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21st Century India – And Still Dying for Superstition

A Beautiful Land, Chained by Shadows India is a land of diverse cultures, rich history, and breathtaking beauty. It enchants the world with its colours, traditions, and timeless wisdom. Yet beneath this vibrant exterior, outdated superstitions and harmful practices still persist. In a nation that launches satellites into space, medieval beliefs and dark rituals continue to claim innocent lives, casting a long shadow over its progress. The Unseen Darkness In August 2015, a remote village in Jharkhand witnessed a chilling act of mob violence. Five women, aged between 45 and 60, were

June 21, 2025 No Comments

Silhouette of a single flower blooming through cracked earth, symbolizing resistance and growth amid cultural harm.

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Genital Mutilation Isn’t Tradition. It’s Violence

By Betzy Brize | Opinion From the very moment a child is forced onto a cold surface, limbs pinned, mind screaming, as a razor blade breaks skin and innocence, violence enters the body. In the case of Shamsa Arrawe, the Somali‑British TikToker whose story traumatised a generation, that blade was the start of a lifetime of pain. She was six. Her cousin was seven. Both were cut with no anesthesia, no consent, and no law stepping in. When Shamsa came to the UK, the scars were still fresh. Today she speaks openly

June 12, 2025 No Comments

$A mock newspaper front page titled "Voice of the Era," dated 06 June 2025, with the bold headline: "THE PAROLE SCAM: HOW INDIA’S BROKEN JUSTICE SYSTEM LETS MURDERERS WALK FREE." Below the headline is an image of a cracked Lady Justice figure with broken scales in front of prison bars, symbolizing a fractured legal system.$

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The Parole Scam: How India’s Broken Justice System Lets Murderers Walk Free

By Betzy Brize | Opinion Every time we hear of another parolee murdering again, we should not be shocked. We should be furious. Because this is not just failure, it’s the Parole Scam in action. The system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was designed to: to protect the powerful, to forgive the violent, and to gamble recklessly with the lives of the innocent. Where Is Justice When the Murderer Is Free and the Victim Is Dead – Again? Let’s stop pretending that India’s criminal justice system is reformative or protective.

June 6, 2025 No Comments

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This is Not Freedom. This is a National Emergency.

By Betzy Brize| Opinion “The only country where gunfire is part of the curriculum and freedom is a coffin.” – Voice of the Era A parent ties a shoelace. Zips a backpack. Packs a lunch. Kisses their child goodbye. By afternoon, that same parent is unzipping a body bag. This is not war. This is the United States of America. This is a country where school is not a sanctuary but a potential crime scene. Where children are drilled to hide, not to learn. Where the sound of gunfire is as familiar

June 5, 2025 No Comments

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Exposing the Toxic Performance Culture Destroying Reality, Childhood, and Sanity

By Betzy Brize | Feature Story The Funeral of Real Life Performance culture is no longer a niche phenomenon. It is the air we breathe. Every moment is filtered through a lens of presentation and perception. Life has become a stage where we document joy instead of feeling it, curate trauma instead of healing it, and seek validation instead of intimacy. In a world obsessed with visibility, existing quietly is seen as outdated, irrelevant, or even suspicious. We don’t live anymore. We perform. We don’t cry without recording it. We don’t celebrate

June 4, 2025 No Comments

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India’s Police Suicide Crisis: The Uniform That Kills in Silence

By Betzy Brize |Investigative Feature When the Protectors Break The world knows India as the world’s largest democracy. But within its khaki corridors, a quieter emergency brews. One of silence, despair, and police suicide. Police. A word we are taught to fear. Not question. Not humanize. Just obey. They carry batons and wear authority like armor. We see the uniform and forget the skin underneath. We hear the siren, not the scream. We remember the raids, the lathis, the threats, and we call them monsters. But we never ask: Who broke them?

June 3, 2025 No Comments

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In India, Honour Killing Still Thrives Behind a Mask of Tradition

By Betzy Brize | Opinion piece They called it love. Their parents called it shame. The country called it nothing at all. This is India, a nation that worships gods of love, sings epics of passion, and lights oil lamps in the name of divine union. A land where temples celebrate Radha and Krishna, where poets write odes to longing, and where marriages are called sacred. But scratch the surface and you’ll find a darker, bloodier truth. In the same households that celebrate weddings with rituals and silk, daughters are strangled for

June 2, 2025 No Comments