A professor in the US takes up the cause of a terror detainee of Pakistani origin who, she says, is guilty only of being a Muslim and a critic of US policies.
An Old Delhi neighbourhood full of highly skilled craftspeople struggles to survive, to keep some fragment of its poetry in a city whose priorities are far more prosaic.
He seems to have hit the mute button after an understated role in Rock On!! But Arjun Rampal will soon be seen in a public awareness campaign on human trafficking.
It’s a call centre alright. Over 100 youngsters man phones round the clock here. But no American twang, the only condition for employment here is fluency in Marathi. Because the employer happens to be the Shiv Sena. A month ago, the party’s executive president Uddhav Thackeray started the call centre inside Sena Bhavan in Dadar. You can get Uddhav’s number, besides details on candidates—and even complain against the Sena.
‘@arjanelfassed tweetstreet’, in the Palestinian refugee camp of Askar, has become the world’s first street named after a Twitter account. This is what Arjan El Fassed, a Netherlands-based Dutch-Palestinian writer-activist, had to do to get it: donate $146 to a Dutch website which passed it on to the Palestinian Child Care Society to fund ‘cultural and expressive after-school activities’ for 1,000 children in the camp at its youth centre. Another 199 street names are up for grabs.0
Ever since Ris Low won the Miss Singapore title, the 19-year-old’s life has been hitting new lows. Soon after the crowning, it was revealed she had been convicted a year ago for using stolen credit cards. She bought lingerie, mobile phones and jewellery worth 8,000 Singaporean dollars (Rs 2.7 lakh). Low has also been ridiculed for her Singaporean accent and long pauses in answering simple questions. The organisers say her English was perfect in interviews, and that she suffers from bipolar disorder.0
They are young IT professionals, but the RSS has given them a cause beyond their careers.
14Shashi Tweeter Tharoor ought to share some of the grief his ministry’s embassies have caused Indian citizens.
4How will today’s children learn to live in their own world when all they read about are heroes who have magical powers to fight evil forces?
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