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It was a usual day for Rohan; a nine year old boy belonging to a lower middle class Indian family living in a small town in Madhya Pradesh. A boy with lots of sparkling dreams in his eyes… till he lost his father last year. His father wanted him to.
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Conspicuous by its absence was India. Was India not on his radar? Or was it such a close ally that he skipped naming it at a public function? It left New Delhi...
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For millions of children in India, childhood is an elusive dream, as a UN report has revealed that 5,000 children below five die every day.
It may be a shocking...
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Shunted out after his leadership came under fire in the fight against the 26/11 attackers, former Mumbai Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor has broken his silence only to...
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Is India shining? Give me a break!
This piece of article is an un-well thought of thoughts that keep flashing in my mind. I am deeply concerned about a country that I...
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Thackeray stance” over the last few weeks. Armed with clubs and hockey sticks, the Sena men assaulted the channel’s editorial team,including its head,...
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Perhaps it’s a case of life imitating bad art. In this year’s mirthless Hollywood comedy Couples Retreat: Return to Eden, eight Americans attempt to...
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Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
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SOCIETIES the world over, whatever be their stage of development, from primitive times to modern days, have never been static. Either progressive or retrogressive...
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Courtesy Fropki
A member of Fropki sent this to me...titled...Indian History by a School Boy...I lapped it up including all that non-sense!Read...
Indian History by a...
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The horrors of the Mumbai terror attack are back to haunt us as we remember that night next week after one year. After one year, very less seems to have changed. The...
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Being a celebrity is not a cakewalk, especially not in present scenario. I used to envy them for their fame, name and of course money, lots and lots of it so that they...
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10th World Congress of World association of Psycho social rehabilitation(WAPR)
The 10th World congress of World Association for Psycho social rehabilitation was held...
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The UNFPA report shows that literacy ratio in Pakistan’s male population of age group above 15 years stands at 32% as against India’s 23% while for the female...
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Incredible India: A land of Broken Laws, Religion hypocrisy, Gutter politics and Bigger contradiction. Our beaurocracy is one of the worst in world so no wonder when we...
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Today is the 282th Birhday of Jaipur. Forts, palaces, architectural marvels and tales of valour, all in their own way, bear testimony to the glory that Jaipur is and...
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It was indeed shameful to see someone like Sachin Tendulkar being verbally attacked by Bal Thackeray. What Sachin said in his statement is something that any rational...
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Now a new verdict is given to the women on their way of working .On 17th November, a top Indian Air Force Official said women may become fighter pilots provided they do...
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I am absolutely delighted at the statement of Rahul. So I believe that many Indians would feel as I do. He is very modest and when he says that any one can become Prime...
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..........sugar cane growers of U.P. are in for trouble again this year. They have started agitation in Delhi with the help of a few politicians. I think nothing would...
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This happened in a Government Hospital in Karnataka. Mothers are crying with the dead body of their 1-4 days old babies. Leakage in central oxygen system in this...
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Poor Rameshwari, just 10 year old and scarred for life. She was working as a domestic servant in the house of a TV actress Urvashi. Though brought from her home town...
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What does one egg cost in TT Market, Mumbai maximum Rs 3, but for vivek 10 years old it cost him his clothes, his hair and got a whipping in bonus, besides being...
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Every time I go out to the market place, I see small rag pickers, with their torn dresses, unwashed hair, a big dirty bag, shooing off the street dogs barking at them,...
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Mexico is planning ban on Street children. The modified article, if voted into law, would obligate authorities to send children under age 14 that they encounter on the...
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I was on a trip for some documentary film project in Mindanao, the beleaguered region in southern Philippines that has lately figured in international news once again...
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At the crack of dawn, a squad can be seen on the avenues of Abbotabad, Pakistan. Numbering up to three hundred it troops across, and plays havoc in the lanes. Its...
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In a deplorable incident, two minor girls escaped their torturous life of bonded labor in the posh area of Hayatabad (Peshawar) where they had been held captive by the...
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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has warned the District Election Officers and the Returning Officers that they would be personally held responsible if there was any...
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It was yesterday when I was heading towards Noida in a train. It was an awkward feeling returning to the Karmabhoomi after being spending a week full of leisure time at...
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The very title of the film is enough to give you that jolts you, ask many questions, and raises many eyebrows. Slumdog Millionaire - Did it really deserve 8 Academy...
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The notice put forward to the producers regarding child labor, by the Maharashtra government is an example of biasness. There are young and talented young kids who are...
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When Apple debuted its I-Phone late last year, their product revolutionized the cell phone industry. It used to be so simple then. Over a decade ago, people walked...
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Till now the rural areas people of Nepal are deprived from using the facility of electricity, road drinking water health, education and other many things. Approximately...
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Really, well this are not the exact thoughts of Lakhi, a 13 year old maid servant who hails from Guwahati, Assam.
Lakhi used to work as a domestic help in the house of...
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Human traffickers are preying on children displaced by the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao. The Visayan Forum Foundation, which monitors human trafficking in the...
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In a country like India where there is rampant unemployment and underemployment amongst the adults, what is it that encourages child labour? It...
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For more than 30 years prior to its ban, the fishing method muro-ami was commonly used in the Philippines. During its heyday, it was the most lucrative of fishing...
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In India, poor children start working at a very young age. Some of the children work to help their families and at the same time, some families want their children to...
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The news that the global fashion company GAP has been indirectly involved in child labour while producing children’s clothing in India is hardly surprising. Local...
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