Very rarely we do come across Hindi films that involves cops and robbers stories and once a movie that falls in this catagory comes our way, it becomes the talk of the town. Directed by Sanjay Gadhvi, “Dhoom 2” combines form and content so beautifully that it has been treated with the right balance of […]
YouTube Banned, Again
Chiang Mai, Thailand – The Communication Authority of Thailand has ordered the closure of access to the YouTube website because the video-uploading site featured content critical of the country’s highly revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 79. When this citizen reporter tried to access the You Tube website in Thailand’s Northern city of Chiang Mai, the following […]
Senior Abuse
OUR DISRESPECT OF THE ELDERLY In the new millennium, there is one thing that most folks can agree on when it comes to the mess in our society. We refuse to honor the fifth commandment, "Honor thy father and thy mother." Several years back, I was taking a […]
The Horrific lives of Bhutan’s refugee
About 80 thousands Nepali speaking people from southern belt of Bhutan, who fled to Nepal for safe living during early 1990s when the then Bhutanese despotic regime forcefully evicted them, even hadn’t anticipated that they would waste 17 years of horrific lives in eastern division of Nepal as refugees. But, finally it twisted into a […]
Is Cutting the Male Appendage An AIDS Miracle?
Male circumcision (the cutting of the foreskin from the male penis) is increasingly gaining currency among medical researchers as an alternative method to reduce HIV-infection. But will this solution really work? Researchers say that if all men in sub-Saharan Africa — the worst HIV/AIDS affected region in the world — were circumcised over the […]
Pre-teens
OUR PRETEENS ARE ON THE EDGE They are not the ones usually mentioned in our society’s ongoing saga about children being our future. If you don’t have kids this age, or aren’t involved in the business of education, the idea that many pre-teens are on edge of being swept under […]