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"You're being fooled if you think this person is laughing so they can't have anything going wrong with them."

"All I thought, if I die, I die, I am not having a great life anyway. The sky seemed like my home and I jumped."

"I would contemplate suicide and think it would be the end of everything."

"I would not sleep for hours together and dream up situations where things would be better one day."

"Everybody used to physically abuse me in the house."

"Depression is darkness because I shut myself indoors for one whole week in darkness."

Here’s a podcast series of narratives from Amitabh Bachchan’s blogs about his life before he became the phenomena that he is. The first one is about his school life.

On the face of it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ripped into the Opposition, particularly the Congress, and in-house critics like Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie, when he defended his economic policies at the golden jubilee celebrations of the Institute of Company Secretaries. But he can't ignore RSS' criticism on the Indian Economy. Here's why.

A local railway station is a part of every city’s basic daily-use infrastructure — and it failed spectacularly in the form of a narrow, ancient, rickety foot-over-bridge. But what went wrong? Is the design of railway stations to blame? Or is there a broader ignorance behind how we plan our cities?

Unsafe abortions kill one woman every two hours, according to a report by Global Health Strategies, India. #InternationalSafeAbortionDay