Kolkata rape: Rage is justified, revenge is not
We are still reeling from the rape and murder of a female doctor in RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata. It’s a case that has captured the rage of the nation, but unfortunately there are many...
View ArticleOne more horrific sexual assault but only the sounds of silence change colour
The grey-haired woman in a sari seemed uncertain if she could walk all the way in the march to protest the brutal rape and murder of the junior doctor at R G Kar Medical College...
View ArticleDo it 1991-style: Three reforms India needs in higher education
Why have we landed ourselves in the current mess involving NEET, JEE, and other high-stakes exams? While India has the potential to lead the world in higher education, we are burdened by the...
View ArticleAmidst the chaos, humanity endures: A city’s unrest, and the unyielding hope...
Kolkata has been gripped by a storm of discontent. The entire city is in shock following the tragic death of a young lady doctor. Protests are sweeping through the streets, as people come together,...
View ArticlePushing the mind
Oftentimes, we are in a situation where we are hesitant if we will be able to do a given task or take up a new thing or not. Before trying, we tell ourselves that it...
View ArticleThe ableist approach towards disability: Call for caution
There can be no cavil with the fact that the recent instances concerning manipulation of persons with disabilities (PwD) certificates to join the civil services were shocking. However, the situation...
View ArticleNo place for the Hindus…
Isn’t it adequate that Hindus and India preach and educate the world and the coming generations about secularism, inclusiveness and non-violence? However, they are almost silent about the trauma...
View ArticleThink laterally
Reservations shouldn’t be applicable when recruiting outside talent for short stints in govt Opposition parties have charged that GOI’s advertisement for 45 lateral entry posts in the bureaucracy is...
View ArticleIt’s safe to say…
…That every case of assaulted woman is a blow against women’s workforce participation There is no possible road to India’s prosperity, which doesn’t run through it becoming a gender fair society....
View ArticleIndependence Day 2424
On what Forster got wrong, and also his printer On the last page of an English novel published in 1924, an India-friendly British character nevertheless mocks India’s aspirations to achieve freedom:...
View ArticleFrom aspiration to realization…
In comparison to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inaugural speech given a decade ago in 2014, his eleventh Independence Day speech from the Red Fort in Delhi is nothing but a comprehensive assessment of...
View ArticleCounting castes is all politics, zero policy
There’s value in a caste census. But too much politics is driving the demand for it. It’s Congress’s tool to scatter BJP’s attempts at Hindu vote consolidation One of BJP’s major political achievements...
View ArticleWhy some horrors affect us all
Cases like the RG Kar and Nirbhaya rape-murders feel like a faultline in civilisation itself. The feeling of being trapped spreads among countless women. Taking to the streets is survival mode The word...
View ArticleCamouflaged delinquency
With the announcement of the assembly elections in Haryana, the famed `Moral Code of Conduct’ will remain in force till October 4 or so. Taken together with the moral code of conduct in force during...
View ArticleWorld humanitarian day: Violence against doctors is un-humanitarian
“Health workers are being killed in hospitals and in clinics. The safety of health workers must be guaranteed. We call on powers that be to make the protection of health workers a priority.”...
View ArticleCries of a broken soldier
Broken or disabled by war or war-like situations and battered by the system and society that is uncertain about how to address their problems or provide solutions. While the Indian army has every...
View ArticleThe Haryana story
Poll-bound state is a microcosm of the larger Indian problem of young people desperately searching for decent jobs The Haryana unit of unaffiliated farmers body Samyukt Kisan Morcha is expected to...
View ArticleNo happy ending
Delay in making a sexual harassment in Malayalam film industry investigation public, is as dark as the findings Even as India is grappling with a nightmarish example of how unsafe women are in...
View ArticleThe Haryana story
Haryana is a state in India where a lot of people are worried about finding good jobs. Right now, the Haryana unit of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (a group that helps farmers) is having a...
View ArticleSuperman supermoon
How the purnima gets poets going, and wackos Astronomers, astrologers, aam admi – the purnima had all agog. It’s a moon…it’s a full moon…it’s supermoon! ‘But, but, but,’ went soothsayers, ‘it is...
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