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By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Two historical things have happened recently which have been passed off as non entity because it hurt the business interest of the powerful nations. The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to form an International inquiry commission to investigate, ‘ “grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East…
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
It’s devastating news. My dear friend Ambarish Rai passed away in the morning today. His death is a big blow to all of us who have been associated with him or have known him for more than two decades. His death is an example of callousness and complete chaos in our health care system which is killing people. Ambarish ji was active and only admitted yesterday where the hospital said that he is a Covid Suspect. His Oxygen level was low and his friends and family took him to a hospital in Malviya Nagar where the hospital suggested that he is Covid suspect and needed to be taken to Covid Special hospital.
Refusing to develop scientific temper, Govt of India loses historic opportunity
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
The second wave of coronavirus has stuck hard, particularly in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Was the wave surprising or we allowed it to happen? The number of cases are all set to reach a whopping 300,000 per day.
The worst hit is Maharashtra, whose chief minister Uddhav Thackeray has taken the strong step of not allowing religious gatherings. The situation in Gujarat, particularly Surat and Ahmedabad, seems critical. Hospitals are overcrowded. Yet, Gujarat’s incompetence and failure is still not ‘national news’. Media appears obsessed with Maharashtra and West Bengal.
How marginalised communities gave folk expression to lost inheritance in eastern UP
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
Fourteen years ago, when noted Hindi author and historian Subhash Chandra Kushwaha took the initiative to create a space for folk artistes against the culture of indecency and vulgarity in the name of folk culture, particularly in the Bhojpuri heartland, nobody ever assumed that the event would become hugely popular with the masses and ultimately gain international repute, perhaps the most sought after in this rural hinterland in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
A nondescript village Jogiya, about five kilometres from Fazil Nagar town, is a place where lovers of folk art, music and dance wait to visit every year during the Lok Rang festivities. Over the years, Bhojpuri expatriates, particularly those who belong to the families of indentured labour or what used to be called ‘Girmitiyas’, have found this event extremely important to perform, which gives them a feeling of ‘spea