A strongly worded critique of Bollywood actor Aamir Khan's show "Satyamev Jayate" in Outlook magazine is likely to raise questions about the success story that Mr. Khan has scripted with the show. In the piece titled, "Silence Eva Jayate," the author S. Anand takes issue with how Mr. Khan and his team handled the topics of casteism and untouchability in a recently aired episode. Mr. Anand writes that the show overlooked the contributions of Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar and the policy of reservation to uplift the lower caste communities in the country, similar to the policy of affirmative action in the United States. He also noted that Mr. Khan is "content to use the language of high-caste reformers." In Frontline magazine, R.K. Raghavan wrote about the "Midnight Massacre" where 17 members of tribes who are accused of being Maoists, were killed in an encounter in Chhattisgarh state on June 29. He called for a national debate surrounding what local activists have called "unprovoked, wanton violence" on the part of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Mr. Raghavan emphasizes gray areas in the case against the CRPF, which makes it difficult to "take a categorical stand which would indict the CRPF for having either committed a blunder or overreacted to an innocuous situation." In my view, the average citizen knows precious little about how the organisation (sic) is equipped and what persuades it to stick to the right path. The director-general, CRPF, and his officers will do well to go round the country and meet with community leaders to educate them in this regard," Mr. Raghavan wrote about the largest central police organization in India. Tehelka's "Personal Histories" column carried a personal essay by a former civil services aspirant. Manish Raj shares his experiences of spending four years attending coaching institutes in the hope of cracking the coveted Indian Administrative Service exam. He failed, three times over before turning to a career in journalism. Mr. Raj wrote: The stress of the exams and the gruelling study schedule of 10 hours a day had left me with hypertension, anxiety and depression. I had squandered my mother's hard earned money on an exam I never would have cleared, and for a job I had never wanted to do. I was paralysed (sic) with fear when I thought of my mother's crestfallen face and the taunts of my friends.