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Delhi sweeps streets of beggars as India prepares for Commonwealth Games |
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Written by harshit mishra
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The three
women were at a bus stop when the police rolled up. "You are begging,
get in the van," the officers told them. They protested their innocence,
but to no avail.
After
they were locked up in beggars' prison behind the high, barbed-wire-topped
walls of the Nirmal Chhaya complex, next door to Delhi's Tihar jail,
50-year-old Ratnabai Kale twice tried to hang herself with her own sari.
As's capital stumbles
towards the starting line for next year's Commonwealth Games, draconian
orders have gone out to clear the streets of beggars. Teams of police,
backed by mobile courtrooms, are roaming the city, dispensing summary
justice to those whose faces don't fit. There are an estimated 60,000
beggars on Delhi's streets – many estimates put the figure much higher
– and tens of thousands more people who live rough on roadside scraps
of land.
The rationale
for the purge is simple: the image of an outstretched hand does not
sit easily with that of the "Incredible India" that the authorities
wish to project. "Before the 2010 Commonwealth Games, we want to
finish the problem of beggary from Delhi," the city's social welfare
minister, Mangat Ram Singhal, announced at the launch of the initiative.
But quite what Delhi plans to do with them is not entirely clear.
The city
has 12 beggar "homes" –
prisons by any other name –
that can contain about 2,000 inmates. There is talk of persuading other
states to take back people who have migrated to the capital, but it
is difficult to make the numbers add up. The city has been quietly buying
up bamboo in large quantities, in the hope of screening areas it considers
too embarrassing for international eyes.
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Written by Suchitra Singh
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Corporate World: profit making, resource management, capital, income, expenditure, stake holders, collaborations, meeting, contracts, inventions, production, innovation…
It is an unusually usual world where every corporate strives to be in pace with rapidly changing circumstances. But in this run to be the best, to contribute and survive in ‘this’ world we forget that ‘this’ world resides in ‘the’ world.
In this world exist Corporate Social Responsibilities also known as Sustainable Responsible Business ensures that business would embrace responsibilities for the impact of their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, community, stakeholders and other members of public sphere.
Corporate take resources (be it material or human), consumers, capital, profit etc. from society and CSR is a way they can give back to the society. CSR is an approach to make the corporate have a perspective longer and broader then their own immediate short term profit. CSR makes one touch not just profit but people, planet, profit all together.
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Wanna know what I had for breakfast?? |
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Written by Aneesh Mahindroo
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No, right? I didn’t think so. But sadly, I find myself in a world where people’s lives are being played out live on the internet, fuelled by web-portals like Orkut©, Facebook©, MySpace© & Twitter©.
What might have started out innocently enough as a way to stay in touch has mutated into this sinister monster that we now know as ‘Social Networking’.
So whether it’s your next door neighbour or the third cousin of your friend’s aunt’s daughter, its an open-for-all to blast you with all the happenings in their lives, not only expecting you to give a damn, but also respond with what’s happening in your own!
Have people forgotten how to type e-mails or pick up a phone & dial? People who wouldn’t say ‘Hi’ if they ran into you in the streets suddenly become your best pals on the net!
Recent studies have shown that most people actually prefer to interact with their fellow human sitting in front of a monitor than physically talking to them. |
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