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Creating against all odds
Swati Mohan talks about how politics prevails in the world of art and the other problems dancers face The biggest problem we face, as dancers, is getting a conducive space to work in. Dancers require a special kind of floor, but we mostly don’t get that easily. If you are a big company, then getting […]
Misogynistic debates
A survey of female participation and success rates in college debating societies uncovers blatant sexism and discrimination debating has for long been a “boy’s game”. It is a circuit where being assertive and competitive is seen as strong and powerful, whereas for the women in the game, these traits can do more harm than good. […]
These boots aren’t made for walking
A retired lieutenant general looks at the history of the Army boot, and the discomfort of breaking it in The other day while browsing through TV channels, I watched the 1973 movie Yaadon Ki Baaraat for a few minutes. The scene showed gangster Ajit distributing the spoils to his henchmen after a brutal armed robbery. […]
Damn straight!
Those who have wives are looking for something different once in a way, but it can’t last long. In the end, there are only memories… I’m anal retentive. I go to work at 5 am and I have insomnia during weekends. I love my solitude and cannot stand anyone living with me for more than […]
The gates are shut
With most colleges closing admissions for sought-after courses in the second cut-off list, even high achievers are left with few choices After the release of the second cut-off list on June 25, students hoping to get into Delhi University are not left with many choices beyond courses like Sanskrit and Philosophy. Delhi University’s first merit-based […]
Liberalising the law of obscenity
Despite being laden with liberal rhetoric, the court still has a good distance to cover The Kerala High Court — in a judgement peppered with affirmative quotes and extracts from constitutional scholars and free speech advocates, who urged the law on obscenity to be freed from its shackles of prudery — has held that the […]
‘Teach Urdu to kids’
For a visual artist, painting or photography are not a matter of creating pretty images, they are ways of awakening social consciousness Shiraz Husain is an independent artist and art educator. He is the founder of the popular Facebook page Khwaab Tanha Collective. A former assistant professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia […]
The cult of violence
Shujaat Bhukhari’s death carries with it the burden of all the human tragedies and ugly brutalities of a conflict The sight of Shujaat Bukhari’s metal coffin carried by a posse of men, amid the streaming rows of people walking in a procession on the narrow lanes of Kreeri, from his ancestral house to the graveyard […]