The excitement in the air was palpable. It was 3 December 2015; winter had just set in. Delhi was cold and dull, and the morning remained sunless. Yet, when 10,000 disabled people and their allies, some of them having travelled
At the tenth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which got underway yesterday at Nairobi, representatives from 162 countries have gathered to discuss global trade agreements. Many of them hope that the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations, which
Kirron Kher was at her dramatic best during her intervention during the recent “tolerance debate” in the Lok Sabha. Perhaps she hasn’t been as evocative since her role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas. There, she had gesticulated with her hands
It is the land of Buddha and Gandhi, said our Dear Leader in London, when faced with a sharp query on intolerance by a reporter. He could very well have said that it is the land of Buddha and Gandhi
Teachers’ Day in September this year was a day of grand celebration for climate-change deniers the world over, and they must be wallowing in self-praise. They got a new chubby pot-bellied member in their club, a high-profile globetrotter whose reckless
Let’s not romanticise terrorism. Terrorists blew up Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Terrorists organised the White Army to kill over three million Russians. Terrorists funded the Nazis and the Fascists, killing nearly 12 million Jews and Communists. Terrorists killed nearly three million Koreans
In the run-up to Modi’s rally in Srinagar on 7 November, Kashmiri social media was speculating how low Mufti Syed would stoop to appease his big brother Modi. Lo and behold, he didn’t so much stoop low as crawl like
भाजपा लंबे अर्से से संसदीय जनतंत्र के ढांचे में संविधान-सम्मत ढंग से सत्ता की एक प्रतिद्वंद्वी पार्टी के रूप में बनी हुई है, और आरएसएस इस ढांचे के बाहर का गोपनीय सत्ता-केंद्र है। इन दोनों के बीच पिछले लगभग 64
To begin with, why did you choose this specific moment to give up the National Award, given that ever since this government has come to power, and of course even earlier, right-wing atrocities have been on an upsurge? It is
“What makes a man change his nationality, abjure civilisation and, in the upshot, become a blend of Schweitzer in Africa and Gauguin in Tahiti?“ This romanticised, problematic question about Verrier Elwin (29 August 1902- 22 February 1964) was posed by