Congress MLAs try to stop the car of HP Governor Bandaru Dattatraya after he gave his speech on the opening day of Budget Session in the state assembly, in Shimla.
Congress MLAs try to stop the car of HP Governor Bandaru Dattatraya after he gave his speech on the opening day of Budget Session in the state assembly, in Shimla.
A man looks on at damaged vehicles after trees fell over them, due to recent rainfall in Solan.
Family members of Rakesh Kapoor, who died in the Chamoli disaster, mourn after his body was brough at his residence in Palampur.
Exile Tibetans pin miniature Tibetan flags on their hometowns on a map of the Tibetan region at a street event to mark the day when the 13th Dalai Lama declared Tibet an independen...
Exile Tibetan parliamentarians pray at an event marking the first day of the Tibetan New Year or Losar in Dharamsala.
A bright sunshine on Shimla wrapped in all white after a record single day Snowfall.
Pedestrians use umbrellas as they walk during snowfall in Shimla.
Pedestrians use umbrellas as they walk during snowfall in Shimla.
After snowfall policemen helping tourists on Shimla roads
Exile Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the holding of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in Dharamsala. Five effigies represent Taiwan, T...
Exile Tibetans use the Olympic Rings as a prop as they hold a street protest against the holding of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in Dharamsala. Five effigies were also used to r...
Activists wearing masks of the IOC President Thomas Bach and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose in front of the Olympic Rings during a street protest against the holding of the 2022...
People stand next to icicles hanging from the bushes on a cold winter morning, in Shimla.
The snow festival has enabled locals to exhibit their unique traditions
Local crafts are on display during the ongoing two-month long snow festival in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul-Spiti District.
The snow festival has been organised with an aim to boost tourism in the region
The snow festival has enabled locals to exhibit their unique crafts
The snow festival has enabled locals to exhibit their customs and traditions
The snow festival aims to showcase the locals’ culture
One more medical student, 19-year-old Aman Kachroo, has been brutally killed in the name of "ragging". Who is to blame? What can be done? Shivam Vij cuts to the chase in kafila.org:
This was in an interim order of the [Supreme] Court in May 2007, nearly 2 years ago. That has not been able to prevent Kachroo’s murder. I have no doubt that more ragging deaths will take place. You can read here a critique of the interim order by me.
If only Aman Kachroo had been able to call a helpline number or email somebody, anonymously, and write that this kind of ragging was going on, and a fact-finding team had immediately visited his college, not only could the death have been prevented but also possibly Kachroo could have enjoyed his college life without even the mandatory ostracisation that freshers who speak up against ragging have to face in their college and hostel. The setting up of such a helpine on the model of Childline was one of the recommendations of the Raghavan committee. But can the Supreme Court set up something like that? Surely, that is the domain of the executive and not the judiciary. An HRD Joint Secretary is Member Secretary of the Raghavan Committee, but the HRD won’t do anything because, well, the SC is looking into it.
To model the helpline around Childline was suggested by HRD Joint Secretary Sunil Kumar himself, but that would need identifying and funding NGO’s to do that. The Coalition to Uproot Ragging from Education is ready, but the HRD forgot about this and the SC had no comment.So two things needed to prevent ragging: a law and a helpline. Simple.
Read the full article here: Why Aman Kachroo’s Won’t Be The Last Ragging Death And What His Parents Should Do
