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Media Selective Amnesia
By N P CHEKKUTTY / It was on July 22 that my friend and one-time colleague N M Siddique was picked up by the police as he was going home in the evening. He was produced before the magistrate the next day, a Friday, around 8 pm and was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
Quran is for reading; Learn from Mayawati
MY sister-in-law worked at a rural dispensary in Saudi Arabia for over two decades. The nearest airport was a 10 hours’ drive from the dispensary. Once a fortnight, she visited the nearest town, a four-hour drive, to buy toiletries and provisions. The only book she had was the Holy Quran and ..
What a hypocrisy, gau mata! Assault on food habits
LAST fortnight, former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Deve Gowda and a team of his party MPs and MLAs met President Pratibha Patil and requested her not to give assent to the ‘Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2010’, passed by the State Assembly.
Mulayam’s apology to Muslims
Finally Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has realized his follies and apologized to the Muslims as well as the nation for aligning with the demolisher of the historical Babri Masjid, Kalyan Singh. Though the apology has come after 14 month of his making friendship with the communal leader,
Patients’ dilemma Greek or Latin?
MY daughter-in-law was admitted to a large private hospital in Kochi for removing a “growth” in the thyroid gland. Early morning, the hospital staff commenced preparations for the surgery, which included tying a wristband. It was then that my son noticed the inscription, ..
In the name of Mohammed
I RATE it as one of the most horrendous incidents of crime reported from Kerala in the recent past. The circumstances in which it happened made it all the more blood-curdling. Prof T.J. Joseph of Newman College, Thodupuzha, was returning from the church with his mother and Sister Mary Stella, his..