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Satyamev Jayate : Child Sexual Abuse - 13th May 2012 Break The Silence - As many as 53 per cent, or one in every two children, are victims of child sexual abuse, which often happens at the hands of a trusted person, within the home. Parents must be vigilant and sensitive to their children's signals; and a robust and specific law against child sexual abuse is needed.

Satyamev Jayate : Female Foeticide - 6th May 2012

Panchi Banu Udti Phiroon Full Song - Anuradha Paudwal

Toshi & Sharib - Main Jahan Rahoon

Ehsaan Tera Hoga Mujh Par (Full Song) - Anuradha Paudwal

Europe: Things fall apart     Dutch PM Mark Rutte (standing, right) failed to get a coalition deal on budget targets The eurozone crisis is not just back. It has returned in a much more dangerous form. This time the questions are more fundamental. The doubts about the whole austerity strategy - made in Germany and policed by EU officials - are openly expressed. The French elections lay bare the fault lines. If the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande wins he will not just be the first victor from the Left in France in 17 years. He has put down a marker - that he will challenge German leadership of the debt crisis. Mr Hollande believes that austerity first is destroying parts of Europe. Yes, deficits have to be cut, but his priority will be growth. He has pitched his statements not just to the French people but to the rest of Europe. He wants to reorientate Europe on a path of growth and employment. It was not a surprise that yesterday Angela Merk...

Viewpoint: Binyavanga on why Africa's international image is unfair   Should Madonna be Africa's president? Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and a past winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, argues that the world has got its image of Africa very badly wrong. Let us imagine that Africa was really like it is shown in the international media. Africa would be a country. Its largest province would be Somalia. Bono, Angelina Jolie and Madonna would be joint presidents, appointed by the United Nations. European aid workers would run the Foreign Affairs Office, gap year students from the UK the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Culture would be run by the makers of the Kony2012 videos. 'Wholesome and ethnic' “Africa's image in the west, and Africa's image to itself, are often crude, childish drawings of reality” Actual Africans would live inside villages designed by economist Jeffrey Sachs . Those villagers woul...