My new-found love for podcasts
I first started listening to podcasts when I joined grad school in 2015. I was admittedly late to the whole audio storytelling scene and it took me even longer to […]
Category Archives: True Stories
A Night in the History of Kashmir
I read about a woman and her anguish. I read about her fear and apprehension. It bruised my heart. It marred my soul. And I felt feeble and powerless; as […]
The Sin of the Atheists!
I read an article about Apostasy today. For those of you who are not certain what this word implies, I would like to quote its general definition from Wikipedia. ‘Apostasy is […]
The World Of Sexual Abuse…
I have read umpteen stories about sexual abuse; many of them here on WordPress and several others in newspapers and magazines. There have been abundant discussions with and revelations by […]
The Man Who Sold Himself!
This is the story of Mike Merrill who sold himself on the open market in 2008. Yes, you got me right: Merrill divided himself into 1,00,000 shares and set an […]
Solitary Confinement: A Sentence Worse Than Death!
‘The slow descent of sane men into madness.’ I read this statement in William Blake’s essay on Solitary Confinement yesterday and it had a bearing on me; this whole concept […]
Aarushi Talwar: That Girl Who Was Killed!
I am not convinced whether this post is going to help me drive more traffic for this blog. I am not sure whether anybody would even be interested in reading […]
Holocaust Memorial Day!
I probably got interested in the events of the Second World War after I read ‘Anne Frank’s diary’. Following that, my curiosity to know more developed once I watched the […]
The North Korean Prison Camps!
I have read a number of articles, books, and reports and even watched movies about the Nazi concentration camps that existed during World War II and the more I understood […]
Amanda Todd’s Story of Cyber-Bullying!
“I’m struggling to stay in this world, because everything just touches me so deeply. I’m not doing this for attention. I’m doing this to be an inspiration and to show […]
