Urban Poverty and Urban Governance : Lok Sabha 2014

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

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by Abhishek Jha, PRIA

“Soul of India used to live in villages but in the present epoch of time most of its souls have deviated and migrated to cities and other urban spaces and they will continue to do so”. These were the words shared by one of the speakers during the PEPAC (Pre-Election Political Awareness Campaign) consultation at Bhagalpur, Bihar. If we analyse and reflect on the above mentioned quote, it clearly connotes and indicates towards the unplanned urban growth in our country, exactly like the disturbed and restless souls which doesn’t know which way they are heading. In the same context one of the urban sociologists coined a term called ‘Pseudo Urbanisation’  which broadly meant  a state or situation where the population of urban areas continue to grow  unprecedentedly without any improvement in core basic service for addressing the needs of its citizens.  This situation is being…

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56 इंच का सीना और बोलती बंद?

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

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सरकती जाए है रुख़ से नक़ाब, अहिस्ता, अहिस्ता….

इसे कहते हैं ५६ इंच की छाती इसे कहते हैं ५६ इंच की छाती

बहुत दहाड़ते हैं फेकू महाराज. गुजरात के शेर. 56 इंच के सीने वाले. यकीन न हो तो यह देख लीजिये बाएँ बाज़ू पर छपी तस्वीर. गरजते हुए शेर के कम लग रहे हैं? ऐसा दहाड़ना, ऐसा गरजना की अच्छे अच्छों की रूह कांप जाए. और क्यों न हो? कौन भूल सकता वो दिन – जिसे आज मीडिया की धुआंदार बमबारी भुला देने पर अमादा है. अंग्रेजी में एक शब्द है इस तरह की बमबारी के लिए – carpet bombing, यानि कालीन कि माफ़िक बम से ज़मीन को ढक देना. पिछले कुछ वक़्त से हमारी इन्द्रियों पर जो हमला हो रहा, कुछ इसी किस्म का है. मगर वो लाख चाहे कि इन महाशय की सारी करतूतें भुला दी जाएँ, ऐसा कैसे हो सकता है? जब जब यह शक्ल सामने आती है तब तब नाखूनों में खून…

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Ordering Food Online in Mumbai: The Best Website

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Guest Post by Vijendra Dhanotiya

There are several incentives to ordering your dinner through a third party online website as opposed to getting it yourself manually or ordering it by phone. Mumbai has been late in coming up to the online delivery scenario of India, but it is finally acquired a place in the picture, thanks to foodpanda.in.

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Foodpanda is a website that is exclusively dedicated to holding an inventory of restaurants at its disposal which customers can look through at their website and select their favourite places to order food from them. it operates by far in about twenty cities in the country and is regarded as one of the best websites for online pizza orders.

How to Order Food

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Regardless of where you are in Mumbai, there are a few restaurants nearby where you live which offer home delivery. If you were to resort to offline means of ordering, you would require having the contact details and the serving list of the restaurant you want at your hands. With foodpanda.in, all you have to do is to log into the website and enter your location into the search bar.

Once you feed in the location, the website would filter out restaurants from its database that are nearby you and list them out for you in order of proximity. This would typically include most Mumbai restaurants that you know to be around and have an idea of. You can either select one of the places you are familiar with or simply go for a new one and try your luck.

No Added Prices

For using foodpanda.in, what you pay on your bill is exactly the same as what is charged in the menu of the restaurant. The website charges no extra fees for the work that it does, and is therefore afoodpanda serving foods fail-safe a means for ordering food as is any other. What is more, the website offers you very high quality customer service, with professionals out there to help you out through a toll free number or through online chat options available on the website if you were to have a question or a complaint about an order.

Recorded Transaction

With most home delivery services carried out offline or by phone, there is often no exchange of documentation such as bills that you can keep in case you are not satisfied with your food. With foodpanda, the transaction is online and you always have records that you can keep.

Reviewing Option

If you feel the need to inform restaurant owners about flaws in their service or ways in which they can improve, you can always drop in a review with one of the restaurants you have ordered from. This would help the restaurants modify their flaws while at the same time make other users aware of the situation so as to help them make their choices when ordering through foodpanda.in. both these things put together, it is clear that the online deliver service makes Mumbai a much better place to eat out in.

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Chhipa : Dyeing and Painting People

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

The Chhipa are a community specializing in coloring and dyeing of clothes. They are found in Kathmandu (Nepal), Gujarat (India) and Karachi (Pakistan) .

Chhippa Hindus in South Asia

History and origin

In Nepal

The word chhipa is believed to come from two Nepali words, chhi (to dye) and pa (to leave something to bask in sun).

In India

The word chhipa is derived from the Gujarati word chhapa, which means to print. They are Rajput. The community was originally found in Nagaur in Rajasthan. After their settlement in rajsthan and Gujarat, the community took up the occupation of dyeing and printing clothes. The community speak Marwari, and are found mainly in rajshan (jodhpur, bikaner, nagaur, kuchaman, kuchera, churu, hudas and etc..) and in north Gujarat, in the districts of Ahmedabad, Nadiad, Baroda and Bharuch. Most Chhipa also speak Gujarati.[ Chhipa are also known as Chhimpa in Bikaner. In Punjab too, number of chippas live especially Bathinda, Malout, Muktsar, Moga and faridkot. There are 800 homes of Chippa in Bathinda alone. They belong to Sikhism. People from the chippa clan go to Ghuman Sahib to celebrate the birthday of Bhagat Namdev. Bhagat Namdev holy words are also in Guru Granth Sahib. Surnames or Gotras of Chippa family are Battu, Taggar, Rai, Kamboh, Saggu, Sran, bagria, Hallan, Chahil, Aulakh, Bedi, karir, Pharwaha, Neeraj, Sappal, garcha, Rattan, kainth, Jassal, vattu, Virpal, Braha or Birha, Rakhra, Purba, Gill (they are also found in Jatt clan) and Rohilla.

Some Kainth, Jassal, Rakhra, Birha and Vattu families live in Glasgow, Uk. They are migrated from Punjab (Moga, Kotkapura and Malout cities).

Now the Chhipa community is divided into a number of clans, known as ataks, the main ones being the Tak, Bhati, Deora, Chauhan and Molani,panwar ,rao,kukda Each of these clans are of equal status, and intermarry. But the community has a marked preference for cross cousin and parallel cousin marriages. Surnames or Gotras of Chippa family are Battu, Taggar, Rai, Kamboh, Saggu, Sran, Bagria, Hallan, Chahil, Aulakh, Bedi, karir, Pharwaha, Neeraj, Sappal, garcha, Rattan, kainth, Jassal (they are also found in Jatt clan) , Vattu, Virpal, Braha or Birha, Rakhra, Purba, Gill (they are also found in Jatt clan) and Rohilla.

Chhippa Muslims

There are also  around 80000 Chiippa  Muslims in India.There main language is urdu.

In Pakistan

Chhipa are a Sunni Hanafi Muslim Rajput community settled in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Chippi is derived from the Hindi word chhapna, meaning printing. Though the traditional occupation of the Chippa is dyeing and printing cloth, many are now cloth merchants. The main marriage symbols for women are vermilion and toe-rings (bichua). Dowry is given in cash and kind. Remarriage (natra) is allowed for widows, widowers and divorcees. Their literacy rate is low, and only a few have received education up to the high school level.

There are semantic obstacles to their integration with modern society. This community speaks more than 20 languages, and each language sub-group may well need a separate outreach and church planting project.

Link(s),Source(s) and Inspiration(s):

http://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/16590/IN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhipa

Chhipa Welfare Association

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