Can the collective conscious of India wake up the Indian politicians from the slumber? is the big question that came to my mind after hearing the news of death of the Delhi rape victim on Saturday morning. Read more

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Posted by Chetan Chauhan on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Filed under India · Tagged braveheart, crime against women, delhi gangrape, ecostani, female foeticide, government, Hindustan times, Indian Penal Code, news, rape, Sonia Gandhi, UPA
Barbaric rape of a 23-year-old paramedic in a moving bus in Delhi shows that we may be living in the world’s fastest growing economy but our progress in gender equality and respect towards women has been dismal. Read more

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Posted by Chetan Chauhan on Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Filed under Citizen rights, India · Tagged Chetan Chauhan, discrimination, education, equality, gender, government, Hindustan times, judicial, news, police, rape, respect, sensitise, sex, society, taboo
Being in Qatar for almost five days and seeing how climate change protests were quashed with disdain, I wondered what would have happened to Arvind Kejriwal, if he would had raised the issue of corruption in this country. Read more

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Posted by Chetan Chauhan on Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Filed under Citizen rights, India · Tagged Arvind Kejriwal, authority, bans, Chetan Chauhan, civil society, democracy, ecostani, Emir, government, Hindustan times, Mohammad Aniz, news, oil, processions, protests, Qatar, Raied Gheblawi
The UPA government’s ambitious direct cash transfer scheme cannot be a single bullet to weed out corrupt and vested interests in delivering welfare measures as touted by the government. It is bound to fail unless the ground level machinery is revamped. Read more

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Posted by Chetan Chauhan on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bihar, Brazil, cash, Chetan Chauhan, direct cash transfer, ecostani, education, government, health institutions, Hindustan times, Manmohan Singh, news, poor, public welfare, UNDP, UPA, Uttar Pradesh