Singing the blues

As the economy suffers due to low demand, even music bands find few takers – and the wedding season is not expected to bring much cheer Here’s one more thing to blame millennials for, after Finance Minister Nirmala Seetharaman blamed them for preferring cab hailing services to buying cars, thereby leading to crisis in the […]

Ethnic chic

It’s that time of year when shoppers head for the state emporia on Baba Kharak Singh Marg to pick up hand-woven textiles and artefacts For every Zara trip, most of us make, we do sneak into our quintessential Khadi Gram Udyog to check on their latest stock of hand-woven textiles and handicrafts from around the […]

Saucily Asian

Look beyond Indian and Chinese to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand for a culinary journey that tingles the taste-buds “A well-made sauce will make even elephant or a grandfather palatable,” proclaimed Grimod de la Reynière, a lawyer and one of world’s first food reviewers. He’s not wrong at all ­— a well-made sauce indeed pulls up […]

Chinmayanand’s experiments with piety and power

With friends like Yogi Adityanath, opinion-makers in Shahjahanpur believe the law can’t touch this Swami Soon after Independence, Sukhdevanand set up the Daivi Sampad Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya in Shahjahanpur. By the time he passed away in 1965, he had established three educational institutions in Shahjahanpur, three ashrams (in Shahjahanpur, Rishikesh and Haridwar), a “Hindu Jain temple” […]

Languishing lake

In Northwest Delhi’s Bhalswa area, half-hearted government initiatives have all gone down the drain as a 35-acre water body cries out to be rescued from a slow death Cowdung, human excrement and tonnes of plastic waste — this is the sight that greets you at  Bhalswa Lake. On one side, this decades-old lake is bordered […]

‘A predator is more powerful than his prey’

Senior journalist Priya Ramani gave evidence at a district court in Delhi in connection with the criminal defamation case filed against her by ex-Union minister MJ Akbar. Excerpts: Journalist Priya RAMANI first gave her testimony and then faced cross-examination in the MJ Akbar defamation case in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Samar […]

Tectonic shift

The BAPSA-Fraternity alliance is ahead of the ABVP in JNUSU presidential elections, and has already secured a councilor seat. Patriot analyses how the party is now close on the heels of the Left and ABVP On  JNU campus, the fight in the student union elections has always been dominated by the Left parties (AISA, AISF, […]

Endeavour vs i20

A class divide has led to controversies and violence in Amity University – not over any academic or political issue but over parking of student cars While JNU and DU hog the limelight, especially during student elections, the world of private universities is also filled with churn and controversies; those which make the headlines on […]