Obstacle race

Going abroad for higher studies is not that easy, the number has plunged by 21% according to statistics Richa Malik was all set to go abroad for higher studies. But her departure has been bogged down with the long procedure and regulations laid down by the Queen Mary College in the United Kingdom, alongside several […]

What Anaj Mandi tragedy shows

It’s an open secret that the capital city’s factories employ minors but the authorities pretend not to see, activists say Even as night falls on Monday, the lane leading to the North Delhi building where 43 workers were killed in a fire the previous morning is teeming with visitors, most of them trying to catch […]

‘I stitch bags for big brands’

After a fire in an illegal Delhi factory kills 43 people, including five children, migrant workers struggle to carry on with their precarious lives but barely earn enough to eat’ On Monday, TV crews jostled for space under the archway that leads to Anaj Mandi, a few hundred meters from the congested Sadar Bazaar, the […]

Citizens unite against Citizenship Bill

The legislation ‘directly violates the secular ideals enshrined in our Constitution’, the protesters say On Monday night, the Lok Sabha passed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019. The Bill, a promise made by the incumbent BJP in its election manifesto for last May’s general election, is an updated version of a similar legislation that was […]

Dhoti diplomacy

When Abhijit Banerjee wore a dhoti to receive a Nobel Prize in Economics, it was a cultural assertion of his motherland, where ethnic diversity is celebrated Abhijit Banerjee along with his wife French-American Esther Duflo received Nobel Prize in Economics for their ‘experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’ adorning a dhoti and kurta with a […]

Business unusual

Where did the spark come from that inspires a big business empire? What odds do entrepreneurs face in India’s challenging environment? This books tells us some of the stories First generation entrepreneurs are obviously intelligent fanatics, which is how this book as well as US-based publishing house gets its name. They are able to create […]

Courtroom drama

MJ Akbar’s lawyer complained about ‘personal comments’ in the news website’s dispatch on Tuesday’s hearing, prompting the judge to issue an advisory The latest hearing on the Bharatiya Janata Party leader MJ Akbar’s defamation suit against the journalist Priya Ramani on Wednesday was marked by courtroom drama. In her testimony before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi, […]

How Noida was built

Jagdish Khattar, ex-CMD of Maruti Udyog, narrates how Noida was bulldozed into existence by Sanjay Gandhi in December 1975, during the Emergency Who says that the Emergency was an evil and Sanjay Gandhi a villain?  Yes, there was forced sterilisation, jailing of political leaders and press censorship. But trains ran on time and New Okhla […]