A little less than 150 years ago, Blacks in large parts of America were just slave. They had no rights. No voices. They were mere properties of White slave owners.
While the rest of the world began to disengage from slavery, Southern states of…
Anti-tobacco campaigners in parts of the country hit streets shouting slogans to ban tobacco products on Saturday to mark `World No Tobacco Day`. Activists of Pusumai Thaayagam, a voluntary organisation in Salem district of Tamil Nadu took out a mock.
So there was this news that flashed all over the TV and newspapers for nearly a week after new years. A very unfortunate event in Mumbai wherein 2 women were molested by a mob of 70 men! Below is NDTV’s article on the same:
Mumbai ashamed, two..
Now that the dust appears to be settling and Illinois’s junior first term Senator Barack Obama appears to have wrapped up the nomination for the Democrat party’s candidate for president, isn’t it time we looked beyond his skin tone to his…
Child Protection Week has gone by pretty unnoticed by most last week. This is rather unfortunate, seeing that child abuse and child prostitution is a big problem in South Africa. In 2004 it was estimated that there are about 38 000 child prostitutes in.
The following blog post will be mostly photos as I feel the pictures speak for themselves. Two events are covered in particular, one is that of Zimbabweans taking refuge in Marabastad, Pretoria and the second is the March Against Xenophobia which took…
After the 60 year of independence, there is not any improvement in the cast system in India, everybody followed the old caste system, while we know that there are too much evils in our caste based system. Actually we got freedom physically not mentally…
There can be no doubt that in the very early 1980s, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe was considered the ‘darling’ of Africa. After all, he had led ZANU through a bush war in Rhodesia which had culminated in the dismantling of white rule and the installing…
The wave of xeonophobia spreading around Soth Africa has hit nationals from Namibia, forcing some who are staying in the worst hit areas to vacate their homes.
One of the attacks took place in the informal settlement of Du Noon in Cape Town where…
Cartoon depicting the effect of the Xenophobia attacks on South Africa’s image by famed South African cartoonist, Zapiro
The current situation in South Africa regarding the attacks seemed to have stabilized with the last attacks being reported in..
