Rape as Courtship

April 17, 2007

This from today’s DNA: A 24-year-old undertrial in Orissa has married a teenage girl whom he allegedly raped and got pregnant a few years ago. The traditional tribal wedding between Padmini Murmu, 16, and Khaira Hansda was solemnised at the Circle Jail…

Marooned

April 14, 2007

Somehow having the home computer down, even if you are networked at the workplace — makes me feel cut off, marooned….. The Video card died. It just got up one day, sputtered and breathed its last, leaving a whole bunch of binary…