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The New Year is here. What do you wish for the New Year?

The New Year is here. What do you wish for the New Year? Various professionals speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira and express their wishes.

Author Monarose Pereira in conversation with Prittle Prattle News

The New Year is here. What do you wish for the New Year?

Various professionals speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira and express their wishes.

ElsaMarie Dsilva, Founder and CEO, Red Dot Foundation

I wish for a safer and inclusive world in the New Year. Each of us has the power to make that change happen, and I wish for more men and boys to be engaged in reducing violence against women and girls.

Reni Abraham, Education Professional

The pandemic has made me realize that when adversity like this strikes, all human beings are the same – rich, poor, upper class, lower class ….. did not matter. We all became hapless, and there was this big realization of how much we need to respect nature and its power. My wish for the New Year is that human beings understand the importance of – CO-EXISTENCE. We need to learn to be empathetic towards our surroundings, the environment, and stop exploiting the underprivileged class. Let’s not fight for the survival of the fittest but change our mindset towards the idea of co-existing.

Juhi Bhatia GhaswalaManager- Tibro Tours Pvt. Ltd.

I wish and pray this New Year finds everyone in good health, happiness, and financial security. We have learned to be strong, patient, and adjusting in 2020, which we would need to reciprocate in 2021. At the same time, let’s move forward and live our lives with more enthusiasm, positivity, and care for our fellow countrymen.

Dr. Fr. Anthony J. D’Souza, SJ; Director of Premanjali Counselling Services and Training of Professional Counsellors 

The prolonged pandemic-related lockdown forced us to be with ourselves, and willy-nilly, we made an inward journey into ourselves. In this inward journey, I discovered the source of pure joy and compassion, and my heart went out to the victims of covid-19, the ‘migrant workers, those languishing in jail for fearlessly promoting justice and equality, and the protesting farmers. My New Year wish is the gift of compassion that transcends polarization and violence and promotes harmony and pure joy to hold India as a sovereign socialist, secular democratic republic and to secure: justice, equality, liberty, fraternity to all citizens.

Dolphy D’souza, Project Lead – Mumbai Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative & City Core Group Spokesperson and former President of The Bombay Catholic Sabha

If wishes were horses, I would like my aspirations to turn into hope for a better change in the New Year for my beloved country.

– That the State ensures that all prisoners of conscience should be released immediately and recognize the ‘right to dissent’ which is our ‘democratic’ right

– That all ‘love – jihad’ and ‘anti-conversion laws’ are scrapped. These have ‘No Place’ in a democracy.

-That the State if it can’t promote communal harmony and love amongst its people must not indulge in dividing us on the basis of religion, caste, and class

– That the business of ‘lovemaking, eating, dressing’ should be left to ‘the free choices of the citizens

– That the politicians and State spend more time on governance issues and concentrate on improving the living status of the more than 70 percent of our economically weaker and vulnerable communities

– That the State protects the rights, dignity, livelihoods of the Adivasis, Tribals, Dalits, Minorities, Farmers and other economically vulnerable sections of the society

– That the politicians, the executive, the government, the judiciary, the police, the media, the watchdog Institutions to name a few: Election Commission, RTI Information Commissions, National Human Rights Commission, uphold the principles as enshrined in our Constitution in defence of our Democracy, Secular ethos and Rule of Law.

– Covid virus disappears from the face of the earth.

I also appeal to all citizens to take a stand and make these wishes come true for all of us.

Monarose Sheila Pereira is an author, journalist, and media professor. She has published several books, including two textbooks for the BMM course. She has written for all the major newspapers and magazines, and some of her works have been translated into foreign languages. She has worked for All India Radio and Doordarshan. She also conducts self-improvement and media workshops.

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