Sir, Women’s empowerment is needed because people are still asking us that question! Why should half of the population be left oppressed without financial or social equality? I have read a lot about how men are wrongly accused and how they have to suffer due to those ‘unnecessary’ ‘gender-biased’ laws, but would anybody tell me […]
Sir, Corruption has been one of the biggest hindrances in the way of development. And if we don’t free ourselves from the clutches of corruption we can never become a developed country. For this we have to redefine the concept of what Public Interest in this country should be. There is no urgency among us […]
Sir, Madonna Lousie Ciccone is an American singer, song writer, actress and business woman. Madonna was previously known for reinventing both her music and image, and for maintaining her autonomy with the recording industry, but her recent speech has made her a role model for the women all over the world. Madonna was honoured as […]
The immortal Judy Garland’s ‘Over the Rainbow’ and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz took centre stage at Narratives 2017, held in Patna Women’s College at the Department of Communicative English. What better way to start three days of exploring the messages in the media than by having the best guitarist in the world , Eric […]
Bihar is going to witness the longest human chain formation on January 21, expected to be over 11,000 km long in support of the liquor ban. It is going to be the largest human chain ever formed in the world and is said to go down in the Guiness Book of World records. Around 2 […]
Sir, The tragic event which happened in Patna on the eve of Makar Sankranti in which an overloaded boat capsized claiming the life of 24 fellow Patnaites, deeply saddens me and makes me ponder. As the spot of the accident is close to me and at one of my favourite destinations of the city, it […]
Sir, It was only recently when the city was celebrating Makar Sankranti like every year on 14th January. In the evening, when I switched on the television, I saw in the breaking news about the boat tragedy, which happened near NIT Ghat and killed almost 20 – 25 people and many of them are still […]
Sir, Whatever we see, it doesn’t reflect the reality always. It is so with the reservations (Quota) system in India. The systems of reservation in India were proclaimed to bring equality among masses for the sake of backward categories (OBC, SC, ST) of our society in different government legislatures or jobs and even in educational […]
Sir, Shopping of citizens of Patna have been changing and online shopping has brought about a drastic transformation in the buying behavioral habits especially that of the middle income group. The developing online market is characterized by domestic and foreign investors, it’s growing and ever hungry consumers like us apparently have insatiable demand for all […]
Sir, It is good to see that Newsnet One consistently publishes news items that are not highlighted by the mainstream media, and that issues are raised here that are not ‘passing sensations’. There are several media students, or shall I rephrase that as ‘students of the media’ who contribute to this site from time to […]
Sir- I recently watched this film “The Color of Paradise” an Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed’s blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries […]
Sir, Sashi Deshpande’s novel ‘That Long Silence’ is an autobiographical narration. This novel is a masterly work of purposeful fiction set in a middle-class Indian family. It is subtly concerned about a woman’s struggles, in context of contemporary Indian society and about her efforts to find her identity as a wife, mother, and of all […]
