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In the recent shocking incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, Akash, a 23-year old student armed with a gun, axe and knife furiously attacked the object of…

The myth that psychopaths and sociopaths are out there in slums, ghettos and mental asylums stands shattered by the frequent reports of brutal torture of maids and domestic servants in middle-class homes. It…

In a recent shocking incident at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Akash, a 23-year-old student armed with a gun, axe and knife, furiously attacked the object of his ‘love’, who is battling…

“He among you who is without sin, let him first cast a stone upon her.” John 8:7 If not comforting, it is less distressful to view the brutal rape of…

The vexed saga of the two Bhattacharya children Aishwarya and Abhigyan, taken away in May 2011 from their Indian parents by the Norwegian Child Welfare Agency, (Barnevernet) created unprecedented uproar…

The vexed saga of the two Bhattacharya children, Aishwarya and Abhigyan, taken away in May 2011 from their Indian parents by Norway’s Child Welfare Agency, (Barnevernet) has been bedevilled by…

“Spirits and demons are only projections of man’s own emotional impulses” Totem and Taboo, Freud (1913) “Failure in Love, Evil-Eye of the Enemy, Lack of Progeny, Loss in Business, Alcoholism…

Arushi, a 14-year-old schoolgirl and the family’s domestic help were found murdered in her house in NOIDA, a satellite town of the capital New Delhi, on May 16, 2008. Her…

The killing in July 2009 of 21-year-old Ved Pal in Singhwal village in Haryana when he had gone, accompanied by policemen, to pick up his wife Sonia, has re-focused attention…