Nostalgia of seclusion
Love and marriage are not the grand abstracts that exist outside the realities of life; they come shackled to the drudgery of daily routine; Love follows no scripture, only the heartbeat; but Marriage, an Islamic one, has its paradigms inscribed with certainty.
Blood Rites
“Blood Rite†is one of the many treatises that have tried to critically analyse war in the frameworks of anti-Clausewitzian point of view.
The Collector’s Daughter
Equally humiliated Sujata had lived with the curse of being a whiteman's illegitimate daughter - ridiculed by the people of her village. With no friends, she found a solace in the presence of an unlikely pet animal, Pig.
Mafia war hits Karachi again
The mayhem that devoured 93 lives in a “target killing†incident in Karachi last week is essentially a war between mafias, including land, transport, and drug mafia.
Passion to design Black Drink Tea
Ideas come from grass roots. But root without nourishment does not prosper. Is Mohammad Ilyas Ansari's, a man who designed a Terrorism Control System, story asking for pity?
SPV : An innovative device to hide pledged shares
Promoters in India are pledging their shares in order to borrow more and more money to fuel their expansion plans.
Cannot wish away LGBT community
The Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad's remark that 'homosexuality is a disease' and 'MSM are unnatural' have started a new debate on the line that is a law decriminalising section 377 of the Indian Penal Code enough?
Empires of the Indus
It is not daily that a foreign writer or a journalist gets to see the restive FATA and Northern Areas in Pakistan. It is also not common for them to roam in Tibet in accordance with their whims. But it has not stopped scores of them calling themselves “expertsâ€.
Why do we love Rajini?
Rajinikanth, has been ruling the Tamil film world for the past three decades and at sixty years of age, even after becoming a grandpa, he is going stronger than ever. He still remains as the young, stylist, action hero who thrashes tens of villains at a single punch of his powerful arm.
Ratha Yatra celebrations without dancers
As the the chariot of Lord Jagannath was rolling down the streets of Modipara in Sambalpur town on Sunday, many people were disappointed not to see the dancing action of the girls, who are specially invited from outside to dance in front of the chariot.
Treasure vault or Pandora's box?
Now, Travancore is back in news. Today, it houses one of the richest shrine in the world, the temple of Sree Padmanabha Swamy, with assets worth a trillion US dollars.
Skewed sex ratio a big concern
The recent news about the use of genitoplasty, to convert the sex of a female child by using hormonal drugs, has created uproar among the activists working on the Right to Life of a girl child. Following it, the social activists are now in evolving a multi-pronged approach to deal with the invasion of new technologies to cater to the demands for a son.
Beware of paints, they're toxic !
The next time your little ones get artistic on a painted wall in India or in neighouring countries, beware; they may be etching away more than just the paint. They may be etching away a part of their life. A new study by Toxics Link on the Indian paint companies show that despite a lot of opposition within the country, they continue to add high amount of lead in decorative paints in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Police: Frankenstein Monster or a saviour?
It is a common feeling in our society that police are by and large a hate figure. Why and how these adverse public feelings have been increasing in our society, is worth investigating. A quick guess can be derived from what I experienced.
'Writer is a waiter in Coffee House of Soul'
The Indian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom H/E, Nalin Surie, handed over the coveted International 17th Indu Sharma Katha Samman 2011 to journalist writer Vikas Kumar Jha of Patna in the House of Commons, of the British Parliament for his novel MaCluskieganj.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
