Running an NGO is very complicated, decidedly more complicated than running a business. A small business owner is accountable to him only, earns money and spends the way he wishes. Compare this with NGO owner, oh sorry NGO head, variously called director, executive director, secretary, president… The NGO head is supposed to work ‘selflessly’ for
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Earlier this week the District Magistrate of Lucknow issued order that utensils of children eating midday meal in government schools will be washed by the cooks. This decision must have come as music to ears of anti-child labour lobby. For the last many years newspapers publish photos and news of children of government primary schools
तमाम सारे साथियों की वेबसाइट बनाने के बाद हम अकसर कई अजब हालातों का सामना करते हैं। वेबसाइट का एड्रेस देते ही दूसरी ओर से फोन आता है वेबसाइट नहीं दिख रही है। इस सवाल का जवाब देते ही अगला सवाल आता है हमारी वेबसाइट गूगल पर क्यों नहीं दिख रही है। इसका उत्तर देते
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Some trips on the trains of the public mover, Indian Railways, become ‘memorable’ for wrong reasons. When I say public mover, I do not mean Vande Bharat, Rajdhanis and Shatabdis; they are class movers between class places. By public mover I mean ordinary express and passenger trains which stop at every 20-30 km or at
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Over 20 years ago I had a chance encounter with Ubha village in Sonbhadra district, recently in news for all the wrong reasons. An assignment to profile a few NGOs working on children’s issues in Uttar Pradesh took me to the village, where an organisation Children Welfare Society was running an education project for the
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