आसमान से, पानी नहीं बरसा. भीगा है सिर खून कनपटियों से टपक रहा है सायरन चीर रहा है कानों को पुलिसवाला बिना देखे धुन रहा है, रुई की तरह आग किसने लगाई है- पूछ रहा है समीर जिसकी शादी तय
I know a girl who has a big mole on her right cheek. She lived some distance away by the hillside with cashew trees. Whenever she passed along the alleyway by the side of my home I would look at
I hear the army truck grumbling Its engine howling Dogs on the streets now silent. I am lonely, suddenly. I think of the gasoline rainbow the truck may have left in the puddle Image in the puddle is of a
What happens to a shriveled leaf when kissed by rain Do rains have a memory of not falling from steel skies onto taut faces? Rain writes on our minds, in fleeting ink the secrets we hide from our selves. There
Prologue: Months before Mohammad Afzal Guru was clandestinely hanged, I remember discussing him with a law student in my university hostel during midnight. I was trying to educate her about the inadequacy of law and how it is used to
You’ve seen these powerful images of the hoi polloi assembling on squares, united by the banners and slogans. It’s a pity that such moments of light, outrage and eyes full of hope occur so rarely in history. But in times
Real man Farhan Akhtar prevents violence against women on behalf of the Delhi Police, Al Gore makes millions to save the planet from temperature gain, Amnesty International recruits Peter Gabriel to be their conscience, Aishwarya Rai counters Polio and HIV/AIDS,
A few days after we had blessed ourselves with readings of Rahul Pandita’s account of his life and times and the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley, a few of us Mleccha friends had a discussion on the book.
Politics everywhere today is considered as a dirty term. And Indians, going by their mass political participations, probably the dirtiest. After all, as the mildest critique goes, politicians are inevitably corrupt, and as the rabidly sexist opinion polls try to
The oppression that is meant to break the will of the oppressed and force them into submission sometimes does the opposite: brings people together, reaffirms their resolve to fight back, and unites them as one people. When the fate of