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BJP’S New Sand Mining Policy – Award Contracts to Party Supporters
When Bhartiya Janata Party government was formed in Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath a number of educated middle class people thought that days of caste politics and corruption were over. They were expecting clean government. Yogi Adityanath government canceled all sand mining contracts alleging illegality and corruption in operations and announced that […]
Culture of Protest
CULTURE OF PROTEST In an amazing display of goodwill bus drivers of Ryobi group in Okayama, Japan have staged a protest not by striking work but by continuing to drive, without charging fares from passengers. The Ryobi group is facing tough competition from another group Megurin, which is offering reduced fares to passengers. The intended […]
CMS is an Example of Everything That is Wrong With Private Schools
CITY MONTESSORI SCHOOL EXAMPLE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS WRONG WITH PRIVATE SCHOOLS The City Montessori School of Lucknow figures in the Guinness Book of World Records for largest enrollment of 55,000 in a school, although it is not one school but has 18 different branches spread throughout the city. Its founder Jagdish Gandhi has won […]
Obituary/Sachar Saheb : A unique personality with socialist vision
Obituary Sachar Saheb : A unique personality with socialist vision Prem Singh He had forbidden us to call him ‘Justice Sachar’. So I began to call him Sachar Saheb. Four days after his death, I sit down to write this tribute. The personality of Sachar Saheb was like a masterpiece, epic in its dimensions. […]
Niveditha’s article on Asifa’s rape
About three months ago, eight-year old Asifa belonging to a nomadic Muslim community of the Bakharwal Gujjars in Jammu, was abducted and drugged, brutally gang-raped over and over and finally murdered by eight Hindu men in a remote Hindu temple in Kathua, Jammu. In case you are wondering why I have used the word Hindu […]
Asifa’s Just Killers!
Asifa’s Just Killers! Prem Singh The cry seeking justice for Asifa is becoming stronger and deeper. From Delhi to the United Nations, from social and civil rights organizations to civil society citizens, more and more people are out on the streets shouting slogans and demanding justice for Asifa. The social media is parading […]
REMEMBERING JUSTICE SACHAR
20 April 2018 REMEMBERING JUSTICE SACHAR In Justice Sachar’s demise, the nation has lost one of the last representatives of the generation that carried forward the socialist vision from the freedom movement for the post-independence India. He would be remembered for his uncompromising commitment to building a […]
आसिफा के न्यायप्रिय हत्यारे!
आसिफा के न्यायप्रिय हत्यारे! प्रेम सिंह ‘आसिफा को न्याय’ (जस्टिस फॉर आसिफा) की गुहार दिल्ली से संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ तक गूँज रही है. सामाजिक-नागरिक संगठन आसिफा की सामान्य और मृतावस्था की तस्वीर लगा कर अपने नाम के बैनर-झंडे लहराते हुए, नारे लगते हुए आसिफा को न्याय दिलाने के लिए सड़कों पर उतर पड़े हैं. […]
Hopeless Implementation of Right to Education Act in UP
It is now the fourth year since the government of Uttar Pradesh started taking Right to Education Act 2009 seriously. Section 12(1)(c) of this Act is the most attractive feature from the point of view of parents from Disadvantaged Groups and Weaker Sections as they can get their children admitted at the entry level to […]
