Here’s the back story for those who aren’t yet aware of the “facts” as we know them at this point:
Pretty, blonde, 15 year old Scarlett Keeling, a Britisher from Bideford, Devon was with her mother, her mother’s boyfriend and six other siblings on a six month vacation in India. At some point the mother [...]
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Just about two months ago now, on New Years day, a mob of 70-80 men
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That’s what it costs us, relatively rich, Mumbaikars for a single night out at an average night club. And that’s not counting how much we spent on dinner before we reached the club. Or number of drinks we had. Or the cost of the clothes we wore. Or the fancy car we gave to the [...]
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Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. As uranium ore is mostly present at relatively low concentrations, most uranium mining is very volume-intensive, and thus tends to be undertaken as open-pit mining. It is also undertaken in only a small number of countries of the world, as the resource [...]
Kolkata, the City of Joy, is also home to some of the largest slums in Asia with up to 40 percent of the city’s 13 million residents living in slums.
Slums in Kolkata are both registered (also known as Bustees) and unregistered.
The inhabitants of the slums in Kolkata range from groups who have been living in [...]
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Well I admit it. Though I do not smoke (never have) and though I’d never encourage anyone to smoke - I did think it’d be really funny to get a picture of smoky Saket in front of this white board, put up courtesy the ‘Salaam Bombay Foundation’ stating “Proud 2 B Tobacco Free” in [...]
“THROW YOUR WEBCAMS OUT”
…urged Oprah Winfrey from the other side of my TV, through an unfortunately old show dt Feb 15, 2006 that’s only just aired here in India. I had watched - in partial disbelief & in complete horror - how an honors student got turned into a porn star at the age of [...]
Even as the new prequel Hannibal Rising (released about a week ago) has already drawn in $23 million at the US box office, I can’t help but reflect on the similarities between the fictitious Hannibal & the very real sicko Moninder Singh.
More to follow. Watch this space.
I have never struggled writing a review of a movie before.
It’s not because the plot of this movie is so intricate that I cannot review it. It’s just that it so profoundly affected me that I am not sure reviewing it as a movie really does it justice.
This is not a movie. It is a [...]
‘Finally’, because it’s been a while.
Alistair (aka Alister) Pereira. Now there’s an interesting conversation.
Is he the brute the media’s painted him out to be? Or is he the victim of an attack against a minority in the country (Catholics)?
Was at a party last night & Alistair was center stage. Many of his neighbours are people [...]
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