Ebola might be at the furthermost corner of our minds but how well prepared are we if it becomes an immediate threat? G. Singh explores … The deadly Ebola has snuffed out several hundreds of lives in West Africa and
(He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style – Leo Tolstoy) Here is my confession… I hate Gandhi. Hating Gandhi gives me a ‘cool’ feeling as I hate someone who is supposed to be
Dilnashin Alamgir is a name yet unknown to most … but her struggles for the cause of female education are not any less commendable than Malala’s. Learn the story of an extraordinary life. G Singh reports … Dilnashin is a
In this edition of Qafe, Paramita Banerjee trains her gaze on the dirt that Modi’s brooms will never clean. And no, it’s not just about Gujarat. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Clean India Campaign. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship initiative launched on
Recently two innocent civilians were killed and two others were injured in Kashmir when the Indian Army fired on them. Basharat Ali writes a fictional, but emotional piece, on the rampant killings in Kashmir. My friend, did the news of
Aamir Khan’s Tv show ‘Satyameva Jayate’ recently telecast an episode on non-normative sexualities. While some gender identities were carefully ‘invisibilised’, the hoopla around the whole issue makes one wonder about the ‘instant gratification’ framework of such a liberal mindset. Sayan
Even though the Republicans are quite akin to the Narendra Modi led BJP government in terms of their respective assumptions regarding cultural superiority, the Indian American population finds the Democrats to be their “natural political ally.” Koli Mitra interrogates ….
The contrasting mass media reception of Narendra Modi’s visit to USA in the foreign press and in his homeland has sparked a discussion worth exploring. Pratiti Ganatra tries to articulate some of these differences… “All media exist to invest our
The popular reception and media construction of Modi has canonized him to be a Messianic figure often betraying the history of communalism as an unimportant anecdote. Who is the real Modi? Is there reality left in the world of images?
The BJP government succeeded a period of utter chaos (read UPA II) and ushered in an age of brutal Hindu revivalism. Amit Sengupta wonders what dark times lay ahead and what ghosts haunt us… Four kinds of striking phenomena seem