Poverty Is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around

Inequality and poverty are suddenly hot topics, not only in the United States but also across the globe. Since the early 1980s, there has been a growing underclass in America. At the same time a much smaller class, now called the superrich, built its wealth to levels of opulence not seen since France’s Louis XVI.…

Quotation

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’” – Brian Tracy

सवेरा- गुरबीर ‘इलाही’

हर बात बनते-बनते बिगड़ जाती है, ना जाने ज़िन्दगी कितने इम्तिहान चाहती है। हर रोज़ लगता है कि सवेरा होगा, अब ना रात का गहरा अँधेरा होगा, ना जाने कब वो सहर होगी, जब हर तरफ अमन की लहर होगी। ना कोई बच्चा भूख से रोयेगा, हर शख्स सकून की नींद सोयेगा, न बन्दूक की…

Letter to Shaheed Sukhdev

~Bhagat Singh Dear Brother, By the time you receive this letter I will be gone, going to a far off destination. Let me assure that I am prepared for the voyage in spite of all the sweet memory and in spite of all the charms of my life here. Up to this day one thing…

हम भूल गये सब कुछ

हम भूल गये 2G, 3G ; हम भूल गये CWG | हम भूल गये सत्यम, बोफोर्स ; हम भूल गये चारा, आदर्श | 1984 में सिखों की नसल्कुशी को भूल गये हम ; 2002 के गुजरात दंगों को भी भूल गये हम | कोयले की कालिख में सफेदी कहीं गुम सी गई ; विदेशों में…

Tehelka Investigation : Death At A Discount

A deadly mix of medical negligence and pursuit of the profit motive has spelt countrywide disaster and shows no signs of abating as yet. There is a spine-chilling story about the raging swine flu that has caused more than 10,000 deaths in the country over the past six years. While the failure to detect the…

Seeking reaction by no action

In the face of virtual non-cooperation from banks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to maintain the status quo in policy rates, in the first bimonthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2015-16. The “heads I win, tails you lose” attitude of the banks has not really gone down well with the RBI and also…

Letter From ‘A Common Citizen Of India’

Dear Government, Demolishing our Mosques, Killing Muslims in Gujarat, Assam and elsewhere, depriving us of our rights, usurping the land of our Farmers, trying to make Muslims second class citizens of the country will neither make us hate our fellow Hindu nationals nor it will make the big big majority of peaceful Hindu to hate…