Opinion

How Do You Kill a Case? The UP Government’s Playbook in the Akhlaq Lynching

Ten years. Ten whole years since a mob dragged Mohammad Akhlaq out of his home in Dadri, beat him to death with bricks and rods because someone spread the lie...

Why Indira Gandhi Remains India’s Most Influential and Most Debated Prime Minister

Let us recall the achievements of Indira Gandhi, whose birth anniversary we celebrate today. She has undoubtedly been...

El Fashir Has Fallen — and So Has the World’s Conscience on Sudan

The seizure of the city of El Fashir in North Darfur by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

How India’s Symbol of Love Is Being Twisted into a Tool of Hate

The Taj Mahal, regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is one of the major...

Bihar Today, Bengal Tomorrow: The Dangerous Blueprint of Special Intensive Revision

The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar has revealed the true intent of the...
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Sad, Sad story of a Bihar’s liquor drinking rickshaw puller

Bijan Rai (45), a rickshaw puller, came to Phagwara (Punjab) from Patna in June 2016—nearly two months after the Nitish Kumar Government clamped prohibition...

My love and longing for Padmavati

Our Hindi textbook for class ninth had the extract from Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s epic, Padmavat from which I first learned about the beautiful princess...

Death for rapists in MP, and failure of Chouhan’s governance

MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is bigger bluff-master than Narendra Modi. Finding himself in a tight spot following a spate of rape and...

In Suhail, India gets its own JK Rowling!

Is Suhail Mathur India’s J K Rowling in the making-- I asked this question to myself when I finished reading Suhail’s THE HUNT FOR...

Time we rose above BRA PANTY feminism?

Last year this time, the theatre society of the college I teach in got disqualified at a Sahitya Kala academy event, because their play...

11 Rapes a Day, 6 Gang-Rapes a Week—And Shivraj Still Sleeps Soundly

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan suffers from chronic verborrhea. He shoots off jumlas with greater rapidity than in even Narendra Modi. If...
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