When lawyers flout High Court orders

Signboards on every lamp post ban people from parking. Yet these top lawyers claim they are not flouting rules, some blame their drivers, some just say they are innocent. But Patriot witnessed and photographed the illegal activity From an auto rickshaw driver to a parking attendant, a traffic police constable to a senior advocate, one […]

When joy returns

Remember the shocking news of a baby being handed over covered in plastic and later turning out to be alive? His parents have been blessed with a baby girl The two-bedroom Kumar household was abuzz with excitement, the adults busying themselves with house errands. A young boy was running around the bed, amusing himself with […]

Wrong visa, right intent

Foreign journalists who work on tourist visa in India not only break the law but also get less than the wages back home Despite being accredited journalists, two French nationals were arrested in Kanyakumari when they were allegedly trying to trespass into restricted area belonging to the Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) at Manavalakurichy. The […]

The wild west

In the dusty hinterland of western Uttar Pradesh, despite the crackdown of Yogi government on gangsters, might is right and many issues are settled with the gun Western Uttar Pradesh bordering Delhi has the dubious distinction of being a hotbed of crime, and not just communal clashes, cow vigilantism or love jihad. Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, […]

Payback time!

602 private schools across Delhi owe their students Rs 178 crore worth of refund – an amount they had charged as excess fees. Now, they have to return it Rs 178 crore: This is the humongous amount that private schools across Delhi had collected from their students as excess fees. Now, they have to give […]

Right of entry reserved

You have to be gay to get a room in Mister and Arthouse, a luxury boutique hotel in Greater Kailash Situated in the heart of South Delhi, Mister and Arthouse is the first hotel in the country exclusively for gay and bisexual men. It was started by Sanjay Malhotra, the founder of Indjapink, a travel […]

Dignified exit

Senior citizens are themselves moving to old age homes in search of peace and belongingness that they are unable to find with their own family “My daughter-in-law used to taunt me for every little thing. It became too much for me to handle at this age. I wanted to live peacefully, which is why I […]

Small steps for a big cause

Devika Chhabra, 16, has launched a campaign where waste plastic bottles will be recycled into winter clothes for street dwellers. Patriot talks to the young enthusiast about her project, her inspiration behind it and more Teenager Devika Chhabra has set out single-handedly to tackle some of the country’s most pertinent issues in her own small […]