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 […]

Fewer footfalls

As per recent statistics given by SIAM, more than 300 dealerships across the country downed their shutters in just the last year, most of them from Delhi and Mumbai. Patriot asked sales executives in Okhla what is the situation in their corner. At a dealership DD Motors in Okhla, senior sales executive Akhilesh Chaudhary explains […]

Laid off workers wait for auto sector revival

Meet the twenty-something workers in Gurugram’s automobile industry who lost their jobs this year and now hang around NCR’s major intersections in the hope of being hired for a day’s unskilled work Seated at the roundabout in Manesar’s ‘Labour Chowk’, Malik is hoping that some work might come his way today. The worry lines on […]