Are you also moved by the human stories emerging from Japan? People who’ve lived through and earthquake, a tsunami, a nuclear tragedy, days of no power, few supplies, a lot of uncertainty. There are devastated communities who have lost everything but continue with such grace and dignity that it almost hurts to see it. There [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2011’
Marching to say enough is enough
Story Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai
Photo by Kainaz Amaria
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi marched to fight the salt tax imposed by the British colonists back in March of 1930. This weekend, a group of people, almost all of whom were born and raised in independent, democratic India, marched to tell the Indian government they’ve had enough.
Dubbed the [...]
Arms yes, bread no
Another great statistic to be proud of.
India has now become the world’s largest arms importer.
People are starving in the central states, reduced to eating grass. An international food crisis is hitting even the lower middle class section of society. There is an insurgency in the Red Corridor, in Kashmir, and in the north east. [...]
Grief and loss and the stripping of a nation’s soul
The modest little house is a maelstorm of grief. In the compound, dozens of people mill about, some of them are journalists wielding cameras, others relatives or friends come to pay their respects, and still others just passing by to witness the comings and goings, to see a human tragedy playing out before their eyes.
Shabaz [...]
Evil triumphs again in Pakistan
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” said Edmund Burke. It’s a quotation that has stood the test of time, and nowhere more so than in current day Pakistan.
Shabaz Bhatti, the Minorities Minister and the only Christian minister in the Pakistani government was shot dead today by [...]
