Kai Po Che’s re-scripting of Ahmedabad’s and Gujarat’s history remains solipsistic and blatantly untrue
Ratna Raman Delhi
APRIL 2013
APRIL 2013
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The debate on Budget in Parliament will decide the possibilities of power politics in the days to come
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
The coming months are going to be exceedingly important for Mulayam Singh Yadav’s political future. He will not like to make a wrong move which can possibly hurt his fortunes or those of his son
Hardnews Bureau Lucknow/Delhi
The coming months are going to be exceedingly important for Mulayam Singh Yadav’s political future. He will not like to make a wrong move which can possibly hurt his fortunes or those of his son
Hardnews Bureau Lucknow/ Delhi
Condemned, jailed and tortured, with no proof or with concocted evidence, the brutalization of innocent Muslims is a relentless epic of infinite injustice in contemporary, ‘secular’ Indian democracy
Manisha Sethi Delhi
In this opaque netherland of terrorism-counter terrorism, it is not just loyalties that change sides, but entire sides overturn and mirror each other in grotesque ways. The good guys battling the evil ones is a fantasy manufactured by think-tanks and the ‘experts’ industry
Manisha Sethi Delhi
In this opaque netherland of terrorism-counter terrorism, it is not just loyalties that change sides, but entire sides overturn and mirror each other in grotesque ways. The good guys battling the evil ones is a fantasy manufactured by think-tanks and the ‘experts’ industry
Manisha Sethi Delhi
Sood introduces a collection of 10 essays that help us understand the Gujarat ‘growth’ story and underlines that policy initiatives in this coastal state have had disastrous implications for the poor and the marginalized
Poornima Joshi Delhi
From an Indian fan, bored stiff of Bollywood remakes
Sonali Ghosh Sen Kolkata
Arrested on terror charges of targeting Rightwing Hindutva leaders in Karnataka, those acquitted with no evidence face extreme mental agony and stress
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
An excessively imagined nation is bound to address its diverse problems with brutality. The fantasies and actions of the Hindutva brigade are part of that brutality
Manash Bhattacharjee Delhi
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As I write this one day after Holi, April has almost arrived, but it might not really be the cruellest month, as the poem goes. The cracked lips of May might actually scorch the eyes, and fingers, and the soul, with its hot desert winds. Winter has gone, but there is still the fading, fleeting, familiar nip in the air, as the North Mountain Wind caresses the rough cotton of my long baggy white cotton shirt, and becomes longing and desire, leaving nothing but the coolness of the wind, like the smell of wet jasmine.
Wanted: TV Reforms
We’ve been talking about police reforms, prison reforms, et cetera, for years now. Sadly, no one has ever mentioned TV news host reforms yet. We must acknowledge the fact that irresponsible TV hosts have a detrimental effect on India’s citizens too. Many of us have got shattered ear drums because of all that screaming, some of us are slowly going mad, and all of us have got dangerously high blood pressure. It’s just a matter of time before India’s TV host-related ailments become a serious project at the WHO.