27/07/2010

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A child's suicide and a father's campaign In India the caning of children is at the centre of a national debate following the suicide of 13-year-old Rouvanjit Rawla. He was a student at an elite school in Kolkata, where he had been caned before his death. His father Ajay blames this treatment for his son's suicide, but the school disputes this. Ajay tells Matthew about the impact of his son's suicide on all of his family. Romanian Shepherds Every summer, shepherds in Romania take their sheep up into the mountains for six months in search of pasture. To find out more about this traditional way of life, Tom Wilson travelled to the Carpathian mountain range to spend the night with them on a plateau 2000 metres high. After The Cyclone in Burma When Cyclone Nargis swept through Burma in 2008 it caused huge devastation, killed around 140 000 people and left millions homeless. In the immediate aftermath the country's military rulers restricted all movement to the worst affected area, but US journalist with the pen name Emma Larkin was able to enter the country and hear the stories of ordinary people caught up in these extraordinary events.