South Asia Citizens Web

960 million Indians live on less than $2 a day. Reading the data is one thing; seeing the consequences, as I did recently driving through the slums on the outskirts of Jaipur, is heart-wrenching. Their plight could not be worse. Rafale jet fighters are about the last thing they need!

Following the letter from the Gujarat Government to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, a team of four senior officers from the Monitoring Unit of the FCRA department, New Delhi visited the registered offices of Sabrang Trust and Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) for an inspection of the accounts and records of both the trusts.

Satyajit Mayor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, ‘The Fabric of Biological Science in the 21st Century: An Indian cell biologist’s perspective’, 8 April, 2015.

Sanjay Raut must know what fallacy is. He demonstrated its use on Sunday while writing inSaamna, the Marathi daily of the Shiv Sena, the political party that he represents in the Rajya Sabha. In his weekly column Rok-Thok, Raut propagated the idea that “Muslims must be stripped of their voting rights” in order to end vote-bank politics. What’s more, he even called upon Muslims to “take the initiative in this regard”.
Raut told some journalists later that he felt “awfully sorry” writing all (…)

India’s Prime Minster, Mr. Narendra Modi, begins a three-day official visit to Canada today. That the Canadian Government accords the visit great significance is indicated by the fact that Prime Minister Harper will participate in events in all three cities on Mr. Modi’s itinerary – Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. For most members of the Indian diaspora here in Canada, basking in the reflected glory of an India soon to outpace China in terms of economic growth, this is their moment in the sun as an assertive leader of an aspiring nation takes centre stage. He looks to the future and doesn’t look back and given his track record they feel the authoritative Mr. Modi means business. Indeed he has promised India ‘good governance’, the Gujarat model (the state he was Chief Minister of until he became Prime Minister of India) of rapid and sustained growth and has spoken up for the girl-child. And to businesses in Canada and the rest of a growth-starved developed west he has promised market opportunities in an India on the cusp of outpacing China and an authoritative leader who can deliver growth and governance.