Mehbooba Mufti and Jammu-Kashmir politics – between a death and an oath
Why Mehbooba Mufti’s first term would be a disaster? The speculation about the formation of next Government, would never have arose if it was not for the state of Jammu ...
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The Deliberate Misinterpretation of Hinduism
The Deliberate Misinterpretation of Hinduism Religion is a matter of great significance to the masses in India, when we adopted Active Secularism we repudiated the notion that the State should have ...
As Rain continues its onslaught, Chennai fights back!
India now has suddenly woken to the real news - one of the major metropolitan cities - Chennai besieged by incessant rain leading to flooding with loss of human lives and ...
Why liquor ban in Bihar is a bad idea?
On 26th November, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had announced a liquor ban in Bihar with effect from 1st April, 2016. Now intentions may be good here but then a ban is ...
Anish Kapoor – “Hindu Taliban” is an Oxymoron, you too are minus the “Oxy” part of course!
"India is being ruled by a Hindu Taliban," read the headline of the article by Anish Kapoor in The Guardian. Being a very passionate football fan, I was fairly aware that ...
Congress’s march against rising intolerance is as fake as their Gandhi Surnames
A political party facing an existential crisis has decided to hold the entire country to ransom for its survival. Sonia Gandhi along with her followers organized a march to protest against ...
The elevation that wasn’t, and why we care
Writing about a political outfit in decline, humbled election after election and facing probable non-existence soon, doesn’t seem fulfilling at the onset. But there’s something about the Congress, - its spectacular ...
Neutrality is overrated
I'm going to start this article with a controversial statement: Neutrality, of any kind, is overrated. It does not exist, and anybody claiming to maintain equipoise in all matters of importance, ...
Quota-my country’s political choice
Justice,equality,emancipation,belief-somewhere my life gets dull and lambasted when such heavy utopian phrases scribe in the air. For long, India has bragged of its stance of being the world’s largest democracy. The ...
Primary education in India – outcomes and our children
ASE of base ASER, the Annual Status of Education Report, is facilitated by an independent agency called Pratham. The report covers 577 districts, 30 randomly selected villages in each village, 20 ...
“I advocate freedom of speech; you instigate communal discord”
Here's a nation one of the founding pillars of which was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, ...
A dream for my children…
Scene: At the library of a prominent centre for French learning: Yours truly is a grammar Nazi of sorts (yes, even in a language that I cannot speak much), but luckily ...
