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| Reflections on 9th July GS Road Molestation Case |
After a couple of weeks of the applause given by a celebrity like Amir Khan, in one of the episodes of “Satyameva Jayate”, cheering the people of the northeast- Assam, in particular, for not only not claiming dowries from brides, but in many cases, the grooms and their parents actually assisting the brides’ poor parents financially, Assam has been shamed by the most atrocious ... |
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| RBI Governor pushes for New Index |
The recent proposition of RBI Governor Dr D Subbarao to have a Producer Price Index (PPI) is indeed a significant one. Speaking at the Sixth Annual Statistics Day Conference in Mumbai, Dr Subbarao harped on the inadequacies of the present prevalent indexes—the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI). According to Dr Subbarao, “In the present structure, the Who... |
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| Reprehensible Discrimination |
The recent incident where a set of children joining a school in Bangalore on the underprivileged quota under the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education, 2009 were made to snip tufts of hair in a bid to distinguish them from the rest (so-called privileged students) points to the glaring violation of the concept of egalitarianism that our society takes pride in. Ever since the Supreme... |
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| Primitive Indian mindsets resisting change |
A mob of 40 jeering men molesting a small 16-year-old girl - one would have dismissed the highly revolting footage as a sequence straight out of an apocryphal movie but for the fact that it was being telecast by the Indian news channels.
Irrespective of the raging debate about journalists’ ethics, one has to give credit to the usually hysterical news channels for showing ugly face... |
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