Re: Rajniti Sudhar Manch: Save our country from MPs and MLAs who have captured our parliament and assemblies like Kings and Zamindars.

2009-03-20 Thread Barbara | Prem Verma | Prasanta Panda
Dear Mr. Keshavdutt, We could not agree with you more. There is an urgent need to implement what you have so well written. The question is how do we go about building this movement into a recognisable force. I am with you all the way. Prem P. Verma Jharkhand Alternative Development Forum I

When a girl asks for justice she is scandalised and demoralised

2009-03-20 Thread Leslie Tripathy
Women's Empowerment is only a sham, all hypocrisy. When a girl asks for justice she is scandalised, demoralised. A Woman who embarks on a public duty has to undergo a torment of vicious attacks on her character, that’s the least people can do to strangulate her growth, as long as she chooses to

Re: Discussing Various Adivasi Issues

2009-03-20 Thread Dr ALOK CHANTIA | Felix Tirkey
Unfortunately we are discussing only those tribal groups across the country who are listed as tribes under article 342 of Indian constitution but anthropologically many tribal groups are behind the bush as Dhankut- an endogamous group of district Bahraich of U.P. Who represent every

Kandhamal: Pravat Panigrahi, a RSS activist was gunned down by miscreants in the Rudigumma Village

2009-03-20 Thread ashok paikaray
Appeal for K'mal peace http://www.tathya.in/2008/story.asp?sno=2743 *Phulbani:*19/March/2009 People across the state are in a worried state of affair. They apprehended that the fragile Kandhamal will once again turn to communal cauldron. So people from various walks of life have appealed the

EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

2009-03-20 Thread Ashok Agarwal
Social Jurist, a Civil Rights Group (CRG) has filed this petition in public interest to highlight the plight of thousands of students with disabilities and particularly those suffering from visual impairment, hearing impairment and mental retardation studying in Delhi Government schools and MCD

Interview: Teesta Setalvad - Gulbarg Society and Growing politics of hate speech and hate writing

2009-03-20 Thread Ajay
By Deepa A Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad plans to set up a Museum of Resistance in Ahmedabad’s Gulbarg Society, the site of a massacre during the Gujarat riots of 2002. In this interview, she explains why such a memorial is necessary In the identical one-room tenements in Gujarat’s

Campaign on Manual Scavenging in Maharashtra

2009-03-20 Thread Amit Goyal
Campaign on Manual Scavenging received impetus when the organizations working on the issue decided to campaign in unison against this inhuman practice। On 27th Nov., Director of Navsarjan Trust , Gujrat , Manjulaben and Sanjiv Khudshah,a renowned writer on Safai Kamgar samuday and connected

RE:Traditional indigenous seed Festival of Malkangiri

2009-03-20 Thread H S Gupta | Dr Alam
Dear All, Conserving biodiversity is a laudable effort and we must protect and conserve the seeds of local land races which have evolved and survived through thousands of years by the efforts of the local farmers. I am sure some of you are aware that the country has a 'Protection of Plant

Re: Why to support socialism in the 21st century

2009-03-20 Thread J.venkata subramanian
The values on which the Socialism of the 21st century should be based are : unity, equality, cooperation, co-existence, commonality, consensus decision making. Hello Stan, I think you got too much carried away by the present economic scenario. Socialism is nothing but a sugar coated

Class 9 boy shot and stabbed by Maoists outside school

2009-03-20 Thread sri venkat
A Class 9 student was gunned down and then stabbed by Maoist guerrillas before shocked teachers and fellow students as he came out of his school in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, police said Friday. Surju Nareti, 15, the son of a special police officer who was killed last year, was shot dead

Re: EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN

2009-03-20 Thread Ananya Guha | Barbara Ali
Ragging should be made a punishable offence by law. Despite efforts to this end ragging still continues. It is a slur on the stuent community. Why don't teachers carry out concerted protests? I am surprised at this lassitude. Think of the parents who suffer interminably? I also agree with the

Re: Invitation to Genetically Modified (GM) Bt Brinjal and Bt Cotton Protest Rally / Meeting

2009-03-20 Thread Manoj Padhi
Dear Readers: Presently, OUAT, the Agricultural RD University of Orissa is doing RD on Genetically Modified crops and seeds and it is too premature to say that those are harmful. In Odia, there is a proverb - Nai Na Dekhunu Langala - means taking off clothes even before reaching at the bank

Tertiary Sector's management in India

2009-03-20 Thread Ravinder Singh
Agriculture Leadership Summit 2008 – Inventor’s Contribution (C)   It is election time so dubious farms leaders who were touring at farmers or GOI expenses Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, USA, Canada, China like frogs surfacing after first rains are planting stories in press to impress Sonia