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 […]

Let’s read, she says

Katha, led by Geeta Dharmarajan, is playing a stellar role in spreading the joy of reading not only in schools but to women in rural areas I visited Geeta Dharmarajan for the first time during a bitingly cold winter. The first thing that caught my attention was the basic yet organic architecture of the building […]

“Women make the final call in our comic books”

‘Priya and the Lost Girls’ – an augmented reality comic book created by Ram Devineni – tells the story of a female superhero’s fight against sex trafficking A modern-day superhero, Priya is like no other. A rape survivor, she was introduced to the world, in the comic book ‘Priya’s Shakti’, launched in 2014. Defying regressive […]