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Region: IndiaI ran down the stairs like every morning to find that the gate outside my home wouldn’t open fully and I would have to some how squeeze myself out through the partially blocked gate and get out. A Toyota Qualis stood... more
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Hepatitis : In HIV's Long Shadow...
Region: IndiaThe story of the hepatitis B outbreak in Gujarat has not received the attention it deserves. More so because Hepatitis B is not the typical jaundice that comes around in the monsoon season every year and then trails off as... more
Views: 282Life in Occupied France
Region: Germany
Suite Françoise is an interesting book for several reasons. The book is written by a Russian Jew and consists of two novellas bundled into one. They portray life in France from June 4, 1940, as German forces prepare... more
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Dead in their teens : The trauma of India's Students
Region: IndiaOne of my friends whose whereabouts are usually not traceable, because he is involved in hectic travel has grounded himself for the next month or so. He has stationed himself at home ; well not exactly at home, but like a ... more
Views: 533Police brutality in India
Region: IndiaThe other day, Kiran Bedi, the generally respected police officer (now retired) was on a talk show on television. She was an invited guest on a program which was discussing police brutality. The context was where in U.P, t... more
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India's Malaria Epidemic Vastly Underestimated, Study Shows
Region: India
Amitabh Ghosh’s book, The Calcutta Chromosome reminds us in India of the country’s long association with Malaria. On 20 August 1897, in Secunderabad, Sir Ronald Ross, an Army doctor with the Indian medical serv... more
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The Calcutta Chromosome : A Many Splendoured Novel
Region: IndiaThe story opens in New York with the Egyptian computer programmer/data analyst Antar discovering an ID card of a missing acquaintance through his Ava/IIse, a computer with an attitude. Ava, who is frighteningly human at ti... more
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Slumdog Millionaire : two ways of looking
Region: IndiaA question that will never be quite settled is related to the extent of realism in cinema: should cinema expose harsh truth or should it portray a carefully sanitized picture of society. This question has again come to the... more
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The School and the Schoolboy in India
Region: IndiaMany of us India have always wondered about where the tax payer’s money is going. Ever since Rajiv Gandhi made that famous statement about 15 paisa of every rupee allocated by the state was actually utilised for the ... more
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Silent Labor
Region: IndiaInnocent victims of the Satyam saga are the close to 53,000 employees of the Satyam group who obviously have done nothing wrong; they were slogging away at their posts doing their assigned tasks. One of the many priorities... more
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Shantanu Dutta is a Christian Doctor who is a Development Professional by vocation. He unbshamedly tries to interpret the things he hears and reads about as Jesus Christ might have done if he were an Indian
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