Kids just wanna have snacks

Memories of childhood come flooding back when you see a couple of school kids pestering their parents for pocket money Growing up, my sister and I had a large group of friends — all confident, boisterous girls, ready to start a fight with the group of boys, our nemesis, at the slightest provocation. When you […]

Try tribal cuisine this winter

If you are passionate about your food and love to feed people, you don’t need a restaurant or a hotel. People like Sneha Lata Saikia invite people home to sample tribal food and imbibe a culture If you’re passionate about food — to cook and feed — there’s no stopping you. Your passion and talent […]

Some come back, others stay lost

A lot depends on whether the police are responsive to the anguish of poor parents, whose children play outside their cramped quarters unsupervised In 2019, till November 15, as many as 21,805 people have gone missing in Delhi. Out of this, 12,822 persons were traced, leaving 8,983 lives unaccounted for. Part of this alarming statistic […]

Confronting brutality

How efficient can policing be as a bulwark against the most brutal side of human nature? “She lay there, punctured by multiple stabbing wounds, one screwdriver still wedged into her flesh. She appeared abandoned by all of us.” Almost 13 years ago, this was how Tuktuk Ghosh, an Indian Administrative Service officer, described the gruesome […]

Are air purifiers effective?

With the ongoing air pollution crisis in Delhi, many have opted for air purifiers. But can it be of any help? Delhi’s air quality has worsened again with the Air Quality Index (AQI) falling to 328. The pollution level of the capital has been shuffling between ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories of AQI. With no […]

Why the selective amplification?

Indian media pounce on stories of crime against women that sell, then almost invariably do a shoddy job of reporting them Does the media contribute directly, or indirectly, to distorting our understanding of the reasons for the increasing violence against women? I ask this question against the background of the horrific rape and murder of […]

Ayushman vs Arogya

AAP says Delhi’s healthcare scheme is better than Ayushman Bharat. But the Centre claims Delhi’s programme doesn’t cover ‘catastrophic expenditure’ of the poor on secondary and tertiary healthcare On the afternoon of November 15, 2018, Emmanuel James, a resident of Delhi, received a phone call from his wife. She told him their daughter, Anna, had […]

Indefinite wait for benefits

In this age of information at your fingertips, some parents of children with disability have no idea of the benefits of a Disability certificate, those who do have a long wait to acquire it Outside room number 214 (a) of Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, mums and dads with their children wait to get an […]