Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Sailgate: The backgrounder

So, you have crores, but not enough crores. You want to buy a yatch. Can afford it, but would like to save some money. Say a FERRATTI 55 series yacht. It costs Rs 12 crore plus 35 % customs import … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Diyar government, a laundry list for human rights

Here are things I need done. Kindly do the needful. Quit aping the west on the dehumanization, and instead copy the concept of safe houses. You can’t do shit for women unless you can offer those in trouble a safe … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty All in the eye of the beholder

It is not new that sexual harassment of women is at an all time high. It is also not new that people in power are simply not interested in doing anything about this. Considering that they are busy blaming women … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Recent Reports of Violence against women at Maps4Aid

Making it jazzy for those who find it dreary news too depressing. Here are headlines from February alone of reports of violence against women at Maps4Aid website. Note that these are a small fraction of what’s happening. To land up … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Balochistan: Winds of Change

For once, it is a treasure to read the wave of euphoria sweeping through the tweets of the Baloch people. After six decades of cries for help going into some inexplicable void, it is a moment of recognition. US Republican … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty A Response to Primary Red’s post on Justice and the Gujarat riots

Primary Red and I often have differences on the subject of Gujarat Riots. This is a subject with many differences of opinion, but what disturbs me about my conversations with him is that they often become about me personally. About … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty In memory of Swami Nigamanand

Last year, on this day, the 19th February 2011, Swami Nigamananda took the place of another sadhu, Swami Yajnanda as a part of their long struggle against illegal mining of the riverbanks of the Ganga. Determined and unnoticed, Matra Sadan, … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Fundamental duties of an Indian citizen

I think we have wandered very far from these, and these are really beautiful guidelines on how to be as a citizen of India. So posting them here in the hope that seeing them in a new form may trigger … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Check Dams: A practical alternative to our large dam fetish

Check Dams are boulder dams. Their purpose is to retain water down stream, so that the water percolates into the ground and recharges the ground water table. Check Dams built only on seasonal water courses, stop the rain water discharging … Continue reading →

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Highlights from AamJanata - Dismantling assumptions, unraveling certainty Open Secret Bigotry

Let me begin with saying that you are not a bigot. We like to imagine we have humanitarian values and value all life equally. And perhaps that is our intent too. We would like to do it. Bigotry has no … Continue reading →

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