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Why Counter Facebook Majoritarianism?
The intention of this post is not to suggest ways of dealing with majoritarians -- those who believe that being part of the majority in a certain domain allows them to dominate, oppress and exploit...
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Where Survival Is Religion, Is There Really Time To Hate?
For five days I was away from the world, without newspapers, clocks, alarms, doorbells and television. But during a trek up in the mountains, the cell phone caught a whiff of network - that's when we...
View ArticleWhy Does Imtiaz Ali Always Write The Same (Flawed) Female Characters?
Why is it that the female character in every Imtiaz Ali film is seemingly conceptualised as meaningful and ends up being a piece of garnishing with great flavour? I watched Tamasha yesterday, and...
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Pre-Nups Could Make Divorce Smoother And Marriages Stronger, But Is India Ready?
About three years ago, I mooted the idea of pre-nuptial agreements, saying that they'd cut down the drama associated with divorce -- women wringing their hands and claiming to be short-changed and men...
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Why The Entry Of US Special Forces In Syria Could Make Matters Even Worse
Close on the heels of the Paris tragedy, when all of Europe is still reeling and Brussels remains under lockdown, and just days after the hotel siege in Mali, the US President's announcement that...
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What Modi The Crusader Can Learn From Vajpayee The Philosopher
In 2001, on a chilly evening in Lutyens' Delhi, I visited a prominent Muslim leader, a cabinet minister in the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the BJP. There were...
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Rahul Gandhi Means Business
Rahul Gandhi has been peripatetic; expressing concern over Punjab sectarianism, doing a walkathon for farmer welfare in Saharanpur, campaigning relentlessly in Bihar elections, and just recently...
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I'm A Muslim Woman With My Head Held High... But Can My Mind Be Without Fear?
It is one thing to love your country and another to dissent from the government. You can love your country, without having to love its government. And that ladies and gentlemen is nationalism. So,...
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In India, More Women Need Sanitary Napkins, Not Entry Into Sabarimala
Menstrual activism, radical menstruation, menstrual anarchy or any opposition to the suggestion of impurity during menstruation deserves public support. However, directing it against Sabarimala Temple...
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How Modi Bias Is Sabotaging India's Progress
Recently, I read the various statements issued in the press by eminent writers and poets who were returning their awards or resigning from posts and I could identify a definitive trend. Most of these...
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Podcast: Conundrums On the Digital Age, Rock 'N' Roll Life And Award Wapsi
The Rock 'n' Roll Life Kunaal has been travelling all over the country, shooting his films. And, he's made an important discovery - the rock 'n' roll has disappeared from an artist's rock 'n' roll...
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Podcast: The Ig Nobel Prize - Making People Laugh And Think
Picture credit: Improbable.com Science doesn't have to be dead-serious or mind-numbing... not all the time, at least. There have been several discoveries that tickle the funny bone, but are as steeped...
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Why Women Want To Be Happier In Bhutan - One Of The World's Happiest Countries
One impossibly beautiful and wet Sunday afternoon in Thimphu a few weeks ago, I tucked my beloved-if-battered camera into my waterproof jacket, and walked over to The Zone, a cafe close to my hotel....
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Motherhood And The Art Of Letting Go
For the first one year, as you feed your child each morsel of food and watch her take her first tottering steps holding on to your hand as an anchor, you feel pain and love as you probably have never...
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Storm In A Teacup: Troubles Are Boiling Over For Darjeeling Tea, Says New Book
India's only GI-patented product, the exclusive Darjeeling tea, grown on 86 designated estates in the region, is fighting for survival on the frontlines of climate change as yields have declined by up...
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'Tamasha': A Spectacle That Makes You Look Within Yourself
Tamasha, the latest offering from Imtiaz Ali, is a romantic drama film starring Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles. Produced by Sajid Nadiawala, the movie revolves around two...
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India Will Be Facing Several Challenges At Paris Climate Conference
As 30,000 diplomats from 150 countries sit around the table at COP21 for negotiations, all eyes are on the three behemoths - United States of America, China and India - the three economic giants who...
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Cash Crops In India Are Seeking Venture Capitalists
The recipe for reviving any sick company starts by infusing capital to attract the right mix of talent, technology, scale, and services. Entrepreneurs pursuing a high risk-high reward strategy find...
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Review: Bureaucrat Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma's 'Love Side By Side' Is An...
Love Side By Side by Partha Sarthi Sen Sharma is published by Rupa. Pankaj and Riya are undergraduate students in colleges across the road from each other. They've little else in common, at least in...
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Wisdom Undone: A Daughter's Battle With Alzheimer's
Yesterday the Novartis fellow came and delivered the Exelon patches for my father. One patch to be stuck on the side at the back, to be changed every day and put at a separate place the next day,...
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