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How to Redeem Ourselves from a Curse: Constructive Approach to the Caste Census
I. Caste Consciousness Remains a Curse for the Emerging Open Society Since Gandhiji’s return to India, i.e., for the past 90 years, we have been fighting to liberate India from the clutches of the caste consciousness. Under his leadership, the crusade was largely led at that time by upper-caste Hindus and the elite in other religions. The founders of the Constitution aimed to bring equality in dignity and provide equal opportunities for all residents in their social, economic, and cultural relations. But, they proposed ten years of affirmative…
A Primary Democratic, Secular and Social Community: the RWA
Dr. Rao V.B.J. Chelikani I. In the past, human communities evolved into various forms, including tribal, hierarchical, caste-based, and religious communities. Buddhist literature, however, mentions Republican communities at the time of the Buddha, but provides no details about this noble experiment in human relations. Within the community, kinship has been the common bond with good neighbourly cooperation. As the communities expanded and multiplied themselves, all kinds of human relations were governed by hierarchical powers. Among them, polit…
How to Improve Communication between the Civil Society and Media
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani How can communication between the media and civil society organisations, including the Resident Welfare Associations be improved? Relations between these two entities is being debated worldwide, but we might say that the situation is worsening in India, since successive governments have been showing incremental authoritarian tendencies. Further journalism as a profession is in crisis. As N. Ram, former Editor-in-Chief, the Hindu said in Kozhikode in his lecture in memory of M.R. Veerendra Kumar, former MD of ‘Mathrubhumi’…
Dos and Don‘ts for Gated Communities in Accordance with Telangana High Court
Dos and Don's for RWAs Gated communities are modern sanctuaries where diverse families come together to share not just walls but aspirations of harmonious living. However, the recent landmark observations of the Hon‘ble Telangana High Court have shed light on systemic lapses within the management of these microcosms of urban life. From the misuse of clubhouses to the lack of financial transparency and accountability, the Court has provided a clarion call for introspection and reform. In response to this judicial directive and as an ear…
RWA's Role in Political Governance and Social Governance
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani An RWA has the unique distinction of being not only in political governance, but also in social governance Should the State lead the society or should the society lead the State? Or, in other words, is the State for the Society or the Society for the State? Is politics important or is culture more important for a human being? These questions are put only to share the impression that we are giving undue importance to politics and political leaders more than to anybody else in society. We have to keep in mind that in a pe…
Law-Breakers Being the Law-Makers: A Paradox in Indian Democracy
Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) organised a webinar on “Lawbreakers being the lawmakers: A paradox in Indian democracy” on 26th March 2025. Curbing the rising number of legislators with criminal cases: Who will bell the cat? Executive or Judiciary? 1. Does repeated election of tainted politicians adversely affect good governance? 2. Is the Indian voter unaffected by the tainted background of politicians? 3. Lifetime ban or disqualification for 10 or 15 years for convicted politicians: which is appropriate? 4. Slew of Supreme Cour…
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India has to be a Pacifying State, Internally and Externally
Rao V. B. J. Chelikani I. The State is for the People: When Sir Arcot Ramaswamy Mudaliar on behalf of India, along with 49 other countries signed the Charter and joined the United Nations Organisation on June 26, 1945, in San Francisco, USA, a new world order was born with the promise of lasting peace among the states. It is an appeal for ―a general international organization, based on the principle sovereign equality of all nations.‖ Since then, there are now 193 states that claim to adhere to the UN Charter. It is a declared realization t…
India should have a New Policy of External Relations
Dr.Rao VBJ Chelikani The Global Risks Report presented before the World Economic Forum at Davos-25 identifies the state-based armed conflict as one of the five risks that require immediate attention. The realpolitik approach of conducting diplomatic or political negotiations with other states is based traditionally on the assumption that each state should pursue "strategic autonomy" to satisfy its own national interests exclusively. That was how marriages were arranged among the royal families in the past. No wonder, the current PO…
Foreign Policy should Necessarily Improve Relations between the Peoples
Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani At present, foreign policy is understood as a government's relations with other states through diplomats designated and installed abroad at high cost to keep the states friendly. The assumption is that each state acts in its best interests, and the job of the diplomats is to negotiate to convince the other states that it is not against their interests. In the course of time, out of experience, each state lists the friendly states, enemy states, and states that are enemies of enemy states. These diplomatic relations a…
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