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 […]

Is this the beginning of the irrelevance of Big Media?

Not just anger towards the government, anti-CAA protesters also voiced their resentment against a section of the media PERHAPS I SHOULD rename this column “Heart-breaking News”.  The videos, the news reports in newspapers and on digital news websites, have made it amply clear that the UP government and its police force are going full tilt […]

‘They wanted to teach a lesson in terror’

As right-wing mobs ran riot at JNU on the night of January 5, students allege they were victims of a targeted attack inside the university IN THE middle of a Delhi winter, the temperature at Jawaharlal Nehru University on the evening of January 5 rose dramatically. At around 6 pm that day, a violent mob […]