The footage of the incident involving the four Hillsborough Sheriff’s deputies was taken on January 29 at the Orient Road Jail. One of the deputies involved was Charlette Marshall-Jones who is 44 years of age and a veteran deputy. Jones was shown on video dumping the victim, Brian Sterner, who is quadriplegic from his wheelchair. […]
Time Travel : Small Town India in 1998
Exactly twenty years ago, my father died of a heart attack in a remote village in what was then the backwater town of Gurgaon and looking back at the past twenty years, one can only marvel at the change that has taken place. My father died some where the village of Manesar where today […]
Kenya Unmasks Africa’s Ugly Democracy
In Kenya as in many parts of Africa, elections are a messy and bloody affair, often geared to promote the interests of “big political men” rather than the public good. According to media reports, so far more than 300 people have been killed and 100,000 people displaced because of widespread violence following the election results […]
Instant Prosperity and Instant Loan
The neighborhood grocery shop where I buy my supplies has a sticker prominently displayed near his counter which reads “Aaj Nagad, Kaal Udhar” (cash today and credit tomorrow). Clearly it is an attempt at dissuading customers from buying their supplies without paying for them on the spot. It is not that the shop was completely […]
Kevin Rudd next Australian PM
After four terms of incumbency, Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard suffered a big lost Saturday as Kevin Rudd of Labor Party will take Howard’s role as the next Australian Prime Minister. As of Saturday, Nov. 24, more than 70 percent of the ballots had been counted and the figures from the Australian Electoral Commission showed […]
Facing expulsion for Speaking out
A recent antiwar protest by students at Morton West High School in Berwyn, Ill., has galvanized antiwar activists in nearby Chicago and across the country in support of the students’ right to free speech. Some 25 students are facing severe disciplinary action following a peaceful November 1 lunchtime protest in their school cafeteria. The demonstration […]