Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started “Swachh Bharat Campaign” across India. We welcome the campaign. People who have taken brooms for 15 minutes for first time into their life just for the namesake got full coverage on newspapers, TV and other media platforms. But people who are actually cleaning our country from centuries hardly got any coverage in the mainstream media.
Chuggers in Christmas Market of UK
My perspective is limited to a view through an approximately 3mx1.2m rectangle window of the market stall I work in. Day by day I observe this piece of public space with the unimpressive and static background consisting of Santander bank, E mobile store and branded stationery up to fellow trader’s pick-and-mix sweets stall.
Sulabh Sexalaya: A way inward
The legalisation of prostitution is driven by demand, by the demography of our democracy.
The present powerful Indian government claims to reap from 3 Ds: DEMOCRACY, DEMOGRAPHY and DEMAND. Lets analyse it from angle of the recent debate on the legalisation of prostitution. Is the law a way forward ? Is it for millions involved in this livelihoods ? Is it only a legal problem?
Searching for sugarman- the armstrong of Maharashtra
The sugar scam in Maharshtra […]
KAMATHIPURA: Flesh off the nose
A dilapidated building. Probably a hundred years old. A colonial style wooden staircase leading up to a dark corridor. I had to be very careful while climbing up as the steps made a creaking sound upon walking and it felt that would break any minute. The stairwell led into a small house. In the lobby, there were found three men sitting shirtless. Some four women around them. One of the men was playing with a child who must’ve been about 8 months old. It was around 2:30 in the afternoon, and it seemed like a cocktail party in this brothel of Kamathipura.
RAJEEV AWAAS YOJANA Survey started in Annabhav Sathe Nagar
In 2004, fourty five working colonies in Mumbai were demolished, leading to the formation of GHAR BACHAO GHAR BANAO ANDOLAN under Medha Patkar leadership. I was a homeguard then, and I did not bother to protest until the very next day when my house was demolished.
Tuberculosis in M Ward, Mumbai: Between access and advocacy
Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide pandemic and the leading cause of death among HIV-infected people, says World Health Organization (WHO). Currently India’s DOTS (directly observed treatment-short course) programme is the largest and fastest expanding initiative in the world, in terms of patients initiated on treatment; and the second largest, in terms of population coverage.
RED pill or Blue ! for NEO COLD WAR
On meeting Vladimir Putin, Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, said: “Well, I guess I´ll shake your hand but I have only one thing to say to you: you need to get out of Ukraine.” David Cameron and Barack Obama personally delivered similar messages, in slightly less hostile terms.
BHUTAN: State of elderly
Most of the elderly population spend their days chanting prayers, circumambulating the temples and prostrating, as they are more meticulous in their religious practices. The majority of the people in Bhutan follow Buddhism and hence, it plays a vital role in the lives of most people, especially those who belong to older generations.
IMAGINING AIDS on the screen
There are diseases and then, there is AIDS. It is difficult to think of any other disease which takes as much a psychological and social toll on its victim as a physical one.
East European Pickers on the road
It was supposed to be the end of summer but it turned out to be the hottest autumn to be remembered. The last days of August I join my friends in Geneva to go to France, a bunch of other Eastern-Europeans, Polish, Checks, Hungarians, all of them seasonal farm-workers and restless vagabonds. Some of them had just managed to save-up their picking wages to buy mature and experienced second-hand camping vans: The Hotel Transporter and the Transit Paradise. With more folks on board they run the merrier. But they don’t run fast. No highways, no haste, only small distances on little roads and many halts. The Swiss turn back and stare: they never see such rickety things driving through their towns.
Banks who sold their Ferrari
According to P Sainath, the revenue foregone in 2013-14 budget can fund three decades of Rural Job Scheme, PDS for four and half years which is 5.32 lakh crore. And when he calculates since 2005-06 it is 36.5 lakh crore which is 36.5 trillion., which can fund MGNREGA for 105 years, PDS for 31 years.
Losar in Ladakh
The joy of celebration starts in the lost city of snow in cold winter. Losar is the biggest celebration, people awaits with great happiness and enthusiasm.
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