“Wife-sharing” haunts Indian villages as girls decline
When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband’s two brothers who had failed to find [...]
Fairness Products And The Unusual Racism In India
(By Sanika Natu) Every time I turn on that idiot box they call Television, apart from those daily soaps or cranked up reality shows, I stumble upon innumerable commercials. From cold drinks to toilet cleaners and automobiles to cell phones, [...]
Athirathram – The oldest Vedic ritual
12-day ritual to preserve environment, usher global peace: In April 2011, a 12-day ritual is came to a grand, majestic end in a little village in Kerala. Athirathram, or Atiratra Agnicayana, a 3000-year-old (some say 4000) Vedic ritual to [...]
Of love and longing for India: a French woman’s journey
Christelle Gourdine, a French national of Guadeloupean and Indian origin, has been fascinated by her Indian roots for many years. But she is surprised and saddened that not many know about the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe’s Indian connection.
Christelle [...]
Undocumented language found hidden in India
A “hidden” language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture, a tribal community in the foothills [...]
(Satire) Who owns the media in India?
Thanks to Satish Oberoi who send this email…
Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.
NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner [...]
Changing times: More women go abroad to work
More Indian women are leaving home turf for professional, rather than personal reasons.
Deepa Gupta, 22, a mathematics graduate from Ludhiana, thought it a great opportunity to go to a postgraduate course in Michigan University. Two years [...]
50 paise on its way to the oblivion?
The fifty paise coins may soon be thing of the past as there are few takers for them, despite they being a legal tender.
From small retailers, auto drivers, bus conductors, grocers to customers, everyone seems to be blocking the circulation [...]
‘Women need to know their strength’
Some views of some women who made their mark
Poonam Dilawri The Women’s Day has a special role in the life of those women, who work and earn for their family. Women are secure here and can work till midnight in any nook and corner of the city. [...]
Inventions that made millions!
Success stories of some people who had faith in their dreams and had the courage to follow them.
It’s raining and well, I’ll pretty much do anything to keep my feet dry and odour-free. Of course, the feet-biting gumboots that I [...]
