IAS ESSAY: The Clash of civilization
Köchler, Hans
It is the noble duty of philosophy to expound the common system of values that are Shared by all civilizations and the recognition of which is the indispensable condition for every civilization’s existence and self-realization on the basis of mutual respect.
No one can live in peace unless he accepts the reciprocity of his right to live his own life and express his civilizational identity without interference or intimidation. It is the simple value of mutuality that is at the roots of civilizational dialogue.
If practiced in a consistent, credible and sustainable manner, the dialogue may expose the political agenda behind supposed cultural and civilizational conflicts and prevent a hitherto unseen perpetual confrontation between peoples, nations, and groups of nations in the name of civilization.
ESSAY: Social Issues – Naxalite in India : A War in the Heart of India
A War in the Heart of India
In the history of independent India, the most bloody conflicts have taken place in the most beautiful locations. Consider Kashmir, whose enchantments have been celebrated by countless poets down the ages, as well as by rulers from the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to the first prime minister of free India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Or Nagaland and Manipur, whose mist-filled hills and valleys have been rocked again and again by the sound of gunfire.
To this melancholy list of lovely places wracked by civil war must now be added Bastar, a hilly, densely forested part of central India largely inhabited by tribal people. In British times Bastar was an autonomous princely state, overseen with a gentle hand by its ruler, the representative on earth–so his subjects believed–of the goddess Durga. After independence, it came to form part of the state of Madhya Pradesh and, when that state was bifurcated in 1998, of Chattisgarh (a name that means “thirty-six forts,” presumably a reference to structures once maintained by medieval rulers).
Read at: A War in the Heart of India
Courtesy: www.thenation.com
PM’s remarks on Internal Security at Chief Minister’s Conference at pmindia.nic.in
India’s Naxalites : A spectre haunting India at economist.com
In the history of independent India, the most bloody conflicts have taken place in the most beautiful locations. Consider Kashmir, whose enchantments have been celebrated by countless poets down the ages, as well as by rulers from the Mughal Emperor Jahangir to the first prime minister of free India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Or Nagaland and Manipur, whose mist-filled hills and valleys have been rocked again and again by the sound of gunfire.
To this melancholy list of lovely places wracked by civil war must now be added Bastar, a hilly, densely forested part of central India largely inhabited by tribal people. In British times Bastar was an autonomous princely state, overseen with a gentle hand by its ruler, the representative on earth–so his subjects believed–of the goddess Durga. After independence, it came to form part of the state of Madhya Pradesh and, when that state was bifurcated in 1998, of Chattisgarh (a name that means “thirty-six forts,” presumably a reference to structures once maintained by medieval rulers).
Read at: A War in the Heart of India
Courtesy: www.thenation.com
PM’s remarks on Internal Security at Chief Minister’s Conference at pmindia.nic.in
India’s Naxalites : A spectre haunting India at economist.com
In spite of shortcomings, Parliament can claim the maximum credit for creating conditions for democracy to flourish
The nation is on the move. The challenge before us is to make the growth process more socially inclusive and regionally balanced
The great Indian paradox: a thriving ‘democracy’ in which the people are powerless to change the exploitative and unequal economic order.
A developmental vision for the future - N. CHANDRABABU NAIDU
Towards an alternative economic programme to balance economic growth and equity
Ironically, in order to protect the Constitution, both have assumed powers that extend beyond their original mandate.
India is the acknowledged home of people of different cultural and social identities. Its democratic experiment has stood the test of time.
On the threshold of ‘social democracy’ - KUMARI MAYAWATI
When an eagle takes flight, it has to fly against the wind and not with it.
Hopes for the future - RAJNATH SINGH
The challenges: internal security, rural poverty, moral values.
Courtesy : The Hindu
MANY FACES OF GENDER INEQUALITY By Amartya Sen
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen’s work on gender inequality is of seminal importance. His work on the theory of the household represents the household not as an undifferentiated unit, but as a unit of cooperation as well as of inequality and internal discrimination. He has worked on problems of discrimination against women in the development process, on survivorship differentials between men and women under conditions of social discrimination against women, and on women’s agency in the process of social development. Along with his academic collaborator Jean Drze, Professor Sen proposed and popularised the concept of “missing women” – estimated to exceed 100 million round the world – which has given us a new way of understanding and mapping the problem.
Courtesy : The Frontline
ESSAY: A lecture on India: Large & Small by Prof. Amartya Sen
Affiliations such as nationality are not only matters of entitlement, they all also involve Attachment and responsibility. In a rapidly changing country, asIndia certainly is, one of the duties that we have as Indians is to ask: what kind of a country this is. This may lead to the further question: what does it demand of us, at this time?
I am very aware that it is rather reckless to ask grand questions of such apparent naivety. But since I don’t indulge in other dangerous activities, like taming lions, or being on the trapeze, or standing for parliamentary elections, perhaps I ought to show some bravery and foolhardiness here. Hence this lecture. India is of course a large country, with a huge population. The relative size of the Indian population is not a new phenomenon, contrary to the presumption, which seems fairly common in the world today, that India has become relatively enormous mainly because of recent population growth.
In fact, the share of India in world population prior to the eighteenth century was very considerably larger than it is today. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many other parts of the world – Europe in particular – grew much more rapidly than India and China and the non-Western world in general, and the share of the so-called West sharply increased. When that Western growth moderated, in the twentieth century, while the expansion of the non-Western population, including that in India, speeded up, there has been some catching up relative sizes, which according to U.N. projection may be completed during the first half of this century. All this does not, of course, diminish the importance of reducing the fertility rate in India (it is an urgent priority, given its social consequences), but it is important not to see the relative largeness of the Indian population as a brand new phenomenon.
Courtesy : Planning Commission
DALIT ISSUES | |
Nearly sixty years after Independence, 20 per cent of India’s population, our Dalits, continue to be denied equal access to education, employment and representation and dignity The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment is responsible for all round development of Scheduled Castes and to bring them in the mainstream of national life and ensure their full participation in socio-economic development of the country. Thousands of manual scavengers headload human excrement and clean dry latrines across the state of Gujarat, even though the practice has been banned. Martin Macwan, a Dalit activist and lawyer who set up the Navsarjan Trust, has been working against this dehumanising practice in 2,000 villages. His work against the hidden apartheid against Dalits has won him the Kennedy Human Rights Award for 2000 and the 2001 International Activist Award. LIST OF FAMOUS DALIT PERSONALITIES Please click here>> Social background and origins Please click here>> Fast facts about Dalits in India * 37 percent of Dalits living below poverty in India * More than half (54%) of their children are undernourished in India * 83 per 1000 live birth children born in Dalit community are probability of dying before the first birthday * 45 percent of dalits do not know read and write in India * Dalits women burden double discrimination (gender and caste)in India * Only 27 percent of dalits women give institutional deliveries in India * About one third of Dalit households do not have basic facilities SCHEMES BEING OPERATED BY THE MINISTRY • SCA TO SCP TO SCHEDULED CASTE • POST-MATRIC SCHOLARSHIP FOR SC/ST STUDENTS • PRE-MATRIC SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE CHILDREN OF THOSE ENGAGED IN UNCELAN OCCUPATIONS • NATIONAL OVERSEAS SCHOLARSHIP AND PASSAGE GRANTS FOR HIGHER STUDIES ABROAD • SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR SCHEDULED CASTES GIRLS BELONGING TO LOW LITERACY LEVELS • CENTRALLY SPONSORED SCHEME OF HOSTELS FOR SCHEDULED CASTE GIRLS AND BOYS • BOOK BANKS FOR SC/ST STUDENTS • UPGRADATION OF MERIT OF SC STUDENTS • COACHING & ALLIED SCHEME FOR SC STUDENTS • NATIONAL SCHEDULED CASTES FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (NSFDC) • NATIONAL SAFAI KARAMCHARIS FINANCE & DEVELPOMENT CORPORATION (NSKFDC) • ASSISTANCE TO SCHEDULED CASTES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS (SCDCs) • NATIONAL SCHEME OF LIBERATION AND REHABILITATION OF SCAVENGERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS • SUPPORTING PROJECT OF ALL INDIA NATURE OF SCs • NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SAFAI KARAMCHARIS courtesy...bharatshodh.org | |
| LABOR ISSUES | |
Labor issue for developing nations seems to be complex. There are both positive and negative aspects to go with it. To get a general picture about this issue, one new book,China's global reach: markets, multinationals, and globalization, by a leading Chinese commentator george zhibin gu, is very useful. This book addresses general development issues for both developed and developing nations. Hugely insightful on China, India and other developing nations. Furthermore, it has big analysis on global job transfers due to salary and cost differences. So, this issue has very complex consequences for the world. For example, all multinationals, be they Western, Chinese or Indian ones, have to play with it. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AT A GLANCE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM (Please click the link below to get the details.) http://labour.nic.in/glance/molglance.html#LAWS | |
The labourer,coolies and construction workers in India have a tough time -- they must be provided with small bamboo carts, which they must manage, so they can help us without too much strain. Maybe people should travel with suitcases with wheels so that coolies could pull them, rather than carry them on their head. Minimum wage is a severe problem too in India. It is a measely amount in most states of India and the contractors keep a lot of the share for themselves. They have to be taught not to take money from the poor. In Kerala, construction workers get Rs. 200 a day, whereas in U.P. they get a measely Rs. 50 a day. Standard of living is not so different to justify such a difference. Some social workers have managed to get some contractors to put the labourers children to school. Maybe IGNOU-like correspondence courses may be good for labourer's children. These courses should be free distribution of notes to poor labourers' children -- with basic hiegine, basic education --teaching them to read the regional language and a bit of English.
Abolition of Bonded Labour
Important links on labour issue
http://indiaimage.nic.in/pmcouncils/reports/
admin/chap3.htm
Abolition of Bonded Labour
Important links on labour issue
http://indiaimage.nic.in/pmcouncils/reports/
admin/chap3.htm
http://www.labour.nic.in/ilas/secystate.htm
http://labour.nic.in/ilas/indiaandilo.htm
http://cabsec.nic.in/abr/abr18.htm\
http://labour.nic.in/ilas/indiaandilo.htm
http://cabsec.nic.in/abr/abr18.htm\
courtesy..bharatshodh.org
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