-The Times of India NEW DELHI: When she saw a family all at sea in the court corridors, advocate Anjali Rajput stepped in to offer free legal aid. Like her, over 130 advocates on the panel of the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) offer much-needed help to citizen litigants in Delhi's 11 districts, not only in courtrooms, but also through awareness camps in schools, slums, police stations and other public...
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The power of Kudumbashree -Brinda Karat
-The Hindu The Kerala model can be implemented across India with the same secular and gender-sensitive spirit Kumari died on September 1. She had contracted leptospirosis while doing relief work in Kerala after the floods, away from her own home which had not been affected. She was a health volunteer and prominent member of the Kudumbashree MISsion in her panchayat in Ernakulum district. Kumari’s work and life symbolises the spirit of Kerala...
More »Arunachal flash flood toll rises to five
-PTI ITANAGAR: With the recovery of one more body, the death toll in flash flood and landslides in Arunachal Pradesh rose to five while a girl was still MISsing, an official said on Sunday. The body of 32-year-old Mary Beyong of Modirijo who went MISsing since Friday, was retrieved by Banderdewa Police and NDRF team from Dikrongn river at Nepali Gaon near No 2 Pithaguri village in Assams Lakhimpur district on Saturday...
More »Destructive? Yes. Creative? Ahem -Devadeep Purohit
-The Telegraph BJP invokes Schumpeter, econoMISts bewildered Calcutta: Economics lore has it that Joseph Schumpeter had set three goals in life: to be the world's greatest econoMISt, Austria's greatest horseman and Vienna's greatest lover. The Austrian-American econoMISt apparently accomplished two of the three MISsions but never said which two, other than offering a clue by hinting there were too many fine horsemen in Austria. A fourth goal - unrecorded by the late econoMISt...
More »Dam disclosures: on the Kerala floods -Ramesh Chennithala
-The Hindu The deluge in Kerala was made worse by inefficient management of 34 dams The people of Kerala have braved the worst calamity since the great flood of 1924. The floodwaters have receded from most of the affected areas barring Kuttanad. Most people have gone back to their homes from relief camps, only to find them battered beyond redemption. As the State is coming back to a “new normal” after the...
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