SACHHAR COMMITTEE REPORT, ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF MUSLIMS IN THE COUNTRY:

The Sachhar Committee Report has not done justice to the phenomenon and manifests subjectivity and irrationality in its approach and recommendations.

The Constitution of India, as adopted since its threshold, year 1950, has provided equal opportunities to all, irrespective of their cast, creed and gender.

Lord Wavel, the then Viceroy of India, in October 1945, from his Simla seat announced the intent of the British Government that decided to free India, and called the then Indian leaders to meet me, to decide about the respective modalities.

Check out this newest entrant in 'digg' like Socal Bookmarking area for interesting and exciting Indian stories.

DolBajao.com is a good 'India Centric' Social Bookmarking site Catering to Indians worlwide. It gives the “real power to the people” in deciding what should be published with a mission to “Spread clean and fun Indian Content on the internet!”.

Traffic on Indian roads is a hallucinatory potion of sound, spectacle and experience. Road accidents in India are on rise. What makes travel on Indian roads so heart-rending most of the times?

HAVING A HEALTHY disregard for the impossible: Indian Traffic

The line says it all. Many enthusiasts have come and gone with a dream in their eyes and that is to revive the Indian traffic scenario but they were undervalued because they lacked that je ne sais quoi.

Some eye-opening statistics:

• 6 per cent of the world’s deaths during road accidents happen in India. (While India has only 1 per cent of the world’s vehicles)

Hyderabad has seen tremendous development over the last few years. Microsoft, IBM, Perot, Accenture, CA, HP, Templeton, Goldman Sachs, Google, Dell, Motorolla, Oracle, GE, Adobe, Sun, McAfee, Pacific, Unisys, USi, Cisco, Ericsson, Norton, Nokia, Sierra, Flextronics are only few of the international companies now in Hyderabad. Read more (www.exclventures.com) and monitor new projects including the GIGANTIC 90 Story Tower coming up in Hyderabad!

There are hundreds of NRIs and expatriates now working and buying luxurious properties. The upcoming international Airport, Express Highway to Airport, exploding growth in areas like Hitec City and Guchiboli has changed the face of the city!!

Found this interesting collage prepared by an Indian on The Many Faces of India. It depicts photos from various aspects of India, including rural India, Indian cities, pictures from the Indian film industry, photos of Indian roads/traffic, Indian economy, photos of Indian IT leaders, etc.

It's really a treat to see, and makes us all feel proud to be Indian.

Manmohan Singh addressed the nation today with a speech, so rabid and full of oft repeated and done-to-death cliches of building the so called modern India.

Even though he talks about building "An India that is united in thought, not divided by religion and language. An India that is united in our Indianness, not divided by caste and region.", he is all for providing caste based reservations in our institutes.

Mr. Prime Minister, if its not so much to ask, please give us a break.

Though I know he is the man who committed the crime, I acquit him, giving him the benefit of the doubt.' Thus spoke Delhi's Additional Sessions Judge G P Thareja on December 3, 1999. He was delivering the verdict in the case of the rape and murder of Priyadarshini Mattoo.

Ten years after Priyadarshini Mattoo was raped and murdered by one Santosh Kumar Singh, the culprit still roams free and is infact a practicing lawyer in Delhi.

Justice For Priyadarshini, a group dedicated to getting justice for Priyadarshini, is organising a protest rally on July 23rd at India Gate (4:30 P.M.).

Be there. Be there for a Safer India

A few days back, 11th July bomb blasts brought the most happening city of India to a halt. A halt, which abolished lives and daunted humankind...a halt, which was mighty enough to agitate our spirits and made us lookup within ourselves. For looking up for the answer to the question, "for how long, this terrorism will keep terrifying innocent and scaring humanity?" The same feeling is expressed here in form of few poetic words here:

In the evening hours of bloodshed,
the lives were lost; air was red.
Satanic verses played cacophonies,
and stopped healthy lives' journeys.

It was cloudy today and the sky was blood red. The country is bleeding and the stars are witness. The country mourns silently. There is not one voice but a murmur of pain and discontent. Its grows louder and the sky rumbles in reponse. A crack of lightening, as if demanding some answers.

Read more of Parijat's beautiful prose here.

The government has now started to actively stop protests against reservations using police force. The most recently targetted where the JNU students trying to take out a protest march.

The walk that was supposed to go from JNU's North Gate to PVR Priya Complex was blocked at JNU's North Gate by Police Force.

It is a shame that the same government not only allowed but also protected pro-reservation sloganeers a day before- that too at India Gate!!!!!

Interestingly, the protest by Pukar was also stopped by the police on the grounds that the Chief Minister of Gurgaon was visiting.

Read more at Youth for Equality, JNU blog.