Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Us people

  • Backing Sumitra Kamble.

    Sumitra Kamble–http://milaap.org/fund/sumitra-kamble-and-group/2037 Sumitra Kamble is a resident of Ghataprabha in Belgaum district like other former Devadasi women, unschooled; illiterate she sustains her family by raising buffaloes. This makes ends meet, sending her two children to school, but that is a challenge in itself. Sometimes she gets anxious for any new challenge would be a financial…

  • The Plebeian beacons.

    Earlier when I traveled to Margao or Vasco using the shuttle. It was very strictly sitting passengers only. There were no pass holders so no one dashed to you out of the ticket vending coup. Last semester while travelling to Vasco occasionally there would be a passenger standing. But this time round I see standing…

  • chalo-vote karo

    India votes 2014, And how would I inspire and mobilize the youth to vote in the 2014 election. I remember Michael Fernandes the father of George Fernandes; he was a 6ft. plus man who was tortured during the emergency that he was on wheel chair. In that condition he went from school to school, particularly…

  • Us People.

    I have been listening to Arvind Kejriwal’s eloquent presentation at the house. He runs the same Roman Horse track albeit in a modern automobile. But it is still us and them…. It is the “aam aadmi’s victory.” He hollered. ”we challenged to come to the parliament and get things done our way.” This Mr.Kejriwal as…

  • The mango flavour.

    It was the alumni weekend at manipal I met a friend who had done her engineering from KREC and currently resides abroad. She was appreciating how focused her class fellows had become. She was impressed that they were planning their kid’s studies undergraduate at that abroad, albeit with one person it was Ireland. No offense…

  • Democracy in practice.

    General election – series of articles is only to create things we conveniently forget before getting excited with exit polls and opinion polls.–Basic structure of constitution in practice.–Democracy. Indian democracy not bad at all, 60yrs 15 elections, more 700 million people exercising franchise. Booth capturing and vote tampering were the fall out. With the introduction…