ISSUES AND CONCERNS

VOCAL FOR LOCAL NEED FOR A NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY Governance with respect to a democratically elected legislature or parliament, like we have in India, stipulate that it works for the all round development of every area, taluk, district and state within the Indian nation, so also the rounded growth of its citizens by empowering them with sources of income to manage their body and soul. Of course, it is Utopian to think that there is all round growth with infrastructure of every kind in place with higher Human Development Index (HDI) where there is no visible poverty, no hunger, no malnutrition and all school going children are in schools, all lactating infants and growing children are in Anganwadis and there is good health and happiness all over the country, with no unemployment and with each one having his/her own source of income including employment, self employment etc. The reality is India’s HDI ranking as per United Nations Development Programme, is an abysmal 131 out of 1...

NEW DELHI: There was this newspaper report datelined New Delhi “Ex-student abducts teacher over Rs. 20 lakhs”. Reporting from South Delhi, the paper informed that one Sadaqat, a 23 year old youth, was a former student of a maulana with a madrasa in Shaheen Bagh in 2008. Later as he started earning money from a food stall in Okhla he started to deposit his savings with the maulana, Mohammad Muntazir Alam, his teacher. For 5 long years he kept depositing his savings and allegedly it had accumulated to Rs. 20 lakhs. However Sadaqat alleges that his teacher Maulana Alam refused to return the money he had kept with his teacher, when he asked for it. How can a teacher, that too, a maulana teaching Quranic tenets, if true, betrays the trust of his student?! At 23, Sadaqat is young and energetic and when his savings of many years was in danger of losing he was angry and had to act. Act he did, but in the process of acting to get his money back, he committed a serious crime. He abducted his tea...

BHIMA KOREGAON-A QUESTION OF ANSWERS History of every evolving society has its share of agreeable events and disagreeable opinions. Many a times, in fact more often than not, society and by extension the world, come to terms with the reality of the event and life goes on. History, as we all know, is full of events, understanding of which gives us a sense of perspective to understand and accept these events as an inevitable development in any society, which keeps adjusting itself to the evolving reality of life, which is ever on the move. World War I has come and gone, so has the World War II. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the culmination of global estrangement. Americans, who bombarded Japan, became its biggest trading partner, friend and protector. Both have found new meaning to their co-operative co-existence. Newer ways of socio-political life has emerged in the larger context of live and let live. We have United Nations organisation, which tries to give meaning to the concept of co-o...

NEW DELHI: It is very unusual and rare that those who peddle news, the TV anchor or journalist himself becoming an eye of the storm and becoming the news himself. Long standing anchor with television Rajdeep Sardesai, was in the thick of happening some weeks ago, interestingly for some eminently wrong reasons. As a result, he was declared out of action from his employer INDIA TODAY. He was accused of fake news. Reporting from Delhi, on the Tractor Parade on 26th January 2021, where he reported and repeated that a Tractor operator was shot by the Delhi police and was killed, which in reality it wasn’t. The tractor being driven by Navneet Singh overturned while trying to break the police barricades. Postmortem reportedly revealed that the tractor operator died due to “a traumatic injury above the left side of his skull from where his brain started oozing out”. The video released by the Delhi police also revealed “Navneet Singh speeding and running over barricades with his tractor resulte...