<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Welcome! on Navodaya Networks</title><link>https://navodaya.world/</link><description>Recent content in Welcome! on Navodaya Networks</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license. Navodaya Networks is a registered non-profit organization.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:48:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://navodaya.world/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>About</title><link>https://navodaya.world/about/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 06:43:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/about/</guid><description>Navodaya Networks Forum is a registered non-profit organization under Section 8 of the Indian Companies Act 2013. Who are we? We are networking with artists, lawyers, educationists, activists, scientists, farmers, soldiers, parents, workers … . Please see our Pathfinders . Know…</description></item><item><title>Our Vision and Mission</title><link>https://navodaya.world/our-vision-and-mission/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:32:06 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/our-vision-and-mission/</guid><description>Our Vision: A society, that – Promotes equality for all, across the divides of gender, caste, religion and region. Ensures and promotes human dignity, justice and freedom of thought, expression, identity and action. Seeks to maintain peace and amity for all, within the country…</description></item><item><title>Pathfinders</title><link>https://navodaya.world/pathfinders/</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/pathfinders/</guid><description>We are collaboratively exploring the pathways for a better world. The initiators of this collaboration are introduced below. Lalita Ramdas Lalita Ramdas 1200×1600 480 KB Lalita Ramdas Lalita Ramdas, born Feb 4, 1940, is a woman, citizen, feminist, daughter, wife, mother, lover.…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/pathfinders/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>FAQs</title><link>https://navodaya.world/faqs/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 07:20:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/faqs/</guid><description>Frequently asked questions What are the core principles of Navodaya? Navodaya is founded on rediscovering the essential idea of India as conceptualised in the Constitution. What is the vision of Navodaya? Navodaya expects to encourage and support all individuals and networks of…</description></item><item><title>Contact</title><link>https://navodaya.world/contact/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 06:43:23 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/contact/</guid><description>You may write to us through email at office @ navodaya.online, which is the preferred mode of contacting us. If contacting us through a call is necessary, you can call us at +91 9821550469. Please note the following before making a call: We will not pick up calls from an…</description></item><item><title>Terms of Use</title><link>https://navodaya.world/terms-of-use/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/terms-of-use/</guid><description>These terms govern the use of the Internet website at &lt;a href="https://www.Navodaya.world" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;www.Navodaya.world&lt;/a&gt; . To use this or the other Websites hosted under the navodaya.world domain, you must agree to these terms with Navodaya Networks Forum, which runs the Website. Navodaya Networks Forum, a registered as a…</description></item><item><title>Privacy Policy</title><link>https://navodaya.world/privacy-policy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2022 03:32:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/privacy-policy/</guid><description>What information do we collect? We collect information from you when you register on our site and gather data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here. When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name and…</description></item><item><title>Cancellation and Refund Policy</title><link>https://navodaya.world/cancellation-and-refund-policy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:09:12 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/cancellation-and-refund-policy/</guid><description>Navodaya Networks Forum expects that the donors will exercise due care and diligence while making donations. In case of an unintended donation made by mistake or change of mind, we can process refund requests of donation if the requests reach us with all the details within…</description></item><item><title>Statutory Notices</title><link>https://navodaya.world/statutory-notices/</link><pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/statutory-notices/</guid><description>You may access the links to official notices/documents below: AGM Notice 2023 Director’s Report 2023 Director’s Report 2022-23 Director’s Report 2021-22</description></item><item><title>Donate</title><link>https://navodaya.world/donate/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/donate/</guid><description>Please donate to our cause. We are accepting donations to pay our way. Separately, we will be announcing from time to time specific campaigns and initiatives to support deserving causes. Donation eligible for exemption under section 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961 vide Unique…</description></item><item><title>Climate Change Conundrum: Humanity’s bad investment</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/climate-change-conundrum-humanity-s-bad-investment/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 10:48:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/climate-change-conundrum-humanity-s-bad-investment/</guid><description>999×750 169 KB S G Vombatkere On World Earth Day 2023, a few dozen members of the 8-billion-and-counting Homo Sapiens species, met in an insignificantly tiny spot on Planet Earth – the premises of The Institution of Engineers (India), Mysore, to discuss and think about Global…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/climate-change-conundrum-humanity-s-bad-investment/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>A Relook at 2022: Was it good for the Indian Military?</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/a-relook-at-2022-was-it-good-for-the-indian-military/</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 06:07:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/a-relook-at-2022-was-it-good-for-the-indian-military/</guid><description>2560×1707 106 KB Some truths need to be stated, otherwise we will continue to only talk-talk-talk Lt. General VIJAY OBEROI As we complete another year, there is once again a reflection on the year that is ending. Tied with the same is what one expects from the next year, both…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/a-relook-at-2022-was-it-good-for-the-indian-military/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>The Pledge we take everyday</title><link>https://navodaya.world/the-pledge-we-take-everyday/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 02:55:55 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/the-pledge-we-take-everyday/</guid><description>We invite you to take this pledge to the preamble to our constitution, with us, to remember and cherish our unity and our integrity as a nation. We share with you a sense of dignity , happiness and worth that it has always given so many of us. WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having…</description></item><item><title>Our Nation, Our Constitution: A Layperson’s understanding</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/our-nation-our-constitution-a-layperson-s-understanding/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2022 08:26:51 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/our-nation-our-constitution-a-layperson-s-understanding/</guid><description>1810×2560 2.05 MB S.G.Vombatkere Nation = People + Country + Constitution A nation is the synergetic sum of a country’s people with their social and cultural resources, who live within the boundaries of the country with its natural and economic resources, and the rules by which…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/our-nation-our-constitution-a-layperson-s-understanding/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>The Absence of Scientific Temper in the Land of Bose, Raman, and Salam</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/the-absence-of-scientific-temper-in-the-land-of-bose-raman-and-salam/</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:26:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/the-absence-of-scientific-temper-in-the-land-of-bose-raman-and-salam/</guid><description>1707×2560 335 KB Dr Ravi Sinha [I must begin with a “thank you” to the Indian Diaspora of Washington DC* and to Razi Saheb for letting me say a few words here. It is an honour for me to share the dais, even if virtually, with Gauhar Raza and Pervez Hoodbhoy. I was stressed…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/the-absence-of-scientific-temper-in-the-land-of-bose-raman-and-salam/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>TM Krishna returns with the second edition of The Edict Project</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/tm-krishna-returns-with-the-second-edition-of-the-edict-project/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:26:47 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/tm-krishna-returns-with-the-second-edition-of-the-edict-project/</guid><description>300×168 11.3 KB Renowned Carnatic vocalist, writer and speaker, TM Krishna recently launched the second edition of The Edict Project , in collaboration with Ashoka University. The Edict Project has been conceived in four parts. This edition is based on the theme ‘Ashoka and…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/tm-krishna-returns-with-the-second-edition-of-the-edict-project/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>TM Krishna brings Ashokan wisdom alive with The Edict Project</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/tm-krishna-brings-ashokan-wisdom-alive-with-the-edict-project/</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:21:18 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/tm-krishna-brings-ashokan-wisdom-alive-with-the-edict-project/</guid><description>972×538 510 KB in collaboration with Ashoka University The Edict Project reimagines Ashoka’s remarkable conversation with people across the subcontinent, expressed in the form of engraved monoliths and rock-faces. Many have been rediscovered in the last 2 centuries, and form a…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/tm-krishna-brings-ashokan-wisdom-alive-with-the-edict-project/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Relentless crusade</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/relentless-crusade/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:26:40 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/relentless-crusade/</guid><description>906×619 242 KB The Narmada Bachao Andolan started its work 30 years ago. Today, it is a moral force, and its most important contribution to India and the world is its continuance as a bastion of Gandhian truth and non-violence in an increasingly violent world. S. G. Vombatkere…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/relentless-crusade/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>The Narmada River Valley – Imminent Disaster-In-the-Making</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/the-narmada-river-valley-imminent-disaster-in-the-making/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 09:04:48 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/the-narmada-river-valley-imminent-disaster-in-the-making/</guid><description>1280×853 239 KB Maj Gen Sudhir Vombatkere Hon’ble Prime Minister, My respectful Greetings to the Office of India’s highest executive authority! I have travelled in the valley of the Narmada River and observed at first hand, how the people, mostly Adivasis and Dalits, have been…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/the-narmada-river-valley-imminent-disaster-in-the-making/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>If not Modi, who do we liberals want? Ah, one like him from our side of the patch!</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/if-not-modi-who-do-we-liberals-want-ah-one-like-him-from-our-side-of-the-patch/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:06:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/if-not-modi-who-do-we-liberals-want-ah-one-like-him-from-our-side-of-the-patch/</guid><description>460×500 57.5 KB T M Krishna As much as Narendra Modi’s every word is savoured and actions admired by his followers, the emotions he triggers in his critics are diametrically opposite. Watching him speak or even take a stride evokes intense negativity. Other than the obvious…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/if-not-modi-who-do-we-liberals-want-ah-one-like-him-from-our-side-of-the-patch/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>Reflections on AZAADI, AMRIT KAAL, ACHHE DIN: Looking back, looking forward</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/reflections-on-azaadi-amrit-kaal-achhe-din-looking-back-looking-forward/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2022 11:42:15 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/reflections-on-azaadi-amrit-kaal-achhe-din-looking-back-looking-forward/</guid><description>1024×678 40.7 KB Admiral Ramdas, former CNS So a few thoughts on what “AZAADI” or Freedom, meant to me, a young boy of 14 when we made our Tryst with Destiny on that midnight hour of August 14th/15th. We listened to the inspiring speech by Nehru gathered round our tiny little…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/reflections-on-azaadi-amrit-kaal-achhe-din-looking-back-looking-forward/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>Terms of Fiscal Hosting</title><link>https://navodaya.world/terms-of-fiscal-hosting/</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:44:17 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/terms-of-fiscal-hosting/</guid><description>The project outcomes must be shared under a free culture license, such as General Public License, Affero General Public License. Creative Commons etc. with least or no restrictions on the use by other agencies. The project will be executed in India and payments to be received…</description></item><item><title>Why the army needs to make its stand clear on AFSPA</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/why-the-army-needs-to-make-its-stand-clear-on-afspa/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 02:50:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/why-the-army-needs-to-make-its-stand-clear-on-afspa/</guid><description>474×346 47.8 KB Pic Credit: thefederal.com Army deployed in Nagaland Maj Gen S.G.Vombatkere ADG DV (1994-1996) Public opinion, especially of the literate and opinion-influencing public, is heavily influenced by print and electronic media. The army is pleased to think that…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/why-the-army-needs-to-make-its-stand-clear-on-afspa/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>Election Reform</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/election-reform/</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 02:49:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/election-reform/</guid><description>718×450 313 KB Sharad Shah During the first two decades after independence, general elections to the Parliament and the State Assemblies were held simultaneously. But that happened as there was no meaningful opposition in those days, and to that extent, it was an imperfect…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/election-reform/featured.png"/></item><item><title>Facebook: its implicit support for divisive politics</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/facebook-its-implicit-support-for-divisive-politics/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:22:34 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/facebook-its-implicit-support-for-divisive-politics/</guid><description>770×513 43.9 KB Pic Credit: al Jazeera VC The Reporter’s Collective (TRC) has conducted an investigation, in coordination with Ad Watch , an independent researcher, into some distasteful and certainly surprising revelations into the way that commercial social media platform…</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://navodaya.world/blog/facebook-its-implicit-support-for-divisive-politics/featured.jpeg"/></item><item><title>Kashmir: If truth be told</title><link>https://navodaya.world/blog/kashmir-if-truth-be-told/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:02:28 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://navodaya.world/blog/kashmir-if-truth-be-told/</guid><description>474×248 33.4 KB by Anuradha Bhasin “The truth is rarely pure and never simple,” wrote Oscar Wilde. 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