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Amidst the cool confidence of the Indian professionals and businesses, India’s economy and outlook seems to have taken a nosedive. By most signs, India Shinning is become India Suffering! In November, a Firstpost article had asked the question “Is Manmohan taking us back to 1991 external mess?” The question seemed to have popped out of [...]
Read More...In a recent investigation by NDTV and Tehelka into the rapes in Delhi and how the law enforcement handles and looks at them, there was a stunning revelation: Most senior cops are hostile to the victims and blame them for their own rape. In a two-week long investigation, Abhishek Bhalla and G Vishnu spoke to [...]
Read More...What is it about the people of Indian subcontinent, that we still value “Honor” or our value in others’ eyes so much? Why can’t we live our lives in a way that upholds ourselves in just our own eyes? Although, both India and Pakistan have this family honor disease, but it is far more prevalent [...]
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Yesterday, the world observed International Women’s Day. Women are facing many issues over the world, specially in countries like India. The issues that a working woman faces in the urban places is quite a bit, but the issues that the rural or slum mothers face often puts them in situations where they end up making [...]
Read More...Today is International Women’s Day. While many use this day to wish women, but the real intent of instituting this day was to push for Gender Equality. Even today, most women do not get the same level of salary as their male co-workers get, even in the US! In many other countries – the less [...]
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With fame and power comes a certain level of brashness. In India, that brash nature is backed by complete impunity with which law is played with by the wealthy and powerful. We have seen that with the business (Jessica Lall case) and in Salman Khan’s case. Another recent case underscores the same issue. At an [...]
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Are men more prone to violence? The fact is that men commit 90% of the world’s homicides and have started all the wars. In an interesting article in the latest issue of “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society”, three authors – Melissa McDonald, Carlos Navarrete and Mark Van Vugt have discussed the interesting concept of [...]
Read More...Telenor is one of the companies whose licenses got cancelled by the Supreme Court, after the Government dragged its feet on the 2G scam. Well, Telenor – the Norwegian company that was impacted isn’t happy and is ready to play tough ball with the Indian system. The company will take all its assets to a [...]
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Two guys, Tushar Vashisht and Mathew Cherian - one an Investment Banker who studied at University of Pennsylvania and other from MIT – came to India to work at the UID project. Recently, there was a big debate (see Sushma Swaraj’s speech in the Indian Parliament below) about how the Government had announced that anyone living [...]
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Goolam Vahanvati is the first Muslim Attorney General of India. And if, what is being said is true of him, he might be the most corrupt. If A. Raja the Telecom Minister is the one who has been behind the bars because of being made the “poster boy” of the 2G scam, then P. Chidambaram [...]
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