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Aamir’s “Peepli Live”, a satire on farmer suicides in India (Film Review)(0)
The story centres on two poor farming brothers, Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri) and Budhia (Raghubir Yadav), in the small village of Peepli, who are about to lose their land due to outstanding government debt. A village politician suggests they commit suicide, so the family (the mother, Natha’s wife and his two kids) can pay the debt with the 100,000 rupees compensation…
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For Or Against Commonwealth Games ?
Child mortality, malnutrition, illiteracy, abysmal access to education or healthcare, lack of housing, female feticide, hunger, etc are the indicators that cry out for urgent attention all over the country . This social infrastructure needs urgent attention and mending rather than divert Nation’s wealth & energies to pursuits that pander to the entertainment and aggrandizement of rich.[...]
Sania-Shoaib wedding: A cross-border marriage stripped of romance
The subcontinent’s biggest tabloid story in a long time has finally ended. Hopefully. Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik have married after what resembled a fast-paced pulp thriller involving a spurned woman he was alleged to have married and then divorced amid bitter recriminations. [...]
A Hope For The Year 2010
The year 2010 completes the first decade of the 21st Century. For the last nine years we have been in the new century, but the hoped for new millennium eludes us. The mind set of hubris still plagues. We hope that we are seeing the last dying flare-up of ethnic and religious wars from the overhang of the 20th Century.[...]