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Nov 06Before Edit.Qxd SHANKAR VENKATESWARAN: DEMOLISHING DELHI’S NGO s PAGE 26 VOL. 4 NO. 2 NOVember 2006 www.civilsocietyonline.com rs 50 villagers cHange looms witH tHe young bring Pages 10-11 ranbaxy Aso cfittwiazreen t'sH arte ptaolrkts tboy e Hverayroinvea nPsah ge 20 to book in can iteam deliver 50,000 jobs? HimacHal Page 12 PradesH smoke for good HealtH Page 32 Pages 6-7 vIEWS PEOPLE CAMPAIGNS NGO s SLOGANS CONTROvERSIES IDEAS vOLuNTEERS TRAINING BOOKS FILMS INTERvIEWS RESEARCH in civil society everyone is someone READ US. WE READ YOU . Great stories of change across India from a magazine built on trust SPECIAL ANNIvERSARy ISSuE book your coPy now [email protected] Ph: 9811787772 SUBSCRIBE Rs 500 for 1 year; Rs 850 for 2 years Rs 1200 for 3 years; 1 year international $50 Cheques/ Drafts payable to Content Services & Publishing Pvt. Ltd. mail it to: CiviL SoCiety, e-2144, Palam vihar, Gurgaon, Haryana-122017. PAyMENT AND PERSONAL DETAILS Name: . 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It is sad that he has that every prisoner is first a person They should be able to received so little attention from and then criminal. policy makers and Indians in general. Sanket S. Kashid, Justice Corps communicate within By breaking with current trends in the community. The the media and putting him on your nGos and govt cover, you have shown courage. It is I read the story, “NGOs need government should the kind of journalism that is needed. government help to upscale” with I remember first meeting interest. I agree that NGOs do create a telephone Anupamji when I visited his father, implement small innovative projects backbone with its own the brilliant and insightful but self- that should be replicated on a larger effacing poet, Bhawani Prasad scale. But two points need to be money just like it Mishra. That was many years ago. I noted. One, that copying projects is created post offices. remember him as being extremely not easy because India is a very courteous and gentle. diverse country. So, every project has By preferring to be a quiet and low- to adjust to the soil it is planted in. profile change leader Anupamji has Secondly, why don’t NGOs examine Ashok Desai the feasibility of using the on India’s telecom policy gone after his father. The connection being of the people as the driving cooperative model? Form a network, you have drawn with the poem Geet force of civil society can examine an innovative model and Farosh says it all. counterbalance the state’s power and then see how you can upscale those I would also like to make mention the profiteering of market forces. ideas. The network should include of Riaz Quadir’s “Demise of western Ultimately, what good is money and NGOs, the government, the private journalism” in the same issue. 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Quill and Canvas at Prabhat Khabar by Yateender Singh. Today, the Galleria. their voice heard nationally now. The dadagiri of the police is increasing. forum needs to sensitise the middle- Gangtok: Citi News, MG Marg. boost civil society The police can easily torture a class to domestic workers. I Kolkata: Oxford, Landmark, Classic I read the September issue of Civil prisoner if he is poor or of lower personally know that people treat Books, stalls across the city. Society recently. My first reaction: caste, just because he is not aware of their domestic workers very badly. Bangalore: Landmark at the Forum Impressive! The title, the format and his rights. But they will not torture The police should also be sensitised. Mall, Koramangala. Gangaram's Book the contents all three impress at the any politician. They think all domestic help are Bureau on MG Road, Variety Book very first encounter. Civil Society Third degree methods absolutely murderers and thieves. 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The well and national language, so that Ganesh Singh, Gurgaon [email protected] CiviL SoCiety November 2006 contents 5 COvER STORy Pepsi, CSE and standards he importance of standards for soft drinks is often not properly understood. It is not merely a question of getting miniscule amounts of Tpesticide residue out of the drinks, but of creating a culture of accountability that will apply across the booming processed foods market. Public health is today in the hands of companies in the foods business. The huge sums spent on advertising and brand-building make it difficult to ascertain quality and the truth about what actually goes into products. THE NEW MADARSAS OF KuTCH The way forward is through strict and independent regulation. It is only through this that the interests of the consumer can be protected. It is not Madarsas are meant to teach the Quran. But in Gujarat’s enough for companies to say that their products are safe. They must open backward region of Kutch, maulanas have agreed to teach themselves up for scrutiny and be truly accountable. maths, language and science as well to girls and boys 14 It is a fact of life that Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are in the Indian market. The COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY LAKSHMAN ANAND practical thing to do is to work with these companies to ensure that they deliver quality in their products and don't mess up the environment. We feel that PepsiCo India's chairman, Rajeev Bakshi, wants to end the dispute over the quality of his soft drinks. he has said that he will accept a standard if it can be scientifically arrived at and validated. he has pledged Sharmila’s six-year fast himself in favour of regulation and consumer safety. Most importantly, he has against special powers said that he will talk to anyone, including his trenchant critic, the Centre for Science and environment (CSe). for the forces . 8 For its part CSe has always said that it is open to talks if standards are on the agenda. It has welcomed Pepsi's initiative and said that it is ready for a Anti-cola march from dialogue. This is the right way to go on a dispute that seems to be getting no Mehdiganj by villagers one anywhere. ends in Delhi . 9 If there is one lesson to be learnt from CSe it is that you have to build expertise on issues that worry you. emotional outbursts and old-style rabble rousing, though it may be prompted by genuine distress caused by irresponsible behaviour by industry, will no longer do. Pepsi will today take CSe seriously because it speaks from a scientific young leaders: Peace position and does its homework. CSe has fought a long and hard battle with cells, saving tigers, the cola companies. We in this magazine will take Pepsi seriously because ending conflict . 1.
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