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Reforming Juvenile: Reforming Juvenile Shelter Homes

Since the juvenile delinquent, of the nearly ten month-old Delhi Gang rape case, was found guilty on charges of rape and murder, and thereby sent to a correctional home for three years, questions have been raised about the na...
by Arpita Mitra
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Top 10 elections and campaign stories of 2014

1) Rise of the #ElectionDaySelfie One of the not so surprising phenomena that featured around election time in many countries was the taking and uploading of ‘Election Day’ selfies to social media pages. Instagram and Twi...
by Mayda Margarita De La Fuente
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India: Heart of Darkness

Alas! We have lost our heart – not to love; but to misogyny, bigotry, and every other form of degraded thinking that an abjectly insecure patriarchal system drills into us day in day out. It is, after all, this very societal ...
by Preetam Sengupta
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Give Modi a chance. India has.

The 2014 General Elections in India have found themselves deserving of a bold, underlined and highlighted place in the political history of India. The result has been that the Indian National Congress (INC) did not lose; yet t...
by Nishant
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The India-Pakistan Conflict: Thinking Beyond the Violence

India is a growing global force with a rapidly developing economy and fantastic stores of human capital. But there are incidents occurring with Pakistan which could have come straight out of a banana republic Four Indian soldie...
by Nishant
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Identity Crisis? – Cricket and Multiculturalism

As England and India clash this summer it is worth considering whether the loyalties of British-born Asians tell us something about the deeper issues of identity and integration in modern, multicultural Britain. Alongside Enoch...
by Kishan Koria
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WATCH: A world without children

On 16 December 2014, seven members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Picture this: You wake up, do your daily chores and say good-by...
by Sneha Nanavati
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Our Waste, Our Responsibility

A few weeks ago, in the scorching summer heat of New Delhi, my friends and I stood knee-deep in a garbage dump, diligently sorting through a big mound of waste. Stifling our gag reflexes and struggling to keep our lunches down,...
by Chandrika Srivastava
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Are Indians Killing Their Tourism Industry? A Rise In Incidences Involving Crimes Against Tourists Suggests So

How safe are western tourists in India? This is a question which does not have a black and white answer – yet ignoring this question also means ignoring the tourism business, and of course, giving credence to India̵...
by Chirag Sutar
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