India's other Shame: Missing Children
Bittu is 14 years old and clings to his mother Sheila Devi for dear life. No matter how hard we try, it is difficult to make this reticent teenager talk. Hesitantly, with fear haunting his eyes, Bittu tells his story that started near his house in Sangam Vihar, Delhi about five years ago. Then about nine years old, Bittu was playing near his house when someone offered him a laddoo.
Delhi's unsafe elders
Old is not always gold. In 2010, 3,339 persons above the age of 50 were murdered in India, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The figure increased to 3,489 by 2011. In Delhi, not the safest place for old people to live, 35 of this age group were done to death during the same period.
Why Yeddyurappa Feels Betrayed
It was February 19 this year. Two ministers had already been caught watching porn clippings in the Karnataka Assembly and the issue was blown ‘out of proportion by the media’.
Heard of Koshal?
K C Panda is a retired professor settled in Sambalpur. He is what you can call a news junkie. He is well aware of the demand for Telengana that seems to have climaxed into a paroxysm of protests.
Seizing the moment
In the short seconds that it takes Zoya Tariq to say that jail is a place where good and educated grown-ups are locked, an encyclopaedia of pain can be read and re-read.
The simmering danger
Three proud units –16 Cavalry, 226 Field Artillery and 45 Cavalry – have seen openly violent conflicts between soldiers or Jawans and officers in recent times.
Stinking Mad Kitchen
Housewives and working wives are hopping mad at the government because of high and persistently rising prices. Aditi Prasad and Agnibesh Das discuss how this can damage the UPA far more than the serial scams in 2014.
'Fast', Furious, Fervent and Futile
When we were in school and college, there was just one Angry Young Man. During the later part of our blissful lives as students, there was this movie called Inquilab that had Amitabh Bachchan in the vortex of a rotten system where politicians and businessmen were brazenly corrupt and venal.
The slow GDP burn
When India clocked 5.5 per cent GDP growth in 2001, it began to script a new chapter in its economic landscape.
Hurt and humiliated
Indian cricket is writhing in pain. It has been beaten and bruised. The so-called tigers at home are being humiliated and their millions of fans are deeply hurt. Diehard fans of Indian cricket are worried because their team is surrendering very tamely. Zillions of Indian cricket fans are frustrated because their heroes are not showing the mettle that they have been known for, at least in home conditions.
The Perils of Bodo Anger
The 2012 ethnic violence in Assam that claimed more than 100 lives has been interpreted in many different ways. For local Bodos, it was entirely a clash between indigenous people and illegal migrants.
Quixotic Fury
There are two words in Urdu that simply cannot be translated perfectly in English, no matter what self styled linguists claim. One is called Deewanapan, and the other is Junoon.
The Raging bulls
Anger is all the rage again. With the heat soaring on the big screen, ‘being Dabangg’ pays at the turnstiles. No wonder kickass cop Chulbul Pandey, the nemesis of all crooks and cretins that are hiding in small-town crevices, is on the prowl a second time. His mean streak isn’t just intact; it has been significantly enhanced.
Bull in a China shop
Interior Minister Rehman Malik, the acknowledged clown of Pakistani politics, had no intentions of humouring his hosts in New Delhi. As shell shocked Indian officials slowly recovered from the verbal onslaughts of the man from Rawalpindi, it become clear that there was definite method in his madness.
Territorial dimensions
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik who recently visited India for talks with Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, attempted to contribute to better India-Pakistan relations, but failed to do so. Evidently, diplomacy does not appear to be his forte.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
