The collective willingness to ban and burn books, intimidate authors, denounce this slight to that icon’s honour, is part of a creeping culture of political exchange in which public authority is all too ready to be coercive towards those it finds politically inconvenient
Harish Khare Delhi
JUNE 2012
JUNE 2012
Cover Story and Featured Stories
A nation which can’t introspect is bound to self-destruct
Amit Sengupta Delhi
Websites, books, newspapers, cinema halls, magazines and mouths, all have to be thoroughly sanitised and only then opened in a country where narrow-mindedness and manual scavenging is everywhere
Karen Gabriel Delhi
India isn’t faring as badly as is being projected by corporate houses and media hell-bent on opening up the economy for big business, come what may
Akash Bisht Delhi
A Sunday morning set aside for worship, followed by fellowship, a communal gathering over refreshments, in itself imparts a peaceful rhythm to the mad pace of daily life
Jaya Bhattacharji Rose Delhi
On the road and sea. From Delhi to Jerusalem, crossing Pakistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria. The convoy, all the way, celebrating the liberation of Palestine
Bhupen Singh Istanbul (Turkey)/Saida (Lebanon)
With great effort by the forest department, state government and locals, Manas National Park in Assam has seen a surge in the wildlife population, including tigers
Ravi Shankar Ravi Guwahati
The cartoon episode depicts how the Ambedkar-icon is exploited to manipulate Dalit sentiments by vested interests for their selfish ends. This icon has also shielded the misdeeds of Dalit politicians and disoriented the Dalit movement
Anand Teltumbde Kharagpur
This intolerance for other people and other ideas has now assumed the dimension of a full-blown epidemic and can no longer be viewed as sporadic, lunatic-fringe activity
Ratna Raman Delhi
Northeastern Indians living away from home are tested in an environment where bigotry often overpowers education and understanding
Samar Delhi