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ISIS And The Future Of Islamic Extremism
ISIS represents the third phase in terrorism stemming from religious extremism. Unlike its predecessors and contemporaries like LeT and Al Qaeda, it functions like a state, exerting control over vast...
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Ambedkar's 'United States of India'
Hidden in the annals of India's Constituent Assembly is Ambedkar's real vision for India's Constitution. He labelled it 'United States of India'. His outline of the proposal was formally submitted to...
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What Assam Is Thinking As 'Battle Of Saraighat' Draws To A Close
By Minakshi Bujarbaruah for Youth Ki Awaaz The air is electric with politics in Assam. Your eyes can't miss it either. Driving around Guwahati and beyond, going past bus terminals, flyovers, and other...
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Regional Parties Are Taking Centrestage In Assembly Polls 2016
The rising temperatures in India this year coincides with political parties facing 'dead heat' in the poll-bound states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the union territory of Puducherry....
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Don't Swallow All The Nutrition Advice You Get
In this day and age when so much information about food and nutrition is freely available, suddenly everyone is an expert. Most of the time, people are doling out unsolicited advice. As a nutrition...
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Can India's Think Tanks Be Truly Effective?
I have worked for much of the past decade in, or with, think tanks in both the US and in India, and am regularly confronted with misperceptions and misapprehensions about the sector. What is the...
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The Renaming Of Gurgaon To Gurugram Could Have Real Benefits For The City
The recent announcement of Gurgaon's name change to Gurugram was met with a mixture of outrage and mirth. The Haryana government claims that the name change of the state's "Millennial City" was brought...
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The Death Of A Father
Wet with the bucket of cold water he half-willingly poured on himself, he stands by the body of his father, palms together, naked to the waist, head bowed to the prayers of the priest with a piety he...
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How I Found, Loved And Lost My 'Jigar ka Tukda'
That awful empty feeling haunts me once again. I lost my English bulldog, Jigar ka Tukda, this month. She was adopted by me six years ago from Friendicoes and named after the Janis Joplin number,...
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My Other Mothers
My mother was one of nine siblings. As a child, I saw her maternal home in a tiny village in South India play host to many, including me. Though the permanent residents were only my grandmother and my...
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Why It's Better For Kids To Be Schooled In Their Mother Tongue
I recently visited a primary school in Tirur, Malappuram district, Kerala. The language of instruction was English. The teacher had great enthusiasm, but the children didn't quite share it and seemed...
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Despite Kollam Fire, Kerala Politicians Refused To Skip Thrissur Pooram...
The dust has not quite settled on the Kollam fire tragedy that took the lives of over 100 people, but Kerala is all set to celebrate Thrissur Pooram that is scheduled to take place from 17 April....
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5 Ways To Make WhatsApp Groups A Little More Bearable
Disclaimer : (Views expressed here should be taken with a pinch of salt or a massive Whatsapp 'group hug emoticon'). I am going to just put it out there--I despise WhatsApp chat groups. Don't get me...
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Why You Shouldn't Bother To Be 'Good'
Our judgments of good and bad, right and wrong, keep us split. In this inner division, the ego flourishes. When we are living fully, accepting the totality of what is, happiness flourishes. Don't...
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How To Become An Instant Sex Kitten: Get A Divorce
"I saw her at the restaurant. Can you believe it, she was dressed to the nines, had on red lipstick, mascara, blusher. And just wait for this... she was with a guy, drinking wine and having an intimate...
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Surviving My 40 Days Of Maternity Confinement
Motherhood: It's a whole new world (Photo: Nidhi Dutt) Weeks into my self-imposed exile--stuck at home, living like a pampered hermit with my newborn son--the Indian practice of observing 40 days of...
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Ghost In The Machine: Living Forever As A Digital Avatar
Imagine life after 100 years. Almost everyone living today will be dead and gone by then. All Facebook and other social media profiles of our generation will become digital graveyards. Today's young...
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Why Hypocrisy Courses Through The Hiroshima Declaration
Continuing the Obama administration's proud tradition of flouting foreign policy orthodoxy, John Kerry on April 11 became the first sitting US Secretary of State to visit Japan's national memorial for...
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What The Millennials Around Me Think About Religion
God makes me feel weird. I don't just mean the ones that religions tell you to worship, but the concept itself. I'm just not comfortable with the possibility that some entity somewhere in the universe...
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What The News Doesn't Tell You About Rural India
P. Sainath wrote Everybody Loves a Good Drought in 1996. Two decades later, it remains a terrific read for anyone seeking to understand rural India. For most young, urban Indians, an understanding of...
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