Tag Archives: india

Love on the Moon and Other Stories

By Feature Writer | Published: November 20, 2008
There is nice full-page artwork with a few astronauts running towards the surface of the moon. One of them has the Indian tricolour on the arm.
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Faith and the Village Pond: the anti-Christian violence in Orissa

By Feature Writer | Published: October 19, 2008
In a place where reaching adulthood through a maze of abject deprivation is a miracle, getting killed for thanking the wrong God makes for extreme irony.
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When Hope Floats and the Light at the End of the Tunnel is Nuclear Powered

By Feature Writer | Published: October 2, 2008
River Kosi bursts its embankments, adopts a new course and floods thousands of hectares of impoverished villages in the dark Indian state of Bihar. The Indian government... watches.
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Where chili powder-aided gang rape counts as “molestation”

By Feature Writer | Published: September 29, 2008
In a country that's replete with as many sexual assault cases as the number of babies born per minute, heinous crimes are everywhere, but one particular heinous crime has recently stood out from the rest.
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Terror in Bangalore

By Joe Sapien | Published: July 26, 2008
“Was it any of my loved ones?” That’s the completely understandable and utterly selfish question of the moment.
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The traveler hypothesizes

By Joe Sapien | Published: June 26, 2008
By the time I reached Chicago, I was absolutely convinced that I had a new traveling companion, a 5’7 white mallard duck named Travis.
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