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Reports of Uttar Pradesh Police allegedly conducting fake encounters have been rife in the media for some time now. Infact these fake encounters, particularly in UP and Gujarat aren’t… Read More

Of late, the Uttar Pradesh Police and the Administration has been garnering bad publicity in the wake of allegations of Fake Encounters being levelled against them and the chorus to get the… Read More

"Nelson Mandela’s prison letters reveal his unwavering vision" PBS NewsHour 7/18/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  This week marks 100 years since the birth of Nelson Mandela, who led a strugg… Read More

The convicted rapist was on Friday ordered back to prison by the NPA after he lost his appeal on Wednesday.NPA spokesperson Phindi Louw confirmed to TshisaLIVE that Brickz was ordered to ret… Read More

Much as everyone wants this world to be a crime-less place, there are wrongdoings and criminal acts still existing. One lives on with the hope that the ruthless would stop committing crime o… Read More

"How ‘Football Inc’ missed warning signs around Aaron Hernandez" PBS NewsHour 10/18/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez killed himself in p… Read More

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme run by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is Villains.I've decided to look at retellings from the perspective of the original stories' villains!… Read More

I Dare You to Leave Teasers November 2018 – Upcoming EVA drama series ‘EVA’ teasers, previews, updates, episodes, highlights and spoilers for November 2018Monday 29 Oc… Read More

"Bombs sent to CNN, prominent Democrats at time of political division" PBS NewsHour 10/24/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  Federal agents are investigating bomb scares targeting prominent Democrats… Read More

Gebroke Harte Teasers November 2018 – Upcoming eXtra drama series ‘Gebroke Harte’ teasers, previews, updates, episodes, highlights and spoilers for November 2018.Coming up… Read More

"Notorious crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dies in W. Va. prison" PBS NewsHour 10/30/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger has died, one… Read More

Many people who are locked up in prisons throughout the country don’t feel they are getting fair, unbiased treatment. They feel that they are being abused and disrespected on a regular… Read More

"David Brooks and Ruth Marcus on a ‘moderate’ new congressional class" PBS NewsHour 11/16/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post depu… Read More

"Is Trump’s criminal justice plan ‘rehabilitative and redemptive?’" PBS NewsHour 11/14/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  President Trump has outlined a new bipartisan agreement on… Read More

Dog Men (A Prison Story) – Poem by Cody Marsh –  On edge of a razor-guarded campus,  Marigolds tower to meet drooping pines. Though unaware as cheerful children, Dry Te… Read More

TWO HUNGERS – Poetry by Maggie Thistle –  Poem 1 My breasts once wept at the first musings of a strangers hunger- smacking lips, a pursed, round strawberry and wet with the… Read More

Things I’ve Learned on the Road – Poetry by Liz Stewart – November 30, 2018 I remember the fire trucks with all the lights flashing and the noise and the woman screaming… Read More

"American prisons are hell.  For women, they’re even worse" PBS NewsHour 11/28/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country--over two million… Read More

قناة ام بي سي أكشن MBC Action واحده من أشه… Read More

2019 Dreamers Pushcart Prize Nominations …we’re pleased to announce our 2019 Pushcart Prize nominations! The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses honours the best poems, fi… Read More

Guide Him Through -Poetry by Nancy Levinson – GRAVE SITE VISIT Between lush manicured lawns and dense sheared hedges I walk slowly         … Read More

2018 is drawing to a close, and people are starting to share their lists of 2019 books they're looking forward to, and I'm joining in! Regular readers will know what a huge fan of retellings… Read More

"‘Real drama’ in the courtroom as Cohen gets 3-year sentence" PBS NewsHour 12/12/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to th… Read More

“In Her Garden” and “Fresh News” – Poetry by Annette Gagliardi – In Her Garden Big mama said she’s plum gone there’s no more chunky, cop… Read More

DR. NO RKVRY? – Poetry by Gerard Sarnat – Hardcore Dys-Orthopod Writer works to get under skin, doc rushes through gore he bathes within… Shrieking from som… Read More

Zoot Alors! My Christmas Spirit is at a fever pitch! It's time to get in the Holiday Groove with some Cool Yule Tunes!   Please note that it might take a minute for all the vide… Read More

"How criminal justice overhaul will affect life for inmates" PBS NewsHour 12/21/2018ExcerptSUMMARY:  President Trump has signed a landmark criminal justice bill.  The First Step Ac… Read More

Swallowed – Fierce Fiction by George Ayliffe When we made love, I thought of nothing but the parakeets. They were four floors below in Samantha’s study. I feared they were starv… Read More

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"How an American journalist survived 18 months in an Iranian prison" PBS NewsHour 1/24/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Journalist Jason Rezaian was the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Tehr… Read More

Throughout any given year, I always read an inordinate amount of rock & roll books.  It's a habit I fell into back in my high school days.  Whenever I hear about a new roc… Read More

"The shocking violence that characterized the reign of ‘El Chapo’" PBS NewsHour 2/12/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  After a trial lasting nearly three months, the Mexican drug lord Jo… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.January saw the creation of a brand new, specific diverse reading challenge! Year of the Asian Reading Challenge 2019 is a reading challenge to… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.Books with multiple points of view (POV). They can… Read More

Wanted Dead or AliveWar Criminal Bashar al-AssadAssad is a monster and should die by his own methods, in the 'university of whispers.'"Silenced at ‘the university of whispers,’ a… Read More

CGMagazineLane Martin I have to say, I have always had a soft spot for the Tropico franchise. The young, optimistic side of me had a long history with city builders like SimCity while the e… Read More

Welcome to Once Upon a Retelling! I'm a huge fan of retellings, and I'm really interested in hearing about authors' own love of the original stories, and what inspired them to retell those s… Read More

In the Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de BodardPublished: 16th October 2019 | Publisher: JABberwocky Literary Agency | Source: BoughtAliette de Bodard's WebsiteIn a ruined, devastated world, w… Read More

Travelling or vacationing is an important part of my yearly must-do. ( well……its part of my new year resolution). This helps to mitigate one of the challenges which I usually e… Read More

Lab Zero’s Indivisible is a strange game, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from the developer of Skullgirls. A cross between an RPG, platformer, and fighting game, Indivisibl… Read More

This post containts affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.After the success of F/F February, Ellie of Fae on… Read More

Bread Knife – Non-Fiction by Kay Kramer –  Mama and Barry mashed lumpy boiled potatoes into furrows with their forks, spread sour cream on top. I hated it. Mama cooked this… Read More

My #RamdadanReadathon 2019 TBRThis post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.The #RamadanReadathon… Read More

The Worst Drunk Poem I’ve Ever Written – Poetry by Laura Mota – I found in the pocket of the jeans I wore last night a yellow note:  from the triple g&ta… Read More

Quotes from ordinary people like me and you can sometimes be so powerful that when you analyze the words of people who have left behind great legacies, like this list of Rumi quotes, it open… Read More

"Shields and Brooks on abortion law battles, 2020 generational divide" PBS NewsHour 5/17/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks… Read More

This post contains affiliate links.Welcome to Once Upon a Retelling! I'm a huge fan of retellings, and I'm really interested in hearing about authors' own love of the original stories, and w… Read More

"Release of ‘American Taliban’ raises questions about U.S. efforts to deradicalize" PBS NewsHour 5/23/2019ExcerptSUMMARY:  John Walker Lindh, who became known as the "Americ… Read More

Threadbare – Fierce Fiction by Christine Heuner – I’m shivering in a hospital gown and Hanes underwear. A nurse brings me another blanket, crisp with hot starch. I w… Read More

Sapphic RetellingsThis post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.I'm wanting to try and read more f… Read More

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa TahirPublished: 12th July 2018 | Publisher: HarperVoyager | Source: BoughtSabaa Tahir's WebsiteAfter the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt… Read More

Download T-Pain – ‘Girlfriend’ (Feat. G-Eazy) Mp3 American hip hop singer in the prison of  T-Pain has released a news i gle called ‘Girlfriend’, the sing… Read More

A dictionary defines joy as “a feeling of great pleasure and happiness.” Based on that definition anyone can have both joy and happiness at times. But there is a big diffe… Read More

Patrick M. Byrne is an American entrepreneur and e-commerce Pioneer who is also said to be a cryptocurrency and blockchain technology advocate resigned from the post of CEO of Overstock.com… Read More

Yesterday marked the 33rd anniversary of a crime that took place in New York city on August 26, 1986. Today's blog post is about a song that was inspired by this heinous murd… Read More

Florida Federal Judge, Bruce Reinhart has ordered Craig Wright self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto to turn over 50 percent of the Bitcoin (BTC) that he mined along with his former business ass… Read More

Long gone are days when we were truly anonymous on the internet. Now, our browsing history gets tracked by our Internet Service Providers, which means that the ads that we find when we surf… Read More

****Trigger Warning: This post contains depictions of violence against women. I’m writing about a difficult and personal subject today. Domestic Violence is rampant in North Americ… Read More

Hello Humans: I hope you’re enjoying your day as much as I’m enjoying mine. I slept in until 3pm and then had breakfast / lunch / early dinner all at the same time. Unfortunately… Read More

Hired an Autosleeper Duetto Our last camping trip to Balloch O &ls… Read More