New Delhi 28 May: Irom Sharmila, the Manipuri activist who has been on a hunger-strike for 14 years now with repeal AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act), appeared for the hearing at Patiala House Court, New Delhi. She was produced here in a case where she sat on fast on Jantar Mantar, New Delhi in […]
Lust and social justice
There is a primitive form of social justice, and an intelligent one. The primitive form is simply the satisfactory feeling that things are right, when those we consider bad persons suffer while we ourselves and our loved ones are happy. The intelligent one is based on the principle of equal rights for every individual to […]
Fixing the Fourth Estate
Way back in 2007-08 one of my cousins, in a lake side discussion, pointed out that how media giants are into news-fixing or rather fixing the news. None amongst the listeners could refute, because the one who introduced this news was himself a news-man in a media-giant of India. It was something that was hard […]
Life Was Sympathic In The Dynasty Up The Lane
Winter’s cold edge bites my lips and cheeks as I walk the lane to the old school house. Naked trees looked frosty and forlorn skeletons whose limbs pleaded for warmth. The road is full-grownup and branches obstructed one I used to caper through like a lion. Visualizations occurred of children running and tagging hide and […]
Bacteria, viruses and humans
Recent studies have shown, we are much more intertwined with bacteria than scientists were aware of. For example, the human body contains 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. This discovery has caused a shock in the scientific world; scientists are talking about a fundamental review of how we see an organism. In this […]
Famous Bogside Murals of N.Ireland to be Restored
1888PressRelease – The famous murals of the Bogside, Derry, depicting the key events of over thirty years of conflict in the city are to be restored to their former glory. The Bogside Artists have secured $33,000 from the Housing Executive to restore four iconic murals in the ‘People’s Gallery’. The People’s Gallery created by the […]
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