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Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that creamy layer be identified among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes so more deprived ones among these two categories might get benefit of reservation. Unfortunately, politics prevailed over this ruling which could have been a watershed measure to give a chance to more unfortunates among these two sections to improve

बात आज से 50 साल से भी ज्यादा पुरानी है। तब मैंने लखनऊ के कान्यकुब्ज कॉलेज में 11वीं कक्षा में प्रवेश लिया था। कक्षा में ज्यादातर चेहरे नए थे। उन्हीं चेहरों में से एक था चंद्र भूषण सिन्हा। हमारी नजर में उसकी खासियत यह नहीं थी कि उसके पिता फौज में डॉक्टर थे, बल्कि खासियत

Just two days ago, noted young photojournalist Danish Siddiqui himself became news when he was killed while covering clashes between Afghani security forces and the Taliban, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan. The killing of Pulitzer award winner Siddiqui, and for that matter killing of any person, is tragic, and must be condemned by all in

Dear Amitabh Kant, I am Shachindra Sharma, a researcher closely associated with the NGO sector for almost three decades, residing in Lucknow. I am writing this letter to you to express my concern over NITI Aayog’s briefing to the Prime Minister on May 1 “on how the Government is working in active partnership with NGOs”

After a day of unsuccessfully calling one of my NGO friends in Banda district when I was finally able to talk to him the obvious question was, “Kahan vyast ho gae hain (where have you gone busy)?” Pat came reply, “Vyast nahin ast vyast ho gae hain aajkal (not busy, we have gone haywire).” This

Interacting with non-governmental organisations of Varanasi via video conferencing on July 9, 2020, the Prime Minister praised them for providing relief during the crisis caused by coronavirus. Exactly a month earlier on June 8, 2020, the Supreme Court, while taking suo motu cognizance of the plight of the people stranded on roads due to lockdown,

This morning, I made a purchase which was on hold for a long, because it was not available in the area. My water pipe used to water plants, fill water in coolers, wash floor, etc., had got so many holes that despite best tape work, a leak developed every other day and half of water

About 10 children in third standard of a government primary school in a small town of western Uttar Pradesh huddle together every morning, forgetting physical distancing that is norm these coronavirus disease days, to get questions from their teacher. They solve the questions, take photos of the answers and send the photos to the teacher.

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