For those of you who live in the sun, and are constantly seeking the cool of the monsoon or if you’re one of the priviliged - airconditioning - you can’t know what it feels to live months and months every year with cold and grey skies. So when the sun comes, the Dutch go understandably [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2011’
Dr Binayak Sen is free again
Dr Binayak Sen is free today. Around Christmas last year, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Raipur Court for aiding a Naxalite leader.
But the Supreme Court ruled that just because he had Naxalite literature in his possession doens’t make him a Naxalite - anymore than owning Gandhi’s writings make someone a [...]
Gunman shoots strangers, then himself
Its a familiar story: a young white man goes crazy and starts shooting his three weapons into a crowd of strangers at a shopping mall. He kills six - the number rises to seven by the time the news is rolling - and wounds several others before turning the gun onto himself.
But this is not [...]
Child mothers exist here too
Undoubtedly the most grotesque story to come out of this civilized little country lately is that of the 12 year old girl who went on a school excusion, complained of stomach pains and then to the horror of staff and medical personnel, proceeded to give birth.
The child and her baby have both been handed over to a foster family [...]
