Reaching out to the differently-abled: Both Government and society must act
Taking his vision of ‘Sab ka sath, sab ka vikas’ a step closer to reality, it was early in December last year, during an ‘accessible India’ event, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi suggested that instead of using the term ‘viklang’, which is the most common term used for persons with disability,
A Reply to Comrade Sitaram Yechury’s interview given to Ganashakti and reproduced in the Mainstream Weekly of October 1st 2016
Dear Shri SitaramYechury, I read with a lot of interest your interview in the CPI(M) party paper Ganashakti on 13 Sep 2016. Your three targets of attack were Shri Narendra Modi, the BJP and the RSS. You start with the problems in J&K and you speak of the students death and have faulted the Government
UJALA: A Step towards Saving Energy and Conserving Environment
VAIBHAV CHADHA The National LED programme was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5th Jan, 2015 at New Delhi with a target of replacing 77 crore incandescent lamps with LED bulbs. PM Modi described the LED bulb as a “Prakash Path” (way to light) while launching the LED bulb distribution scheme under the Domestic
Communist Violence: Manipulating the police and legal process to fix Sangh members
Advocate Rajesh is a well-known criminal lawyer in Vadakara court, Kozhikode. He deals with nearly all cases of communist violence against Sangh workers in his area. He also the contested 2016 Assembly election on a BJP ticket from Vadakara constituency and got roughly 14,000 votes,
The Message from Kozhikode for Our Generation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message at the BJP National Council meet at Kozhikode on 24th and 25th September 2016, was in line with the vision of governance and of India that Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya had envisaged through his political philosophy of Integral Humanism. In
Surgical strikes: New beginning for India’s aggressive counter-action
One of the after-effects of the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Armed Forces and its subsequent announcement to the general public has been the focus around India’s emergence as an assertive international player.
In memory of India’s little sister
As we observe Sister Nivedita’s sesquicentennial this year on October 28, it would be worthwhile to use this day as an opportunity to meditate and delve into her boundless love for India and into the dimensions of her selfless action for India’s self expression.
India must push aggressively to promote the Baloch cause
Why should India particularly and the rest of the world be concerned about the developments in Balochistan? The Balochistan region occupies 40 per cent of Pakistan’s landmass. It is the only mineral-rich area of Pakistan, having coal and gas reserves. Despite this, it is the most backward
TB is a challenge in meeting nation’s sustainable development goals
It is indeed petrifying that India disproportionally bears the brunt of one-fourth of tuberculosis incidents around the world. A recent Global Tuberculosis Report 2016, released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that tuberculosis epidemic in India was larger than what was
Communist Violence: How CPM Cadres Attacked 7 years old Karthik
Have you heard the elite jet-set human rights activists’ network in India, habituated to plush conferences, ever speak on how Karthik was attacked and nearly bludgeoned by communist goons? AYUSH ANAND and VAIBHAV CHADDHA report from ground zero on the CPI(M)’s terror model in their “liberated” and “progressive” zones:
