The Bhawalpuris of Rajpura: A Community That Rose Like A Phoenix
If you travel some 200 km from Delhi towards Amristsar by train or bus, you reach Rajpura soon after crossing the cantonment town of...
CAA and NRC : Beyond Protests and Rhetoric
A system of identification of citizens of India is an imperative for several reasons including welfare and support facilities, security, border control and curbs...
What Bihar Needs is a ‘Robust’ System to Support Young Entrepreneurs
This is the second article in “What Bihar Needs” Series. In this article the author focuses on the imperative of entrepreneurship development for economic...
What Bihar Needs is the Renaissance of ‘Vihari Identity’
From the pinnacle of glory as ‘Vihar’, known worldwide for wisdom, knowledge and imperial power in Maurya and Gupta times of ancient India, to...
Ancestor Worship
Love and respect are the foundations of ancestor worship particularly in Hinduism. It is believed that the dead have a continued existence and can...
The Sordid Saga of Indian Baba
Call them the spiritual gurus or thugs, the fact remains that the babagiri in India is today mired in obnoxious controversy. There is a long list...
What Bihar Needs is a Massive Revamp in its Value System
The Indian state of Bihar is historically and culturally very rich however does not stand so well on economic prosperity and social well being....
Civil society coalition presents health care manifesto for elections in Maharashtra
Close to the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections, a Ten-Point Manifesto on Right to Health care was presented to political parties by a...
Recounting An Encounter With A Roma – The European Traveler with...
Roma, Romani or gypsies, as they are snidely referred to, are the people of Indo-Aryan group who migrated from north west India to Europe...
Addressing Issues of Safai Karamchari (Sanitation Workers) is Key to the...
Society at all levels need to be sensitized about the importance of sanitation workers and their contribution to the society. Manual cleaning system should...
