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Ways to deal with the child labour menace in India
By Ritika at 29 May, 2009, 12:22 am
Recently, I read an article in ‘The Economist’ regarding child labour in Bangladesh. That set me thinking that we don’t fare much better in India. We have often seen rampant child labour practices in textile, small scale industries, gems and jewellery etc and mostly in domestic help sector. Though we have child labour laws prohibiting [...]
Read More >>Mumbai Versus Delhi
By Ritika at 7 May, 2009, 10:51 pm
The Mumbai Indians and Delhi Daredevils will meet for their IPL match today. While the fate of this match is yet unknown and odds are in favour of Delhi, there is another front on which Delhi has already beaten Mumbai and that too with a shamefully big margin. The front I am talking about is the voting percentage of the 2 cities. While Mumbai set a target of just a measly 41% even after the huge hoophulla, Delhi managed to beat the target by posting a cool 53%. This is supposedly Delhi’s highest voting percentage in the past 20 years and ahead of other Indian metros like Mumbai and Bangalore.
Read More >>We get the Government we deserve
By Ritika at 6 May, 2009, 3:42 am
Long protest marches for the 26/11 victims, diatribes on national television against politicians, awareness campaigns by celebrities and yet one of the lowest turnouts in city of Mumbai. I thought it would be just the opposite. But Mumbaikars have definitely sprung a surprise for everyone by churning a voter turnout of just 49%.
Read More >>It’s time to take the blindfold off
By Ritika at 29 April, 2009, 11:43 pm
It’s been more than 5 months since the November 26th terrorist attack and justice is still not out to the sole captured terrorist Kasab. What seemed to be an open and shut case and the biggest crime in the country last year is still entangled in the Indian judiciary web. I fail to understand why [...]
Read More >>Why Blame Varun Gandhi?
By Ritika at 24 March, 2009, 11:02 pm
The Election Commission has advised the BJP against nominating Varun Gandhi as it has found Varun guilty of making the alleged hate speech at Pilibhit, the constituency he is standing for. The term advised says it all about the power of our Election Commission (EC). Though it has been a first in Indian electoral history that the EC has advised a political party to not field a certain candidate, the EC under current constitutional powers cannot enforce its advice.
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