The 42-year-old Chennai-based maestro, T M Krishna, was scheduled to sing at a festival in New Delhi’s Nehru Park on 17 & 18 November but on
Both Trump and Modi market themselves, Trump by exposing himself to the media, Modi by using an iconic platform (e.g. the Red Fort) or creating one (e.g. the
The beginning of the end of the seemingly invincible Modi regime? Is this how the future might view the Karnataka by-elections of November 2018?
After the BJP’s 4-
Two unexpected bits of positive news from the subcontinent: In Pakistan, Asiya Noreen, also known as Asia Bibi, a death row inmate from 2010, has been acquitted by the Supreme
On the 31st of this month, when his mammoth statue is unveiled, India will see the Sardar raised to the sky.
Here’s a slice of history. On 15 January
The world has been following the case of the disappearance and suspected assassination of the Saudi writer and journalist, sixty years old Jamal Khashoggi on the second of October 2018.
Blowback is a reality. After Dr. Christine Blasey Ford (watched by millions across the globe) gave her brave testimony of sexual assault before the Senate Judiciary Committee, much of America
Can you believe abused women on the strength of their testimony without condemning the men they accuse to the kangaroo court of public opinion? Since Raya Sarkar published a list
Whenever I visit Lahore, I visit Temple Road where I was born, look up my class fellows from school, college and university and try to meet them. I have the
It’s happening in country after country. Groups that are historically powerful, numerically large, and socially dominant are being incited to see themselves as victims persecuted by an alliance of
October 2, 2018. Not just another Gandhi Jayanti. It is the 150th birth anniversary of Mohan Karamchand Gandhi, aka Mahatma Gandhi, aka Father of the Nation (that is India) etc
‘We speak of our Hindu Rashtra. This does not at all mean that Muslims are unwanted in Hindu Rashtra.’ This is what Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS chief, said in New
