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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
474×248 33.4 KB by Anuradha Bhasin “The truth is rarely pure and never simple,” wrote Oscar Wilde. Truth buried for years beneath layers of tumult, violence, fear, pain and suffering, produces a tendency to obsessively cling on to a linear understanding of one’s own trauma…
