Saturday, May 30, 1998
Twilight zone
Journalist Pinki Virani retraces the horrific stroy of Aruna Shanbag, who was brutally raped and left maimed at the KEM hospital 25 years ago. Maeanwhile, the rapist, a sweeper at the hospital, was convicted for rape.
Too many builders of broken homes
Amid excavators and lorries, people watch bewildered as their dreams, built on shaky foundations, bite the dust. Hours earlier, these people were residents of over 1,000 hutments in Ambedkar Nagar, off Cuffe Parade. Their makeshift homes were demolished by the Brihanmumbai Collectorate over a period of three days last week.
Curtain Of Irony
A group of Moscow policemen shuffle through the thick snow on Red Square. The bleak January light is like a pall over the onion domes of the Basilica, witness to the strange goings-on of this frozen morning.
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