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Why Would ISIS Target A Russian Airliner Instead Of An American One?
"The worst is yet to come," worried Egyptian analyst Ismail Alexandrani in July after local militants claiming Islamic State (ISIS) patronage struck an Egyptian warship and set it ablaze. His fears...
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Sita's Diwali: A Futuristic Festival For Women
If you know of Diwali, the Indian festival of lamps, the one that even the White House celebrates, then I should tell you that this is not the festival I'm talking about here. No, Sita's Diwali is a...
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More Than Half A Year On, Nepal's New Normal Is Still In The Making [Pictures]
Last month, 25 October to be precise, marked the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Nepal. While the people who have suffered this catastrophe are still either trying to break down...
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A Low Carbon Solution For The Development Imbalance In Karnataka
By Vivek Shastry (Energy Analyst) and Sahar Mansoor (Policy Analyst) at SELCO Foundation On 19 October, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah released the Human Development Index 2015 (HDI) for the gram...
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Jawaharlal Nehru As They Knew Him: A Collage Of Stories
This is the 125th birth anniversary year of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru our first Prime Minister and one of the main architects of Independent India. As 14 November approaches, many articles are being...
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The Childcare Revolution That Changes Everything
In the first part of this article, "It's The Conditioning That Kills, Stupid!", we can see the scientific evidence that confirms how our early childhood experiences profoundly affect how we evolve as...
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Facebook And Digital India: Bedfellows In Online Censorship?
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been posing like two peas in a pod, with my dewy eyed brethren cheering them on with their tri-coloured display pictures, a...
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Here's Why You Should Fight Diabetes With Plant Power
India has the second-largest population of people with diabetes in the world. It is reported that 65 million people in India have already been diagnosed with the disease, and if factors influencing...
View ArticleFlushing Democracy Down the Toilet: Rajasthan's New Voter Laws
India revolutionized democracy when it introduced the 73rd and 74th amendment in 1994 calling for 1/3rd seat reservation for women in the Panchayat Raj. Twenty years later, these gains are being rolled...
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The Myth Of The Virgin Indian
We belong to an era where everything happens today, and tomorrow it turns out that nothing had happened yesterday. An era where rules, regulations, laws, ethics exist only in the daylight, in the frame...
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The Place Of Islam In Europe: New Documentary Calls For Conversation, Listening
Hatidza Mehmedovic walks through a sea of white tombstones and raises her hands in prayer. This is her pilgrimage -- her own Mecca, she says. Mehmedovic recounts the dead -- her husband, eldest son...
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Facing The Music: Why More Young People Have 'Old' Ears
Someone once said, the first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. Research over the past several years shows that courtesy our obsession with loud music, we...
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My Love Affair With The Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), for me, is a sacred place. It's my boyhood cricketing dream. A solemn shrine for those smitten by a cricketing romance. The Colosseum of modern-day cricket....
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Let's Not Be Fooled By The BJP's Good Cop-Bad Cop Routine
Senior BJP leader and general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya recently attacked Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan over his views on religious intolerance in India. Vijayvargiya said Khan's "soul" is in...
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Need For Speed: Road Safety Reforms Could Save Lakhs Of Lives In India
There's no death of frightening reports on India's abysmal road safety record. The most recent is the "Global Road Safety Report 2015" published by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Due in large...
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Chetan Bhagat's 'Anatomy of a Liberal' Is The Autopsy of Logic
In the cacophony of political debate in India, the right-wing holds an untainted record of presenting disinformation in the loudest voices. Besides a swarm of flag-waving swayamsevaks and jingoistic...
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The Missed Opportunities And 'Self-Goals' That Led To BJP's Bihar Debacle
The Bihar elections of 2015 may just have altered the course of the political narrative in India. The poll outcome seems to have provided a template to stop NDA's juggernaut. While the BJP's top brass...
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Bihar Defeat Could Send BJP Down A Dangerous Path
There is much about Bihar -- one of India's most populous and poorest states -- that sets it apart from more prosperous regions of the country. After you arrive at the airport in the state capital of...
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An Obituary Of The Planning Commission
The first major policy decision of the new government was to bury me in the political graveyard of history. As my fate is sealed, I turn back to relook at my life, reminiscing about the days of...
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Hit And Miss: How A Combative 'Guardian' Correspondent Lost A Chance To Get...
"Prime Minister Modi, can I ask you: Tomorrow night you will obviously have a rapturous reception at Wembley Stadium. But there are a number of protesters out today who are saying -- and I am wondering...
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