-The Telegraph When Thakur was arrested, police officer got 'calls from six VIPs' Muzaffarpur: Brajesh Thakur - the arrested proprieToR of an NGO that ran the Bihar government-funded shelter home in Muzaffarpur where at least 34 minor girls were drugged, ToRtured and raped - rubbed shoulders with the who's who of Bihar, sources said. In 2005, when Nitish Kumar became chief minister, he had gone to Muzaffarpur to take part in the birthday...
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Death by hunger is India's tragic reality -Shashi Shekhar
-Hindustan Times It is pertinent to realise that 34 out of 1,000 children born in the country die in the mother’s womb itself. Nine lakh children below the age of five die much before they can comprehend the meaning of independent India and approximately 19 crore people in the country are compelled to sleep on an empty stomach. The hisToRy of the nation won’t record the names of Shikha, Manasi or Parul...
More »Shelter kids expose predaToR 'uncles' -Ramashankar
-The Telegraph Patna: As soon as the Sun set, the girls would be scared. The nights were full of terror. That was what a 10-year-old girl, from the Balika Grih in Muzaffarpur at the centre of the sexual abuse horror, said in Hindi before a judicial magistrate. The Bihar government blinked and recommended a CBI probe into the rampant abuse at the Balika Grih, a government-funded shelter home run by an NGO,...
More »The limits of MSP -Ashok Gulati & Tirtha Chatterjee
-The Indian Express Instead of fiddling with procurement prices, government must devise an income policy for farmers. Speaking at the 37th foundation day celebrations of the NABARD, Arun Jaitley gave food for thought to the audience when he said, “If there is any area in the economy where we can give an example to the world and to ourselves of cooperative federalism, it is the agriculture secToR. It can benefit people more...
More »New Save the Children report reveals insecurity of teenage girls from the outside world, but are our homes safe enough?
Released in May this year, a study by Save the Children has found that if you are an adolescent girl living in the country, then you are most likely to be afraid about being harassed outside your homes viz. in public places. Entitled WINGS 2018 - World of India's Girls: A study on the perception of girls’ safety in public spaces, the study shows that nearly one-third of teenage girls surveyed...
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