by Sailendra Sil – Tue May 25, 2010 NAKALI, India (AFP) – A dried-up and polluted lake in eastern India has become a major pilgrimage site attracting thousands of people a day after claims that its mud cures cancer and other diseases. At the lake in Nakali village, 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Kolkata, [...]
Ian Pindar The Guardian, Saturday 22 May 2010 Piers Moore Ede, an atheist suffering from a vague spiritual emptiness, rejects the materialism of the west and travels to the Himalayas, India and Turkey in search of something “numinous”, holy and transcendent. The journey eastwards in search of enlightenment is a well-worn trope that this book [...]
To Prabir Ghosh General Secretary Science and Rationalists’ Association of India Sub: Zeitgeist movement Dear Sir, I’m a regular visitor to www.srai.org and wish to put forward my reaction in regard to your post captioned “ What is Zeitgeist Movement?” uploaded on 13th May this year. Since the day, I glanced through that post; a [...]
A bus carrying 50 people including 18 armed SPO (Special Police Officer) was blown up at about 4.15 pm on 17/ 5/ 2010 near Sukma in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh. According to news sources, it was an operation triggered by the Maoist rebels, which killed 16 SPOs and 28 civilians. The news is well known by now. [...]
Sumitra Padmanabhan This is to spread the aims and goals of The Zeitgeist Movement :– [আমরা এটাকে বলছি ‘যুগের হাওযা’ আন্দোলন – যাতে এক বিশ্বজনীন রসদ-ভিত্তিক অর্থনীতির কথা ভাবা হয়েছে, যার নির্যাস দেওয়া হয়েছে সুমিত্রা পদ্মনাভন এর “হট্টমালার দেশ অথবা যুগের হাওয়া” বইতে] 1. Conserving all the world’s resources as the common heritage of all [...]
—Anindyasundar The next one year we will be celebrating Tagore’s 150 years with the usual songs, recitations and dramas. Why don’t we have a look at his essays for a change? What this great sage thought about the country and the state, about the education system, about religion and about freedom–are reflected in his invaluable [...]
‘আমরা যুক্তিবাদী’ পত্রিকার মে ২০১০ সংখ্যাটি প্রকাশ করা হল। আমরা যুক্তিবাদী – মে ২০১০ সংখ্যাটি ডাউনলোড করার জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন- পূর্ববর্তী সংখ্যাগুলো পাবেন এখানে।
There seems to be no other news in the papers for the last few weeks – culminating in Kasab’s death sentence announced on May 6, 2010. The font size gets bigger and bigger on the headline as the days pass. It makes us feel that with Kasab’s hanging terrorism will come to a sublime and [...]
Kolkata: Two persons, a 50-year-old woman and a child were killed when BSF jawans opened fire on a group of villagers at Tufanganj block in Cooch Behar district on Tuesday. Three persons were also injured in the incident. They have been admitted to the Cooch Behar Hospital with bullet injuries. The incident broke out when [...]
Eminent persons condemn the voices emanating from Chhatisgarh Police to book Arundhati Roy for her article, Walking With The Comrades Admiral R.H. Tahiliani , et al The Director General of Police, Chhatisgarh is reported to be seriously examining whether writer Arundhati Roy should be prosecuted under the Chhatisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA) / Unlawful [...]
Surbek Biswas, Hindustan Times Sereng Swakra, April 20, 2010 Two kilometres from a CRPF camp that was attacked by Maoists near Sereng Swakra village in Bankura district in January, the rebels guide the running of a co-educational primary school (kindergarten to class IV) funded by residents of nearby villages. Set up in 2003, the school [...]
By Tushar Gandhi Apr 18, 2010 The war on the Naxalites, Maoists will not be won by police action. If the Maoists, Naxalites are to be defeated, the government will have to work to bring about ‘Gram Swaraj’ that the Father of the Nation envisaged. An India made up of self sufficient, self reliant, equitably [...]
Bengali — BANGLA is the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world. That’s why we have translated the concept of the VENUS PROJECT (ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT) in Bengali. In simple language it gives the basic idea of a future society — a CASHLESS, BORDERLESS SOCIETY, FREE OF WARFARE. To know that it is not imagination [...]
‘TERRORISM: A Rational Point of View’ is the guide, resource and album designed to provide insights, in depth analysis & facts to the most burning issue of the planet…an extremely useful reference to be part of any serious social science collection.
Written by Prabir Ghosh Translation : Sumitra Padmanavan (First published on May 18, 2006 at this website (old design)). Nepal: Some relevant facts Nepal is a Monarchy. Situated at the foothills of the Himalayas, Nepal is bordered by Tibet,China on the North; Sikkim and West Bengal on the East; Bihar and U.P. on the South [...]
