
MUMBAI, AUG 29: In an attempt to counter what it calls 8220;biased information about India all over the world8221;, a city-based non-governmental organisation, Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini, has launched a web journal, Tejasvi Bharat alias brightindia.org. The journal will project the positive and encouraging incidents, developments, projects and collaborations in all walks of Indian life.
The idea of this kind of a web journal was conceived by the Prabodhini8217;s director, Vinay Sahastrabuddhe. Besides a column called Bright News, the site will also carry articles by reputed writers, journalists and columnists on the progress achieved by India in the fields of science, education, culture and art. The site will list events recorded in history within any one particular week.
The journal was launched by noted journalist M V Kamath on Friday. 8220;India has a lot of intellectual potential despite the fact that a large number of professionals migrate to the US or UK every year8230;We have the knowledge, but we lackwisdom. The use of the Internet for the purpose of projecting the right and bright kind of India is therefore commendable,8221; observed Kamat. 8220;Often, the search for news8217; does not spare any time and space for the record of encouraging events. Would one get an American doctor in India? America, on the other hand, has as many as 25,000 Indian doctors. Sixty per cent of the employees of NASA are Indians. We can put across so many other facts across to the world through this journal,8221; Kamath added.
Dr V G Kulkarni, former director of the Bhabha Science Education Centre, Dr P M Kamath of the political science department of the University of Mumbai and historian Dr Vijay Bedekar are on the advisory committee of the site along with Kamath.