• Electric Cool Aid

    Roostam Sengupta in his office. A cramped warehouse-turned-office in a crowded Delhi bylane is an unlikely address for an MBA from Insead, a top-tier European business school. But for Rustam Sengupta, the sweat and grime of narrow Indian bylanes hold out more hope than the 31st floor bay-facing...
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  • Haryana Child Right Commission Formed- High Court Informed

    The Haryana Government in January intimated the Punjab and Haryana High Court that they have constituted the “Haryana State Commission for Protection of Child Right,” in compliance to the orders of the High Court in the public interest litigation (PIL) moved by social activist Hemant Goswami. The...
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  • Turn Off Vehicles At Traffic Signal: Save Petrol

    Turn Off Vehicles At Red Light: If Not To Reduce Pollution Then To Save Petrol!
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  • Indian Democracy Is Work In Progress

    For some time now, it feels as if the nation is heading towards chaos. Many pillars of our democracy are dysfunctional and crumbling. But some others seem to work and they seem to deliver on both what they are meant to be and provide hope to the common people. For the past year, parliament has...
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  • The Newcomer: Aam Aadmi Party

    In the fourth part of the series State of the Parties, we look at the newest political party in India, the Aam Aadmi Party. In the first three segments of this Election 2014 special, we examined The Partisans – the Left, BSP and Trinamool Congress, The Intruders – Samajwadi Party, JD...
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  • Changing Attitudes On Child Marriage

    [video:http://youtu.be/ItiQGV5kg28] Around half the girls in India get married before the age of 18. Maharashtra has one of the highest numbers of such marriages. In her video, ‘Changing Attitudes on Child Marriage’  Rohini, IndiaUnheard community correspondent in Walhe district,...
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  • Transcript: Why Democracy - P.Sainath

    The following is the transcript of snippets of P. Sainath’s insights on democracy. I think there is much to think of here. Many thanks Atul Hirde for making this video and sharing. [video:http://youtu.be/rnh5mElQhVo] I believe that a democratic political culture is essential for any kind of...
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  • Killer Summer

    The summer of 2013.. hot, humid, tiring, scary, horrific! Evaporating ice, water and now... humans!! :P
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  • Food For Thought: Soup Kitchens

    I have finished reading Ash in the Belly! It was an eye opener in more ways than one! It validated many notions that were quite nebulous. But what is more important, it gave a human face to  the very notions that were till then more academic than anything else. I have been writing about...
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  • Bored to death

      This is taken from http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/view-finder-andhra-pradesh/article4623508.ece?ref=slideshow#im-image-4. As far as I know, digging borewells is illegal. I'm not sure how the permissions are given but if we continue at this rate, the ground water is...
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