Arms wrapped tightly around my driver as he weaves our moped through cars to an orchestra of horns. The wind whips through my hair and the smells that fill it are heady, awakening my senses with sweet perfumes and spices that quickly flit to a stomach-turning sewer and rot. The […]
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In what is being seen as a retrograde step the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights in Delhi has ruled out making parental alienation a crime. However, it made several recommendations to protect children of estranged parents. The commission has also suggested that the women and child development ministry […]
Somewhere, out there in the firmament a small cube of technological excellence is finally showing the world that Slovakia has joined the slow but determined battle to conquer space. At 5.59 CET on June 23, 2017, radio ham Dmitry Paškov, who lives in the Russian city of Ružajevka, started to […]
Uncovering the tragic story of Senorita Maria Goya and her shrine by the side of a mountain road. IT WAS late evening and San Antonio was still a cauldron. The tourists were wilting visibly under the red sky. Germans were scrupulously clean in their long shorts and red faces […]
Lagos is a city of mysteries. A history lesson with ghosts of slaves in the marketplace – and the vision of its own saint at the shrine near the “golden” church. When I arrived, one of the mysteries to me was why Lagos is pronounced with a ssshhh … Lago-ssshhh. […]
Welcome to summer time at consumerwatchfoundation.com! `That’s it! We’ve had enough! We’ve had the central heating on since last September and a log burner roaring away since November … and as I look out of the window of the CWF headquarters in the heart of Britain’s countryside, its grey grey […]
THERE is a place in India where water buffalo are turned to stone by the desert sands, its a place where pigs become so distracted by the ants living inside their snouts that they savage their young. This place is called The Darkness, a place where pieces of flesh dance […]
October 13, 2011, 5.30 pm, New Delhi: Night comes in like a disease in New Delhi, mosquitoes bring it in on their backs. As darkness falls stray dogs dodge blaring traffic and beggars melt into the roads. A bear dances for its supper in a stinking alleyway. Then the lights […]