-The Indian Express A government shorn of Western educated ministers could change the status quo. Since 1947, Indians have not spoken out so strongly and clearly for a completely new brand of people running government. Mercifully, there are no ministers educated abroad. Thankfully, none of them has been brainwashed at Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, the World Bank or the IMF, subtly forcing expensive Western solutions on typically Indian problems at the cost of...
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Dropping Out for a Drop of Water -Kishore Jha
-Economic and Political Weekly The relationship between depleting water levels and school dropout rates is poorly studied. As chronic water shortages begin to affect more regions of the country, this trend will begin to appear more forcefully. Kishore Jha (kishor.delhi6@gmail.com) is working on child rights with Terre des Homes, Germany. Devender, a 14-year-old boy from Kheeda village in Almora district in Uttarakhand State, studies in Class 8. He spends at least three hours...
More »Fewer convictions in crimes against SCs -Meena Menon
-The Hindu Rajasthan records the highest number of cases followed by U.P. There is a 17 per cent increase in registered cases of atrocities against members of the Schedules Castes in 2013 as compared to 2012 and the conviction rate is around 23 per cent, Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawar Chand Gehlot said on Friday. He was speaking at a two-day conference of ministers and principal secretaries dealing with Scheduled Castes,...
More »Kitchen strike for toilets -Aparna Pallavi
-Down to Earth Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food TOILETS ARE not an issue over which one sees agitations every day. And when it comes to women agitating against husbands, it may well be an unprecedented situation. Yet, the women of Amgaon, a tiny village in Wardha district of Maharashtra, did just that. On June 24, they staged a choolband, or no-cooking protest, forcing...
More »Toilet lesson from Rajasthan -Rakhee Roy Talukdar
-The Telegraph Jaipur: In the space of a month, a remote Rajasthan village has taken a tiny step towards fulfilling the Prime Minister's dream of a Swachh Bharat, free of open defecation and open drains. But Bhanwari village in Rajasthan's Pali district, about 328km from Jaipur, has done it without the Centre's help and fast enough to beat the rains. Between May and June this year, Bhanwari has transformed itself into one of...
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