Rudyard Kipling opens his superb novel with the street urchin Kim teasing the son of a wealthy man. Kim kicks Chota Lal, whose father, Lala Dinanath, is worth half-a-million sterling, off the trunnion of the mighty cannon Zam-Zammah. Kipling loved India and wrote that it was the only democratic place in the world. It warms us to read this, but of course this was quite untrue in Kipling’s time and...
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Rajasthan government to soon clarify on CERTificates required by orphans under RTE
-The Times of India JAIPUR: A day after TOI published a report, "Orphans in peril as RTE mandates parents' income, caste CERTificates," the Rajasthan government's social justice and empowerment department has written to the education department to soon clarify the issue of CERTificates mandated under RTE for orphaned children. The report had highlighted how orphans were being asked documents like parents' income CERTificate, caste CERTificate, age CERTificate etc. to get admission in...
More »Tribals edgy, govt stops plying pet Monsanto seeds
-Express News Service Ahmedabad: The state government has decided not to purchase and distribute Monsanto maize seeds to tribal farmers any more following fears expressed by them that these seeds could cause male and female infertility. Instead, these farmers can buy any of the government-CERTified seeds from open market and then claim subsidy from their respective district agriculture officers. The decision was taken jointly by the state’s agriculture and the tribal ministry on...
More »One-fifth of girls become mothers before adulthood, says report by Aarti Dhar
As many as 30 per cent of adolescent girls in India (aged between 15-19 years) were married, and at least 22 per cent women aged 20 to 24 became mothers before attaining adulthood in India, says a UNICEF report. The report by UNICEF, based on a survey conducted in the period 2000-2010, says only five per cent of male adolescents were married when compared to girls. Released globally on Thursday, the report...
More »Deoband protests, scholar drops research on Rushdie-Faisal Fareed
Following protests from Darul Uloom, Deoband, and CERTain Islamic organisations, a research scholar at Meerut’s Chaudhary Charan Singh University has requested the UGC to change the subject of her post-doctoral fellowship for research on ‘Use of Magic Realism in the major novels of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Vikram Seth’. Prabha Parmar has communicated her decision in a letter to the University Grants Commission (UGC), which had awarded her the five-year...
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