Caste Consciousness Remains a Curse for the Emerging Indian Society
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani The other day, a regional political party member in a southern state solemnly announced, the Chief Minister sitting by his side, their candidates contesting for each constituency by name and his or her caste. In its neighbouring state, the ruling party announced acres of land for constructing buildings in the name of various castes, and to some others funds to promote their traditional professional activities. We also know that when the ministerial cabinet is formed by a ruling party, newspapers carefully analyse the ca…
How to Increase the Polling Percentage in Urban Areas
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani Set up more Ward Committees, get local residents involved ( The following text is sent to the Central Manifesto Committee of the Indian National Congress Party, New Delhi on their request). Urban citizens are officially 45% of the country's population, if not more, and they are increasing day by day. All of them settle in apartment-buildings, colony welfare associations and gated communities. Most of the residents are all professionally very productive and are the main source of our GDP growth. They pay all kinds of…
Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes: Supreme Court of India
Indian society is not yet updated with certain sensibilities relating to gender sensitive language, especially while dealing with the women. Some of our notions, and at many times, even of those occupying constitutional seats and responsibilities, and representing the State, fall short of the desired decency and sensitivity. There has been a gap between the benign objectives of the State and its Constitution, and the reality at the ground level. The language men employ and the notions they entertain on women are bafflingly low even within th…
An Appeal by CoRWA to All Political Parties before they Finalise their Election Manifestos
Dear Sir/ Madam, Rapid urbanisation is taking place in all parts of our country and all the new settlers are invariably residing in Apartment-buildings, in colonies and in gated communities. These Resident Welfare Associations are self-governing bodies and they self-finance and manage their community as well as create urban amenities in the area. They are all professionally very active and are the main source of our GDP growth. They pay all kinds of direct and indir…
We need more Democracy, not more Nationalism
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani It is too late to start cultivating ‘political nationalism’ in India now, which never existed in the past. The concept of nationalism has already been tried elsewhere in Europe with catastrophic consequences, and discarded after much bloodshed. In history, for that matter, no pure nation ever existed, and all political states are a concoction of varied people who moved in and settled at different dates. All human beings have always been settlers, ever since they started coming out of the forests in search of plain lands…
How Should We Behave in the Society? Our Rights and Responsibilities
Dr. Rao VBJ Chelikani In the primitive days, the behaviour of a human being was entirely conditioned by his struggle for survival and his fear for life and of death. The environment was the principal source of fear and awe, as life was fragile, violent and short. Nature was a source of suffering while being the source of sustenance and shelter. Another significant trait that we can safely presume and affirm is the fear of other human beings, along with other animals. Unfortunately, we have to thus, assume that the orig…
Health for all Urban Residents
Syed Khaled Shah, Sagarm Sreedhar, RSV Badrinath and Rao Chelikani A Model Community Pact with a Neighbouring Hospital by a Resident Welfare Association or a Senior Citizen Association Why we need to act directly and immediately? The following proposal contains the benefits of family doctor and community doctor facilities and better human relations in an institutional way which is being felt as essential for the welfare of urban middle-class families. This is particularly needed in a political context in which there is no clea…
Reflections on World Environment Day 2023
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani The United Nations Organisation has declared this Day, after a series of consultations with member-states as well as with Non-Governmental Organisations across the world, in order to provide a platform for an annual review of the issue of our pre-occupation or the concept, as well as to a review of the past efforts for future orientation. The following remarks would be limited to challenging some old myths and inviting the readers to reflect afresh and adopt appropriate attitudes toward…
RWA Mission Statement
Tarnaka Book Store Launched for CoRWA Publications
Click on the image to update add/ update your details
Social Media