The shock and clamour surrounding Donald Trump’s ascension to power is entirely unwarranted. The sentimental protests, tearful mournings and fearful disbelief about how to make sense of Trump are self-serving exaggerations. Self-serving, because taking such positions merely distinguishes us from
November 8 will mark a day of reckoning, if not redemption, for the United States of America (USA). Till then, every day is loaded with suspense and disbelief, and if my reporter’s instinct and objective assessment is even remotely right,
Why is Indian nationalism still an unsettled phenomenon? This question keeps coming up quite often. The rubric of nationalism, at least in India is not a self-sufficient category, more eloquently; it is a political sentiment that draws its ‘life and
‘Fall down seven times, get up eight’ seems to be the motto the FuckUp Nights concept has based itself on. Born in a creative Mexican mind in 2012, the events have spread their charm through various countries before finally landing
Words are of essence here. Precisely because time is of essence here. While this article is being written, the powers that be are vehemently changing the political topography of the country. Nationalistic arrogance hides the secret alliances seeking to perpetrate
Ultimately if Dylan, who has been known to introduce himself as a “song and dance man”, wants to be recognised as a writer depends solely upon his discretion, says Barnamala Roy. “He is (not) going to the carnival tonight
It was a few days ago when the newspaper Kashmir Reader, for which I work as a reporter, was banned by the government. On Friday at around 6 pm, I had collected all the necessary details for a story I
On everyone’s lips was news of my death, but only that beloved couplet broken, on his: If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this. ~Agha Shahid Ali, The Last Saffron None but
I The Day of Ashura, 2010 Woman 1: I followed her. A frail woman in a cheap synthetic sari, covered in a machine-embroidered black chador. ‘Come, I will show you the way to the imambara’ ,she said. I seemed a
The mainstream media has transformed somehow from being the appendage of the nationalist state to acting as the face of the nation. The burgeoning of violent exclusionary nationalism in the mainstream media can be witnessed on these famous talk shows