Point Blank 7 – Get Involved, Stay Informed

Lessons For India From Sri Lankan Crises

Col NN Bhatia (Retd) Sri Lanka, the island nation is our immediate southeastern neighbour, nicknamed as Pearl of the Indian Ocean and teardrop of India, beyond its ancient ruins, beautiful beaches, is a home of a large variety of animals, dwindling t...
India and Pakistan fought 3 wars over Kashmir – here’s why international law and US help can’t solve this territorial dispute

The scene in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir, after an Aug. 10, 2021, grenade attack by militants that wounded at least nine civilians. Kashmir has experienced sporadic violence for more than seven decades, including three wars. Yawar Nazir/...
How Mumbai’s poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay

Ishita Chatterjee, University of Melbourne | The Conversation Informal settlements are experiencing a greater surge in COVID-19 cases than other urban neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India. Their high density, narrow streets, tight internal spaces, poor ac...
How much more longer?

[By Riti Sinha] Nearly seven years ago, on February 9 2012, a 19-year-old, young teenage girl was returning home with her colleagues after work. All was well, except that she never made it home. She was abducted by three men in a car just a few metre...
She Is The Ideal Role Model ‘Veer Nari’ – Bimla Devi

Riti S, Team PB7 Dwarhat though a non-descript small town along the serpentine road, amidst cedar and pine trees, is a heart-captivating destination in the Kumaon hills with numerous ancient temples and mind blowing sightseeing tourist destinations t...
Two Iconic Five Star Marshals of The Indian Armed Forces

|By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)| We have had three five star Marshals- late Field Marshal KM Cariappa known as an Officer and a Gentleman, late Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw famous for soldiering with dignity and Arjan Singh the first and the only officer...
I interviewed convicted rapists in New Delhi – and then found one of their young victims

[By Madhumita Pandey] A ten-year-old girl was recently denied an abortion by the Supreme Court of India. She was a victim of rape, which she alleges was perpetrated by her uncle several times over a period of seven months. Her pregnancy was discovere...
Live: Elections 2017

Most exit polls forecast a saffron Holi in Uttar Pradesh and a close fight between the Congress seeking to return to power in Punjab and AAP, a debutant in Punjab elections. Stay with us for LIVE updates on Assembly Elections 2017. ...
Fan of Rudyard Kipling? Then you should read the hundreds of other stories he wrote

[By Sarah Lonsdale] Sixteen-year-old Rudyard Kipling returned to India after a miserable childhood, and slightly less miserable adolescence in England, to take up the perfect job for a precociously gifted but possibly unemployable son of empire. He w...

Citizens Report

Bengaluru’s Tree Doctor : saving the “Garden City” one tree at a time

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Urban conservationist Vijay Nishanth, a man who is determined to preserve what is left of the “Garden City”. Commonly referred to as the “tree doctor of Bangalore” he is the founder of ...
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Citizen Journalist report: State of Areca nut labourers in Malnad region

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Citizen Journalist report: Air pollution levels in Bengaluru at an all time high

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Investigations

Why land acquisition has become a tricky issue

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|Narendra Kaushik| New Delhi: Despite repeated pleas from officials of Greater Noida Authority(GNA), Mahesh Pandit has not vacated a piece of land in Sector XU-2 he was compensated for about ...
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Mica mining: Cosmetic giants riding on children’s backs In India

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Demystifying Delhi’s Water Crisis

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Tea gardens of Dooars transforming into gardens of death

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Making dreams: Giving girls a chance to study and play

[By Roshin Varghese ] Mysore (Women’s Feature Service) – Saturdays are very special for Javeriya, 17. Come noon, she quickly changes from her traditional ‘salwar kameez’ into track pants and ...

Defending the right to watch violent porn – how can that be justice for April Jones?

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[By Mari Marcel Thekaekara| New Internationalist] Rape and sexual violence in India pop up everyday, routinely now, in our newspapers. People have become blasé about ordinary rape. Yes. I did just ...

Building A Life Beyond Manual Scavenging

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[By Elsa Mathews] Alwar – Sunita Nanda, 30, still remembers the day she was thrown out of the ‘jajman’s’ (patron) house. She recounts the painful encounter, “As a newly married ...

Girls Gang Up Against Early Marriage

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[By Tarannum] Siddharth Nagar (WFS) – Whereas she appears to be like any regular village girl from the vast countryside of Uttar Pradesh, quiet, unassuming and hardworking, Uma Kumari has ...

Muslim village plays elder brother to Hindu hamlet

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|By Narendra Kaushik| Point Blank 7 Exclusive| Greater Noida: It is a tale of two villages. Supposed to be descendents of two Bhati Rajput or Rawal Rajput brothers, the two ...

Gay Pride Should Be National Pride

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[By Lavanya Regunathan Fischer & Devadatt Kamat] Delhi – Recently, hundreds of people once again took to the streets of Delhi as part of the annual Queer Pride Parade to ...

The Sunni Arc of Instability

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|By Brahma Chellaney| ABU DHABI – While international observers fixate on the Sunni-Shia rivalry’s role in shaping geopolitics in the Islamic world, deep fissures within the Sunni arc that stretches ...

Breaking The Barriers With The Power Of Press

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Dhaka – Born in Dhaka, the bustling capital of Bangladesh, Aasha Mehreen Amin learnt to read and write in English early in her life thanks to her supportive and progressive ...

Malharis’ Battle Of Gadra City In 1971 War

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|By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)| The Battle of Gadra City fought on the night of 4/5 December 1971 was one of the important battles in the Western Theatre. 15 KUMAON (Indore) ...

Casualties of an alternate war : of suicides and fratricides in the Indian Armed Forces

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[By Adfar Shah] “In yet another fratricidal incident, a trooper shot dead his five colleagues before shooting himself with his service weapon in an Army camp in Safapora area of ...

OROP: Modi govt must know that ‘Acche Din’ will last only with ‘Acche Karm’

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[By Col NN Bhatia (Retd)] At 3pm on 23 August 2015, my neighbour Brig IS Lamba, veteran ASC Officer, and I, like many others took the Metro to reach Jantar ...

Repealing AFSPA – Is that the need of the hour?

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By Riti Sinha 55 years ago, in the face of rising political dissent in the North-east, India decided to add to its laws, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). ...

Grabbing life by the horns

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[By Pintueli Gajjar] Today, I am known as the biker woman who vrooms past the town of Rajkot in Gujarat. Some who don’t know me criticise me for letting go ...

Why I travel alone – The thoughts of a solo traveller

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[By Esha Harkisandas] Not everyone who wanders is lost. Sometimes you have to wander to find, to go through a process of self- discovery. As cliched as it sounds, the ...

Coolie No. 15: Jaipur Junction’s lady porter

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Not discouraged or disheartened; resolutely courageous, she sprints up and down stair cases each day, loading taxis, chasing customers and carrying upto 30 kilograms on her head. Working among 200 men ...

A mother’s account of continuing education post marriage

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[By RamTulsi Yerra] I was in the second year of my undergraduate studies when our engagement was solemnized by the elders of our respective families. I got married 6 months ...

Men Stand Tall Against Child Marriage

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[By Chetna Verma] Agra – The young thrive on dreams for a brighter tomorrow. Most aspire to have a comfortable home, a rewarding career and a loving family – and ...
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Men For Women At The Panchayat

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Meet Men Who Shun Dowry, Share Property With Their Wives

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Woes of men as non-custodian parents

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World News

RT @riti_sinha: Truth never damages a cause that is just - MK Gandhi .. and there can never be justice without the truth. #CBIForSSR we nee… 2020/08/13
RT @timesofindia: Air India Express flight overshoots runway on landing in Kozhikode An Air India Express Dubai-Calicut plane carrying 19… 2020/08/07
RT @ShivAroor: BREAKING: Air India Express flight from Dubai breaks apart on landing at Kozhikode after skidding off runway. At least 191 o… 2020/08/07
Are we willing to allay the fears of a mother who stands at the gate every evening waiting to catch a glimpse of he… https://t.co/TexwN59Bca 2018/04/17
‘When a woman knows herself, she is empowered. When she accepts herself, she is invincible.’ This is a story of gut… https://t.co/SV7uPXZmUS 2018/03/21
High suicide rates,mental health, workplace deaths,sexual violence, parenting challenges for new fathers, separated… https://t.co/1p7Srr1Yxn 2017/11/19