Sashikala VP
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When push comes to shove, the police do deliver
With ambulance drivers on strike, PCRs have become labour rooms on at least 12 occasions Twelve children in Delhi will be able to boast that they were born in Police Control Room (PCR) vans. That’s a few years later, when they are capable of understanding how births take place and how a moving vehicle is […]
Just beat it
In the bad press of Tis Hazari incident, two women became the example of good cops. They are no damsel in distress Sarita* was just over 18 years old when one application changed the course of her life. Daughter of a farmer in Rajasthan’s Alwar, she says her father made sure she and her four […]
Eat, travel, write
Charmaine O’ Brien has spent 20 years understanding India through its cuisine. This Australian food historian is now working on her fourth book about Indian food Food historian Charmaine O’ Brien was an invitee at Himalayan Echoes: Kumaon Festival of Literature & Arts in Nainital. Her travels around India have been chronicled in The Penguin […]
Nook for books
The Kumaon litfest at Nainital proved to be a perfect setting to turn a childhood love for fiction into a more mature engagement with non-fiction If there were ever a perfect location to revive or arouse a passion for reading, it would be the hills. There might be some who count on the sound of […]
CM vs Mayor
The mayors of Delhi wonder why Arvind Kejriwal did not pass on the invite for the copenhagen conference to them. They feel more powerless than ever Is Delhi’s Mayor equal to the Mayor of London? The straight answer would be a ‘No!’ At the same time, the powers that the British Mayor enjoys, even the […]
Burning questions
Delhi’s citizens are sitting ducks as stubble is burnt in neighbouring states. Multiplicity of agencies also seems to be making solutions elusive IIT Delhi has found that this year the stubble burning has started earlier than in previous years and that Punjab is a bigger culprit in this matter than Haryana. Patriot met with Hemant […]
Foreigners in their own land, where education is guaranteed
A family of Pakistani Hindus from Sindh wants only one thing from the Delhi government: that their teenaged children be allowed to attend school despite being overage. Will anyone listen? Dotted with small temples, Sanjay Colony in Bhatti Mines area is much like the other unauthorised villages in Delhi. Its inner lanes are unpaved, animals […]
Who’ll get the party started?
The AAP has begun public meetings, the BJP has stepped into unauthorised colonies, the Congress still awaits a DPCC chief, all this with Assembly polls around the corner All three Delhi offices of the main political parties in the Capital city wear a lethargic, calm look on a Tuesday afternoon. This, even though the Assembly […]