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Harpeet S Arora to Promote Philippines Traditional<br />
Martial Arts in Traditional Sports and Games UNESCO.<br />
Arora is voted into positon to help promote<br />
and boost awareness of foot fighting<br />
traditional sports once again.<br />
After a long period of reflection,<br />
Harpeet S. Arora has been appointed the<br />
Joint Secretary of the Global Sikaran<br />
Federation (GSF). A meeting, held in Los<br />
Angeles, California, was put together in a<br />
bid to finally decide upon the next group<br />
leader of the GSF. The aim of the meeting<br />
was to help create a long-term plan of<br />
action to help promote and push ancient<br />
fighting arts once again, and Harpeet S.<br />
Arora was appointed to the role of Joint<br />
Secretary.<br />
Organized by Secretary General of the<br />
Adhoc Advisory Committee, Shammi<br />
Rana, this meeting was of vital importance.<br />
Rana, the UNESCO Traditional<br />
Sports and Games chair, was joined by<br />
Hari Osias Banaang, the President of the<br />
Global Sikaran Federation, as well as<br />
Vishal Kaushik, the Vice President of the<br />
Rising Sun Welfare Society. In an energizing<br />
meeting, much was discussed in<br />
an attempt to help create a plan of action<br />
for promotion of classic Sikaran sports.<br />
These sports, originally from the<br />
Philippines, have fallen out of modern<br />
parlance and the aim here is to help<br />
return these events to their original<br />
grandeur.<br />
Sikaran is totally different from other<br />
forms of martial arts, according to<br />
Banaang. While karate uses the hands,<br />
for example, kung fu uses the feet and the<br />
hands. Meanwhile taekwondo is likely to<br />
be the main discipline that’s closest to the<br />
old ways. Speaking to the office bearers<br />
and players gathered at this LA visit,<br />
Rana made clear there is an absolute need<br />
for the world to embrace and endorse<br />
more traditional games and disciplines<br />
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Mark Zuckerberg apologises<br />
to U.S....<br />
Senone of us are going to have any privacy<br />
anymore,” said Senator Bill Nelson.<br />
Mr. Zuckerberg called Facebook “an idealistic<br />
and optimistic company” and said, “We<br />
focused on all the good that connecting people<br />
can bring.” But he acknowledged that<br />
“it's clear now that we didn't do enough to<br />
prevent these tools from being used for<br />
harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign<br />
interference in elections, and hate<br />
speech, as well as developers and data privacy.”<br />
Mr. Zuckerberg added, “I want to be<br />
clear about what our priority is: protecting<br />
our community is more important than maximizing<br />
our profit.”<br />
'Investigating every app'<br />
The Facebook CEO recounted a list of<br />
steps aimed at averting improper use of data<br />
by third parties like Cambridge Analytica,<br />
and noted that other applications were being<br />
investigated to determine if they did anything<br />
wrong. On Friday, Facebook sought to<br />
allay concerns over political manipulation<br />
of its platform by announcing support for<br />
the “Honest Ads Act” that requires election<br />
ad buyers to be identified, and to go further<br />
by verifying who sponsors ads on key public<br />
policy issues. Mr. Zuckerberg vowed to<br />
“hire thousands of more people” to get the<br />
new system in place ahead of U.S. midterm<br />
elections in November, starting the process<br />
in the United States and taking it global in<br />
the coming months.<br />
such as this. With sport becoming<br />
increasingly commercialized, a return to<br />
less commercially driven sports is vital to<br />
help maintain the honour and soul of<br />
sport. Rana also stated that UNESCO is<br />
fully committed towards this agenda, and<br />
works to help create greater awareness<br />
worldwide.<br />
A New Secretary<br />
The newly appointed Joint Secretary,<br />
Harpeet S. Arora, thanks Mr. Rana and<br />
UNESCO for their efforts in helping promote<br />
such a vital topic. Also, they spoke<br />
of the cultural immensity that traditional<br />
sports have helped to forge in the fighting<br />
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Ambedkar’s vision of a secular ...<br />
character or for giving stipends to clerics, but to impart<br />
education, to set up health care facilities and improve<br />
industry and infrastructure. Leaders make a mockery of<br />
democracy when they insist that the cultural norms of the<br />
majority community are to be equated to that of the entire<br />
nation or when they allow archaic, illiberal, gendered<br />
practices to continue out of anxiety of losing the votes of<br />
a minority community, thereby ignoring the wishes and<br />
sentiments of sane members of all communities and playing<br />
into the hands of the most radical, regressive sections<br />
of society. This whole debate about religious intolerance<br />
and communal animosities should be reviewed through<br />
the prism of the principle of Fraternity, incorporated in<br />
our Constitution at the insistence of Babasaheb.<br />
Fraternity postulates a sense of solidarity and strong<br />
empathy among citizens, an acknowledgement that different<br />
faiths and practices are not just to be ‘tolerated’, a<br />
term smacking of superciliousness and condescension,<br />
but to be accepted and respected as sacrosanct and reverential,<br />
just like our own. Fraternity calls for a commitment<br />
to move with time, to educate ourselves and to contribute<br />
to the progress of nations, while extending our helping<br />
hand to those sections of society who are lagging behind<br />
and need our support.<br />
More than ever before, we need to cling to the magnificient<br />
ideas of secularism, equality, justice, fraternity and<br />
social democracy embedded in our Constitution, all of<br />
which can coalesce into making India a country which<br />
values religion but doesn’t propagate infallibility of religion,<br />
which progressively treats religion as a matter of<br />
private faith rather than public posturing, which is free<br />
from exploitation and discrimination, which prioritises<br />
rationality and social harmony.<br />
The writer is Associate Professor, Department of<br />
Political Science, Women’s Christian College, Kolkata.<br />
world, with foot fighting a historically<br />
practiced sport in various parts of the<br />
world, from India and Pakistan to the<br />
United States of America and Canada.<br />
The aim long-term is to hold more local<br />
and international level tournaments in a<br />
bid to help raise awareness and boost<br />
long-term participation. The Rising Sun<br />
Welfare Society VP, Vishal Kaufik, also<br />
spoke of the vital importance of traditional<br />
sports in the modern era, especially<br />
for young children who need to be<br />
helped to find the rich culture of the past<br />
instead of finding themselves locked into<br />
the modern principles of the present day.<br />
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Impact of Globalisation on Dalits : Dr. Ambedker’s Perspective<br />
But such ‘opportunities’ are and<br />
whom they benefit is a question that<br />
directly concerns the Dalits. In an<br />
existential asymmetrical world,<br />
where we actually live, such opportunities<br />
open many doors to thehaves.<br />
The interests of the havenots,<br />
a large majority of whom happen<br />
to be of low castes, socially<br />
excluded, tribal, women, and other<br />
vulnerable sections of the society,<br />
are often neglected. The socially<br />
excluded sections of the society are<br />
the worst victims of much-hyped<br />
Special Economic Zones [SEZs] and<br />
the resultant consequent process of<br />
forced displacement (Ahlawat 2008;<br />
Palit 2008; Partha 2008; Kumar<br />
2007; Gill 2007; Shankar 2007;<br />
Shankar 2008; Sampat 2008;<br />
Sharma 2009; and Sarma 2007)<br />
(Ram ,2010:12). However, a lot has<br />
been already said about the desired<br />
human and humane face of globalization<br />
based on global governance,<br />
such claims sound rather hollow for<br />
the marginalized sections of the<br />
society. The free market-economy<br />
has not only failed to liberate them,<br />
but it has rather further pinned them<br />
down. The downtrodden are not<br />
welcomed in the sphere of market as<br />
equal partners of profit. In other<br />
words, the market practices<br />
‘untouchability’, albeit in a different<br />
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- Ambedkar, B.R. (1995) [first published in 1936], Annihilation of<br />
Caste, Jalandhar: Bheem Patrika Publications.<br />
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Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol.3, Education<br />
Department, Govt. of Maharashtra, pp.1-94.<br />
- (1987b), “The Hindu Social Order: Its Essential Features”, in<br />
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form. They feel alienated in the very<br />
world that promises to empower<br />
them. Howsoever strong and robust<br />
the free market-economy might<br />
appear to be, in the long run it will<br />
not survive until and unless the question<br />
of the marginalized sections is<br />
addressed sincerely. In fact, the question<br />
of equitable distribution of<br />
resources is closely related to the<br />
issue of the immediate and amicable<br />
redressal of the causes of marginalization<br />
and exclusion of the Dalits<br />
from the mainstream.