Vidarbha farmer suicides have been a matter of shame for our nation for quite some time. And they still happen. It dates back to 2006 when in the six districts of Vidarbha, suicides were the order of the day. In one year there were 600 deaths! Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Ruchika molestation case
Fourteen-year-old Ruchika was molested Aug 12, 1990 by S.P.S. Rathore, who rose to become Haryana’s police chief. She was immediately expelled from school. Her brother was arrested by police of possibly no reason, other than the police taking their revenge against her. Continue reading
Bystander effect
The bystander effect is the somewhat controversial name given to a social psychological phenomenon in cases where individuals do not offer help in an emergency situation when other people are present. The probability of help has in the past been thought to be inversely proportional to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help [From Wikipedia]. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy
The Rising
“let us declare that the state of war does exist & shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses & the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites. They may be purely British capitalists or mixed British and Indian or even purely Indian.”
-Bhagat Singh
(In his leter to the Punjab Governor;
“No Hanging, Please Shoot Us”) Continue reading
Information technology and India
The ascent of a country from poverty to prosperity, from tradition to modernity is a great and fascinating enterprise. Despite of the massive inequality it has created, India’s middle class has grown from after the economic reforms in 1991 and it has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy. But this revolution had eluded India for a long time.
Posted in Culture, Economy, Technology
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 