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Martyr's Day Remembering the tragic death of M.K. Gandhi on every 30th January and observing it as Martyr's Day by all have become a mere ritual.Those who opposed to the ideas of peaceful co-existence of Hindus and Muslims and other faiths also gather on the day.It is sheer pretension and hypocrisy. we have had enough words spoken.What we require deeds to match manifest action on the ground upholding practice is the need of the hour.The necessity is now a felt need as the people who started the politics of hatred with the bullet by finishing Mahatma are in the portals of power and continuing their agenda with impunity against all sections of democratic and secular forces opposed to their ideals.As civil society having faith and allegiance to the democratic and secular fabric of the Indian society will have to indicate and isolate such forces and do not allow them to take part in the Day.There shall be no compromise with such regressive forces and have to resist their ideo

Public Health Care Delivery System in the Union Territory of Puducherry- A few hard facts. The Union Territory of Puducherry declares itself as proud and reeling out statistics, amongst other things, having two Hospitals and a Medical College under the Government Sector.One more Women and Children Hospital also in its fold.However, their performance are gradually declining. Sanitation  In the first instance, the sanitation in and around the Hospitals need improvement, in relation to the number of patients visiting daily for treatment and their companions.The pathetic condition prevailing in the Ampitheatre/Mortuary are worth indicating.The Section is ill-equipped and often the people in duty fleece the relatives of the dead inhumanely. Duty Doctors The Doctors on duty during OPD hours are not punctual.They have their own time.Except some conscious people, others, especially Specialists are available in Private Medical Institutions on appointment.Disappointed patients from fo

Tuticorin Struggle is neither a caste conflict nor religious one.It is a struggle for livelihood.An inevitable struggle for clean air and potable water forced upon the people way back in 1994, when the Sterilite Industry laid its foundation and the Government of Tamilnadu supported in all ways by providing electricity, land and water. The water was facilitated  to be drawn from Tamiraparani river.  In a way, the Government did not listen to the  reservations expressed by people from different walks of life and reasonable concerns  stated in strong terms by the environmental activists then. Further without deep analysis and examination on the background of the copper smoldering plant  which  was driven away by Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra, one after another, comprehending the danger and potential environmental calamity it posed. There is no perceptional difference among the political parties and in a sense are united and interested subjectively in locating the di