A government whose leader hasn’t ever given a competitive exam, whose home minister has gone missing after the police targeted unarmed student protestors, most of whose ministers send their children abroad to study can have no skin in reforming exam systems in India . My speech in parliament on the public exam bill, made both as an MP but also as a mother of a doctor who has seen the Indian NEET exam first hand.
I travelled through Great Nicobar today.
These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.
The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.
The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.
This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language.
So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.
It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
@BCCI@IDFCFIRSTBank@imjadeja U sacked Sanju Samson, Muhammed Shami and other deserving players. Then on the brink of series loss now. Please avoid nepotism in team selection. Otherwise it will happen again. Sack Gambhir and Agarkar instead of Sanju and Shami..@GautamGambhir@imAagarkar