SlashIndia - General

SACHHAR COMMITTEE REPORT: APLOY TO WEAKEN INDIA FURTHER ?

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:16:26 -0700

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.

DolBajao.com-Desi Stories, Videos, Deals and more..

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:11:41 -0700

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!”.

DolBajao.com is a web service that allows anyone to submit a link to a news article, a YouTube Video, a great Deal, a bollywood story that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page. Users can submit and play embedded videos, images etc.

Traffic rules in India: Is anyone listening?

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:37:45 -0700

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 HOT Outsourcing Hub

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:33:08 -0700

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!!

The Many Faces of India

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:19:19 -0600

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.

You surely must be joking Mr. Prime Minister

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:06:29 -0600

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.

Justice For Priyadarshini

Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:03:51 -0600

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

Evening Hours of Bloodshed (A Poetic Attempt)

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:05:41 -0600

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.

The Sky Rumbled

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:39:37 -0600

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.

Government turns to policing reservation protests.

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:35:03 -0600

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.

My case against reservation.

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:44:09 -0600

1. Most people from reserved categories passing out of IITs have lower competencies than their general category counterparts. Most of them perform badly in the internal exams and as a result when they pass out they neither have the confidence nor the skills to create or help build world class technology companies. When we talk about reservation we forget the 'social cost' of reserving that seat and just look at the single individual who gains through reservation. The 'social cost' of reserving a single seat in an IIT is that it compromises the ability of the country to create another Infosys or Wipro which in the long run would have generated hundreds of jobs many of which would have gone to people from the OBC sector itself. A similar argument can be made about how a more competent doctor can save more lives than a lesser competent one. Reservation benefits only a handful on individuals at the cost of hundreds of others, which is definitely wrong as a national policy.

The next exodus will be of teachers

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:12:58 -0600

The biggest consequence of the increase in the number of seats in IITs, IIMs and other educational institutes will be the increased burden on the existing faculty.

T V R Shenoy gives a detailed analysis on the current state of teachers in our best educational institutes and why many of them will leave once reservation is bought in.

Did anyone in the Manmohan Singh ministry actually talk to the teachers in the IITs, IIMs, or AIIMS before deciding to increase numbers wholesale? If you don't consult teachers in decision that directly affect them aren't you treating them as lackeys who must do as they are ordered? And why should someone labour away in a job that is not respected when there are greener pastures -- and Green Cards -- to be had?

Read the entire article on Rediff here.

Pukar - a corporate initiative against reservations.

Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:17:48 -0600

Pukar is the corporate arm of the national movement against reservation, and is holding its first rally in Gurgaon on 5th of June, Monday.

Pukar is non-political organization formed by a large number of corporate employees in NCR and beyond to mobilize the opinion of the employees & management in the Indian corporate sector against the issue of caste based reservations for OBC’s in educational institutions.

Find more details about Pukar and the rally on their website corporate.pukar.googlepages.com.

Medicos suspend anti-reservation strike.

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:38:19 -0600

Heeding to Supreme Courts threat, doctors and medical students in Delhi have called of the strike. Even though the medicos will resume work, but the protest is still on and engineering students are pitching in.

In another related development, the UPA has gone ahead at further pandering of 'lower caste' votes by hinting at the inevitability of reservation in private sector.

Supreme court steps in.

Tue, 30 May 2006 13:11:30 -0600

Supreme Court has issued notices to the government asking a detailed explanation of the rationale behind reservations for OBC's.

The court’s order came on the basis of petitions filed by advocate Ashoka Kumar Thakur and Shiv Khera challenging the validity of the Constitution 93rd amendment extending reservation for OBCs.

However, the supreme court has given the government 8 weeks to reply, and has also warned medicos to end strike.

...the court has now made clear it was taking the matter very seriously and that the doctors would face contempt charges if the agitation is not immediately called off.

YouthForEquality faces a difficult choice - if the strike is called of now, it will be very difficult to bring it back to its current status after a gap of 8 weeks. Going by past conflicts between the parliament and the judiciary, there is little reason to believe that the SC would be of any help in winning the war on reservation. On the contrary it might play a part in weakening the students movement.

For now however, the agitation is still on.