In a recent verdict to a petition filed by a lawyer, playing national anthem before screening of every film has been made compulsory in the country. Further, in accordance with the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act 1971, every
Syria hear me Over Hussain’s mansion what night has fallen I alone am left to tell my brother’s story On my brother’s body what dawn has risen Weep for my brother World, weep for Hussain (Agha Shahid Ali) The angst
At a time when, yet again, the international political relationship between India and Pakistan has taken a vicious turn for the worse, perusing Immanuel Kant’s ‘An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment’ (1784) alongside Umberto Eco’s intriguing observations in
Nationalism is in the air these days, or at least the talk of it certainly is! Students, writers, Bollywood actors, academics, journalists or even entire universities and media houses have been accused of perpetrating, or sponsoring the pursuit of, such
The curve of interest quotient towards an important election is Bell-shaped with respect to time. Long before the election days, there is little interest. As we close the gap on the time-line, the interest rises. We start getting more and
I had devoted the past week to the 2016 Pulitzer-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: an Intimate History- a gripping and terrifying account of the gene’s discovery and the consequent scientific experiments in the field of genetics. Mukherjee’s insights into how
From the evening of November 8, 2016, the nation has been moving on its way to become a dynamic and vibrant economy free of black money. For the next seventeen months (this period was not mentioned in the PM’s speech
The day, November 8 2016, will be marked as an important day in the history of Indian politics and economy due to the unanticipated decision of demonetisation. The strategy of banning Rs 500 and Rs 1000 paper notes, without any
The uprising in Kashmir triggered by the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8 entered into its fifth month last Tuesday. In the past 125 days, 96 people have been killed and 15,000 injured- of whom,
Wednesday morning, I made a frantic phone call to my mother in India with the kind of desperation that I normally reserve for medical emergencies. Donald Trump, an egocentric millionaire from New York, my home, had been named the President