Don’t let the heat get you on voting dayAs you read this, several million Indians in Delhi, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, UP, Haryana, Punjab, West Bengal and Rajasthan will be going out to vote.
May 6, 2009
It’s time to market India’s rich literatureWe have seen Indian writers descending in droves on foreign book fairs, tirelessly hopping from one event to the other.
April 22, 2009
The peculiar art of political denialEarlier, you could go rabblerousing with no fear of legal reprimand, you could say you were misquoted and get away with inciting murder.
March 25, 2009
This ‘teasing’ is criminalI am sick of people having fun. Seriously. It’s not funny. This week fun-seekers almost put me off fun forever.
March 14, 2009
The menace of intoleranceThe process of appeasement had begun with the Supreme Court’s judgment on Shah Bano being reversed by the Congress government in 1986.
February 28, 2009
We humbly ask what drives our HonMinsStand by as our honourable ministers join hands across party lines and vow to protect Indian culture. Which one, you ask?
January 31, 2009
Bird flu over the cuckoo's nestIt’s the flu season. You are surrounded by sniffling, aching, tearful, fevered souls, coughing and sneezing all over you.
January 17, 2009
Bid goodbye to a year of grievingA year of grieving for our nation, for ourselves. Many of us lost someone we knew in one of the many terror attacks.
January 3, 2009
A big fat Greek riotThe riots began the moment we landed in Athens. Oh well, I assured a colleague, you can't expect to bring people from South Asia and Africa and not have riots.
December 20, 2008
A new roadmap for better IndiaFinally, we have woken up. It took the killing of almost 200 people at one go to shake us out of our slumber.
December 6, 2008
Living life on eggshellsThe fighting spirit was alive and kicking in Gordimer, 85, who had successfully battled apartheid in South Africa not just as a creative writer
November 23, 2008
Time for real student activismTwo days ago, a student spat on a Delhi University professor.
November 8, 2008
A multiculti kaleidoscopeI am in Beatles land, attending a session of the European Cultural Parliament. Liverpool is the European Capital of Culture this year, so the session is being held here.
October 26, 2008
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