Posts by: Patriot Bureau
Delhi Police are unable to resolve the curious murder of a young doctor by another. Is someone really powerful protecting the killer? Surrounded by boisterous executives discussing sales targets at a Starbucks store, a distraught mother of a slain doctor narrates her woes, the pain of the murder weighing heavily on her. Dr Shalini Pandey, […]
[…]Social scientist Khera discusses the media’s ‘propagandist coverage’ of Aadhaar, damage to the public distribution system and her faith in the Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 13, extended the March 31 deadline for linking various services to UIDAI’s Aadhaar. A five-judge constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, is hearing a bunch of […]
[…]All the MPs are responsible for ensuring that money bills are discussed thoroughly before they are passed. But they have collectively reduced the process to a farce For the past seven days, we saw Parliament — both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha — getting consistently disrupted by members of certain Opposition parties. On the eighth […]
[…]A close encounter of the intimate kind opened up a whole new world for the writer, with abundance of both joy and heartbreak, and changed his life forever I’m probably a coconut when it comes to emotion. The overall tough impenetrable exterior that keeps the whole world and all there is to it at bay. […]
[…]Long live Sridevi, Journalism is definitely dead Spectres of former wives haunting present wives. A reporter standing in a bathroom next to a bathtub on the side of which a wine glass rests. Amar Singh as an expert commenter on how much alcohol filmstars consume. Nasser Abdullah and Simi Chandok forming a crack team of […]
[…]Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail Nationalism is an unaccommodating relic and in today’s globalised world it represents a dangerous anachronism. There is nothing constructive that Nationalism can achieve in peacetime that Patriotism can’t. Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail. Problem comes when the tail wags. As it did […]
[…]People living in remote villages close to the LoC in Uri sector had to leave their homes following the worst exchange of artillery fire in 15 years since the 2003 ceasefire At 8.15 am on February 22, Lal Hussain, 30, a resident of Charunda, one of the last villages along the Line of Control (LoC) […]
[…]THIS YEAR’S WINTER OLYMPICS WITNESSED HISTORIC UNIFIED TEAMS OF SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA. BEIJING USED THE 2008 GAMES TO SHOWCASE ITS POWER, AND RUSSIA’S PUTIN USED SOCHI AS THE CURTAIN RAISER FOR HIS INVASION OF CRIMEA The Olympics, be it the summer or winter ones, has forever claimed to exist above politics, and transcend it. […]
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