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“You’re either with us or against us” : A police officer’s plea

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Activism, State of the Nation / By Sarayu Trust

This article http://www.indianexpress.com/news/You-re-either-with-us-or-against-us/368483 – an article by an IPS officer defining how the police has a “thankless job” and has to work with either conspiracy theories or flak. The title of the article – “You’re either with us or against us” – rather sadly, defines the more highlighted muslim mindset, which is mostly a result …

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Extending Article 370 beyond Kashmir; Could this be a solution?

Leave a Comment / Advocacy and Activism, Articles, State of the Nation / By Sarayu Trust

n 2004 my friend and mentor, Prasanna Lal Das, wrote an article called “Article 370 – a case to extend it beyond Kashmir“, and ofcourse as most Indians do, I was out of my wits on reading the title. To me Article 370 was clearly another case of appeasement of “kashmiri muslims”. I never read …

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Mohan Kedkar: Mumbaikars express gratitude for selfless service

1 Comment / Articles, Blog, Literacy Campaign, Security, State of the Nation / By Colrama

Help for Bandra braveheart’s kin TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: “He was always a quiet boy. He was always the first one to rush and help people,’’ said 55-year-old Pandurang Redkar about his 20-year-old son Mohan who died while saving a couple from drowning at Bandra bandstand four months ago. He seemed oblivious of the praises …

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Cure This : A citizen photo-journalism initiative

Leave a Comment / Blog, State of the Nation / By Sarayu Trust

This is another initiative by Srijan Foundation Trust to help change government (state and central) policies and mismanagement of issues that concerns the ordinary citizen of the city/country. See: http://curethis.wordpress.com/ to see some recent posts on water mismanagement by the Delhi government.

Between a rock and a hard place

2 Comments / Agriculture, Economy, State of the Nation / By Sarayu Trust

An enlightening (and frustrating) article by P. Sainath. He is an authority on state of Indian agriculture, and has travelled extensively throughout the country, documenting the disgraceful mess created by this entity called “the Indian government”. One of the most popular books he has written, which will send shivers up your spine is, “Everyone loves …

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Why Tibet Matters

1 Comment / Spirituality and Religion, State of the Nation, Tibet, World / By Sarayu Trust

This is a wonderful eye opening article, very well reasoned out for creating a much more radical Tibet policy by the Indian government – for reasons much beyond politics alone – and covering matters of India’s integrity and Spirituality. http://www.indianexpress.com/story/296828.html : by Sonia Jabbar for the Indian Express. —————– To sacrifice Tibet’s interests would be …

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I stand by Bhutia and Aamir; shame to the CPM

Leave a Comment / Security, Spirituality and Religion, State of the Nation, World / By Sarayu Trust

While Bhutia refused to carry the Olympic torch in his support for Tibet and HH Dalai Lama, Aamir is carrying the same ‘…with a prayer for the Tibetans and their struggle’. I relate to both of these men, and their stand in taking opposite actions but with the same purpose. Shame to the communists in …

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Tibetans in Himachal

Leave a Comment / State of the Nation / By Sarayu Trust

There is an interesting discussion on the issues between the locals and Tibetans in Dharamsala/ McLeodganj at the http://www.himvani.com promoted Yahoo group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/himvani/message/4001.