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Oct 19 2007
Everyday I see more and more journalists moving from mainstream media jobs to alternate new age careers. This evokes a mixed feeling within me. It saddens me to see the field of mass communication losing talented people to the IT boom in India. On the...
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Oct 19 2007
It has been over 6 years since the 9/11 attacks. The repercussions of that terrifying day, however, continue to affect Muslims all across the world today. Acts of terror persist in different regions, carried out by different groups, each with varied...
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Oct 2 2007
Serious news journalism is one of those careers that one cannot do justice to without possessing a throbbing passion for it. It might not be the easiest job to do, but it is one that you can easily fall in love with. The competitiveness and daily...
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Oct 2 2007
For every one person who dies after committing suicide, there are twenty who have attempted it and hundreds more who have contemplated it. The statistics are chilling. Case after case is brought up to do the media rounds, to be later forgotten as it...
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Oct 2 2007
Page 7 of the Sunday Times of India held an irony of sorts for its readers. Bang in the centre of the page was the horrific report of a 6-year-old in Delhi, who was stripped in class for not doing her homework. Immediately below that news item, was a...
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