Last night, the sound of my own heartbeat woke me up. It beat so loudly, so certainly, as if it would continue to beat forever. I lay there listening to it for a while, trying to understand why and how
Skies have birds, birds have songs, and songs are beautiful. Birds… little trinkets of joy hanging from the sky. I saw them, but could not look. I heard them, but could not listen. All I could see was my
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Chutzpah had American legislators on their toes on 3 March when he came to the corporate office called Congress to lash out at the nuclear deal being negotiated with Ay-ran. The deal would all ‘but guarantee’
Heard that Mallu joke yesterday? You must have. It’s an old one, about how there was a chetta on the moon manning a chai-kada when Neil Armstrong gingerly laid down his foot in his leap for mankind. It is an
The term ‘judicial activism’—popularised, if not created, in the 1990s—is mostly used in a pejorative sense, signifying an over-zealous judiciary interfering with legislative and executive functions. In our country, though, a series of decisions by Supreme Court justices throughout the
The room was tense and the air intimidating,” Jaison C Cooper, arrested for alleged links to a Maoist attack in Kochi, reminisced about his time in custody. Charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), Cooper, a human rights activist,
Last week, the Supreme Court of India repealed the draconian Section 66(A) of the Indian IT Act (2008). This amazing victory was possible only because of the determination of people like Shreya Singhal, Faisal Farooqi, Karuna Nundy and others who
During an international debate about trials by jury, a panellist from India exclaimed: “I’m from a civilised country; we don’t do justice by circus!” I’ve also heard people equate the jury system with show trials and kangaroo courts. But in
“I request this House to adopt the same conciliatory attitude to all political minorities and to adopt the same principles as have been adopted by the Soviet Union…I propose my amendment and request Dr. Ambedkar to accept it—That in
Dear Vogue India, I’m not an expert but I think what you are endorsing—you know, the whole having sex with whomever, wherever and whenever you choose thing—is, although laudable, slightly naïve. The choice to be naked and all that, over