Mallika Sarabhai on 2002, Rocket Boys, and how Gujarat has changed in her lifetime | NL Interview https://youtu.be/_FZfFzgRWpE?t=250 Ahmedabad growing.. of institutions. Ahmedabad is more casteist today that it was a few years ago. . Malika Sarabai is an artist, actress, classical dancer and activist from Gujarat. In this conversation with Manisha Pande, she talks about how Gujarat, and particularly her hometown Ahmedabad, has changed since her childhood, her relationship with her parents, the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, her brief stint in politics, and what separates activists from politicians. “Activists don’t play on the common denominator of fear, hatred and insecurity,” she opines, “politicians do”.
Talking about the 2002 carnage, she recalls, “My neighbours were going out there in cars to loot shops and calling their friends to say, ‘Mattresses are good in this shop and we are looting so come.’ My dentist might have been out there, my gynaecologist might have been out there.” https://youtu.be/_FZfFzgRWpE?t=951
She also explores the nuances the TV series Rocket Boys missed about the relationship of her parents, classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and space scientist Vikram Sarabhai.
https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/nehru-read-ramayana-every-morning-for-pure-joy-he-also-turned-to-religion-in-his-old-age/1237854/ "I have begun seriously reading the Ramayan—Tulsi too, and Kabir’s bhajans and slokas from Bhagavad Gita serve as memory exercises whilst I have my morning and evening walks. I have, as you might well imagine, regularly done my prayers, regularly retired at the time appointed by you, and been out of bed at the same hour when, as Nanak says the “Heavens rain nectar”.’ Later in the same letter, Nehru remarks: ‘My days are passed among the saints nowadays, and I should love to finish as well as I can my knowledge of the Bible, the Saints (including Christian Saints of course), the Ramayan and the Mahabharat (including of course the Bhagavad Gita). I have some secular literature [with me], no doubt, but that takes frankly, a subordinate place.
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President Murmu On Constitution Day: Onus On All Of Us to Make Process Of Seeking Justice Affordable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrL0_3E3Bak Nov 28, 2022
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said the legislature, the executive and the judiciary need to have "one thinking" for the country and its people. In her valedictory address at the Constitution Day celebrations organised by the Supreme Court here, she suggested decongesting jails by helping poor people languishing there for years for petty crimes. "It is said that jails are getting overcrowded and there is a need to set up more jails. Are we moving towards development? What is the need to set up more jails? We need to reduce their numbers," she said in Hindi. Ms Murmu said there is a need to do something for these poor people in prisons
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भारत की जेलों में 4,78,600 कैदी बिना सजा पाए बंद है। इसमें 3,15,409 यानि 65.90% कैदी एससी, एसटी, ओबीसी है। ये आंकड़ा गृह राज्यमंत्री किशन रेड्डी ने पिछली साल राज्यसभा में दिया था। अब मुर्मू जी, ने कॉलेजियम जजों के सामने इन्हीं को लेकर अपना दर्द व्यक्त किया है।