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Citizens Step Up To Cool Karachi Hospitals During Unprecedented Heatwave
Caption: Volunteers of Elaj Trust hand out bottles of water at Karachi's busy intersections in June. The severe heat waves in Pakistan's port city, Karachi, has claimed more than 1,000 lives this...
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Virtual Mohallas: How Facebook Groups Empower Migrant Indian Women In The UK
Settling in a new country, getting adjusted to its different ways of life and building a social life from scratch is as daunting as it is exciting. I first moved abroad in 2010 and made some lovely...
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The Great Indian Tuition Raj
I was interacting with a bunch of kids in the local playground a few days ago. In the course of idle banter, I asked them about what they did when they came back from school. "Tuitions, aunty," they...
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Why the NJAC Case Is Critical For India's Future
The arguments on the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) case concluded earlier last week, after nearly three months of hearings before a five-judge bench headed by Justice JS Khehar....
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6 Reasons Why Flipkart's App-Only Strategy Is A Masterstroke
credit - bgr.in I'm finally jumping in, with all guns blazing, into the latest e-commerce debate which was kicked off by Alok Kejriwal's controversial article on Flipkart's strategy of going app-only....
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'Goodfellas': 25 Years Of Making You Feel Uneasy
"Henry, ya might fold under questioning," Tommy De Vito (played by Joe Pesci) says to Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) in an iconic scene from Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, which opened in the September of...
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Garbage City: Mysore's Makeshift Dump Yards
It's something we've all become quite immune to: little mounts of garbage lining pavements, larger hillocks of trash gracing street corner, roads littered with debris and filth of unknown provenance....
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Do We Build Our Ships To Wreck?
World Brain Day falls on June 22 and this year's theme is epilepsy. I have interviewed persons with epilepsy and neurologists and have written this piece on behalf of the former. It's difficult being...
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Death By Rotation: Why Young Talent Can't Rise In India's Political Ranks
All successful professions have a usual career pattern - bright talent comes in and does the grunt work in the initial five years. After these learning years, this talent moves to middle tier where it...
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How Old Monk Made Seers Of Us All
I loved you when our love was blessed I love you now there's nothing left But closing time ~ Leonard Cohen First they closed down Volga, the most endearingly low-key bar in Delhi, where you drank...
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The Caste-Aways: How Nitish Kumar Gained From Lalu's Rise And Fall
Not many people find good things to say about Bihar. Even though most northern and eastern Indian states are economically poor, none is as emblematic of the damage that caste, colonialism, and the...
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Martand Sun Temple: Obscured By Neglect
Built in the 8th century, the Martand Sun Temple should be a marvellous testament to the architectural achievements of Kashmir's ancient Karkota Dynasty. Instead it lies forgotten and in shambles 8km...
View ArticleWhy The Gold Crash Is A Mirage
Gold has plunged to a five-year low. Is the gold story then over, for now? As with everything else in this market, nothing is as it seems. Whether it is vegetables, iron ore or smart phones, we know...
View ArticleWaste Segregation: An Easy Way To Clean Up Our Act
World Environment Day has become just one of those days that comes once a year as a reminder that we need to wake up before it's too late. Seminars, demonstrations, and various other programmes are...
View ArticleThe Key Flaw In The Indian Tourism Industry
"Make in India" is an enchanting slogan rallying the global investment community to come to India and manufacture their products in India. The objective is to attract capital and technological...
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Who Eats, Babe?
At first, I wondered how I should dress this article. Perhaps is should be light and zingy like a citrus vinaigrette or maybe something more layered like a dense mille-feuille. My husband asked why it...
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How TISA Is Fighting To Empower People Who Stammer
Gaurav Dubey is not very different from anyone else you'd meet. Yet there is something a little different about him. He dreaded the first day of school and of college because standing up and...
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5 Ways To Be A (S)Hero In A Male-Dominated Workplace
Rina, 23 years old, has just completed her MBA in production management, and dreams of a corporate career. She has just been placed in a small manufacturing firm, as an associate manager-production. On...
View ArticleWhy Queuing In India Is Not For The Faint-hearted
There is something about us Indians and queues. We seem to hate it indiscriminately - be it at bill counters, ATM machines, hospitals, cinemas, sports arenas, getting into and out of...
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Why The Iran-P5+1 Nuclear Deal Doesn't Add Up
Even after July's landmark nuclear deal, there is no love lost between Iran and America. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently told Iranians, "[O]ur policy regarding the arrogant US...
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