Invitation-Spreading Buddhism Conference 2013

Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:57 PMInvitation - Spreading Buddhism Conference 2013 An International meet

will be held at Nagpur on July 20-21, 2013

              Civil Rights Protection cell is going to organize "Spreading Buddhism 
Conference 2013, an International Meet" at Dr. Ambedkar Cultural Hall, Urvela
Colony, Wardha Road, Nagpur on July 20-21, 2013 with association of 
AWAZ India TV, Dr. Ambedkar Engineers Association, Dr. Ambedkar Health
Organization, Ashwaghosh Buddhist Foundation, Jeewak Welfare Society.
The two days program is as follows.:
     Saturday 20th July 2013
* 10.00 Am : Inauguration - H.E. Tsona Gontse Rimpoche
                    Welcome Chairperson - Dr. Milind Jiwane
                    Chairperson - Hon. Amar Ramteke
                    Chief Guest - Ven. Khem Dhammo
                    Guest of Honors - Dr. Arvind Alok (New Delhi)
                                           Adv. Bharulata Kamble (Film Producer, Australia)
* 12.00AM - Publication of Souvenir "Buddha Chakra"
Session - I 
* 1.00 to 2.30 PM - Buddha Sangiti (For Monks)        
               Chairperson - Ven. Khem Dhammo
              Co-Chairperson - Ven. Nandvardhan Bodhi
              Rapport - Ven. Mettanand
Session - II
* 2.30 to 4.00 PM : The Concept of Buddhist India.               Chairperson - Adv. Vasant Umare
              Co-Chairperson - Er. P.S. Khobragade
              Rapport - Dr. Milind Mane
Session - III
* 4.15 to 5.45 PM: The Buddhist Code of Conduct.
              Chairperson - Hon. B.M. Kaushal
              Co-Chairperson - Adv. Vasant Khaparde
              Rapport - Dr. Suchit Bagde
Session IV
* 5.45 to 6.15 PM : Buddhism & Women Empoerment.
               Chairperson - Dr. Rupa Bodhi Kulkarni
              Co-Chairperson - Dr. Mrs. Archan Sukhdeve
              Rapport - Ms. Mayuri Choudhari
6.15 to 8.00 : Cultural Program 
   July 21, 2013
Session - V
* 10.00 to 11.30 AM : Buddhist Literature 
             Chairperson - Dr. Munshilal Gautam, IAS
              Co-Chairperson - Dr. Niraj Bodhi
              Rapport - Hon. Swatantra Gajbhiye
Session - VI
* 12.00 to 1.30 PM : Buddha's Economics.
              Chairperson - Er. Kuldeep Ramteke
              Co-Chairperson - Adv. Bharulata Kamble 
              Rapport - Dr. shankar Khobragade
Session - VII
* 1.30 to 3.00 PM : Co-ordination of Buddhist at large.
              Chairperson - Prof. Dr. Surjeet Boudh
              Co-Chairperson - Er. Moreshwar Meshram
              Rapport - Dr. P.D. Bailmare
Session - VIII
* 3.15 to 4.30 PM : Implementation on Prepared Action Plan.
              Chairperson - Hon. Arvind Sontakke
              Co-Chairperson - Dr. Dhanraj Dahat
              Rapport - Adv. Hashu Meshram
* 4.30 to 6.30 PM : Valedictory Function.
              Chief Guest : H.H. 13th Tsona Gontse Rimpoche
              Chairperson : Amar Ramteke
              Guest of Honors : Dr. Munshilal Gautam, IAS
                                         Hon. Chandrabodhi Patil
* 6.45 to 7.15 PM : Resolutions
* 7.15 to 8.30 PM : Cultural ProgramWith regards:
Dr. Milind JiwaneChairman & Chief Organizer
Spreading Buddhism Conference 2013(An International Meet)
Civil Rights Protection Cell
* Awaz India TV
* Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Engineers Association
* Dr. Ambedkar Health Organization
* Ashwaghosh Buddhist Foundation
* Jeewak Welfare Society

CMC Ldh:Greets her doctors on doctors day

Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:41 PM
Cherubic Angel with Heart Disease from the valley

A happy baby Rakina (in black kurta) with the Director of CMC – Dr Abraham G Thomas and Dr HS Bedi wishing them a Happy Doctors Day

Ludhiana, 01 July, 2013:(Shalu Arora and Rector Kathuria): The lovely angelic child – Baby Rakina – aged 2 years – daughter of Mr Mohd Hanif and Mrs Noorbano of Srinagar – had a major heart surgery at the Christian Medical College and Hospital Ludhiana. She was discharged in a healthy condition and was doing well. Today – on Doctors Day – 1st July 2013 – she and her parents decided to come specially and thank all her treating doctors on Doctors Day. She brought special sweets for all the staff from the valley.

Mohd Hani and Noorbano thanked the CMC & H Institute and all its doctors who took such good care of their baby.  It may be mentioned here that Rakina had a major heart defect (large hole in the heart) which was damaging her heart and lungs. Rakina was not growing according to their age and would get recurrent infections. She would land up in the emergency room of the hospital in J & K time and again. The parents were told that Rakina needed an early heart surgery. However Mohd Hanif – a labourer was unable to collect the money required. He was then were referred to Dr Harinder Singh Bedi – Head of Cardiac Surgery at the CMC and H Ludhiana. On investigation it was realized that only a major open heart surgery could save Rakina as her heart was close to its terminal condition. Dr Bedi who has had advanced training in the treatment of such cases at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Australia said that if untreated the lungs of such children get damaged beyond repair . In co-ordination with the Director–Dr Abraham G Thomas and Dr Jugesh Chattwal Prof and Head Paediatrics – it was decided to perform the high risk case under the Gift of Life scheme funded by the CMC Alumni USA and the UMSF USA. A major heart surgery was done wherein Rakina’s body was placed on a heart lung machine, the heart stopped and put on ice and the hole in the heart repaired .By Gods grace – Rakina’s heart recovered immediately. The other members of the team during the marathon surgery were Dr S Garg, Dr Melchi, Dr Allen, Dr Anish, Dr  JaiPrakash, Dr Aradhana, Dr Shipra, Dr Neethu, Dr Amritha, Dr Pearl and Dr Rakhi. The delicate control of the heart lung machine was done by Mr William and Mr Jairus.

Dr Abraham G Thomas – Director of CMC said that on Doctors Day the Faculty & Heart Team of CMC & H rededicates itself to  look after patients  with the humility , selflessness and compassion for which CMC is so well known . Dr Bedi told that it was very gratifying when such patients do well with major open heart surgery. The smiling face of the patient and her family is the greatest satisfaction for any doctor. Dr Bedi said that the greatest compliment he has received so far was when Noorbano said that the Heart Team took care of Rakina with motherly love.

ASIA: Narrative of Justice in Sri Lanka

The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), the sister organisation of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) announces the publication of Narrative of Justice in Sri Lanka as told through the stories of torture victims. The book contains 736 pages.

This book records the stories of 400 cases of torture out of over 2,000 cases which were researched and published by the AHRC and the ALRC over the last ten years. The victims of torture were interviewed in great detail and assisted to pursue their complaints to the Sri Lankan authorities. The ALRC researchers have studied each of these cases through long years while the victims were pursuing their grievances before local authorities and courts.

"This book tells a grim story of the actual situation and of the way the criminal justice system works, or in fact, does not work in Sri Lanka. Through the stories of torture the victims reveal the extremely cruel and brutal methods used by the police and other law enforcement agencies and what it more striking is the narrative of the utter neglect that seems to pervade the police, who are supposed to be investigators into crime, the Attorney General's Department, which is supposed to prosecute competently and impartially and the judiciary which is supposed to protect the citizens of the country. The weight of evidence that is presented by this book on the complete failure of the system demands a response from the Sri Lankan government as well as its basic institutions such as the police, the Attorney General's Department and the judiciary", said Mr. Basil Fernando, the Director, Policy & Programme Development of the ALRC who is also the editor of this book.

Fernando further said, "No study of human rights in Sri Lanka would be complete without reference to this publication. This is the most comprehensive book, not only on the practice of torture but also the widespread impunity that prevails in Sri Lanka".

He went on to say that the study of law in Sri Lanka requires a change. The legal texts that are supposed to say what the law is should be contrasted with the actual situation that prevails in the country. This book graphically exposes how far Sri Lanka has drifted away from the rule of law and how far the people of Sri Lanka are denied of their basic protection.

Copies of the book may be obtained from the Asian Legal Resource Centre.

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About the AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation that monitors human rights in Asia, documents violations and advocates for justice and institutional reform to ensure the protection and promotion of these rights. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.

About the ALRC: The Asian Legal Resource Centre is an independent regional non-governmental organisation holding general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It is the sister organisation of the Asian Human Rights Commission. The Hong Kong-based group seeks to strengthen and encourage positive action on legal and human rights issues at the local and national levels throughout Asia.

Secretary of Defense Hagel's Military Profile

Sexual Assault Response Systems Review Panel

Hagel Meets With the Oanel
06/27/2013 01:04 PM CDT

American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had his first in-person meeting today with a panel that is reviewing the Defense Department's response systems to sexual assaults and related crimes, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. Hagel previously had spoken to Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel members via teleconference, Little said. The Defense Department established the panel in accordance with the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, he added. "The panel will conduct an independent review and assessment of the systems used to investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate crimes involving sexual assault and related offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice," the press secretary said in a statement summarizing today's meeting. "It will develop recommendations to improve the effectiveness of those systems." During the administrative portion of the meeting, the secretary thanked the panel members for bringing their expertise to bear in helping the Defense Department address one of its most pressing challenges, Little said. "Secretary Hagel made clear that his goal is to eradicate the crime of sexual assault from the military, and that he is open to all their ideas on how to accomplish this objective," he added. "He believes the panel's findings and recommendations will play a critical role in ensuring that the department, working closely with Congress, makes well-informed decisions to improve sexual assault response and prevention -- considering all the options on the table." Hagel asked the panel to work deliberately and carefully, based on thorough research and analysis, but also emphasized the importance of acting quickly, Little said, and he pledged the department's full support for the panel's efforts. "In addition to today's meeting, Secretary Hagel continues to hold regular weekly meetings of the top civilian and military leadership of the department focused solely on sexual assault prevention and response efforts," the press secretary added.

Biographies: Chuck Hagel Related Sites: Special Report: Sexual Assault Prevention and Response

I visited the home of Akhtar Mujahid-Subhashini Ali

He showed us the cd on a laptop

In the evening of the 24^th, June, I visited the home of Akhtar Mujahid along with members of the CPI(M) in Jaunpur District.  Akhtar’s home is in Madiyaun, a kasba of Jaunpur, UP.  We arrived in the evening, following a darkening sky.  Just as we entered his mohalla, the rain came pouring down and we had to run into the narrow lane that led to his house.  Many of his neighbours had collected to welcome us and all of us sat in the small room in the front of the home that he and his widowed mother shared with his Taya (father’s elder brother), Tayi, their son, Shahid, his wife and their two children.

Khalid’s uncle is an extremely dignified man who seems to have aged because of the burden of grief and despair that he has carried since December, 2007 when his nephew was suddenly picked up by an unknown group of people in an unmarked jeep.  This occurred just fourteen days after Khalid’s marriage.

As we sat in the small room, Khalid’s uncle told us about the day when life as they had known it came to a standstill for him and his extended family.  He manages a madarsa and library in the neighbourhood and Akhtar taught there.  It is on record that he attended to his duties on the 16^th December, 2007 and was then picked up and whisked away by unknown persons to an unknown place.  His cousin, Shahid, accompanied by a large number of people, went to the police station immediately but his FIR was not accepted.  This was reported in several newspapers the next day and Akhtar’s uncle and others sent faxes to the Chief Minister and others.  On the 18^th, the police visited Akhtar’s house and took away some books and papers including a copy of the Koran.  Finally, on the 22^nd evening, the police station in charge informed his uncle that he had been arrested that morning from Bara Banki.

Akhtar’s uncle said that a living nightmare for the family had begun.  When he visited his nephew in the Bara Banki jail, there was little said between them but Akhtar managed to give him a small, folded piece of paper.  When he returned home, he read the letter which spoke of indescribably torture and abuse.  The fond uncle could not sleep that night or many nights that followed.

Within a fortnight of Akhtar’s arrest, his wife’s family came to take her away.  His uncle said that the whole family wept as they saw the same vehicle being loaded with all the belongings that the young bride had brought them in to their house just a month earlier.  She left never to return.

The long battle for justice was joined.  Another young man, Tariq Qasmi from Azamgarh, had also been picked up on the 16^th of December and then shown to have been arrested with Akhtar in Bara Banki.  After his abduction, members of a local political group had sat on a dharna in Lucknow and, on the 22^nd, the Bara Banki story was made public by the police.  Since there were so many who had witnessed what had actually happened on the 16^th, there was an uproar and, finally, the Mayawati Government appointed the Nimesh Commission to enquire into the matter.  R.D. Nimesh, a retired judge, submitted his report to the Akhilesh Yadav Government in August, 2012 but it has not been made public since.

Akhtar’s uncles travails, therefore, yielded nothing but took a toll on his health.  He suffered a major heart attack a year ago and was not able to meet his nephew in jail for many months.  He remembers the last time that he met him about 4 months ago.  Akhtar had given up hope on that occasion.

On the 18^th of June, 2013, Akhtar was taken to the Faizabad district court from Lucknow.  On the way back, he felt unwell and the police escort with him took him to the district hospital at Bara Banki.  Tariq Qasmi was in the police van.  Within half an hour he was given the news that Akhtar was dead.

Akhtar’s uncle told us that he reached Bara Banki in a matter of a couple of hours and was able to shoot a video of his nephew’s body before the post mortem.  He showed us the cd on a laptop.  Akhtar’s face was swollen and there was dry blood near his nose and ear.  His fingernails were blackish.  His back showed marks of severe beating and there was a large bruise on one side.  After seeing the video, it did not seem credible that he died a natural death.  His post mortem report says – Cause of death, uncertain.

We could not but agree with Akhtar’s uncle that an inhumane State was responsible for the young man’s death in custody.  Had it responded to the Nimesh Commissions’s recommendations, Akhtar would have been released or at least granted bail and would have been alive today.

Akhtar’s uncle then took me to meet Akhtar’s wife and mother.  How can one describe a his mother’s inconsolable grief and unending sorrow.  But her quiet dignity in the midst of such tragedy was heart-rending.  She told me that she had gone to visit her son once in the jail with her sister-in-law and he had told her that while the world was very cruel, he hoped that in the Next world he would find happiness and justice. --Subhashini Ali

I am Gurpreet Kaur

I am very thankful to god that e sent the angel called Manika 
A person has full right to have dreams and its god’s responsibility to fulfill that
I am Gurpreet Kaur. My father is a common labour and my mother is no more. I have got four siblings who are younger than me. I did my schooling from govt. school o my village.
I was topper at my school. It was my duty to write thought of the day and top news of the day daily. 
One day it was silent, I was writing thought of the day at the board at my school. Suddenly what happened, silent got changed into music of happiness. I saw a headline which will change my life I didn’t know. It was written that a person want to give best education to 2oo students who belongs to poor families, who are brilliant but cannot able to have. A hope of light was arises at my mind. I decided to give my name in these students. I took the permission from the headmistress and went to the school in which the test will be taken place. It was full of struggle for me to do all the formalities because no one with me. I was alone did not have knowledge about anything but I was successful. I passed the exam taken by them. I took admission in the school of my dreams. I always had a dream to study in that school. I never thought that I will be an engineer but now I am.
The person was S. Jatinder Singh Uppal from Australia. Madam Manika is a daughter of S. jatindre Singh Uppal. I did my schooling up to 12 from Jatinder Singh Uppal and for my higher education Manika adopted me i.e. she sponsored me for my further studies. I never thought in my life that I will study in India’s top university. I didn’t know that god has sent an angel to fulfill the dreams of the students like me. Now I believe nothing is impossible.
A person has full right to have dreams and its god’s responsibility to fulfill that.
I am very thankful to god that e sent the angel called Manika .
May god bless Manika.
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