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A Mother's Day poem by Shlok Sharma: Mom, you are an eagle, gracefully flying and free; a rose, gentle and fragrant; the great ocean, vast and ever-changing.

May 11, 2012 · 1 min read

When 'Satyamev Jayate' debuted in May 2012, critics attacked Aamir Khan's emotions instead of the issues. Film critic Subhash K.

May 11, 2012 · 1 min read

The Washington Post's May 2012 report on Mitt Romney's Cranbrook hair-cutting incident raised questions about memory, cruelty, and what adolescence tells us

May 11, 2012 · 1 min read

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novels map the interior lives of Indian and immigrant women — and much of their power lies in what her characters leave unsaid.

May 9, 2012 · 1 min read

Raise taxes and the rich will flee? The evidence on millionaire tax migration says the exodus is mostly myth — here is what the research actually found.

May 8, 2012 · 1 min read

A Bombay High Court judge's 'be like Sita' remark to a wife in 2012 sparked a debate about mythology, marital endurance, and what courts owe women seeking

May 8, 2012 · 1 min read

By 2012 up to 90% of young adults in East Asia were nearsighted; researchers blamed the indoor life and prescribed a fix: a couple of hours of sunlight daily.

May 8, 2012 · 2 min read

A six-year-old suspended for singing an LMFAO song he didn't understand: what the 2012 case says about zero-tolerance discipline and young children.

May 5, 2012 · 1 min read

Documents seized from Abbottabad showed bin Laden wanted Obama assassinated but Biden spared — judging the vice president too unready to inherit the presidency.

May 3, 2012 · 2 min read

Blind activist Chen Guangcheng's 2012 escape to the US Embassy in Beijing put Hillary Clinton at the center of a human-rights versus geopolitics crisis.

May 2, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2012 the Army was reported to be ending its colonial-era sahayak 'buddy' system. The promised end never fully came. What happened — and why the reform

May 2, 2012 · 2 min read

The 2012 plan for free internet on Indian Railways was about more than passenger comfort: ambition, infrastructure reality, and the long road to railway Wi-Fi.

May 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Bill Gates rendered in panels and speech bubbles — an Indian publisher's illustrated biography made the billionaire's story accessible to young readers.

May 1, 2012 · 3 min read

Sachin Tendulkar's 100th international century (March 2012) and his 39th birthday — a look at the milestone that defined an era of Indian cricket.

April 25, 2012 · 2 min read

A 2012 report told of an Indian worker returning home after 18 years of bondage in Saudi Arabia — a stark window into the Gulf migrant-worker trap.

April 25, 2012 · 2 min read

In April 2012, Nupur Talwar challenged the non-bailable warrant against her in the Aarushi case — lost in the Supreme Court, and surrendered on April 30.

April 25, 2012 · 2 min read

Salecia Johnson, 6, was handcuffed by Milledgeville police at her elementary school in April 2012 — igniting a national debate on discipline of young children.

April 23, 2012 · 1 min read

Bookwallah, a Naperville-area children's book nonprofit, held a fundraiser on May 25, 2012 at the White Eagle Clubhouse to build orphanage libraries.

April 18, 2012 · 1 min read

Studies once found cohabitation predicted divorce — the 'cohabitation effect'. The real mechanisms: sliding vs deciding, selection, and age.

April 17, 2012 · 1 min read

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female

April 17, 2012 · 3 min read