The Meditation Will Be Televised
No one can grudge any hardworking person some rest, some downtime. Whether an ordinary mortal or a divinely-inspired being. Most world leaders catch a break during the year, to recover…
Ananda Maitreya
Locker Room Secrets: Class, Caste and the myth of the ‘lumpen element’ as the sexual predator
Growing up in urban India, in an English-medium boys-only school run by Jesuits, I had access to all the English-language novels and comic-books that Indian kids do - Enid Blyton,…
As Delhi burns, its many Neros fiddle and twiddle
It is hardly difficult to notice the irony that the two most powerful people in Delhi have presided over, abetted and prolonged some of the worst mass-violence in India -…
Modi’s veiled attack on dress as identity reveals his stark bigotry
Jo aag laga rahe hain, TV pe unke jo drishya aa rahe hain, yeh aag lagaane vaale kaun hain, woh unke kapdon se hi pata chal jaata hai (From the visuals…
Thanks Jamia students for putting your lives on the line, for speaking truth to power – for all of us!
The end, hopefully, of Jantar-Mantarisation of people’s resistance It took the lesser-in-the-news, supposedly less-flashy Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) to change the complexion of resistance in the country. While we…
PushBACk CAB – A Million Person March is the need of the hour for India
The show of strength during the 1963 “Million Man March” on Washington DC in the United States has been seen as a landmark in the Civil Rights struggle. Though it…
Plurinationalism, Pancasila – and the pettiness of Hindu Nationalism
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, seems to be in some sort of a pickle, at the time of writing, in the process of seeking a fourth term of presidency.…
Protests, protest everywhere, but not (a major) one in India?
The world seems roiled by a “million mutinies now,” to use a term used by VS Naipaul to describe a situation in India in the 1980s. Yet, while India still…
The Land of Buddh, The Land of Yuddh
In a remark made by Narendra Modi at the UNGA recently, he observed, not for the first time as a broad theme, that India was a land of peace…
Is Kashmir today worse off than Gaza?
The parallels between Kashmir and Palestine have been drawn for quite a while now - and there have been instances of solidarity based on similarity of circumstances between Palestinians and Kashmiris.…
The luxury of lazy thinking: Why Barkha Dutt is off the mark on Kashmir reporting
In a recent Washington Post article, well-known Indian journalist Barkha Dutt railed against what she called the "living hell vs. happy place" narrative that seems to dominate recent news reporting on Kashmir.…
Kashmir – and the strange paralysis of the Indian civil society
There were no black-bordered newspaper announcements of either the abrogation of the Articles 370 and 35A or the immediate clampdown imposed on Kashmir, effected as they were by devious and…
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