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AUGUST 2013 ● ` 30 CHILD LABOUR FOR GO-AHEAD MEN IN INDIA: AND FAILINGFAILING LAWSLAWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WOMEN SOFT TARGET ALONG THE ANCIENT ROUTE: REDISCOVERING GLORIOUS PAST WIMBLEDON 2013: RISING NEW STARS FIDDLING WITH AFSPA: APPEASEMENT IN DISGUISE INFANT MORTALITY: SHOCKING STATS INTERNATIONAL 10 10 50 years of women in space 73th year of publication. Estd. 1940 as CARAVAN 78 Their patience and perseverance paid off AUGUST 2013 No. 370 90 Massacre-squads NATIONAL 104 US to arm India! 20 ECONOMY ● ENTERPRISE 8 Ganging up of netas against electoral reforms 68 Just a mouse-click away 20 Child labour today 94 Closure of bank branches 23 Controlling child labour 95 An Idea can change your life 36 Another look at domestic 96 Solar energy highways violence MIND OVER MATTER 42 Dowry? 110 52 Demise of day-old infants in 26 Aunt relief India appaling 56 A heart-warming end to a 54 Stop fiddling with AFSPA harrowing journey 106 Elder abuse, some harsh facts 110 Aparta LIVING FEATURES 46 16 Are you in the middle rung? 4 Editorial 86 Fun Thoughts! 18 Creativity and failed love 13 My Pet Peeve 98 Viable solution 32 Are you caught into 14 Automobiles to parliament hung “I will do it later” Trap? Round the Globe (Poem) 46 India’s maverick missile woman 17 Human Grace 100 Women All 58 Discovering the origin of 29 Child Is A Child the Way Aryan Culture Is A Child 107 Shackles of 62 Doing yeoman service 30 The World in Superstition 64 Boxers’ pride 108 Pictures 109 My Most 66 Sassy & Sissy 34 Way in, Way out Embarrassing 72 Elegy to TMS 70 Gadgets & Gizmos Moment 74 Out of sight, not of mind 84 New Arrivals 113 Letters CONTENTS 76 Shamshad Begum 88 Visiting Srivilliputhur forest For some unavoidable reasons 92 From the diary of a ‘gigolo’ Photo Competition has to be dropped in this issue. 93 Lovemaking while bathing It will be resumed from the next issue. 108 Older, wiser, but still a dream girl — Editor Ahmedabad - 380009 Phone: 26577845 Hospital, Ajmer Road, Jaipur-302006 Express Delivery SAARC Countries: Founder: Vishwa Nath BANGALORE: Phone: 3296580 One/two/three years, US$120/245/365 (1917-2002) G-3, HVS Court, 21, Cunningham Road, BHOPAL: respectively. 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The court struck Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolute- down Section 8 (4) of the ly, it is said. But it is lack of power, that has made the pre- Representation of the People sent Congress-led UPA Government the most corrupt one Act, 1951, which protects con- since the country became free, though it is headed by an victed MPs and MLAs from honest Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. Earlier, corrup- disqualification, if they appeal before a higher court within tion was computed in lakhs of rupees; lately, in the cases three months, on the ground of pendency of appeal. that have come under scrutiny by a scrupulous CAG, the At the dawn of India’s Independence, it was the free- amounts involved are of thousands of crores to a lakh dom fighters, selfless leaders, who had sacrificed their crore. 2G, 3G, Coalgate, KG Basin are all massive corrup- everything for the struggle, came to power. Political cor- tions, beyond the imagination of the people. It is like ruption was unknown those days and a British-trained imagining the distance to the stars – in light years. Indian bureaucracy (ICS) maintained their tradition of A people’s effort was initiated to fight corruption, honesty and uprightness. headed by Gandhian Anna Hazare, by demanding The generation of freedom fighters died out and elec- appointment of Lokayuktas to check corruption in high tions saw money-power and muscle-power creeping into places. The massive agitation was about to succeed, the political arena. The ICS was displaced by the IAS, wherein politicians would have had to bow before peo- which slowly became the handmaiden of corrupt politi- ple’s power and promise legislation to appoint cians in power. Today, after 65 years of freedom, we have Lokayuktas. But delaying tactics by Members of a Lok Sabha, in which, according to APDR, an NGO, 162 Parliament in the process of passing the Bill. PREVENTING RECURRENCE OF DELUGE The landslides, that built on the banks of the river, fell into the water, when the occurred in the mountains of soil on their base was eroded by the current. Those who Uttarakhand, are major calami- escaped death, were stranded, cut off from roads, to be res- ties that took away the lives of cued by the armed forces in helicopters and other means. thousands of people and Who is responsible for the massive human tragedy? wiped off several townships, One may blame the gods, who made their homes at such including the pilgrim centre of vulnerable heights in the Himalayas, where pilgrims are Kedarnath. Calamities take attracted in lakhs, seeking salvation. But then, it is the place due to nature’s fury, such authorities, who are duty-bound to facilitate the pilgrim- as earthquake, volcano, tsuna- age, that are directly responsible for the upkeep of roads, mi, storm and floods. Some could be forecast and the loss of safety of pilgrims and warning of calamitous weather lives could be prevented partially. The Uttarakhand calami- conditions and threats. It was a largely preventable ty was such one. tragedy, if timely actions were taken. All those, who ben- The catastrophic threat posed by the melting of efited from the pilgrim tourism to the Char Dham – the Himalayan glaciers, due to global warming, has been state tourism department, transporters, priests and building up for years. The melted ice formed lakes on the patrons of the temples – cared little for the safety of the base, dammed by rocks and sludge. When there was an people, who flocked to these holy places in lakhs. unprecedented cloudburst, the dams burst and water The deadly June deluge is not the end of the Himalayan flowed down steeply into the valleys, bringing down rocks tragic story. Scientists have located over 200 glacial lakes, and mud, burying entire villages and townships, wiping that could break their banks, when there is a monsoon out roads in which vehicles of pilgrims were lined up. But cloudburst and sweep down temple townships, roads and for the Kedarnath temple, built of massive rocks, the flood villages in the future. The government, both the Centre took away everything in its fury. Hotels and dwellings, and the state, should find a permanent solution. 4 ALIVE ■ AUGUST 2013 EDITORIAL ʻMODIʼFICATION If the Bharatiya Janata would do to the country what he did for Gujarat. Party (BJP) thought its vexed However, all of India is not Gujarat.