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Divorce Is Hard, But Must We Make It So Ugly?
As adults we want to discipline our children and set them on the right path so that they can be successful in life (happiness, somehow, is not counted as success). We teach them values like honesty,...
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3 Damage Control Measures That Could Help Modi Win 2019
It's seems just like yesterday when PM Narendra Modi single-handedly decimated the Congress, giving it the worst defeat it had experienced since the regime of Indira Gandhi. Back then, PM Modi won...
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Why Vanaspati Ghee Should Come With A Warning Label
My mom leaves for work at 6am every morning, which means I make my own breakfast (three fried eggs with sautéed vegetables, and a protein shake). I fry my eggs in butter. I know most people would call...
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My Child's Beginning To Believe In God, And It's Partly My Fault
I really thought raising godless children would be easy. Around the time I got pregnant, I was deeply impressed by a CNN iReport, "Why I Raise My Children Without God" written by a Texan mother who...
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Exclusive: Doctors And Hospitals Are Playing With Lives For Profit, Say...
In their book Dissenting Diagnosis, doctors and activists Abhay Shukla and Arun Gadre give us a chilling inside account of widespread malpractices afflicting the healthcare industry. The nexus between...
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Dear Justice Dave, Here's How You Can Make The NEET Order Stand Up To Scrutiny
Dear Justice Dave, I edit Careers360, a magazine and portal that seeks to help students make better education and career choices by providing authentic information. We serve about 8-10 million children...
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Qawwali And The Sufi Tradition: Music That Unites
The annual commemorative festival, or urs, of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Gharib Nawaz (1141 AD-1236 AD), the emancipator of the poor, the founder of the Chishti order of Sufism in South Asia takes...
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The Genius Behind Satyajit Ray's Little-Known Geekery
It is a tragedy that most Indians think of Satyajit Ray almost exclusively as the serious filmmaker who made complex award-winning cinema about poor villagers and conflicted women. They couldn't be...
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The Hijinks Of Delhi's 'High-Class' Travellers
If you ever want to confirm your place in the world, drive in the jungle that is a Delhi road. I'm in the Capital and en route to Delhi airport. The tree canopy of Shanti Path lulls me when suddenly I...
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Meet The 'Deaf Artist' Who Plays With Sound
Photo Credit: 2015 Hideto Maezawa / Clubberia Artist Christine Sun Kim explores the materiality of sound, connecting it to drawing, painting, and performance, in her work. A TED fellow, she has...
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Love, Laughter And Catfights: The Murky World Of Mommy Groups
There's a new playground, people. A new cafeteria. A new battleground. It's a bit like Mean Girls, a bit like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, a bit like Game of Thrones, with a dash of Dr Spock thrown...
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Don't Be Fooled By The Tobacco Industry's Misleading Ads
The tobacco industry has been raising a hue and cry via newspaper advertisements against the decision to have pictorial warnings covering 85% of cigarette/bidi packaging. They are calling the warnings...
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Only 0.091% Earn More Than ₹10 Lakh, And Other Dreadful Direct Tax Data
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently released aggregated data for the direct tax collections in India for the first time. The stated purpose of publishing the data is to encourage "wider...
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Finding My Strength In Loss
This has been a grim fortnight. Four people I know have died in the last 14 days. Two weeks ago, I was on my way to see a movie when I got a call with the news that an uncle had passed away. I didn't...
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Hunger Stalks Scorched Bundelkhand
Unceasing droughts, failed harvests, and inefficient food distribution and job guarantee schemes have raised the spectres of hunger and thirst in Bundelkhand. For the first time in his life,...
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Why This Garment Workers' Protest Was Stitched Together In Secret
With the denial of rights of workers becoming daily headlines these days, a protest demonstration demanding the payment of minimum wage for garment factory workers in Udyog Vihar, a textile hub, was...
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The Justice System Is Crying Out For Far Bigger Changes Than More Judges
The Chief Justice of India got somewhat emotional the other day while addressing a conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices where the Prime Minister was also in attendance. The CJ was...
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Photoblog: The Crisis Goes Deeper For Rohingya Women And Children
Rohingya Muslims, a minority in Buddhist-dominated Myanmar, are frequently termed as among the world's most persecuted communities. Myanmar boasts of 135 state-recognized ethnic communities, but the...
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Why I Think It's Criminal To Give A Child False Promises
By Prachi Chitre "If you answer aunty properly, she will give you a chocolate! She has a nice big chocolate in her bag," the mother says as I try to begin a session with her child. I cringe in my seat....
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This Healthy Obsession Is Revitalizing Lives Across Kerala
On a recent visit to Kerala, the change sweeping across the state and rapidly turning into a way of life for many was palpable. Everywhere in God's Own Country, people are using the backyards of their...
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