Posted on November 23, 2007 by Colrama
‘Half of all crimes on people from Northeast’
By JEHANGIR ALINew Delhi
In what could turn out to be an embarrassment for the Delhi government, a study carried out recently by Northeast (N-E) helpline has found out that nearly 50 per cent of crimes that take place in Delhi are against people who belong [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2007 by Colrama
As I read the ‘letter to the editor’ of a news paper, HT,I could not but bow my head to Shri Pawan K Sharma of New Delhi.
Here is a man who has undergone a personal tragedy, and yet loves his fellow-men enough to warn them to be careful and not allow a blunder [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2007 by Colrama
There are many stories, some true and some apocryphal, about India’s legendary soldier - Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw. It is common knowledge that India’s military campaign in 1971 to liberate Bangladesh was delayed on professional military advice, against the wishes of the political class. It is delightful to revisit the anecdote in the words [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Colrama
I am very happy to inform everyone that children’s classes wil be conducted in yet another location also.
Classes have commenced from 13 Nov 07. It is about a kilo metre away , almost at the other end of the village.
A teacher Shri Swain, has been appointed.
Hopefully this will serve another 30/40 children.
Have some photos. will [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2007 by Colrama
A message recd from Mr Watwani, of Safdarjung Developement Area. May be there is a lesson in it for all warring RWAs in Delhi.
Why not dessiminate the phone numbers of civic authorities and municipal councillors so that citizens can ring ring them up when there is a problem in the colony.
That is [...]
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Posted on November 12, 2007 by Colrama
Mr JR Lal is a proactive member of Citizens Alliance. His experience with MTNL indicates the state of affairs in any govt department.
Citizens must stand up for their rights.
11.11.2007
Dear Sir,
Email appended below would apprise you with another story on the working style of govt. agencies. This time it is MTNL.
Within hours of sending email, I received a telephone call [...]
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Posted on November 8, 2007 by Colrama
Am placing an email from Mr Watwani.
It makes for plesant reading reaffirms faith in the goodness of man.
Dear Friends,
Luck & Good work is unbeatable. That is what the saying goes. When it happens in your neighborhood, you feel very proud & happy mentioning to others. You will be thrilled to read that ……
On the [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
I’ve been having this interesting dialogue on a blog of someone I came across during an Open Source Software conference in Delhi. This person is from Kashmir, a good technologist I believe, a Muslim - although in my opinion he has rather orthodox views - and this is what the dialogue is about. It may [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2007 by Rahul Dewan
I was quite inspired after watching the movie ‘Chak De India‘. A lot of us believed that the movie would inspire a sea-change in how Indian sports audience and the government, related to hockey, our (official) national sport; a lot us believed it would change the recent losing spree of the Indian hockey team; we [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2007 by Colrama
Shri JR Lal, a proactive member of CAPRG has carried out a study of Department of Food & Supplies, Govt of NCT Delhi.
The Department had made announcements in papers that any individual who had an APL ration card and wanted to have amendments made in it can produce the same with supporting documents and the [...]
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