Looks like the news wire service Reuters is in quite a bit of trouble because of an altered image from Beirut, Lebanon. While it has been yanked out of circulation, the use of Photoshop to manipulate the truth now creates an unsaid suspicion of all that we now see in the news. It adds to the pessimism that is clearly rampant in our world today.

[Via Micropersuasion]

Updates here

Via G.M.B. Akash

“Babu, 22, the main earning person of his family, lost a leg in a grenade attack on the main opposition political party office in Narayanganj, during a general meeting. 2005. Since 1999, Bangladesh has experienced a spate of ‘unexplained’ bomb blasts and grenade attacks, killing at least 300 till the end of 2005. Since August 17, 2005, a new wave of attacks have begun.

The victims have received no compensation or any form of assistance from the state.”

Yeah, I have been putting a lot more energy into my other blog, Bliss, than this one. The allure of paying off academic loans through wedding photography is much too great and I have got to get my name out there. I have been assisting photographers, working on a few weddings on my own and even signed on to work with a national wedding photography agency called Bella Pictures. So, if you don't see anything new posted here, head on over to Bliss and check it out. I'll be sure to get back to Tiffinbox as soon as this wedding season starts to quieten down. Thanks for your patience.

Please check out Prashant Panjiar's photo essay on TIME's website about a Florida man who travelled to New Delhi to have an expensive heart operation for fraction of the cost it would have cost him. This says a lot about how far medicine in India has come and how other organizations with exemplary track records can also help other desperate patients in the West.