Indian Opinion

This author has written this news (in picture) in Garhwal Post in the year 2006. It is a small newspaper published from Dehradun.    Mukesh Devrari It started in the early nineties. It was the part of the initiation of economic reform juggernaut. Successive governments in India accepted the policy prescription from neo-liberal thinkers that the education sector should be opened for private players. All opposite suggestions were dismissed as leftist arguments, which had perhaps lost their potency with the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Humanist thinkers reminded the government that it must keep the health and education sector in its own hands. Hospitals and Universities cannot be allowed to function with the sole intention of making a profit, but all alternative discourse was  out-rightly  rejected. The result was an innumerable number of private colleges and universities cropped up around the country. Some of them are churning trained technical ...

Mukesh Devrari  Experts from across the the country participated in the round Table Conference on ‘Naxalism, Development and Crisis of Governance in the Context of Jharkhand’, which was organized by the Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Management of Central University of Jharkhand on 26th March 2014. Conference was divided into four sessions ‘Is the Maoist Movement Critical’, ‘Dynamics and Drivers’, ‘The State as Problem and Solution’ and ‘Can the Future Be Better’. Open invitation was extended to all faculty members and students of Central University Jharkhand to attend the round table and freely express their views. However, during the discussion none of the participants explicitly mentioned that Maoists are actually fighting an ideological war with the state. Many of them preferred to describe rebellion in central India as land reform movement which has been degenerated into law and order problem of large proportions.  Practical suggestions were put f...

Mukesh Devrari India is a strange country. It was a mystery, it is a mystery and it will always remain a mystery. This is how many people like to describe this place. It is nothing but an exaggeration. Logic does not work here, pure cruelty works here better. Elites in India still consist of upper castes. Perhaps that is why inhumanity and unscrupulousness is more at display here. Caste biases and prejudices flow in the veins of Indians. It is another thing that everyone, mainly people belonging to upper castes who are living in cities, denies that caste tendencies exist in our society at all. They also assert forcefully that they do not believe that caste matters at all.  Caste is perhaps more pervasive in India then many of us like to believe.  Caste is similar to race. People are educated and do not want to be branded as casteist as nobody in west likes to branded as racist. Despite of the claims it is not only the strength of character, which matters in our societ...