PRAGOTI

A review of the film, Chittagong that narrates the story of the Chittagong uprising in the early 1930s featuring members of the "revolutionary terrorist" group, Jugantar. 

This statement is based on a Seminar attended by representatives of Safai Karamchari Andolan, Republic Trade Union of India, Centre of Indian Trade Unions, Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front; Advocates, Doctors and Health Activists; Faculty and Students of MIDS, IIT-M, New College, ACJ, MSE, Madras University among others. The discussion was one among many incidents happening across the country to support the struggle for abolishing manual scavenging and rehabilitation of manual scavengers. UPDATE: 23 Nov 2012 - Consolidated all signatures from change.org and comments..

Pragoti reproduces a powerpoint presentation by Ashwin Gambhir of the Prayas Energy Group, Pune [http://www.prayaspune.org/peg/index.php] on the increasingly important role played by Renewable Energy sources like Wind and Solar and the imperative of increasing efficiency in meeting India's energy needs. Offers crucial insights into the debate over nuclear energy in India: "2011 – global nuclear capacity fell by 10 GW, while that of the wind and solar PV increased by 44 GW and 23 GW respectively". The presentation was made in a discussion organised by the Council for Social Development, New Delhi in October 2012.

What the barrage of criticisms of the central government from across the political spectrum - over the mega corruption scandals and relentless price rise - could not achieve in the past couple of years, was accomplished by a couple of adverse reports in the western media. Time magazine’s description of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the “underachiever” who was "unwilling to stick his neck out on reforms” made him sit up and show that he was after all not “asleep at the wheel”.