Liberally hypocrite on the ‘Sunny’ side?
Over the past couple of years the portrayal of women in Bollywood has been changing. She is essentially not just hanging on her hero’s arm or singing around the trees. As ...
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Society, Social Media and Our Misplaced Sense of Good Samaritans
On the morning of 24th august I was going through my daily routine of reading newspaper, the first page had news of sexual assault of a six year old girl in ...
A Homeland for Kashmiri Pandits
"Zalimo, O Kafiro, Kashmir hamara chhod do" The streets of Srinagar shook with cries such as these on a cold night in January 1990. The edifice of Kashmiriyat had finally been ...
Porn – Pleasure but also exploitation
I believe when the government extended a ban to some 900 odd porn sites, they did it with a good intention. I also don’t want to pretend that I am a ...
Porn Ban, Morality, and the Idea of India
In today’s papers in Raipur there’s a harrowing tale. A gang run by a couple kidnaps young girls, has them raped, and convinces them that they have nowhere to go now. ...
Post Kalam, let’s not miss the point
Among the most revered of Indians was A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who left us on the 27th of July. Eminent personalities and common men alike expressed their solidarity and paid their condolences. ...
Police System – A victim of generalization
Police system has been epitomized as a rotten organization where the pleas of hapless citizens remain unheeded. Police system has been typified as a ravening mafia-like organization who beat and kill ...
Shruti Seth and her ticket to Sitapur
Does anyone remember Shenaz Treasurywala? Think…think harder…Okay stop trying. Let me sum her up for you. She was one of those attractive faces in Bollywood who came, who saw and ...
Calcutta University and Disarrayed Bengal…
The scammer and the platter plies through our ears- a university with national accolades baying into the dooms of fiefdom of a particular political party. The Calcutta University was a prodigy ...
Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious
The year was 1999. I had moved to Delhi as a new bride, carrying nothing but a suitcase full of clothes and a small wooden Mandir gifted to me by my ...
Kavita Krishnan – Welcome to the elite club of communist krantikaris
What are the necessary ingredients of an Indian communist? Is it the disgust for the status quo? Yes Is it the disrespect for the state machinery? Yes Is it the art ...
Foul Mouthed Abhishek: A Symbol Of How Regional Outfits Function
"Those who dare to show us their eyes will have them gouged and thrown on the streets. If someone shows us their hands we will cut them off,” said Abhishek Banerjee, ...
