खूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]

राजस्थान के गोपालगढ कस्बे में 14 सितंबर, 2011 को हुई सांप्रदायिक हिंसा का विश्लेषण

एम्स से चिकित्सा शास्त्र की डिग्री लेने वाले नाथपंथी एकआम्बेडकरवादी साधु से संबंधित यात्रा संस्मरण।

A team of journalists led by Pramod Ranjan, editor, FORWARD Press, is touring India to explore Bahujan India and its culture. The team invites FP readers to join this odyssey. We will keep you posted with what we see and learn through regular reports and articles. Here is a report by Pramod Ranjan from Rajasthan

In the 1890s, Camden Municipal Council started beautifying the town area by planting various trees, including peppercorns. These cultural plantings defined the local urban landscape for decades, yet only a handful remain today.

इस लेख में यूनिवर्सिटियों में सामाजिक न्याय की अवहेलना के कारण होने वाले नुकासान की चर्चा की गई है। लेख में कहा गया है कि प्राध्यापकों का मुख्य काम शिक्षण, यानी ज्ञान की व्याख्या करना है। ज्ञान का निर्माण एक सतत प्रक्रिया है, जो समाज में घटित होती है, यूनिवर्सिटियां भी इस प्रकिया का उतना ही अंग हैं, जितना किसी किस…[Read more]

The Plough and Harrow Inn at 75-79 Argyle Street is the second oldest hotel in Camden and is still on the original site. The Camden Inn (1841) was the first hotel in Camden. Located on the Great South Road, the Plough and Harrow was part of the fabric of Macarthur’s private village of Camden within the Cowpastures. By the early 20th century,…[Read more]

Camden History is the Journal of the Camden Historical Society NSW. The journal is published bi-annually, an anthology of historical stories about people and places drawn from Camden and district. The current edition includes Cowells Camellia Nursery; Onslow Assembly Hall, Camden; JD Rankin; Artwork Life Blood; Frederick Sharpe; CD Noble; Photo essay.

The former Foresters’ Hall occupies one of the most prominent sites in the Camden Town Centre at 147 Argyle Street on the corner of Oxley Street and Argyle Street. On its opening in 1908, the hall was considered the best in New South Wales by the Order of Royal Foresters.
The Royal Foresters purchased the hall site, with frontages on Argyle…[Read more]

The Camden Miss Showgirl competition is, in many ways, an anachronism from the past. It has survived for 49 years under the onslaught of feminism, post-modernism, globalization and urbanisation. A worthy feat indeed.
The competition is still popular, and the local press is always a strong supporter. The 2010 Camden Showgirl competition attracted…[Read more]

Once again, country show societies are gearing up for the annual New South Wales Miss Showgirl competition. In 2008 500 young women entered the pageant at a local level representing 120 show societies, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show finals. The 2011 Camden Miss Showgirl has attracted seven young local women – four of the seven are university s…[Read more]

The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

In central Camden is an empty bank building of understated significance at the intersection of John and Argyle Streets. This building was once the premises of Westpace, formerly the Bank of New South Wales, and was the second banking chamber on that site. Constructed in the 1930s by a prominent firm of Sydney architects, the building is of much…[Read more]

This is a thoroughly researched and readable book that provides a glimpse of life in western New South Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the eyes of a woman, Rachel Kennedy (1845-1930). The book is a wonderful contribution to female biography and regional community history, and illustrates the precarity of life for women…[Read more]

One of the hidden parts of the history of Camden NSW are the Interwar years. Few know the stories of the buildings, characters and events of the town. This article is an overview of the community’s built heritage at a time when the town underwent a building boom driven by the wealth generated by the Burragorang coalfields.

Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.

इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]

Any memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other public facilities commemorate, celebrate and generally remind us about the landscape of the Cowpastures. In recent decades there has been a nostalgia turn in recovering the memory of the Cowpastures landscape. This is cast in terms of the pioneers and the legacy of the European settlement.
Some…[Read more]

One of the first directors of the Sydney Railway Company was colonial identity Thomas Barker who established Maryland at Bringelly in the 1850s. He developed the farm Maryland as a Sydney gentleman’s retreat and starting building his hilltop homestead in 1854. Barker was a successful Sydney businessman and philanthropist who was one of the…[Read more]

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]