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CULTURE EDITOR: Deepti Lamba
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Cherry Bomb, Mother TeresaAnd The Vagina Dialogues
CULTURE FEATURES:
•Uma Ranganathan wonders about the role law abiding citizens play towards curtailing violence
• Deepa Krishnan asks whether love exists in arranged marriages
• smallsquirrel gives a salad recipe
• Doctor Bhaskar Dasgupta talks about children in a Bhopal orphanage
• Adithya comments on the subcontinental divide
- Mar 13, 2009
- Why Does Ragging Happen?
Next, I would blame the parents who don't believe their children or don't care. - Poem: Only The LightHold it well and keep it close The memories of your past The promise of the future Shine, my friends, shine
- Comic Strip: It's Not A Lie If It Makes Someone HappyWell, what else is a woman to do?
- Mar 12, 2009
- The Catholic Church Once Again Proves It Cares More About Dogma than Humans
The Catholic Church has sunk to the lowest of the low. - Movie Review: 13B - Not Fear's New Address13B is playing in that rather unfashionable genre of Bollywood horror movies and is over a decade too late.
- Mar 11, 2009
- Poessay: Honesty and TrustWhen things do not affect us directly we can afford to be brutally truthful
- All Visitors are Gods, But Some Visitors are Higher Gods
Is it goodness of the heart or racism that makes Asians treat White people so well? - Book Review : Identity and Violence by Amartya SenAmartya Sen’s book, “Identity and Violence’ examines the connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key trait.
- If the World Becomes Colour Blind...The importance of colors in our life. Is Holi this year really worth celebrating ?
- Poessay: Honesty and Trust
- Mar 9, 2009
- Book Review: The Next Christendom
What does the future hold for Christianity?
- Mar 8, 2009
- Cape Town in 48 HoursEn route to a desert adventure trip in Namibia, I had only 48 hours to spare.
- Ishq-Mohabbat-Pyaar-Vyaar: A Tribute to Filmy LoveThe influence of films hasn’t made matters any easier for those of us struck by Cupid’s arrow.
- Health Care at Home
"Diet is the primary source of our health issues. After all we are what we eat."
- Cape Town in 48 Hours
- Mar 7, 2009
- America's Healthcare Crisis, Part II - Physician, Heal Thy ProfessionThat was a different era, an era where physicians were scientists, trained observers and good listeners.
- Lonely at SixtyThere has been a steady rise recently in reports of cases of elderly being abused, harassed and abandoned in India
- Do You Remember Those Caves? A Poetry Film on Gwalior
do you remember those caves at the foot of the fort where we used to play and the old cemetery we once hid from the
- America's Healthcare Crisis, Part II - Physician, Heal Thy Profession
- Mar 6, 2009
- Relationship Lawlessness & Social CriminalsThe social mores dictated that he not go any further unless he was intending to take it forward seriously.
- Poem: Nightingale of Pukhtoonwala (Rehman Baba)What is it you gained, if gain it is you say, Maimed you have the old past and its land
- Relationship Lawlessness & Social Criminals
- Mar 5, 2009
- Gandhi Auction : Vijay Mallya Wins Auction, To Donate to India - Misplaced Priorities?
Would Gandhi himself have worried about his material possessions? - A Journey That ContinuesWe’ve set out to do what we think is our pursuit of happiness.
- Tall and Shrinking Muslims, Short and Growing EuropeansAt which point did the Arab world and the Western European world start to flip over in terms of development?
- Mar 4, 2009
- Movie Review: The Pink Panther 2 - Pink Diamonds And Jade
Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau, gives a perfect encore with the flourishy, fumbling, funny Frenchman act.
- Mar 3, 2009
- The God Who Was Lost!A photo essay on Sanchi and a book review with a dash of history thrown in.
- The God Who Was Lost!
- Mar 2, 2009
- Educating our Kids - The Sarva Shiksha AbhiyanSarva Shiksha Abhiyan was launched in 2001 to universalize and improve the quality of elementary education in India.
- Poetry: And I Knew Him
And I Knew Him..... A Poem on South Africa - Beyond LoveI have learned that the human spirit at its best, can soar to heights you cannot even begin to imagine. It has taught me that
- Educating our Kids - The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
- Mar 1, 2009
- Fake Charities and Real CharitiesThere are fake charities out there which steal twice, once from your pocket involuntarily and once from other deserving causes
- Cecilia Makiwane Hospital, Symbol of Hope and Courage in South Africa
Cecilia Makiwane Hospital remains a symbol of hope as it is the symbol of anti apartheid struggle, courage and catering to thousands of disadvantaged patients - Girls, Women and the Legacy of Mahatma PhuleMahatma Jyotiba Phule and his wife Savitribai were remarkable personalities, especially for their times.
- Ramakrishna: A Lover of GodDecomposing the religious epistemological framework of Ramakrishna is futile, he was simply a lover of God.
- Material Girl
Diamonds are usually received as gifts, not bought for oneself. Gifted by a man - a father, a brother, a lover, a husband. - America's Healthcare Crisis, Part IWhose responsibility is it anyway?
- Poem: OxygenRemain in place of all that is, Awaits you, these moments Of mirth and glory
- Fake Charities and Real Charities
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