Illustration: Venla Valve Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) Looked upon as figures of protection, acting as armours for city folks, and guarding the society from harm, the police force is presumed to be the shield that watches over the society. We sleep peacefully in the night with the...
Sunday, February 17th, 2013>
Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) It was 9:30 in the night when she climbed into a bus with her male friend. The place was South Delhi, India. An hour and a half later, a passer-by found the bodies of these two passengers lying on the road of the capital...
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013>
Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) 20 young souls won’t know what it feels like to graduate from high school, 20 children won’t celebrate their 21st birthdays, and 20 children would not experience their adolescence. These 20 children had no idea of the horrors they had to face when they...
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013>
Illustration: Venla Valve Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) We survived the Y2K bug, Hailey’s comet in 1910 and if you want to go back further, we even survived the End of the World phenomena in the 1800′s. So by the look of it, humans have done a good job...
Friday, December 21st, 2012>
Illustration: Venla Valve Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) He was the brain behind hijacking and coordinating four suicide attacks on one of the most powerful nations of the world. He defied the strong security system, manipulated young minds to carry out his operation and was accountable for the...
Saturday, December 8th, 2012>
Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) Safety and security of its citizens- two factors of utmost importance for every nation in this world. Each ruling government has an obligation on its part to ensure that no hars falls on the threshold of their nation, which puts the citizens’ well-being at...
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012>
Illustration: Venla Valve Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) How would you describe an ideal woman? Someone who is gorgeous, tall and slim or someone who although doesn’t have a size zero figure but is poised, charming and socially aware? If you vouch for the former, then you are probably one among...
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012>
Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) Now here’s an ironic situation- last year around this time, people across the globe were flipping out because the world was supposedly ending in December 2012. And now that we stand at the brink of the date on which the Mayan calendar predicted the...
Monday, November 5th, 2012>
Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) A young soul driven to take her life after anxiety seized her. She got into drugs, took to alcohol and spent months into depression. Blackmailed, tortured and mentally assaulted, the girl decided to put an end to everything by exterminating her life. This is...
Friday, October 26th, 2012>
Esha Chanda, Columnist (Our World) A group that stirs up agitations, annihilates the society, slays in the name of religion, is the cause of indignation in the world, and yet manages to sustain itself every day. An Islamist group that ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001, Taliban’s vile acts...
Sunday, October 21st, 2012>