https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/extra-judicial-commissions-creating-false-narratives-around-2020-delhi-riots-central-government-to-delhi-high-court The affidavit dated September 19, 2022 was filed by the Centre in support of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking quashing of different reports prepared by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Citizens and Lawyers Initiative on the Delhi Riots of 2020.

In the plea,  one Dharmesh Sharma  has stated that his family used to run a school in Delhi's Mustafabad area, which was burned down during the riots. He said that the reports published by the DMC as well as other organisations are biased and impede the due process of law. In its response, the Centre has said that the DMC report is not only without jurisdiction, but also 'fake', and has been engineered by people with 'oblique and extraneous motives'. With regard to other reports, the government said that they abrogate fair trial and should be declared non-est so that they are not relied upon by any judicial forum, including courts.

Comment on Whatsapp: I suppose we will be discussing this today. We have to plea that in the age of whats app and Instagram, and fake news, one of the democratic duties of the people, is to learn "how to read" all such reports and understand them. It is unbecoming of "state" to say that since abc is influencing people, and somebody is "motivated" that either this motivation is illegitimate or that people who get follow these reports are "sheep". In fact it is the duty of State to ensure that in a regime of public news production, State should enable persons to get all points of view, and that all arms of the State should take cognizance of these reports, and when they are serious allegations which deal with Fundamental rights and Human Rights, the agencies concerned enquiry into each such allegation and present their findings before the executive and file FIRS before the courts, instead of declaring them "non-est"

All reports of inquiry should be seen (much like the rhetoric of advocate saying that they seek to "assist the Court:, ) that they are infact "assisting" the law enforcement machinery. This also relates to the please taken by govt on "public Order".. Does not public order mean just order? There must be several texts on this.

https://republicanjanta.com/special-congrats-to-the-government-for-discovering-the-padma-shri-such-diamonds/ 

Amayi Mahalinga Naik
Kepu A small village near Adyanadaka in Karnataka. A man was working in a betel nut and coconut plantation there. Own neither house nor land. But seeing his dedication and honesty, Mahabala Bhat, the owner of that garden, gave him 2 acres of land as a reward in 1978. The land was on top of a hill. Totally barren and barren. There is no trace of water. If there was someone like us, we would have left the sound of the land.
But the man dreamed of a betel nut garden on this land; And so begins a quest - of adventures that take on struggles, paths of questioning, journeys of answers and survival...

Then started building a hut for the family at the foot of the hill. The hill was leveled. A wall was built for it. When it comes to water. There was no money to dig a well. Then she decided to dig it herself and started working. Being at the base of the hill, they started digging a horizontal narrow tunnel as per the ancient method of water storage.

Why should everyone struggle so much to know the price of water?, I think sometimes. Not a single drop of water is wasted in Naik's farm. is recycled. Today, Naik's farm has more than 300 betel trees, 75 coconut trees, 150 cashew trees, 200 banana and chilli trees. Totally organic farming, and zero energy consumption.

Even though he is over seventy today, Naik does all the farm work and hard work himself. Yesterday he was awarded the Padma Shri in agriculture.

In two consecutive recruitment cycles, 2015 and 2018, the Union government has left thousands of seats vacant without stating why. Meanwhile, thousands of qualified candidates remain unemployed.

https://thewire.in/government/the-true-test-for-candidates-for-paramilitary-gd-posts-comes-after-the-exams-are-cleared 

First of all, unlike recruitment for most other Central government jobs, the recruitment of paramilitary forces is based on state quotas, allocated based on overall population. So even if the youth in a particular state have a greater affinity towards jobs in the paramilitary, an artificial cap restricts the numbers that will get the job. Meanwhile, in another state where the youth perhaps do not gravitate towards such jobs, the allotted job quota remains vacant year after year.

Next, the process is further layered with a complex marking and assessment system that can vary from district to district even within a state.

Candidates first have to give a written exam. Those who pass are then called for document verification, followed by a physical test, and finally, the medical exam. Those who clear all these tests are declared qualified. At this point, they wait for the cut-off marks for their respective castes and district categories, based on which those from the pool of qualified candidates will make it to the final merit list.

Now comes the twist.

In any government recruitment, the cut-off varies and has a caste-based recruitment process. However, the SSC GD recruitment for constables, which is usually thronged by socially and financially marginalised students from rural belts of the country, has layers of complicated criteria which often confuse applicants.

First, each state is allotted a certain share of the total seats based on the state’s population. Next, within each state, there is a district-wise seat allocation by which students are divided into categories based on the nature of the district they come from: border, general or Naxal. Further, within these districts, their cut-off varies as per their caste.

For example, a student from the Dalit community in a Naxal district and a student from the Dalit community in a border district will have different cut-off marks. Based on this cut-off, even if seats in a Naxal district remain vacant, qualified students from the border district will not be selected. On a larger scale, if a state doesn’t have enough qualified candidates, the vacant seats do not go to waitlisted qualified candidates from other states.

by Hrishi Raj Anand

30/01/2023

Gauhar Raza’s new poem    https://twitter.com/i/status/1619355627826061312

Not a Ban says.. https://youtu.be/YFxaEb69IYA?t=375  If the govt. issues a ban, then we

Maharashtra: 152 complaints before interfaith marriage committee, says Mangal Prabhat Lodha
The 152 cases have come to light through the members of the committee. Work is going on or will begin on the cases, he said.  https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/152-complaints-before-interfaith-marriage-committee-says-mangal-prabhat-lodha-8408704/  The committee was tasked with gathering information about couples in interfaith marriages and to oversee initiatives undertaken at district levels regarding women who are in interfaith and intercaste marriages, and who may be estranged from their maternal families. It would also gather information about their families, so that they may be helped if needed.

Giving a postive twist to teh Committee work She said.. She came to me and said ‘my family is no longer talking to me and I would like to connect with them again’. She is in fact married happily. So, all we will do… the committee will help her get in touch with her family… will mediate this,” 

https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/bbc-documentary-on-modi-7-facts-that-make-the-film-highly-controversial-in-india-and-will-never-be-allowed-to-air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7wuP3FLdeE "BBC Documentary is a hatchet job, Govt had to show anger" I BJP's Swapan Dasgupta I Barkha Dutt Jan 25, 2023 Senior leader of the BJP Swapan Dasgupta talks to Barkha Dutt on the BBC Documentary about PM Modi and why the government felt it essential to invoke emergency powers under IT rules to stop it from airing or being accessible on social media platforms.

'Hatchet job': Participant slams BBC documentary on PM Modi, says 'they had readymade conclusions' https://www.timesnownews.com/india/swapan-dasgupta-slams-bbc-documentary-india-the-modi-question-exclusive-article-97135685  Priya Pareek  Jan 19, 2023
Swapan Dasgupta, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, who gave his views in BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke exclusively to Times Now amid the backlash and shared the inside details. He termed the documentary "a hatchet job."
He said that his interview for the documentary with the BCC went on for about an hour and covered various topics, including the CAA, Article 370 etc. He said that his views were incorporated with the views of other and added that "it was a hatched job that they were trying to do."  He also revealed that he had questioned their assumptions on the European Union (EU) report and British HC sending junior staffers to Gujarat to access the situation, and claimed that they didn't incorporate that...He also said that the ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Hindus is completely ignored by them as it raises tough question. Dasgupta further said that the question of Hindus dying in the Gujarat riots needs to be looked at.

 https://youtu.be/5mDRwyBYk5g?t=345 Siddharth Vardaranjan who is one of the interviewees in the Second Episode of the BBC Documentary: The Modi Question dismisses the argument on why the 2002 is being raked up when we have moved forward.. says that if that was so, why did the Home Minister at the time of the 2022 elections speak about it. The film he said is a necessary documentation of our history.. back story of current events....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lFpNp7ezHk "Rioters Taught Lesson In 2002, BJP Brought Peace": Amit Shah In Gujarat  Nov 26, 2022 Those responsible for the communal riots in Gujarat were "taught such a lesson" that the state has been peaceful for 22 years, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, at a rally ahead of next week's elections

Inviting you to a In Person Meeting of Prayer & Remembrance at CED, 4 to 6 pm, 30th Jan 2023

4 pm to 5:10 pm
We will share experiences and reflections on the striving for nonviolence.

From 5:10 to 5:25 we will observe meditative silence.

We will close with a multi-faith prayer and singing of Vaishnav Jan To.

The meeting with also be on Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88330433294?pwd=M0NoRmJJZTlteHoxUmMvWms0M21SUT09
Meeting ID: 883 3043 3294 Passcode: CED30

On Gandhiji's martyrdom day, 30th January, Ahimsa Conversations will complete three years.
https://www.youtube.com/@AhimsaConversations

* In March, 2022, the first series of 108 episodes was completed.
* The Conversations of this first series have been arranged into 12 playlists which reflect the broad themes that are emerging.
* Since then 23 Ahimsa Conversation Glimpses, videos of a minute or less, have been published.
* On October 2nd 2022, the second series of Ahimsa Conversations was launched.
* There are now 116 Ahimsa Conversations online and a total of over 250 videos -- including 'Snippets', 'Glimpses', recordings of Ahimsa Conversations Live sessions and even the occasional 'Curator's Blog'.

On Monday 30th January, let us gather both in person and online, to mark this crucial day in the recent memory of this sub-continent. We gather to reaffirm core values of truth, brotherhood, compassion and nonviolence and also to share notes on our collective efforts to live by these values.

We will start with a few songs, poems, bhajans.
Then we can share reflections on the on-going explorations of and striving for ahimsa.
I can review how and why I began Ahimsa Conversations and where the journey has taken me over these three years.
Let us have an open sharing of our nuanced understanding of multi dimensional forms of nonviolence and how we can better understand the striving for it and critique our efforts so far. Hope you can join us. Warm Regards: Rajni Bakshi