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Salute to a brave soul who fought for her honor in Orissa
A story for serious follow up and not for big TRPs of the channels.
They came in large number with their OB vans, photographers and anchor persons. Much before she could come and join the press, the hall at the Indian Social Institute in Delhi was fully overcrowded. Every body present thought that for that day there was enough ‘news’ to spread the TRPs. I had never seen such a ‘concern’ from the commercial (…)

Dawn, 15 December 2008
The Mumbai massacre has been a shocking event for all civilised souls across the world, including those in Pakistan.
As is always the case, the search for responsibility began and, almost immediately, fingers were pointed at Pakistan. Equally promptly, denial followed from this end.
However, the world community appears to be accepting the Indian view and Pakistan is under enormous pressure from all quarters. The government has been aware of the gravity of the (…)

sacw.net — 15 December 2008 In 1992 after the riots and before the 1993 bomb blasts in Bombay, we organised a seminar on the city and its changing identities. The seminar was held at an ‘interesting moment’ and people who attended still remember it. It was almost as if the events of late 1992 (the maha artis and the pogrom against the Muslims that followed the demolition of Babri Masjid) had propelled everyone to start thinking about the city in new ways- its cosmopolitan imagination against (…)