day. No other Prime Minister ever made such a claim.
  Modi’s Narrative of Thousand-Year-Old Slavery in India and Abroad
  He did not say this for (…)

• India’s cities mission a smart earner for private firms | Uttara Purandare

  18 August 2023

  by Uttara Purandare
  16 August 2023
  India’s rapid development needs help, but are the consultants value for money or just cashing in on another big project?
  It is monsoon season in India. This means heavy rains and as the climate crisis accelerates it can also mean disasters like landslides and floods.
  It’s been no different in 2023. Indian cities, including the capital New Delhi, the financial centre Mumbai, and the tech centre Bangalore, among others, have been inundated and (…)

• Modi over-confidence of winning 2024 election points a deeper design to manipulate elections | Arun Srivastava

  18 August 2023

  by Arun Srivastava
  What made Narendra Modi exude the confidence of becoming the Prime Minister for the third consecutive term and hoisting the national flag at the rampart of Red Fort on August 15 in 2024 despite facing public hostility and his mentors in the RSS publicly expressing a lack of trust in his leadership, has indeed been an omerta.
  Ever since Modi become the prime minister in 2014 for the first time, he has been projecting himself as the visionary, who will shape the destiny (…)

• Sabyasachi research warning: protect your voter well in advance | Faraz Ahmad

  18 August 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  It is all very well for a good section of Opposition parties to come together and form Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.) in their bid to defeat the authoritarian, regressive and anti-people Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as they prepare to sit together this time in Mumbai on August 31, but it is time to urgently look at their logistics to perform this stupendous task.
  This cannot be achieved but by closely observing BJP management of polling booths and taking a (…)

• National Research Foundation gets Parliament’s nod | P. S. Jayaramu

  18 August 2023

  14th August 2023
  One of the key features of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has now become an Act after the “Anusandhan National Research Foundation” Bill was passed by the Parliament recently, amidst all the furore and daily walkouts in the two Houses. The nomenclature of the Act, bringing in the Hindi word Anusandhan appears a bit odd. NRF, as such, would have been alright. But, naming all Bills in Hindi is a feature of the Modi Government. While moving the Bill, the Minister (…)

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  Ongoing violence in Manipur a major public health problem | Statement IDPD, Aug 18, 2023

  18 August 2023

  Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) 139-E, Kitchlu Nagar, Ludhiana – 141001 Punjab website: idpd.org
  18.08.2023
  Ongoing violence in Manipur a major public health problem
  Immediate effective steps needed to ease the situation
  The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) issued following statement on the situation in Manipur that we, the doctors associated with Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD), strongly condemn in unequivocal terms the unabated (…)