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PEARSON’S ARCHILLES FORCES HER TO PULL OUT OF CWG
Poster-girl Sally Pearson dealt the Commonwealth Games a major blow by pulling out with an Achilles’ injury, as competition got under way with dramatic scenes in the swimming pool. Australia’s Pearson, the 100m hurdles world champion and a Gold Coast resident, said she was in tears when she realised she needed to withdraw, but added: “My health comes first.” […]
MISS TIBET, A REBEL’S TITLE
The very controversial beauty pageant Miss Tibet has been held since 2002 in McLeodganj. While it has been criticized for being “un-Tibetan”, and well, like other pageants, a platform to objectify women, it has been symbolic of rebellion by the Tibetans who fled their land. The Chinese government sees the pageant as an irritant, and […]
MOSUL NEWS A BUNGLED AFFAIR
Announcing the deaths in Parliament nullified the goodwill the Centre had earned by engaging with the families of the missing Indians For most terrorism analysts, the hope and optimism being expressed by Indian officials over the fate of 39 Indians who had gone missing in Iraq in 2014 and were believed to have been taken […]
A MOTHER’S LONG, PAINFUL WAIT
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, […]
POOR: CASUALTY OF AADHAAR
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 […]
How to get away with murder in parliament
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 […]
HAPPILY NEVER AFTER
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. […]
Sridevi — Death by Media
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 […]