´Unlucky knock on wood´ by C.K. Meena

 Posted on July 10, 2012  |  5 minutes  |  977 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

C.K. Meena is a columnist in The Hindu, one of India´s biggest news papers. She was my teacher when I took up a certificate course in Journalism and we soon became friends. [Read More]
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The Amazon and us

 Posted on October 30, 2011  |  6 minutes  |  1249 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

First published on August 12, 2007 _“In the time it takes to sing this song, There’ll be four acres cleared in the Amazon. The jungle burns all through the night, [Read More]
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