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Sep.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...
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Jul.08.2009
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...
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Jun.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...
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Jun.15.2009
Oh! How I wish I could get back my old, mechanical Remington Rand typewriter. I miss its musical clang as its majestic carriage responded to my strokes on those seductive keys that inspired me to write words that I can never recreate on my hi-tech but cold laptop.
It was the typewriter that my...
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Jun.09.2009
What is worse? Is it racism or casteism? Both are equally malevolent social evils, I would say. India has the double, dubious distinction of being home to both evils. If you add communalism, regionalism, extremism, jingoism and other isms that are present in huge measures, then what we have...
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Jun.04.2009
I may sound like a school kid. But I was thrilled to be featured as Red Room Rising Star this week. I didn't expect this to happen so soon after I joined Red Room. I know, I know, there are many others who have been featured as rising stars. But this is indeed special for me ... back home in India...
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May.13.2009
REVENGE OF THE NAKED PRINCESS: SYNOPSIS
This is a story that happened 450 years ago. But the messages that it conveys are relevant even today. To know why, read my story of a courageous tribal Princess Darshana Kamya Kathodi who was raped and killed because she refused to yield to forcible...
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About Oswald
My novel, The Newsroom Mafia, was released in Mumbai on December 8, 2011 by Grey Oak Westland. It's the first Indian novel, to describe in graphic detail, the unholy alliance between the fourth estate, the mafia and the government.
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Causes Oswald Pereira Supports
Equality of Women, Economic Equality
Oswald’s Favorite Books
Great Expectations, Pickwick Papers, Pride and Prejudice, Far From the Madding Crowd, Malgudi Days, The Firm, Train to Pakistan, Midnight's Children, Life of...
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