Rhetorical flourishes

As election fever rises, words are exchanged and jingles are composed that amuse the voters but enrage the candidates THE DATES for the Delhi elections have been announced and with it an entertaining and quite imaginative mix of social media jousting. The Aam Aadmi Party has been punching it out and perhaps it has I-PAC […]

Every new year brings hope for the abandoned

One is an orphan and two others who did not get the parental care and support every child deserves. Yet they have found their feet in a cruel world with the help of institutions that provide care when families don’t THE NEW year always brings hope of a better tomorrow. So here are stories of […]

The wasted land

In a congested city, 37 acres of land donated by the Mamurpur Panchayat for a women’s college has been lying fallow for half a century ABOUT 20 kilometers from the nearest Delhi Metro station lies a land which should have been a women’s college under Delhi University’s Swami Shraddhanand College. The 93 bigha land (37 […]

Street scuffle

An ABVP supporter seemed to judge this reporter by her clothes or looks as a communist. And didn’t seem to understand that everyone cannot be so easily slotted  “WHO DO you work for? Are you a communist?” were the first questions he asked. This was December 16 — a day after Delhi Police went on […]

When Deepika Padukone enlivened a JNU protest

The Bollywood actress visited the campus on January 7 to show solidarity with students and teachers protesting against Sunday’s mob attack ON TUESDAY evening (January 7), Jawaharlal Nehru University students, teachers and alumni protesting against the mob attack on their campus two days before had a surprise visitor: Deepika Padukone. The actress was in Delhi […]

Where is fashion headed?

The landmark events of 2019 tell us what the future holds. Hopefully, the fashion industry will stop being the second most polluting industry in 2020 AS WE enter a new decade, pause awhile to reflect on the fact that fashion remains the second most polluting industry of all time. For all the things that made […]

How India’s courts have handled cases brought by detainees, police

On December 15, protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act broke out in and around Jamia Millia Islamia University. The Delhi police responded by storming the campus, ransacking the library, and brutalising the students. Police and paramilitary forces responded similarly to protests elsewhere, including in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bengaluru, and Assam, resulting in a series of […]

Over 2,40,000 homeless, not even 300 night shelters

Rain Baseras not only shelter homeless people, they double up as makeshift recovery wards for patients visiting the capital city’s overcrowded hospitals. But there aren’t nearly enough of them. Delhi struggles to save its rough sleepers from the harsh winter RESHMA LIES in a white tent-like structure. Her stomach is slit open, a bag attached […]