That’s what The Diary of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala wants. That and Justice for ND Tiwari, Paneerselvam, Dinakaran..
Me: OK, I think …..I have a solution.
DINAKARAN: WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT !!! SIRJI! PLEASE DON’T FORGET ABOUT ME.
I’m the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court and was due for promotion to become a Supreme Court Judge.
But the media [...]
Archive for the 'Development' Category
Justice for Rathore
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Activism, Corruption, Culture, Development, Government, India and Law and order. 0 CommentsEconomics and religion
Published by January 13th, 2010 in Development, India and Religion. 0 CommentsBalaji looks at religion’s role over the years
As the dawn of economic revival started in India in 1991, so did the start of the end of Indian secularism. As people started to get more educated, more of them started to believe in religion. they also came to realize that intellectuals like Einstein, Da Vinci and [...]
Demystifying India….
Published by December 30th, 2009 in Caste, Children, Corruption, Culture, Development, Education, Gender & Sexuality and Government. 0 CommentsIn the movie Swades Shah Rukh Khan says when asked about whether India is the best country in this world compared to others ,” I dont think that India is the best country in this world, but we have the ability, we have the resources” and for that to happen each and every person has [...]
India had never had it so good
Published by November 25th, 2009 in Development, Economy and India. 2 CommentsHop over to Sudhir’s blog to find the optimism about India Inc. brimming at its tees:
If we look at the stock exchange, the sensex is healthy largely to the FII. It is a tribute to our industry that they have been giving very great Quarterly results making investments attractive. I was pleasantly surprised to listen [...]
Agriculture economics and the blame game
Published by November 18th, 2009 in Development, Economy, Food, Government and Regulation. 0 CommentsSugandha has a point by point criticism of why the finance minister is pointing fingers at the wrong “inefficiencies of the farm market” while addressing the sharp rise in food prices:
The food policy has so far been characterized by various kinds of input subsidies. The problem is that, unlike support for extension of irrigation or [...]
CyberGandhi is shocked at India’s ranking in the 2009 global hunger index(65th) It ranks slightly above Bangladesh and below all other South Asian nations. Even though, India’s score indicates slighter progress of 2 points from last year ranking, we are still a poor performer . Countries who have been ranked as better performers with less [...]
Drifting towards chaos
Published by October 14th, 2009 in Development, Geopolitics and Government. 0 CommentsJohn Elliot , a reporter in India for 20 years wonders about why problems are left to fester till they escalate into crises instead of being tackled before they do serious damage :
Inefficiency, lethargy and corruption have come to haunt the country and dominate the news this week on two quite different issues– the alarming [...]
Remembering K.Balagopal
Published by October 14th, 2009 in Activism, Adivasi, Capitalism, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Feminism, Human Rights, Justice, Politics and Poverty. 4 CommentsA site dedicated to the memory of human rights activist Balagopal who passed away recently.
Anand Teltumbde recalls his association with his ‘dearest friend and comrade’:
I knew Balagopal since 1980s and admired him for his sharp intellect and deep commitment to human rights. Not many in the movement knew that he was a brilliant mathematician and [...]
R.I.P. Dr.Balagopal
Published by October 10th, 2009 in Adivasi, Capitalism, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Development, Government, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Politics, Poverty and Violence. 0 CommentsAditya pays tributes:
A relentless crusader for human rights for three decades now, Andhra Pradesh HC lawyer Balagopal has fought cases from extra-judicial killings of political dissenters to atrocities against Dalits and women. And he has often suffered personal attacks for his efforts, by the police and others shamed by his exposes. But he has never [...]
India and HDI ranking
Published by October 8th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Health, Human Rights and India. 4 CommentsLekhni is ‘rapidly coming to the conclusion that 15 minutes of fame’ is all the UNDP’s Human Development Index list deserves:
But the last part is the best – the report says they take an average of life expectancy and literacy and GDP, and compute the average HDI for that country.
This means that if you have, [...]
Marrying en masse…
Published by September 28th, 2009 in Development, Gender & Sexuality and Government. 0 CommentsMass marriages in India have been used by communities to help parents with inadequate resources to manage the colossal expenses demanded by cultural norms incurred in hosting a wedding, especially since the bride’s parents are the ones who bear the costs of the ceremony. Deepali Gaur Singh examines the practice :
The success of such events [...]
IISc and the Slow Death of Innovation
Published by August 23rd, 2009 in Development, Education, India, Internet and Policy. 0 CommentsPrithwiraj is upset with IISc’s plans to restrict internet access to it’s denizens. An interesting read.
In the recent past there has been a flurry of articles (press releases?) in various sections of the media, hailing J.N. Tata’s gift to India on its centennial year, and the high quality of academic research being performed by the [...]
Mayawati statues
Published by July 12th, 2009 in Caste, Dalit, Development, Economy, Government, India and Politics. 7 CommentsWhile Ranjeet ‘praises’ Mayawati for installing statues in UP and has some more suggestions for her,
1) You also remove existing statues of un-important people like Gandhiji etc and install your own huge ones (I mean statues) there.
2) Why not also introduce an entire chapter in the history books of school children dedicated to you?
Aditi Phadnis [...]
How to claim an insurance
Published by June 29th, 2009 in Corruption, Development, Human Rights, India, Justice and Law and order. 2 CommentsAfter filing for an RTI, now it’s compensation or insurance claim. Ajay at
कोर्ट कचहरी explains us the details needed to claim for a compensation in an accident case.
ऐसे दावों में पंचाट पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चार विभिन्न मदों में भुगतान करने का आदेश प्रतिवादी को देती है. इलाज, यात्रा भत्ता, पोषाहार देतु तथा प्रभावित दिवसों में हुए आय का नुकसान .इसलिए पीड़ित व्यक्ति को चाहिए वो इलाज से सम्बंधित प्रत्येक कागज़ .दवाइयों की रसीद,अस्पताल आने जाने,रहने में लगे खर्चे की रसीदें तथा तथा पोषाहार हेतु लिए गए विशेष भोज्य पदार्थों पर हुए खर्च का सारा ब्यौरा संभाल कर रखे एवं गवाही के समय अदालत में उपस्थित करे.
Want to file an RTI ?
Published by June 27th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Government, India and Justice. 1 CommentYou want to know why or on what basis some decisions were taken or not taken by a public authority. In other words you want to exercise your right to seek some information but do not know how.
Ankur tells you how to file an RTI.
it makes them accountable to the public and makes it hard [...]
Right to Indifference
Published by June 20th, 2009 in Democracy, Development and Government. 0 CommentsQuirky Indian feels that the Indian bureaucracy has a sense of humour: while everyone from international watchdogs to the Maoists give them a bad rating, the babus think they know better.
Lalgarh, like Nandigram and Naxalbari, has become another addition, courtesy West Bengal, to our socio-political lexicon. Here’s an article where one of the Maoists has [...]
Lohia and the ‘People’s Movement Left’
Published by June 18th, 2009 in Activism, Capitalism, Caste, Democracy, Development, Economy, History, Politics, Science & Technology and Theory. 0 CommentsAmit Basole evaluates Lohia in a ‘time of crisis’ in the Indian left movements:
Along with the question of Eurocentrism, the question of the type of economic development was Lohia’s most fundamental theoretical challenge to Marxism. Marxists have been by and large unwilling to confront the possibility that industrialism and not capitalism may be the primary [...]
‘Mistaken Macroeconomics’
Published by June 13th, 2009 in Development, Economy, Government, India and Policy. 0 CommentsDr.Subroto Roy writes an open letter to the Prime Minister:
What, at the outset, is supposed to be measured when we speak of “growth”? Indian businessmen and their media friends seem to think “growth” refers to something like nominal earnings before tax for the organised corporate sector, or any unspecified number that can be sold to [...]
‘New Governance’
Published by June 12th, 2009 in Development, Education, Government, Health and Policy. 0 CommentsVikranth thinks the government’s agenda of inclusive growth would be meaningless if it isn’t backed up by reforms in governance:
In a recent survey conducted by an Hong-Kong based consultancy ranked Indian bureaucracy as least efficient in Asia and termed as “slow and painful and a power center in their own right”. After the economic reforms [...]
Women and their place
Published by June 11th, 2009 in Culture, Development, Patriarchy, Society, South Asia and Women. 0 CommentsSarah Sanyahumbi meets some self-help groups in Nepal and is witness to an incident which really underlined again for her ‘the position that many women have in society’:
And then something happened which has really stuck in my mind: I asked about safety, as the Terai can be a very dangerous place with criminal gangs controlling [...]
The grime of development
Published by June 9th, 2009 in Development, Economy, Poverty and Regulation. 0 CommentsMost of the units are covered with a layer of black grime, a combination of dust, oil and some unknown substance. Chemicals are strewn all over the place and the air in these factories feels heavy with fumes from machines.
This is not a scene from a Dickens novel, but is in fact the real status [...]
Meira Kumar and Sukka Pagadaalu
Published by June 4th, 2009 in Adivasi, Dalit, Development, Politics, Poverty and Women. 0 CommentsKingshuk Nag would like to know: how’s Meira Kumar’s appointment going to help ameliorate the fate of millions of Dalit women across the country?
If the ruling party is so keen to uplift downtrodden women, it should first think of the likes of Sukka Pagadaalu (picture below), who at 64 is the same age as Meira [...]
One world, different crises
Published by May 29th, 2009 in Capitalism, Development, Economy, India, Regulation and World. 0 CommentsWhy has the global financial crisis not generated any ‘existential angst about capitalism’ or any ’serious questioning of the role of the market’ in developing countries like India, unlike in the west? Arvind Subramanian offers some great insights:
There is a gradual realization that the diagnostic spotlight must shine on the revolving door between Wall Street [...]
Film Telangana 2009
Published by May 29th, 2009 in Culture, Development, Globalisation, History, Human Rights, India, Language and Politics. 1 CommentInteresting site, seems to have been started to co-ordinate a film contest for short films on Telangana Culture, Resources, Issues, Places, People, History & Struggles, which is scheduled to end on 31st May, 2009. Some interesting films have been submitted. I liked the page Telangaanam which features clips with popular ballads by Yadagiri, Suddala Hanumanthu, [...]
Why the Green Revolution wasn’t such a blessing
Published by May 28th, 2009 in Caste, Dalit, Development, Economy, History, Indiaspora, Politics, Prejudice, Religion and Violence. 0 CommentsVidya Bhushan Rawat looks at the roots of the current conflict in Punjab:
Problem is in our perception about Punjab as a casteless society where Sikhism grew. The fact is that inspite of great preaching in the Guru Granth Saheb and their own sacrifices, the leadership that emerged in Punjab is upper caste dominated feudal Sikhs. [...]
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