As a literature student, one was endlessly fascinated by the term Poetic Justice. The ancient Greeks, especially Aristotle, believed that virtue should be ultimately rewarded and vice punished in a literary work, often by an ironic twist of fate intimately related to the character’s own conduct.

Since life and literature mirror each other, I believe there’s some form of poetic justice at work in real life as well. Just look around; there are myriad examples all aroun...

The global financial meltdown claimed its first casualty in Los Angeles on October 7 with a 45-year-old NRI killing five members of his family before taking his own life. That’s an indicator of the turmoil that families are going through owing to economic hardship. In September alone, 169,000 people lost their jobs in the US. This is more than double the tally for the first eight months of the year, with the US economy losing an average of 75,000 jobs each month.

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