Breaking out of
DESPAIR

Maqboolpura in Amritsar is known for all the wrong reasons. Drug addicts, deaths related to drugs, widows and orphans of drug addicts and poverty caused by most employable males getting hooked to drugs. In this bleak scenario, where addiction has assumed epidemic proportions and has claimed hundreds of lives, a few bravehearts have come forward to educate children and save them from this fatal attraction, reports A. J. Philip

It’s time to retire
THE TEENAGER
The first subject to be created almost entirely by marketing was perhaps the teenager.
Mark Simpson looks at Jon Savage’s recently out book Teenage: The Creation of Youth
OF all the terrifying new weapons developed in World War II and unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, the teenager was by far the most powerful. The supersonic shockwave of Fat Man and Little Boy was nothing compared to that caused by dropping the teenager on Japan, Italy and Germany after their surrender - or Britain after her victory.