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Blog | "They'd Give Their Right Arm For Him": Remembering India's 'Sabre Killer'
"He didn't know how to slow down. At 89, he had a fall and broke his hip bone. But even in a wheelchair, he was cracking jokes and smiling through the pain". How friends remembering India's 'sabre killer' Denzil Keelor
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Opinion | Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai - Three Brutal Rape Cases, 50 Years Apart
The circumstances of the terrible ordeal that each endured are so painfully similar that it makes one ask, when would Indias women have been abused and violated enough for us to act and do something substantial about it?
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Blog: Paris Olympics 2024 - The Pain And Pleasure Of Coming 4th
Besides India's 9 'near-misses,' the 2024 Paris Olympics has seen some other unusual '4th place' stories play out, which underline both the pain and the pleasure of being the 'near-miss' 4th finisher.
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Blog | To Those Trolling Sonakshi And Zaheer, Khamosh!
Let's return to Shatrughan Sinha's gentle reminder - that his daughter and Zaheer have broken no law. India, as it was envisioned by our founding fathers, is meant to be a country where diversity and choice are underwritten, guaranteed, and protected
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Blog | 'Bhangra' In America - US Senators' Heartwarming Baisakhi Performance
Seven Senators and Representatives from the state of Delaware spent weeks to learn the Punjabi folk dance and actually performed it on the occasion of Baisakhi.
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Blog | The 'Not-So-Anokhi' Story of Anokhilal-Death Sentence Twice, Now Free
India's legal system is riddled with flaws, which are repeatedly outlined in court verdicts, and yet we don't have the compassion to compensate an accused who has suffered years of wrongful incarceration.
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Blog: 'Sorry Papa, Forgive Me' - Notes From Kota, And A Plea For Change
Roughly two students die by suicide every month in Kota, India's coaching capital. Key among many other factors that contribute to this rot is the glaring lack of accountability the city's coaching centres enjoy.
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Opinion: Goodbye To Ameen Sayani, For Whom Every Listener Mattered
Sayani's self-confessed approach to radio programming was to strike an intimate relationship with each of his listeners, as if they were bonding like friends during the show.
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Blog: Dear Daughter, Like '12th Fail', We All Need Our Lifelines, Our Crew
The simple takeaway is just this - All us, even the best of us, we need our 'Crew' to support us, to cheer us on, to offer us precious timely advice, to be our moral compass, to be in our corner when the times are tough.
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Blog: Dear Daughter, Beware the 'Rizz' of 'Animal' And Toxic Masculinity
Rizz is not just the word of the year, it also describes the times we live in - where the surface-level razzle-dazzle of anything or anyone is all that is needed for it, or the person, to become the talk of the town, and the flavour of the season.
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Opinion: Afghanistan's Rashid Khan - Children Of Conflict, Now Cricket Stars
"What's Rashid Khan's age?" I asked my Dad, who is a serious cricket fan. "32 or so..." was his answer. "Wrong," I said.
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Blog: Lessons From Matthew Perry And Chandler, Through Addiction, Fame
What's lovely about Perry is that he wanted to be remembered less as 'Chandler', and more as someone who fought drug and alcohol addiction, and who did what he could to help others fight addiction too.
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Opinion: Remembering Bishan Singh Bedi: The Man Who Found Sukoon in Junoon
Bishan Singh Bedi did not turn up among us to be loved. He would have been the first person to admit that about himself. Even his son says this about his dad - "You may love him, hate him, but there is no way you can ignore Bishan Singh Bedi."
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Blog - "Use Moral Compass": Father's Letter To Daughter On Israel-Hamas War
Israeli forces were Sunday readying for a looming Gaza ground invasion aimed at destroying Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist militant group that unleashed the bloodiest attack in the country's history.
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Blog: Letter To My Daughter In Canada
Over the years, Canada has allowed Khalistan supporters, many now Canadian citizens, to speak their mind, citing freedom of speech. They've ignored India's claims that some of them have been responsible for extremist violence in Punjab.
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Opinion: Caste, Crime And Khakee
"Not the police, only the Army can control this". "Sometimes I feel India needs Martial Law" - familiar sentiments. The anger may even be valid at times.
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Opinion: Queen Barbie Vs King Oppenheimer: Both Films Offer Lessons in Gender Equality
What this world needs to be, is neither Barbie's nor Oppenheimer's
