-The Indian Express The RTI activists in the state have decided to hold a meeting in Porbander near Chief Minister narendra modi’s Sadbhavana fast venue with a plan to approach the central government for introducing a bill to safeguard RTI activists across the nation. Around 200 RTI activists from Saurashtra and other parts of Gujarat gathered at city’s Juhapura area on Sunday to extend their support to the family of RTI activist...
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Ramesh slams Modi for Gujarat's poor show in social development
-The Times of India Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh found an occasion for Modi-bashing at the release of UNDP's Human Development Index report, 2011, on Wednesday, saying there had been "retrogression" in social development indices in narendra modi-ruled Gujarat. He also blamed the US for being the biggest contributor to non-sustainability, and slammed India for being 'hell-bent' on following the American model of development. Speaking on the linkage between growth and development,...
More »1984 and the violence of memory by Ravinder Kaur
We must not allow the pain and suffering of the Sikh victims to be transformed into a political instrument to mute calls for justice for the ‘other' victims of similarly orchestrated massacres. More than a quarter century on, not much remains of ‘1984' — shorthand for one of the largest pogroms in India's postcolonial history when thousands of Sikhs were massacred in retribution for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination — in...
More »At 95, protest icon has miles to go by Basant Rawat
When farmers in Gujarat want to fight big companies or the government, they know who to turn to. A frail 95-year-old who survives on four chapatis a day and refuses to hang up his protester’s boots. Just seven months ago, Chunni Vaidya walked 370km to stop a Nirma cement plant in Mahuva village because he agreed that it would poison water bodies. Nowadays, if the Gandhian is not travelling to coastal Mithivirdi...
More »Right to Education campaign is politically-motivated: non-Congress states by Chetan Chauhan
Flaying the governments unique the Right to Education (RTE) Act awareness campaign which will be launched on November 11, non-Congress ruled states are calling it a "politically-motivated" move. The HRD ministry has decided to mail a letter from the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to over 13 lakh elementary schools across the country to generate awareness about the Right to Education (RTE) Act. Called 'Shiksha ka Haq' (Right To Education), the awareness drive...
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