by Sandeep Pandey There may be many examples like Super 30 of Patna where children of daily wage earners are being trained to make it to elite higher eduational institutions of India. These centres are mostly run by very qualified people. But in Kanpur Mahesh Pandey, who completed his Intermediate education and dropped out of […]
by Rajindar Sachar The recent accord that was signed between the Centre and the largest faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland NSCN (IM) is welcome. The group has given up its demand for a sovereign state outside India. A pact has been signed between Government of India and Naga faction of NSCN (I.M.). […]
by Sandeep Pandey The Basic Shiksha Adhikari, Lucknow passed an order on 6 April, 2015, directing the prestigious City Montessori School to admit 31 children under the 25% reservation provision for children from disadvantaged groups and weaker sections under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009. CMS decided to move the […]
– प्रेम सिंह (डा. प्रेम सिंह का यह लेख ‘समय संवाद’ स्तंभ के अंतर्गत मासिक पत्रिका ‘युवा संवाद’ के सितंबर 2013 अंक में प्रकाशित हुआ था। आपके पढ़ने के लिए इसे स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर फिर जारी किया गया है।) पिछले स्वतंत्रता दिवस के ‘समय संवाद’ और उसके आगे-पीछे हमने जो लिखा, इस स्वतंत्रता दिवस पर […]
by Sandeep Pandey The manager of City Montessori School, Jagdish Gandhi got a letter addresses to me published in at least big five newspapers of Lucknow city on 21 July, 2015. He had already handed over this letter to me on 17 July, 2015 at my home after I broke my fast a day earlier. […]
by Prem Singh Saturday 14 July 2007 As the first phase of liberalisation in India drew to its completion, Chandra Shekhar, on August 9, 2000, the 58th anniversary of the ‘Quit India’ Movement, launched the Vikalp Abhiyan— a protest march against the forces of globalisation. On this occasion he observed: “Our country, forgetting the vision […]
by Rajindar Sachar In a democracy holding regular and free elections to the state legislatures and Parliament is the minimum condition. But more important is to devise laws and policies so that representatives are elected in a transparent manner uninfluenced by undesirable elements, especially money power of the corporate sector. These observations are not unnecessarily […]
by Prem Singh Author’s Note: This article was first published in Hindi in the monthly magazine Yuva Samvad (Feb. 2013). It is available in Urdu also. Here is its English version. The article presents a critique of the nexus of neo-liberalism and communalism operating in India from 1991. The article is a post-script to my […]
by Prem Singh In this era of globalisation-liberalization-privatization, the work of the creation of a comprehensive political philosophy– the political thought which in the context of this phenomena, springs from the ground of the have-nots to create a self-reliant, equitable economy – is stalled. Neo-liberalism has been successful to a large extent in not letting […]
All newspapers on 15th April, 2015 were full of all parties in the country, though normally at each others throat, vying with each other in their full throated praise for Dr. Ambedkar as one of the greatest Indian leader of the country. The tribute to Dr. Ambedkar is fully deserved, but one is skeptic of […]
