Will India Ever Come To Terms With The Inconvenience Of A Democracy?
If I ask “what would you chose between monarchy and democracy?” to any fairly educated person in a democratic nation, I think the answer would mostly be in favour of democracy. Now it has been taken...
View Articleहिंदी को संवारने और उसे ज़िन्दा रखने में हिंदी पत्रकारिता की भूमिका
हर दौर की पत्रकारिता में अखबारों को लोगों की ज़ुबान में पहुंचाना आसना नहीं रहा है। हमारे देश में तो हर दो कोस पर ज़ुबान बदल जाती है। हिन्दी पत्रकारिता ने हिन्दी को अखबारों के ज़रिये लोगों तक पहुंचाया...
View ArticleKashmir: Locked In A Box Like Schrödinger’s Cat
We remain both alive and dead until we have been observed. Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment wherein a cat is placed with poison inside a sealed box. The cat is believed to be both alive and...
View ArticleOnline Web Series: A breath Of Fresh Air In The Toxicity Of Bollywood
Cinema is the art of storytelling: from tears to laughter, from anger to empathy, from music to romance, from narratives to stories, from legacies to classics, from cinema to classics! Whoever said...
View ArticleHow You Can Learn To Live Beyond A Mental Health Diagnosis
Dear Reader, This is not a story of triumph. Yet, it is a story of learning to live with hope, and by the end of this letter, I hope you find some too. When I first went into depression in March 2016,...
View ArticleDemocracy And Modern India: A Modern Day Parable Or A Rabble Rouser?
One of the greatest urges of mankind has been to tame natural resources to its advantage. In the process, the human race has experimented with myriad forms of governance based on the genius and worldly...
View ArticleDynastic Politics, Personality Cults And Other Maladies Of Indian Democracy
Since the 2010 election, when the Indian electorate gave a thumping majority to the complacent BJP-led NDA government, the voices against the majoritarianism had only grown louder. The government...
View ArticleGendered Clothing, ‘Chick-Lits’ And Other Patriarchal Pet Peeves
Why do men despise everything labeled for female usage but it’s perfectly normal or sometimes even aspirational for women to use products/services termed as male/”unisex”? And the irony is that this...
View ArticleI Took A Journey Down Ganga’s ‘Tributaries’, And What I Saw Was Horrifying
Cleaning the Ganga was a major election plank for the victorious Narendra Modi-led NDA. The same Ganga where 80% of untreated waste is dumped in from 138 open drains. So when I decided to take a...
View ArticleConflict-Ridden Innocence: The Grim Reality Of Children In Kashmir
The little girl was hiding behind her mother and looking at the camera nervously as if the camouflaged demons that tore her family apart lived within the frame of the camera. She doesn’t want to answer...
View Article“I Wish People Stopped Obsessing Over The Sex Of My Unborn Child”
In the current era, when India is running awareness campaigns like “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao“, the desire for sons remains strong among Indian parents. The sex ratio at birth (SRB) has dropped...
View ArticleWhatsapp University Vs Indian Universities: Savarkar Statue In DU Symbolises...
North Campus of Delhi University recently saw an installation of a statue which has Savarkar in the middle along with Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose on his sides. The installation didn’t have...
View ArticleDementia: Beyond The Cold Facts
“But just because I’ll forget it some tomorrow doesn’t mean that I didn’t live every second of it today. I will forget today, but that doesn’t mean that today didn’t matter.” These are poignant lines...
View ArticleClimate Change Has A Devastating Impact On Women, And We Need To Talk About It
The women who were part of the Chipko Movement in 1973 resisted the cutting of forests. They told the loggers “If the forest is cut, the soil will be washed away. Landslides and soil erosion will bring...
View Article“JNU का छात्र होने के नाते मुझे जादवपुर घटना परेशान कर रही है”
दो रोज़ पहले जादवपुर विश्वविद्यालय में ABVP द्वारा आयोजित नए स्टूडेंट्स के स्वागत प्रोग्राम में मुख्य अतिथि के तौर पर केद्रीय मंत्री बाबुल सुप्रियो पहुंचे थे। उन्हें लाल झंडा लिए स्टूडेंट के समूह ने कई...
View Article‘हाउडी मोदी’इवेंट के शहर ह्यूस्टन और कश्मीर में क्या है समानता
ह्यूस्टन शहर के एनआरजी स्टेडियम में प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी और अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप का कार्यक्रम हाउडी मोदी हुआ और यह स्टेडियम एक तरह से मिनी इंडिया लग रहा था, जहां भारत मॉं की जय और...
View ArticleYears Before Greta, Severn Shook The UN. What She Didn’t Have Was Social Media
When I heard the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg scold world leaders for their lack of action on climate change yesterday, I was reminded of Severn Suzuki whose equally powerful speech from...
View ArticleWhy You Need To Join The Fight For Climate Action
Before I demand anything of anyone reading this today, I’d like you to think about you. About your life. I’m going to ask you to vote for the following before I start discussing anything else. YOUTH KI...
View ArticleExplained: Thomas Cook And The Global Service Meltdown
The first time I came across the words Thomas Cook was on the 2003 squad jersey for Manchester City. Now, they have Etihad which is synonymous with deep pockets and City, by contrast, is a title...
View ArticleClimate Change: The Time To Think Has Passed, It’s Time To Act!
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old environmental activist from Sweden, showed the world what a young person’s determination could do. In her own words, she started “striking from school to protest inaction...
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