Bengal, Maharashtra tops suicide tally: NCRB West Bengal: West Bengal and Maharashtra have retained the dubious distinction of having the highest number of suicides in the country, according to statistics available with National Crime Records Bureau. The provisional data for the year 2006 revealed that the total number of suicides in the country have increased …
The Government of India has been making a lot of Hoop La and celebrating the success of NRIs. Amartya Sen is celebrated since he has a Nobel, Chawla for being an astronaut, Swaraj Paul for being super rich. And the list is getting longer by the day. How then can the Government forget those in …
India shares thousands of miles of unsettled borders with its neighbours. It also has belligerent neighbours who who love to needle India continuously. They are aware of the absence of a National Security Policy in this country, and the weakness of the political class in statesmanship. Incursions have been taking place regularly and the government is …
I’ve been having this interesting dialogue on a blog of someone I came across during an Open Source Software conference in Delhi. This person is from Kashmir, a good technologist I believe, a Muslim – although in my opinion he has rather orthodox views – and this is what the dialogue is about. It may …
I was quite inspired after watching the movie ‘Chak De India‘. A lot of us believed that the movie would inspire a sea-change in how Indian sports audience and the government, related to hockey, our (official) national sport; a lot us believed it would change the recent losing spree of the Indian hockey team; we …
She fought with her younger brother over a small bowl of rice. The brother managed to snatch away the rice and the distraught sister – unable to bear the pangs of hunger committed suicide. When the family returned from work on Friday night, they found the 18-year-old Gyanwati’s body hanging from the roof. An empty …
