Promit Guha
“13-year old Wolf Gupta learned AI to get a $1.2 million job from the world’s biggest company Google” – reads an advertisement by WhiteHat Jr.
In another advertisement, the claims change. It doesn’t even make much sense.
The advertisement now reads,” 9-year-old Wolf Gupta learned computers to earn Rs.150 crore from Google Video while other kids his age were surfing Youtube...
“At the end of your struggles, challenges, and obstacles comes the mental strength to cross many boundaries in the future.” No matter how tough the degree of challenges life throws at you, if you have willpower and determination, you will be able to overcome it.
A shining example of this is the inspirational story of Kanika Rane. Just two years...
Her Instagram profile lists her as Miss Delhi, a fashion designer, social activist, and a professional poker player. But, Reality and the Internet are two distant worlds. The fact that not always does the apparent truth of social media convert into reality was once again proved in the recent snatching incident in Delhi where a 26-year old social media...
In political science literature, there is a familiar term — democratic barbarism. Democratic barbarism is often sustained by judicial barbarism. The term “barbarism” has several components. The first is the overwhelming appearance of arbitrariness in judicial decision-making. The application of law becomes so dependent on the arbitrary whims of individual judges that the rule of law or constitutional terms...
Gang-raped. Murdered. Lungs taken out. Liver taken out. The sheer barbaric nature of the crime is bound to make you squirm. Whether human beings are at all capable of such atrocious acts of cruelty is something you’re bound to ask, as you read about the incident in disbelief. In what appears to be one of the rarest of rare...
At times in a crime what stands out more than the crime itself is the peculiarity of the nature of the crime. An incident that sounds like a plot of an unbelievable perverse movie/book with shocks in it of proportions unimagined beyond our wildest thoughts – a 21-year-old youth was booked on Saturday for allegedly raping and murdering his...
An incident that once again proves that rape depends on nothing – not age, not underlying relations, definitely not clothing, or character of the victim. A woman returned home from visiting her brother in the city only to find her own husband raping their eleven-year-old girl. The incident happened at Talana village under Jodia police station limits in Jamnagar...
India has a unique trait when it comes to crimes. It differentiates regarding the nature of it and coolly dismisses some of them, which do not seem ‘harmful’ enough. As a result, we have seen uncountable times, that even after formal complaints by the victims, eve-teasers and catcallers have been let go with just a casual warning. Sometimes even...
A story of a lifelong battle against poverty to continue on the path of education to finally giving up against insurmountable odds. Aishwarya, a second-year student of Lady Shri Ram College for Women died by suicide last week at her hometown of Rangareddy district in Telangana, citing financial troubles in a purported suicide note. Her father, who is...
Communal harmony and tolerance are what India needs more than ever in today’s testing times. However, there seems to be a rivalry and a vindictive mentality in the incidents of the last few days where members of both Hindu and Muslim communities tried forcefully to offer prayers in the other communities' religious place. Following the incident of Muslim youth...
