In 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers', a true account spun off as a novel, about life in Annawadi, a slum adjoining Mumbai airport, author Katherine Boo ...
09:20 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Dear Justice Verma, The outrage will not stop until steps are taken. The politicians have failed. The justice system of India needs to take ...
12:34 PM, Jan 04, 2013
In the early 80s, there was a scramble for Video Cassette Recorders or VCRs in India as more and more people watched films at home ...
12:15 PM, Dec 03, 2012
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will file its chargesheet in the sensational Shehla Masood murder case in the special CBI court in Indore on ...
04:55 PM, May 24, 2012
Nupur Talwar's incarceration in Dasna jail has once again become a cause celebre in the media. Today the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder has become a collection ...
08:39 AM, May 09, 2012
Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi had to resign from all his official positions in wake of a certain video footage which started doing the rounds ...
07:45 PM, Apr 24, 2012
A senior officer of CBI actually felt the 'dhar' of being the neighbour of the 'famous' Talwars. The officer was locked out of her house ...
10:09 PM, Apr 13, 2012
This week is Holi, the festival of colours. On Tuesday we also celebrate the culmination of another colourful festival - elections. On Holi you will ...
09:36 PM, Mar 05, 2012
It was nice to see a confident and animated Uma Bharti on TV, again. There was a time when Uma ruled the roost, but soon ...
03:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
It's election time in Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati is trying hard to get back to power. However, whenever I think of Maya, my thoughts go to ...
12:53 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Fourteen-year-old Aarushi Talwar, daughter of dentist parents, was found dead with her throat slit at the family's Noida residence on the intervening night of May ...
01:59 PM, Jan 10, 2012
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How often have you seen a road accident...or an eve teasing incident or any crime in your surrounding? How often have you taken the pain ...
04:58 PM, Dec 20, 2011
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These are indeed extraordinary times. How else should one interpret the order that's been delivered while denying bail to the likes of Kanmozhi and others. ...
03:43 PM, Nov 03, 2011
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Why in Christ's name would I want to write about love now, of all times? As Rick would say "With the whole world crumbling, we ...
01:23 PM, Aug 20, 2011
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Recently one of the VIP inmates at Tihar claimed that he had dementia and thus was unable to remember his actions for the period in ...
12:03 PM, Aug 09, 2011
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Did the UPA use cash to win the trust vote in 2008? It would be naive to believe that it did not. Should Manmohan Singh ...
11:24 AM, Mar 21, 2011
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On Republic Day eve, the five top news headlines perhaps reflected the state of the nation. The first was the tragic story of the Malegaon ...
11:54 PM, Jan 27, 2011
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The closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Aarushi murder case should not be the end of the matter. Its admission ...
03:05 PM, Dec 31, 2010
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India's elite needs to come to terms with caste The headlines scream almost every day: 'Girl allegedly murdered because of inter-caste romance', 'Couple killed ...
12:15 AM, May 12, 2010
