The Shah's Iran and the Ayatollah's
Region: IranI wonder why Jumping over Fire is not as well known as The Kite Runner. Nahid Rachin in this book set partly in Iran and partly in the USA captures Iranian society in transition. The picture painted will be found to be... more
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India's Education Sweatshops
Region: IndiaThe son of a friend recently went away all the way from Delhi to Kerala to prepare for the medical entrance tests. It seems that they have coaching centers there which have tracked the entrance tests of some medical colleg... more
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Incest : India's Hidden Shame
Region: IndiaTwo instances of incest were widely talked about in the media over the last week. The first pertained to the Austrian Josef Fritzl who has just been sentenced to life imprisonment for incarcerating his daught... more
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The Evil Within Us
Region: IndiaA news bulletin on the television channel IBN 7 describing the havoc created by the “ kala bandaar” greets Abhishek Bachchan, a Generation Y, NRI, accompanying his ailing grand mother, who wants to come... more
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Identiy and Violence
Region: Iran
Amartya Sen’s book, “Identity and Violence’ examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key trait — our ethnicity, or religion, for example — to ... more
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The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins
Region: United StatesWhat does the future hold for Christianity? Many books have been written which make a case that secular forces will instigate Christianity to grow to be more open-minded and less literal. Such statements may be confrontati... more
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Senior Citizens : Lonely at Autumn
Region: IndiaA couple of days ago, I opened up the newspaper to read that an elderly couple living in an upper middle class locality had committed suicide suddenly. There was no ostensible reason for this, but the newspaper reported th... more
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What has befallen us : A look at Child Sexual Abuse
Region: IndiaThe word ‘disgrace’ seems inadequate to describe a society in which human beings are lured or forced into activities that our sense of common humanity. It is difficult to do justice to the moral repug... more
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Educating Our Kids : The Sarva Shiiksha Abhiyan
Region: IndiaA school that I visited last week in Dehradun awakened me to one of the many changes that are quietly taking place in the country. The school, which usually fell silent after the last student had left for home in the after... more
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Girls, Women and the legacy of Mahatma Phule
Region: IndiaIt is common wisdom that literacy is a reasonably good indicator of development in a society. Increase and distribution of literacy is generally associated with necessary traits of today’s civilization such as modern... 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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