The Festive Spirit?
It seems to be a no-brainer. There is a clear correlation between the spike in pollution and Diwali. This is not one of those issues where the connection between two variables is invisible or...
View ArticleAyodhya: Pragmatism Sanctified?
The Ayodhya judgment was much awaited and its potential fall-out much feared. While it is too early to assert anything definitive, the initial response to it has been quite muted. The reaction of the...
View ArticleA Smog of Indifference
What is staggering is the indifference. The capital city of the country and much of North India is covered in a poisonous shroud. Unlike global warming and issues to do with the environment which are...
View ArticleCorrupting Everybody?
It was a twist worthy of cinema. There is a genre of films in which everybody double-crosses everybody else, until finally there is only one winner left standing. As things stand today, in Maharashtra,...
View ArticleMaharashtra- The aftermath?
The loss of power in Maharashtra is certainly a blow to the BJP, not the least because of the manner in which it happened. Having first decided to sit it out after the decision of...
View ArticleHas justice been done?
The law may or may not have been followed but has justice been done? Given the state of our judicial system today, is this the only way to deal effectively with a horrendous crime like...
View ArticleA problem of solutions?
What exactly is the problem that the Citizenship Amendment Act is solving? The number of people that are currently seeking citizenship on grounds of religious persecution is extremely modest, not more...
View Article2020: On a Knife’s Edge?
Talk about a cliff-hanger finish. 2019 has ended in turmoil. A host of questions and possibilities have been thrown by the events of this year, with variables multiplying as the year dragged its dying...
View ArticleThe other new India?
The label “New India’ is now political property. If on the one hand, it is a formulation created by the government to signal what it imagines to be the picture of assertive new citizens who...
View ArticleThe Kejriwal Revival?
A few months back, in the wake of the crushing BJP victory in the national elections, Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP seemed to be fading. The body language of the AAP and its leaders reeked...
View ArticleThe Kejriwal Revival?
A few months back, in the wake of the crushing BJP victory in the national elections, Arvind Kejriwal and the AAP seemed to be fading. The body language of the AAP and its leaders reeked...
View ArticleOf Politics & The Young
This is the time for the young to focus on studies and make something of their lives. Not to get involved in politics and waste valuable time. These are distractions that are best avoided. It...
View ArticleThe miracle called Test Cricket
The debate over whether Test matches should be restricted to four days instead of five rages on. Interestingly, a majority of players, past and present have come out against the idea. They believe that...
View ArticleVictory of the gnat: Kejriwal’s return proves that a believable story, with...
There is a fable in it somewhere. Like a pesky gnat that lives under the nose of a mighty emperor and takes delight in annoying him, Arvind Kejriwal is the one person who has the...
View ArticleThe righteousness of hate?
The recent incident involving an Uber driver deciding to take his passengers to the police station because they were coming from anti-CAA protest and were discussing the same in the vehicle has evoked...
View ArticleAAP: Electoral Victory or Ideological Loss?
The AAP victory has evoked a range of reactions. To the right, it represents the victory of a whole gamut of freebies, that won over a spirit of nationalism. The fact that the Congress collapsed...
View ArticleThe Lawlessness of the Law?
The police force exists to maintain law and order, and to act decisively and impartially in order to do so. This is hardly a revelatory note to begin an article on. However, in the current...
View ArticlePandemic Times?
A pandemic like Coronavirus does not merely change the way we view our health; it changes many more fundamental assumptions that we make about our lives and asks confounding questions about things that...
View ArticleBirds in a Pandemic?
The city is alive with the sound of birds. Who knew that in the vast embankments of concrete we call home, so many birds too nest? Social media is full of people making this miraculous...
View ArticleDivided by Fear?
This is by far, the biggest crisis of its kind in living memory. No other event comes close in terms of scale and sweep of its embrace in the last 100 years. At one level,...
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