4th Dimension

Gandhinagar capital town of Gujarat state is going to witness its first municipal corporation election on 19 April 2011. Most eye catching feature of election campaigning here is that it has been very peacefully and in very ‘cool’ manner except last day i.e. 17 April 2011 campaigning. Reason behind this peaceful campaigning maybe it’s a FIRST municipal corporation election of this city. This election reminds about the very first election world’s largest democracy, India. While reading Guha’s book it bring out the real pain of those who frame election processes of this country which that time was facing issues of refugees, military advents, political uncertainties etc.   Sukumar Sen, a ICS was appointed as Chief Election Commissioner of India from 21 March 1950 to 19 December 1958, with a big project of conducting fair election in a country where there was 176 million people aged 20 years or more and among them 85% were illiterate. First step of making voters list seemed to be ver...

Teacher , students and facebook Today many colleges and universities advise its teachers and other members to avoid using social media for personal communication with their students. Many conventional thinkers recommends that teachers do not accept Facebook “friend” requests from students, to avoid following them on twitter, texting, or exchanging personal email addresses or other non-work related contact information. According to the Toronto Star, which obtained an early copy of the report, teachers should only use the internet to communicate through “established education platforms” such as a course website.  While most teachers’ first reaction is “duh” to the news that they shouldn’t “friend” their students in Facebook or follow them on Twitter, in reality this rule now exists because some teachers don’t share that same reaction. As per Danielle Webb, National Bureau Chief for Canadian University Press. Most teachers, and even most students, recognize that becoming Facebook ...

Anna hazare, hero of this week J as an Gandhian socialist activist , attempted to pressurize Indian government for the Lokpal Bill which allows involvement of civil society in process of policy framing. This small attempt is believed as if it can control or finish off wide spread corruption in India. Gandhian Approach of fasting unto death was effectively used by an individual ex-army personnel. There are many things which come to mind while this media is making hype over this fasting follower of Gandhi. Involvement of civil society alone can’t stop corruption, rather it bring out new format of corruption. Media is most dominating element of civil society is itself facing problems of corruptions and influence of capitalists. Majority of NGOs, NPOs or CBOs in civil society survives on funds, grants and financial aids provided by government or multinational companies that clearly show that involvement of such elements of civil society won’t be able to make much difference in process p...