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The changing times and the challenges for the Police Force

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For 4 years tried so many ways to make a difference to the police department with the Project Parivartan that now has already crossed over 1 lakh people  recipients across India. What started as an intent to reach out to the people and energize the population to channelize the discontentment, frustration and anger emerging from the rapid changing environment and living spaces out of the cultural clashes, social conformity to a more energized and constructive effort in being change in action..today has reached a new frontier with the Police Force The changing times calls for different role to be played and demands a more pro-active ability to comprehend and deal with people engagement. The Police have to be more a facilitator than a vigilante. The increasing distribution of wealth and purchasing power of the middle class families besides the metros indulgent culture has brought serious issues like domestic violence, cyber offenses, gender rights, crime rates all amounting to...

Post War on Mumbai - The way forward

Adversities in life breed innovations and impregnate the mind with solutions that has always been the driving factor of progress Amidst all this loss of lives and pain I see a ray of hope Instead of being a nation which is insensitive, lethargic and a complacent lot we have suddenly realized how vulnerable we have become and all our growth and development process is myopic if the basic sense of security is absent. We are angry and feeling so helpless, while our brethrens are bleeding out there.... Never have I seen such great viewer ship on TV over the incident from Nov 25th to Nov 29th 2008 .I was myself glued to the TV without able to give any mindshare to anything else and could virtually see that this time people are really very angry , unlike all previous terror strikes in Mumbai. This time people are demanding accountability. From politicians, the government and the policy makers…… The terrorists had aimed at killing 5000 people and repeating the 9/11 incident and wanted to go in...