While there is legitimate national outrage against the gangrape of the photo journalist in Mumbai, what about the trauma of the little girl, and her quest for justice?
Amit Sengupta Delhi
SEPTEMBER 2013
September 2013
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The onus is on Obama: whether to give in to his allies’ urgings and attack Syria, or to bring forward the Geneva II meet
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Armed criminals and gangsters, greedy real estate agents, powerful politicians, corrupt locals, and miscellaneous shady lobbies work in open synthesis with the ‘sand mafia’ a stone’s throw away from the capital
Sadiq Naqvi Noida (UP)
Government sources allege that vested interests are deepening this crisis. So why is the currency falling far beyond the real exchange rate of rupees?
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
The growing opposition to nuclear projects in India is linked as much to the livelihood issues of rural people as to the changed realities of a post-Fukushima world. On both counts, a criminal denial seems to be the preferred option of the establishment
PK Sundaram Delhi
The assassination of Olof Palme remains a mystery in the backdrop of the Bofors scam. Hardnews explores the hidden dimensions of this murder, from Sweden to India
Gautam Pingle Hyderabad
There is a saying about Caribbean Chutney music among exiled Indians — you can hear it with your ears, but you feel it with your heart and soul
Nishi Malhotra Washington
There is still hope floating in this ‘forbidden land, a dangerous place’
Ash Narain Roy Sanaa/Taiz/ Mukalla (Yemen)
The book under review is an anthology on Kashmir which ably chronicles the multiple and complex forms and layers of resistance, written mostly by Kashmiris living inside and outside the Valley
Mahtab Alam Delhi
Amidst the chaos and the crowd, a new dream was quietly born within me. At first I laughed at it, then I accepted it, finally, I embraced it
Mehru Jaffer Lucknow
The sea and its fruits are the eternally luminescent images in the lives of school students in the fishing village of Appikonda
Pamela Philipose Visakhapatnam