Born from the high skies, Ma Ganga stepped onto earth from Lord Shiva’s matted locks to rescue sixty thousand cursed souls trapped in ash. From the icy cave of Gaumukh, she crashes fiercely through Himalayan gorges, rolls across the fertile northern plains, and dissolves into the Bay of Bengal. To Hinduism, she is the ultimate divine, mother who cleanses a lifetime of sins with a single dip. Today, this colossal lifeline which sustains over four hundred million people is gasping for breath. Billions of litres of toxic sewage and industrial poisons suffocate her waters every single day. Tragically, her sacred name has been weaponized as a highly profitable cash cow. Billions of taxpayers' hard-earned rupees have vanished into the bottomless black hole of grand, loudly advertised river-cleaning campaigns. Even the ultimate sacrifice of scientist-turned-monk Professor G.D. Agarwal, who tragically lost his life after a gruelling 111-day fast to protect the river, could n...
Simply speaking , power as well as roll of Democracy is not confined to voters exercising their electoral right to vote .In Democracy the idea of election is to choose a government that allows the citizens to express their dissent, demand accountability and influence public policy. The recent detailed investigating report published in "The Indian Express" established that two out of three "Election Commissioners" had complained that they were kept in the dark on most of the crucial decisions taken at the "Election Commission" They also revealed unprecedented internal fractures and serious administrative disputes within the "Election Commission". They claimed that they had formally lodged written objections at least "14" times over "10" months against unilaterally made decisions by the "Chief Election Commissioner" Gyanesh Kumar and the ECI's "IT Division". Further they revealed that critic...