Oswald Pereira's Blog

• It happens all the time!

  September 17, 2009

  • One of my students from the Times of India School of Journalism, travelling by auto rickshaw was robbed of her hand bag by two motorbike-borne thugs on the crowded Dhaula Kuan road in New Delhi, yesterday evening. It seemed that the rickshaw driver was in the robbery as he deliberately slowed down the vehicle to let the robbers snatch the bag. The brave student had resisted the robbers and tried ...
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• There's Lots in a Name

  July 8, 2009

  • Though my name is Oswald Pereira, I am often called Mr Singh. That’s because my wife Reena Singh has retained her maiden name and people who know her and don’t know me, assume that the husband of Mrs Singh would be Mr Singh. When people call our landline asking for my wife, they often say, “Mr Singh, please tell Mrs Singh I had called.” When I try and correct them and affirm that “I’m ...
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• Revenge of the Naked Princess

  June 24, 2009

  • This is a story on the dark age of forced conversions. It shows how nebulous the lines between religion and carnage can be. When the joint forces of Portugal’s ‘Grocer’ King John III and the Holy See, with an eye on the market for spices and sacred crosses, set out to spread the message of love and compassion, they leave behind a deathly trail of murder and mayhem.              ...
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