Here comes Incredible India – 21. Nearly 40 years after Indira Gandhi took on Morarji Desai, Sanjiva Reddy, Nijalingappa, Kamaraj and other members of the Congress old guard with Garibi Hatao, the Congress (R) slogan in the 1971 elections, India’s politicians have managed to accomplish that herculean feat, albeit only for themselves. So what if […]
Folks, time to wear your seat-belts. Here comes another instalment of Incredible India, with those Only in India stories. * A poor woman admitted to a government hospital in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh sold her new-born baby for $125. Cheap, na. In the last two years, we have seen about 28 or […]
(inspired by what_if and an expanded version of our response) What’s wrong with Indian Dadas oops Dads? Horrific reports have come out recently that a growing number of Indian dads are going about raping their young daughters in India. But what is less known is that there are disturbing incidents of Indian dads in the U.S. […]
Folks, time now for yet another episode of Incredible India, those only in India stories. * Your child goes to a school in India. But will she come back or will it be her corpse that you see in the evening? Six-year-old Rohini, an UKG student at a private school near Trichy in South India, died after […]
(Thanks to satya for raising this issue) You can’t open Indian newspapers these days without reading about an Indian father raping his daughter. * First, it was the Mumbai businessman Kishore Chauhan, who was arrested a few weeks back for raping his two young daughters. The older girl (now 21) was raped for nine years while […]
Here comes the 18th instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. This edition of Incredible India will focus on the travails of the female sex. Remember what you read below is merely a microcosm of what women and young girls across the country endure every day. * A father of five girls upset that […]