Share Anahita Thukral: Okay, so the camera is ready, the actors are ready, the set is clear…lights, camera, action! I ain’t talking of a movie set here; I am talking of the scandalous and extremely popular sting operations. Sting, as the word suggests, is an injection of a poison via stinger by an animal causing [...]
Share Kaushik Narasimhan: He had once been shot by Maoists in Balrampur in Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja district, bordering Jharkhand. He was later transferred to the Maoist-infested belt of Kanker district where he was caught in a Naxalite ambush in the state’s tribal Bastar region. Both times, he survived. So, on the July 12th last year when [...]
Share Tanveer Ali: BPO or business process outsourcing, is a form of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions (or processes) to a third-party service provider. This sector has seen phenomenal growth over the last decade. This industry revenue grossed USD 58.8 billion in the Fiscal Year 2008-2009. [...]
Share Arun Sharma: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 have been one of the darkest incidents in the history of People’s Republic of China. During that period, the democracy was being proposed by the leaders and the public all over the world and that subsequently led to the fall of the mighty USSR. The communist government [...]
Share Sivapathan Silojah: “You can stand in front of the map of India and throw darts anywhere on it without bothering about the environmental or human costs. If a man or woman is going to be grounded to dust, the only option is to fight back.” (The Times of India 20 October 2000 P1) Narmada [...]
Share Avnish Gaurav: Making online friends is like pouring water into a porous sieve. The friendship will never be cemented without a proper meet-up. This does not mean that a meet-up guarantees a lasting friendship but at least it will stand a better chance of surviving. There are people who get furious when asked about [...]
Share Abhirup Bhunia: Kolkata: From the stands, at a popular English stall in the book fair, in a strikingly good typeset, flickered the name, Shobhaa De. And soon the ambience of the book fair enclosed the inner senses. This time, I decided to move out of the house, spare the laptop and visit the place [...]
Share Akshat Rathi: Since the Obama campaign, the word ‘change’ has become ubiquitous. Today it is treated synonymous to ‘change for the better’. This optimism is exactly what the world needs right now. There are many such campaigns out there which are trying to empower the people to change. Yes, may be there is a [...]
Share Marian Fernando: The world is abundant with adequate dispute and turmoil reminding us the urge to learn how to deal with multiculturalism. Today, multicultural societies are hailed to be the best environment a man should grow in; however, the history and the present teach us that most disputes arise in communities with diverse cultures. [...]
Share Praveen Kumar: Agriculture is the primary profession in the Rural India, wherein the majority of population works in the fields to feed the whole nation. However, the contribution of agricultural products to the country’s GDP is as less as 17%. India has good fertile lands but the untimely or distorted monsoons, scarce rainfall, fake [...]
