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Five HIV Positive People Come to Public

Coinciding with the World AIDS Day on 1 st December 2011, five HIV Positive people decided to go public with their disease. These brave acts on the part of these people will go down in the Bhutanese history as an exemplary deed  who put their life, reputation and public out casting  on the line to educate people about AIDS and demystify so that people do not conceive the AIDS as demonized killer as the people conceived now. Such brave actions from them wouldn’t have come in more opportune time than now when Bhutan has detected 270 HIV Positive people with 48 people dead till now since its first detection in 1998. In last month alone 24 people were detected. UNAIDS estimated that Bhutan would have more than 500 infected people till now. This brave action is also an opportunity to view the disease from the third perspectives. Till now, we have been hearing about the AIDS from only two perspectives; health and Public. Till recently, the media and health officials have educated t

Drama: Four essential elements in Drama

  Four Conditions Essential to Any Drama 1.       An unresolved issues with the outcome in doubt 2.       A deep commitment to action by character with whom we can identify with 3.       The character must be involved in a conflict at which has, at its heart, high personal stake. 4.       Urgency or a sense of deadline. Introduction Braveheart was made in 1995 based on life story of 13 th century knight Sir William Wallace set on the backdrop of Scottish fight for the independence against King Edward I of England infamously known as Longshank.  It is semi-fictional dramatic war epic directed by Mel Gibson. Williams’s father and brother died fighting against the Englishmen when he was a little child. He was taken care of by his uncle and travelled around Europe with him until he was about 20 years old. Then he returned to his original home place. Here William fell in love with a girl, Murron, and they got married secretly. They kept it secret because Longshanks gave

The Gandhian Journalism: Part One: Gandhi as a journalist

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                                             "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."                                                       Gandhi as a  journalist We have end numbers of books on journalism and each author or journalist attempts to define and practise journalism as he/she deems right. There are many rules and laws on media. There are ethics and morality that journalists have to follow. These are all classroom deliberation as only few journalists in profession maintain high standard of ethics.   In such turbulent time of today where news are woven out of few threads of truth and sensationalism is at its peak, where competition to sell had subdue its duty to serve, it is a right time to see what Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace and one of the greatest human being that ever breathed the life in this world think of an journalism especially print media. Almost everyone knows that Mahatma Gandhi was a Politi