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AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Family Planning Association of India Commemorates International Day of the Girl Child by organising a silent protest on STOP – RAPE, ABUSE & VIOLENCE

AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Family Planning Association of India Commemorates International Day of the Girl Child by organising a silent protest on STOP – RAPE, ABUSE & VIOLENCE Mumbai, October 11, 2017: AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Family Planning Association of India organised a silent protest rally to mark International day for the Girl Child, …

Woman is the nigger of the world – Chawm Ganguly

The song was written by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and featured in their album “Sometime in New York City” which was released in 1972. Ironical, isn’t it, that we are still using it as the headline of this piece, 16 years into the following millennium and almost four decades after the death of Lennon? …

Olé,Olé, Olé, Baba le: World Cup Fever Grips Kolkata: Chawm Ganguly

“When was the last time that the reigning World Champions got decimated in their very first match in the World Cup, that too by the team they had defeated to lift the title?” asked Horidas babu, even as he took a sip. “The Sinking of the Spanish Armada”, “The Return of the Flying Dutchmen”, “Sweet …

Thou shall not covet thy intern: in defense of poor Editors (May our souls rest in lifts) – Chawm Ganguly

When was the last time you met / interacted with a pot bellied, bearded, balding excuse of a man, speeding dangerously downhill – someone who is derisively termed an “Editor”? Yes, I’m talking about the ones whose names “drive the fear of God” in rich and the mighty of the land. Men, who are appeased …

Looking for a job in Bengal? Don’t. – Chawm Ganguly

How does it smell when hopes die? Is it the ranking stink of charred bodies and simmering implements of what people used to call “home”, doused in water from a fire engine’s hose pipe? Is it some strange cocktail of smells of sweat, grime, toxic fumes of the diesel engines, and suppressed tears of seeing …