hadija Khatoon from West Bengal has been confined to her house for most of her 21 years, except when her father would take her to the city to beg. But this was only until October this year. Because Khadija’s father was disturbed by people who use his daughter an object to photograph and would give only Rs 5 or less in return, said 46-year-old Jay Verma, a volunteer of SOUL […]
Protesters linked hands near the heart of the Paris terror attacks on Sunday but others clashed with police, giving an emotional jolt to world leaders flying into the French capital to try to save Earth from climate catastrophe. As hundreds of thousands of people joined protests worldwide, the human chain aimed to send a highly symbolic message to leaders on the eve of the official opening of a 195-nation UN […]
It’s been almost six months and Nashik’s Nakul Chavan (15) is still waiting for a donor heart. Nakul was diagnosed with an end-stage heart disease and the only way out of it is a heart transplant. His family is hoping for the best but thanks to lack of a cadaver donation programme or any awareness in the state they are yet to see the light of the day. Nakul was […]
Saalumarada Thimmakka lives in the Hulikal village of Karnataka. At 103, she still lives on to tell the story of her life which was filled with hardship but bore fruit in a different kind of way. a young girl, she was married off to a farmer who made a meagre income and was looked down upon by his fellow villagers for not fathering a child with his new wife. Instead […]
Underlining that pluralism and multi-culturalism were at the core of India’s psyche, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said the world was witnessing “the worst impulses of intolerance” and it was time to reinforce the values that bind together a diverse India. Inaugurating the first-ever international conference of Indologists at Rashtrapati Bhavan, Mukherjee said the world was struggling to deal with the kind of hatred never seen earlier. “We are, today, […]
Battling to safeguard the country from terrorists, Col Santosh Mahadik suffered fatal injuries following a fierce gun battle with terrorists on Tuesday (17th Nov’15). The colonel who fought the infiltrators till the wounds started to force shut his eyes probably saw the phosphenes, forming a blurry image of a proud Indian flag, while breathing his last. Here’s what happened on 17th Nov 2015: Having led a lot of successful operations, […]
Recently, Mr. Salman Khurshid and Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar have made disparaging remarks in Pakistan and to Pakistani media respectively that bring the Government of India and the PM in a bad light. Mr. Khurshid has “praised” the efforts of Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif for long term peace with India but commented that it was the Indian government that made things uncomfortable for Pakistan to continue on that path insinuating […]
According to the United Nations, 2.4 billion people around the world don’t have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers. Yes that’s indeed an alarming figure! Just like any other right, it’s every person’s right to clean water and sanitation. To address and educate people about the the same, in 2013, the UN officially recognized November […]
A series of images that show what impact global warming will eventually have on famous landmarks across the world is a chilling reminder why ‘climate change’ are the two most terrifying words known to man right now. The pictures, created by Climate Central and artist Nickolay Lamm, are a visualization of the rising sea levels that are a very real and dangerous threat to waterside cities like London, Mumbai and […]
The world is still coming to grips with the heinous terrorist attack in Paris, hundreds of innocents lost their lives, many more orphaned. For someone like me who has been a firsthand witness of several bomb attacks in Delhi, the July 7 multiple bomb attacks in Mumbai Locals and the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the scene is all too familiar. People from world across people have come out of their […]
