Born at the stroke of midnight on the day of India’s independence, the life of Saleem Sinai is permanently handcuffed to the history of his nation. Narrated by a thirty year old Saleem to his partner and colleague Padma, Midnight’s Children charts the story of his life throughout the tumultuous ...
The pall of gloom, tinged with fear, which enveloped Mumbai because of Bal Thackeray's illness and subsequent death may be a measure of the Shiv Sena chief's political clout but can hardly be regarded as a tribute since it underlines his parochial brand of politics.
Thackeray was the first of the ...
(On the occasion of World Hindi Conference in South Africa special article on Mahatma Gandhi's presented by Hindi Siksha Sangh which focuses on his stature as international leader and his stay in South Africa)
One of the greatest leaders that the world has ever seen is Mohandas Karamchandji Gandhi, a political ...
About 79.5 of the South African population are of black African ancestry divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa. It is divided into nine provinces and has 2, 798 kilometres of ...
Joar Tranoy is a Norwegian research scholar, psychologist and criminologist who has written a number of books and articles on social history, on abuse of power in the field of psychiatry and psychology, on child protection at present, and on the history of child protection in Norway. He has held ...
Dr.scient Aage Simonsen is a Norwegian biologist who works in nature conservation. He has served on a municipal committee in Bergen monitoring cases prepared by the Child Welfare Service agency, and has written a number of articles on the issue of child protection.
In the opinion of Dr Aage Simonsen ...
The Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) in its guidelines at 8(5) mandates that 80:20 ratio must be followed for placing children within adoptive families. Under the 80% only Indian families residing in India are eligible to adopt. The remaining 20% includes NRIs, OCIs and foreign nationals. This is a clearly ...
As the confessions of a small-time Marxist apparatchik that his party had no compunctions about killing political opponents have shown, the blood-thirsty nature of ideologies dating back to an earlier, feudal age has continued to take its deadly toll in the modern world.
It isn't the communists alone who exhibit this ...
RAMESH KUMAR SHARMA
Once upon a time, prior to 19th century, there had been a large integrated India. Gradually, since 1876, it has been undergoing partition and losing its area. In spite of very tense situation at its border and legal prohibitions, an undercurrent of cultural harmony among all the Indian ...
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Part 1: Practices
One of the many disturbing discoveries from the story of the Bhattacharya children (Aishwarya and Abhigyan) who were taken into foster care in Norway is that this was no anomaly. Social services agencies functioning on the same principles as the Norwegian Child Welfare ...
