People friendly policy in India: a Mirage

By Brigadier Arun Bajpai (Retd): At a mature age of 62 least that can be expected from the Indian Democracy is that it is served by a police force specially designed and suitably groomed to serve the people of the country who are the lord, the master and the final arbiter in a democratic system. Not in India.

Homage to the People’s Leader Jyoti Basu

By Amitava Basu: Born in 1914, the people’s leader, Jyoti Basu, passed away at 11.47 a.m. on January 17th 2010. Schooled in Loreto and Saint Xaviers at Kolkata, he studied in Presidency College, one of the most prestigious colleges in the country. After graduating in English, on advice of his father, Jyoti Basu went to England, at the age of 22, to study law.

State level Leadership Project for Ignited Youth

Kanyakumari, January 1, 2010: India’s greatest human resource is the youth. But this resource should also be developed. Hence as a build up to Swami Vivekananda’s 150th Birth Anniversary in 2013, Vivekananda Kendra Kanyakumari has taken up a massive State-level Leadership development project, Vijay Hi Vijay for Degree and Post Graduate students of Assam.

Saga of Char Lifeline in Brahmaputra Valley

December 24, 2009: People in Char live a painful life - pregnant woman deliver dead baby, injection is administered by the quack, babies reduced to skeleton for want of  protein-rich-diet, children lack education. Read an exclusive report by Shib Shankar Chatterjee.

Case Study Number 1 (River Erosion)