A one-year-old boy, Abin, died due to asphyxiation after swallowing a tiny ball attached to a keychain while playing in kerala. The tragedy took place in Punthalathazham in the city on Friday morning. His first birthday was celebrated only last Sunday. Though he was rushed to a private hospital soon after the accident was noticed, […]
The Amanda Knox Case: The Italian Supreme Court Faces Renewed International Scrutiny
Last week the Italian Supreme Court released a 74 page document outlining its reasons for overturning the appellate acquittal of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the 2007 murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher. The decision reinstates their original 2009 conviction and orders a new appellate level review to be held in Florence. For […]
Destiny’s Cries-Chapter 3
Chapter 3 My Ma was pushed into the operating theatre in the A & E Department, while I waited anxiously outside. I breathed heavily throughout, counting my every gasp. It took forever for the door to open. I dashed towards the doctor, my heart ready to explode should there be negative news. The doctor nonchalantly […]
Destiny’s Cries-Chapter 2
Chapter 2 When I reached home minutes after, I saw my surprised Ma reclining on the couch. She was capping toys, where she inserted several tiny plastic parts into a rubber shell. That was the only job my Ma had. Due to her poor health, no company was willing to employ her. Coupled with the […]
Narrow Domestic Walls
In the seventies , when Bengal was going through a period of insurgency, – the movement that came to be known as Naxalism, the intellectual fuel for this came from the unemployed students of Bengal’s many universities. Why, one may ask, did this group of educated young men and women, choose this route of violence […]
Gaza’s Falling Wall Changes Middle East Map for Ever
They came and went in lorries and gas tankers, in flatbed trucks loaded with cattle and sheep, in coaches and mini-buses, loaded by the dozen in the backs of trucks, all shuttling across Gaza’s southern border. Four days ago they went on foot like refugees, but yesterday for the first time the trucks drove through […]
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