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Children and women on the “Way to Death”. Auchwitz 

(Published first in the Deccan Herald, March 2020) 

  “You will be horrified. If you go there you won’t come back the same, warned a friend as I board the bus to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Krakow.

  Immediately the driver plays ‘Auschwitz’ on the tv, as if to make it press home the point of where we were headed.

  But the prisoners arrived at this…

Oceans and the Great Dying

(Published first in the Sunday Deccan Herald, March 2019)

Text and photos: Sanjay Austa

In the middle of the languid bright blue lagoon in Maldives,  with stingrays and baby sharks swimming under the gangways, the breakfast at the island resort is a heady elaborate affair. “How do you manage to smuggle in bacon in a Muslim majority nation, that takes its religion seriously”, I ask the…

Harold Carver is no Saint but a Child Sexual Predator. Manraj Singh

(I’ve  never met Manraj. He got in touch with me a few days ago after several people including me went public exposing  the systematic child sexual abuse by Harold Carver, the Founding Director of St. Stephen’s School, Chandigarh. 

What is shocking is that Manraj was  the first batch of the School back in the 80’s. Which suggests that Harold Carver, had started preying on young children right at…

“They Sobbed and said Harold Carver was Sexually Abusing them”, ex Teacher, St. Stephen’s School.

  When given a choice between believing the children who accused the Founding Director Harold Carver, St. Stephen’s School, Chandigarh,  of sexually abusing them, or believing Carver, the teacher’s at St. Stephen’s have always thrown their weight behind  Carver. They have chosen to dub their student’s liars and Carver a ‘Living Legend’.

This is a hallowed tradition followed by St. Stephen…

The Boys Sobbed and told me how Harold Carver would Sexually Abuse them : ex Teacher, St. Stephen’s School

  When given a choice between believing the children who accused the Founding Director Harold Carver, St. Stephen’s School, Chandigarh,  of sexually abusing them, or believing Carver, the teacher’s at St. Stephen’s have always thrown their weight behind  Carver. They have chosen to dub their student’s liars and Carver a ‘Living Legend’.

This is a hallowed tradition followed by the teachers and…

Harold Carver Destroyed Me: I am Scarred for life: Navin Chettri

Navin Chettri, was a brilliant footballer and we tried to dribble like him on the fields but failed miserably.  I knew Navin only for a  very short duration. He was among the boys (aged merely 10-14 years) who had gone to court in an effort to get justice for the horrific sexual abuse by Carver.  But Carver was soon reinstated and Navin along with other abused children had to leave school.

Follo…

“Harold Carver:  A Sexual Predator whose choice was Children”

  Harold Carver. Founder Director : St Stephen’s School Chandigarh

  For some reason all the schools that we did the rounds of   for admissions in Chandigarh had disinterested Principals with really large bellies and turbans.  And they all spoke in Punjabi.

So when Mr. Harold Carver, Principal St Stephen’s School, Chandigarh -head cocked, slick coiffured hair-  welcomed us in his clipped English,…

End of Faith: Sam Harris and ‘The Problem with Islam’.

      The End of Faith is a clarion call to end all faith based religions but neuroscientist, philosopher and author Sam Harris particularly picks on Islam. He even has a large chapter, helpfully titled, ‘The Problem with Islam’. Harris’s contention is that while adherents of other religions don’t take their faith too seriously, Muslims do. And there lies the rub. This is somewhat true. It is…