S G Vombatkere On World Earth Day 2023, a few dozen members of the 8-billion-and-counting Homo Sapiens species, met in an insignificantly tiny spot on Planet Earth – the premises of The Institution of Engineers(India), Mysore, to discuss and think about Global Warming (GW) and Climate Change (CC). Climate Change gains respectability Homo Sapiens’ investment in Planet… Read More »
Some truths need to be stated, otherwise we will continue to only talk-talk-talk Lt. General VIJAY OBEROI As we complete another year, there is once again a reflection on the year that is ending. Tied with the same is what one expects from the next year, both about what needs to be done to ameliorate… Read More »
S.G.Vombatkere Nation = People + Country + Constitution A nation is the synergetic sum of a country’s people with their social and cultural resources, who live within the boundaries of the country with its natural and economic resources, and the rules by which the people live and work. The “rule book” for India is the… Read More »
Dr Ravi Sinha [I must begin with a “thank you” to the Indian Diaspora of Washington DC* and to Razi Saheb for letting me say a few words here. It is an honour for me to share the dais, even if virtually, with Gauhar Raza and Pervez Hoodbhoy. I was stressed about Razi Saheb being… Read More »
Renowned Carnatic vocalist, writer and speaker, TM Krishna recently launched the second edition of The Edict Project, in collaboration with Ashoka University. The Edict Project has been conceived in four parts. This edition is based on the theme ‘Ashoka and Memory’. Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor of History at Ashoka University and an expert on Ashokan and… Read More »
in collaboration with Ashoka University The Edict Project reimagines Ashoka’s remarkable conversation with people across the subcontinent, expressed in the form of engraved monoliths and rock-faces. Many have been rediscovered in the last 2 centuries, and form a refreshing approach to governance, surprising for those bygone days. The Edict project recreates Ashoka’s edicts today in… Read More »
The Narmada Bachao Andolan started its work 30 years ago. Today, it is a moral force, and itsmost important contribution to India and the world is its continuance as a bastion ofGandhian truth and non-violence in an increasingly violent world. S. G. Vombatkere THE Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) has completed 30 years of people’s resistance… Read More »
Maj Gen Sudhir Vombatkere Hon’ble Prime Minister, My respectful Greetings to the Office of India’s highest executive authority! I have travelled in the valley of the Narmada River and observed at first hand, how the people, mostly Adivasis and Dalits, have been displaced from their homes and lands and livelihoods by an uncaring and corrupt… Read More »
T M Krishna As much as Narendra Modi’s every word is savoured and actions admired by his followers, the emotions he triggers in his critics are diametrically opposite. Watching him speak or even take a stride evokes intense negativity. Other than the obvious ideological opposition and historical reasons, there are many other perceived qualities that… Read More »
Admiral Ramdas, former CNS So a few thoughts on what “AZAADI” or Freedom, meant to me, a young boy of 14 when we made our Tryst with Destiny on that midnight hour of August 14th/15th. We listened to the inspiring speech by Nehru gathered round our tiny little radio! Next morning, Aug 15th 1947, I… Read More »
Author’s Note: This Note was sent to Army HQ in 2014, but (predictably) it produced neither response, nor action of any sort.
If there is a sincere intent to implement much needed reforms, the time to do it is now, before the public loses faith in elections and democracy completely.
And so, here is a small attempt to bring the question of electoral reforms back to centre stage.
The Reporter’s Collective (TRC) has conducted an investigation, in coordination with Ad Watch, an independent researcher, into some distasteful and certainly surprising revelations into the way that commercial social media platform Facebook (which recently renamed itself Meta), that also owns popular SM platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, has been acting with regard to the Indian electoral scenario.