Gitanjali Rao Named First-Ever TIME ‘Kid of the Year’
Indian-American Gitanjali Rao, a “brilliant” young scientist and inventor, has been named by TIME magazine as the first-ever ‘Kid of...
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My Family’s Legacy: A Lasting Betrayal
by ANONYMOUS I turned 50 last year. A primary school teacher, I have lived a life full of potential on...
Veganism: Ensuring Animal Justice And Human Emancipation
“It is not an act of Kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of Justice.” -- Tom Regan...
Why India’s Migrant Labourers Give Me Hope
by ANONYMOUS I have lived in India for the past five years. When I left my country to work in...
The Military & I: A Very Personal Account
by Anonymous A recent news article caught my eye. It was headlined “Male troops won’t accept women commanders: Government to...
The Not-So-Merry Wives, Sisters And Mothers Of Southall
Having lived in the UK for 18 months, and having gone to the 'Indian' part of town once too often,...
Trump Rails Against Globalism In UN Speech
On Tuesday, September 24, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his third address to the United Nations General Assembly. One quote...
The Other Bhimbetka Near Bhopal
The world-famous Bhimbetka caves near Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (MP) are home to pre-historic cave paintings and have been declared a...
Uncle Sam and His Geopolitics: Why The US Fails Miserably In Winning Lengthy Wars Fought Abroad
The United States possesses the unparalleled ability to get embroiled in sticky geopolitical situations with predictable regularity. It's almost as...
Why Brexit Is An Out-Of-Tune Lullaby Of All Things Empire And Deserves To Be Junked
When I visited the United Kingdom for an academic sojourn in September 2016, Brexit was a done deal and the...
The Need Of The Hour: Streamlining National Security Planning
On Thursday, Indian intelligence agencies issued advisories to port authorities about possible attacks by Pakistani terrorists on Gujarat via the...
Divide And Rule 2.0: How To Trump The Controllers and Wake Up To A New World
When the colonial powers ruled over vast swathes of the Asian continent, they had one primary weapon of war. And...
Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken: Sanjiv Bhatt And His Many ‘Convictions’
In June 2019, a Sessions Court sentenced former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to life imprisonment in a custodial death case...
Making Converts Out Of Perverts: Voyeurism And Women’s Health
It’s enough to make most of us cringe. Switch on the TV and you will come across periodic, prime-time exhortations...
Manali’s Waste Woes: How Tourism Destroys Tourism
Manali is going through its ‘Klondyke Phase’. The Klondyke Phase is a period of time in which there are immense...
House Of Horrors: What Ails The Great Indian Family
In 2015, the Sheena Bora murder case made headlines for the grotesque manner in which the crime was committed. Reams...
This Is Why I Think Foreign Tourists In India Are A Racist, Parochial Lot
Through the past week, U.S. President Donald Trump has been raging on against four Democratic Congresswomen and inviting censure from...
A Review: ‘Malevolent Republic’
In this, his first book, K S Komireddi takes on the challenge of exposing the Hindu right wing’s egregious ubiquitousness,...
