The uproar in the media and the public general about the verdict of Jessica Lal case and resulting call for a re-trial is heartening to see. That people can actually raise their voices to protest against a trial which was compromised from the very start (which almost all trials in this country are…), a trial in which witnesses were turned hostile by buying them out or by threatening them, which is of course a run of the mill story in the...

Vani’s loss has affected all who have known her…. The following are by people who have known her and want the following to reflect what they want to remember her by I thank them for letting me include the following….. By Smilona: I DID NOT DIE Do not stand at my grave and weep.I am not thereI do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blowI am the diamond glints of snow.I am the sunlight of golden grain.I am the gentle autumn...

Tragedy, whenever it strikes, is a tragedy. But when it strikes as needlessly and as remorselessly as it has done here, cutting down a young life full of dreams, it gives us all a poignant reminder of the essential frailty of human life, gives us a rude reminder of our own, very real mortality, and reminds us that death knows no boundaries, respects no age and shows no mercy. It shows us that the foundations on which we lay the threads of...

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nightby Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of...

If by Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream – and not make dreams your...