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Meet lauds legacy of Pandita Ramabai CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 28 August 2016 AT 09:05 PM IST       goo.gl/LAaO6U      Pandita Ramabai ,  Pt Ramabai ,  women’s emancipation Pune:  Speakers at a seminar on the theme of ‘Reclaiming legacy of Pandita Ramaba’ lauded the contribution of Pandita Ramabai in the fields of social reforms, education, women’s emancipation and said that the scholar activist who created a storm in Maharashtra a century earlier continues to inspire people to this date. The seminar was organised by Streevani in association with Sophia College for Women, Mumbai, and Indian Christian Women’s Movement (ICWM) at Jnana Deepth Vidyapeeth at Ramwadi on Ahmednagar Road on Saturday. The speakers recalled Pandita Ramabai’s contribution at the Indian National Congress session in Mumbai 1885, her deposition before the Hunter Education Commission, her pioneering role in the education of child widows and women, various controversies surrounding her conversion to

Talk of Uniform Civil Code is communal agenda: Flavia Agnes goo.gl/RZYQl7    Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 28 August 2016 AT 09:24 PM IST       Sakal Times,   Flavia Agnes ,  Uniform Civil Code Pune: Social activist and lawyer Flavia Agnes alleged that the ongoing talk of introduction of Uniform Civil Code was the right wing’s communal agenda,  intended for attacking the minorities. Speaking to Sakal Times, the Mumbai-based activist, who was in Pune on Saturday, said that a campaign was launched to create a misconception, especially against the Muslim community. The campaign creates an impression that the present personal laws favoured the minorities while the majority community did not have these privileges. Agnes said it is deliberately spread by the right wing elements that the personal law allowed a minority community member to have as many as four wives and many children. “The question is can we cite a single person belonging to the minority community from o

Political interference in profession, eating habits dangerous goo.gl/C8nX87     Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 28 August 2016 AT 09:39 AM IST Sakal Times One of the first major policy decisions implemented by the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance soon after forming the government in 2014 was to exhume the 19-year-old pending bill on the ban on the slaughter of cow and her progeny and secure the President’s approval for it. Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, who along with other BJP leaders had followed the Bill to its logical end, had then claimed that there is nothing communal about the ban. Soon after this bill became a law, there was a spurt in violent incidents related to the alleged eating or possession of beef in the country. The dubious credit for bringing the cow or beef issue at the Centre of nationwide controversy, therefore, should go to the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra. Subsequently, tension over the issue of cattle slaughter or beef possession

Lawmakers should desist from being liberal in fending themselves http://goo.gl/lrmsZY     Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Sunday, 14 August 2016 AT 03:03 PM IST                       Uttar Pradesh government ,  Mayawati ,  Narayan Dutt Tiwari ,  Rajnath Singh The Supreme Court recently struck down a legislation of the Uttar Pradesh government providing spacious government accommodation for lifetime to former chief ministers of the state. Arguing during the the writ petition hearing, the Uttar Pradesh government counsel had defended the provision but the Supreme Court set aside the legal provision and has asked the former chief ministers to vacate the government accommodation and also pay due fees for the same. Not surprisingly, the beneficiaries of this special provisions belong to all political parties, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati, Congress veteran and former governor Narayan Dutt Tiwa

Dr. Ambedkar - A Social Reformer Camil Parkhe The Navhind Times, Panjim, Goa, March 2, 1986 The movements to eradicate the evils of untouchability and caste system which picked up its momentum during the last century has changed its nature and dimension during the course of history. Thanks to the fathers of Indian Constitution, especially Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, who himself hailed from the oppressed classes, the law does not discriminate against any citizen on the basis of cast and punitive action is taken against those violating the principles of nature justice. Among the social reformers who have lion’s share in changing the situation in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar whose birth anniversary being celebrated all over the country on the 14. Manu, the ancient law maker had denied a respectable position to the shudras and women, Dr. Ambedkar as the chairman of the Drafting Committees of the Constitution Assembly reversed the course of history of the oppressed classes for better

Roy’s Radical Humanism Camil Parkhe, The Navhind Times, Panjim, Goa, March 21, 1984 Improvement in the prevalent social political structure of the society has remained a concern of philosophers right from the ancient history of mankind, in the pursuit of the desire to bring the positive changes, these philosophers, including Pluto, Aristotle, Rousseau, Karl Marx and others, sought to give their own theories for the betterment of the society. In India, the name of M.N.Roy figures prominently among the contemporary Indian philosophers for providing solutions to the various crisis created under the different forms of governments in the world. The birth anniversary of the founder of the ‘radical humanism’ is being celebrated on March 21 in different parts of the country. Disillusion: The radical humanism philosophy of Manbendra Nath Roy (1886-1954) which is centred around the three elements – freedom, reason and morality- was the outcome of long close association with th

The Navhind Times, Panjim, Goa,  December 3, 1982 Their way of reaching Him By Camil Parkhe Panjim, Dec. 3 – Among the thousands who flocked the Bom Jesu Basilica at Old Goa was a ‘strange’ group of a few pilgrims coming to touch the feet of St. Francis Xavier at Old Goa, today shattered many people’s conceptions, beliefs about Christianity which they had preserved for many years. The group of 27 pilgrims, coming from Ajara (Kolhapur district) was led by a Jesuit priest. Fr. Prabhudhar, and Santaji, a young man. A majority of them were college students, some even of only 17 years of age. Crossing everyday 35 kms. On an average they covered the distance of 140 kms. On foot in four days. The strange thing people found in them was that these pilgrims, though hardcore Catholics, were singing Marathi, Konkani Bhajans and that also along with the tune of cymbals (tal) around their necks! These Warkaris, chanting Nam-japa or even Abhangas of Sant Tukaram a prominent saint from Ma

Sr Benedicta to attend Mother Teresa’s canonisation in Vatican Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE |  Monday, 1 August 2016 AT 10:29 PM IST       http://goo.gl/o1CgYs                     Camil Parkhe  ,  Mother Teresa ,  canonisation ,  Sr Benedicta  Sakal Times Pune:  Sr Benedicta from Pune will be part of the Indian contingent, led by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, which will attend the canonisation of Mother Teresa at Vatican City on September 4. Sr Benedicta is a nun belonging to the Missionaries of Charity Convent located at Tadiwala Road here. The congregation’s Maharashtra provincial Sr Jinette and Sr Karuna from Amravati are two other nuns who will attend the ceremony.  Two or three nuns from each province of the Missionaries of Charity from all over the world are scheduled to participate in the canonisation ceremony at Vatican.  Pope Francis will declare Mother Teresa a saint at the event which is being held on the eve of the death anniversary of the founder of