A cycle rally was held in city this morning to create awareness among voters ahead of Assembly polls. Disha Foundation and Association for Democratic Reforms had organised the rally. As part of the campaign, a series of rallies will be held in April and May. Over 200 people participated in today’s rally led by ZP…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Events in India hardly get reported in global media. But what found space in many of the world’s newspapers and televisions were images of smog-filled Delhi and streets clogged with thousands of vehicles. And as usual, we saw the blame game enacted by our politicians, schools closed down, the National Green…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Fourteen saree-clad women in a busy shopping mall in Mysuru are not normally noticed by too many people or they do not make headlines. One can agree that this is not breaking news or something that one talks about. But what makes it special is that these women were all in…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Democracy is increasingly being understood in India as elections and voting. The larger role of citizen engagement and the importance of several democratic institutions in ensuring good governance is rarely internalised by many. Democracy can be meaningful and productive for the people only when institutions that are created by the legislative…
Mysuru: Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Founder and Chairman of GRAAM and also the Founder of Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), Mysuru, has been invited to deliver a talk and participate in panel discussions at the Berkeley India Conference conducted by the Institute of International Studies at UC-Berkeley, California, USA, on Oct. 7 and 8. The…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam India is not only the largest democracy in the world but is also known as one of the noisiest and unhealthy ones. Whatever it is, the events of the last couple of months is something that will make Indian democracy qualify as a ‘ugly’ one too. We always knew that the…
Mysuru: The 52nd Annual Day celebrations of All India Institute Speech and Hearing (AIISH) was held at its premises in Manasagangothri here this morning. Inaugurating the programme, Dr. R. Venkata Rao, Vice-Chancellor, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, opined that teaching was a very noble profession. He said that people with any physical impairment…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Food subsidisation and public distribution systems are the cornerstone for the assessment and eradication of food insecurity in India. While the Government of India passed the National Food Security Bill, the Government of Karnataka has implemented a revised food distribution system, known as the Anna Bhagya Yojana from May 2015. Under…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Caste and religion has today become an inseparable part of the daily discourse. Whether it is a discussion around a marriage in the family, or renting out one’s house or the politics of the nation, we seem to have reconciled to this being a part of our DNA. While some of…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam This incident happened a few years ago. I was walking towards Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama in Mysore and was waiting at a signal-light to cross the road. Being a 4-way junction, the wait seemed to be a long one. It was then that I noticed a middle-aged woman selling bananas by the…
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