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One after the other I saw them jump off the sixth floor

Late afternoon on Tuesday, I was at home to grab a quick bite between the day’s back-to-back assignments when I received a frantic call from my boss alerting me about a fire at Carlton Towers on Old Airport Road. [...]

Indian TV’s unsound fury

The subcontinent’s media have strange standards when it comes to murder.

IN 2007, according to India’s National Crime Records Bureau, 32,318 people were murdered in India. Another 3644 were victims of ”culpable homicide”, roughly equating to manslaughter. In a category of its own, 8093 brides or their relatives were killed in ”dowry [...]

Mind your language while tweeting and blogging

Dhananjay Mahapatra, TNN 4 January 2010

As mere words, tweeting and blogging sound sweet. The computer savvy have tweeted and blogged to disseminate information while exercising their right to freedom of speech and expression.

Tweeting assumes a certain seriousness when a minister, who is part of the council of ministers [...]

मैं चाहे शेव करूं या ना करूं….मेरी मर्जी

पूनम पाण्डे

नई दिल्ली।। बॉय्ज क्या आपने शेव [...]

‘Judge’s honesty is like girl’s virginity’

Mayura Janwalkar / DNA

Mumbai: Clad in a blue T-shirt and jeans, away from the stuffy environs of the higher judiciary, former Bombay high court justice Bilal Nazki is hard to recognise. The man, seen as stern by some and sensitive by others, decided over 60,000 cases in 15 years on the bench.

Looking back [...]

Are we living in a world of lies?

Nobody lives in this world alone. We live in a society with all sorts of knowledge, experience and notions that the world provides us. Almost all the source of our inferences about the world are outcomes of various experiences that the world itself provides us. Suppose you’re a good person, and you know [...]

Do you get the 'Axe'ing Affect? He didn't either….

Ever wondered what those idiotic (and supposedly innovative) TV ads are only methods of fooling us? Or may be we’re already all so much fools that all such ads just occurs to us naturally. In case you’re too afraid of looking into the mirror, just see what some others among us are up [...]

'Half Of The Last 16 Chief Justices Were Corrupt'

The decision to declare assets is a big victory. Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan tells SHOMA CHAUDHURY what else is rotting in our judiciary

In public interest Prashant Bhushan has championed the fight for judicial accountability
Photo: SHAILENDRA PANDEY

It’s great judges have agreed to [...]

Why Marry when you want Independence?

Check out this news below. I wonder, why do these people who do not want ‘any’ compromise in marriage, marry in the first place! Is it because of the entirely wrong and romanticised picture of marriage shown on the Silver-Screen and the Idiot-Box? Has the time come for the entertainment media to become [...]

Men Suicide more than Women

No. of suicides by married men vs. married women:-

2005 – 52583 vs. 28188

2006 – 55542 vs. 29869

2007 – 57593 vs. 30064

In the eleven years period 156,000 HUSBANDS have COMMITTED SUICIDE DIRECTLY due to Domestic Violence from their wives and in-laws.

HINDI VARTHA is PROMOTING FEMALE FETICIDE BY FALSE STATISTICS AND [...]

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A Reporter's Diary from the Avoidable Tragedy

Indian TV’s unsound fury

Mind your language while tweeting and blogging

मैं चाहे शेव करूं या ना करूं….मेरी मर्जी

‘Judge’s honesty is like girl’s virginity’

Are we living in a world of lies?

'Half Of The Last 16 Chief Justices Were Corrupt'

Men Suicide more than Women

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