Religion as Power and Peace
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani Primitive feelings of bewilderment and fear in man were expressed by declaring his submission to the unknown and known forces in nature, imploring for their protection. Such submission or surrender was, gradually, extended towards many invisible and visible things and to persons on earth or in heavens in order to seek their favourable disposition and kindness. We have good evidence to conclude that before the period of established religions, people all over the world, including in India, were practicing shamanist kind of c…
Our Increasing Economic Equalities - Indicate More Prosperity, Not Less
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani It has become a fashion or political correctness to fear that the increasing economic differences might automatically harm the society or do injustice to others. Historically, it is true that just like in political domain, in economic domain also glaring inequities and injustices were prevailing till the end of the Twentieth century. But, now, the context is totally different. The democratic rigour and vigour of the new market mechanisms and of the relevant regulatory bodies are such that growth is forging ahead and it i…
Some Reflections on Poverty
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Our very urgent primary task is eradication of chronic and massive poverty, which is the legacy of our old India. We have inherited systemic poverty i.e. we have resigned ourselves to poverty and from tolerating deprivation we went to accepting poverty without fighting it. We explained it to ourselves as fatality. The fact that it also happened due to lack of social solidarity among the people is a matter of perplexity. We soared very high in spiritual elation while our feet were in sinking marshy mud of humiliating pover…
Towards a New Foreign Policy
Dr. Rao VBJ. Chelikani We are living in a new India and accordingly our relations with the international community and our bilateral relations with other countries, including with our neighbours, have to be reviewed at from this new reality, afresh and very urgently. We need to declare a new foreign policy. We are, still, stuck up with Panch-sheel principles in bilateral relations and Non-Alignment policy with regard to the former super powers and big powers, which are no more relevant. For all these years we have formulated orthodox state-ce…
Minorities and Reservations
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani India, just as it is a country of diversities, it is also a country of minorities. But, it need not be any more a country of discriminations. The British never stopped being sceptic about India becoming a united and single nation-state like theirs. All the commissions, there were many, which were appointed, took each section of the population as separate entity and took upon themselves the responsibility to protect them. Right from the very early stages of reforms, the British government representatives were proposing re…
Middle Classes: A Central Path for Social Development
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Today’s India is a country of middle classes run by the middle classes for the middle classes. In the past, the situation was different. A chief or a king or a dictator or a religious head used to promise to take charge of the welfare of the whole society. In independent India, we have vaguely envisaged a strategy of sarvodaya i.e. welfare of all, which, in reality, proved well-nigh impossible. Similarly, the strategy of development from the bottom, antyodaya , traditionally considered to be Gandhian approach, too tur…
A Village shows the way to taking care of its elders
By Prof. C.V.Raghavulu The people of Cherukumilli village of Akiveedu mandal in West Godavari district have shown what it means to be a caring community through their care for the citizens of the village in their sunset years. In a unique initiative that has been on since 2007, the village has been taking care of its senior citizens who are alone and without any support by providing them with two square meals a day. Well settled people hailing from the village and now living in far off places like Hyderabad, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam and the U…
Return To Political Inequalities?
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani We are all getting very much concerned about the frequent abuse of power, rampant corruption and occasional arrogance of many of our MPs and MLAs and, in fact, by the whole political class, in general. Having removed the kings, sultans, and colonial masters and having abolished zamindars and jagirdars, now, are we returning to the rule by the feudal lords and petty dictators? We admit that there are, certainly, some exceptions. Power-Broking : Traditional political power structures still create high-sounding desig…
Forum for Good Governance
FGG: Activities for the year 2016 The main activities are governance reforms, fight against corruption, electoral reforms, decentralization etc,. 1 Role of Money in Elections - Cases Booked During the last general elections in AP and Telangana states, lots of cases were registered against the contesting candidates for bribing the voters with money. In all about 150 Crores of money was seized during election period. F.G.G. feels that all the cases booked under sec.171 I.P.C (corrupt practices in elections) should be brought to their log…
Role of Political Opposition
The word ‘opposition’ on the face of it, is often perceived in a negative sense, thereby pre-judging the nature of the expression. In political language, particularly, in democratic terms, however, it ought to be a positive function to identify the negative aspect, so that one can propose the alternatives. But, like absolute affirmation, absolute opposition is also not entirely democratic. Opposition in a debate has to be interpreted as a right to criticise and, further, as an opportunity to present alternative choice of ideas and actions. …
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