Blogs
Counterfeit gods
http://prk1.blogspot.com/
President APJ Abdul Kalam penned a poem in Tamil on Puttaparthi Sri Satya Sai Baba and read out in the presence of thousands of Sai devotees who gathered here on the occasion of 81st birthday of Sai Baba.
Sports Fixation
http://prk17.blogspot.com/
THE present entertainment industry of sports is so integral to governments and business houses that overnight an X becomes a Sprint Queen because she can stretch her legs longer and faster, a Y becomes a Grandmaster because he is adept in ...
The Cartoon Controversy
http://prk11.blogspot.com/
The publication of the cartoons on Prophet Mohammed should be seen as part of a larger insidious imperialist agenda of making the Muslim countries capitulate.
Religious Dimension of American Imperialism
http://prk10.blogspot.com/
The hidden agenda of the JOSHUA Project is strengthening American imperialism by strengthening Christianity as the only socio-political, cultural, and global imperialist identity.
Caste and Urbanity
http://prk14.blogspot.com/
There is a general impression that the best way to escape rural social prejudices is escape to urban centers. But prejudices in urban India are based not only on caste but also religion, language, educational status, and occupation.
Religion, Society, and Politics
http://prk9.blogspot.com/
Religion has an important social function, though not the myriad religious organizations, which do more harm than good to religion, believers, and society.
The Reservation Rigmarole
http://prk6.blogspot.com/
The issue for debate is not whether one is for or against reservation, but how to make the State accountable to the citizens, and ensure quality education to the entire rising generation with special provisions for the socially deprived.
Dalits have not benefited from Quotas
http://prk13.blogspot.com/
The Dalits in India feel cheated today because it is not they but the creamy layer of OBCs who are getting all the benefits of reservations.
OBC Reservation and TN model
http://prk12.blogspot.com/
Whether the Tamil Nadu reservation "model" can at all be replicated in central institutions needs debate.
Education for All: India's Pipe Dream?
http://prk7.blogspot.com/
The government does not seem to have realized that unless and until it has cleaned up the Augean Stables of its education system India will only have target years and not target achievements.
Abolishing Death Penalty
http://prk4.blogspot.com/
In modern societies, particularly democratic societies, death penalty is seen as barbaric and inhuman. As modern societies are expected to be reformative it is time death sentence is replaced by other forms of punishmentS.
Kangaroo Court Backs Rapist Godman
http://prk2.blogspot.com/
A godman offering "divine help" to childless women raped a housewife for months and forced her to appear in nude before his disciples but a kangaroo court drove out the victim's husband from the village for protesting.
Swami Premananda's Sentence Upheld
http://prk3.blogspot.com/
THE Madras High Court on December 12 confirmed a lower court's order sentencing fake sanyasi Swami Premananda and his secretary Kamalananda to double life imprisonment, which are to run consecutively.
Caste, Politics, Judiciary, and Reservations
http://prk8.blogspot.com/
Far from strengthening the education system in its entirety, by exploiting caste-groups India’s politicians have driven the system haywire. How the Judiciary deals with the vexatious issues is crucial for India's future as a vibrant democracy.
Indian Parliament
http://prk16.blogspot.com/
As India is about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first war of independence it will do well to take stock of what India has achieved as a democracy and strengthen its parliamentary practices and democratic governance.
Prostitution, Law, and Society
http://prk18.blogspot.com/
The issue that needs to be addressed is wiping out sex-trade in society by rehabilitating the victims.
Saddam or Bush?
http://prk19.blogspot.com/
The news of the hanging of Saddam Hussein who insisted till the end that he is the President of Iraq - and probably for right reasons - does not come as surprise. What it shows us is that we are still slaves of American Imperialism.
