The good Sikh

Protesters in Shaheen Bagh have found supporters across the spectrum. DS Bindra is one such supporter who believes in acting through deeds and not just words  A PRACTISING advocate in Delhi High court tries to ensure that food is available for protesters staging a sit-in against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh. To […]

Eclipsed by Premchand no more

Shivrani Devi has for long been seen as just the wife of a literary stalwart, but there is more to her than meets the eye WOMEN WRITERS are often sidelined and robbed off the credit they deserve — the art of writing in the past was dominated in a way that gave preference to male […]

Indefensible murder

Shahid Azmi’s legacy lives on through lawyers he inspired. Sadly, so does the ideology that led to his murder AFTER SPENDING 12 years incarcerated, the two men that Faheem Ansari was really keen to meet as he stepped out of Bareilly Central Jail last November were Shaheed Azmi and Hemant Karkare. He couldn’t, of course, […]

‘The state being secular is a myth’

Devdutt Pattanaik has written over 52 books on the relevance of sacred stories, symbols and rituals in modern times. Here he answers questions about the ancient epics and modern myths DEVDUTT PATTANAIK is an Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author. His work focuses largely on areas of myth, religion, mythology and management. He has incorporated […]

‘Education is in bad shape’

Ashok Agarwal, former AAP member, who has been leading the fight for children’s right to education, claims – astonishingly enough – that enrollment is going down in MCD-run schools and schools are being closed down in large numbers A LAWYER at the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court, Ashok Agarwal has found time apart from […]

Run, eat, work, sleep, repeat

Bhupender Singh is a corporate success story. Far from leading a sedentary life, he finds that hitting the tracks physically transformed his life and helps to keep him going  BHUPENDER SINGH is the President and CEO of Teleperformance DIBS, the Digital and Integrated Business Division of Teleperformance, a leading business services company with over 330,000 […]

‘Congress has put its trust in young people’

The feisty MLA whom the Congress has fielded from Chandni Chowk is going hammer and tongs at her former party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal, and is dismissive about the BJP’s chances of making a dent  Alka Lamba will be contesting again from Chandni Chowk constituency, this time from the Congress Party, with which she had been […]

Tangled roots

When children from India adopted in Europe in the past come looking for their biological parents, they do find the truth – but it is not pretty Many of the children adopted from India by couples in Europe and the US in the 1970-80s have grown up looking very different from their white parents, in […]