Encounter killings will hardly be able to decriminalise UP if the chief minister continues to extricate the BJP’s own legislators accused of crimes as heinous as rape and murder The BJP-government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh seems to have been caught into its own web. Taking in turncoats having criminal antecedents […]

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The most horrific example of using rape as a political tool has come from Kathua, where eight-year-old Asifa lost her innocence and her life to serve a diabolical plan Asifa rape and murder case is one of the most grotesque cases of our times and is symbolic for the many ugly truths it lays bare. […]

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Parliament almost slipped into irrelevance in the second half of the Budget session, with productivity of Lok Sabha at a dismal four per cent and Rajya Sabha at nine per cent The Budget session of Parliament that ended on Friday was a complete washout. The least productive in 18 years, the session, though full of […]

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Why do people kill their own family members? A phenomenon that’s on the rise in urban India  This story is not about honour killing. This is about the worrisome trend of people killing family members in urban settings. The urban life is more about nuclear families, a break from the past where joint families existed […]

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That interregnum between school and the working life is a major milestone in anybody’s life, especially the freedom and intellectual awakening it brings

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An extract from House of Discord by Sadiqa Peerbhoy, set in 1992 Mumbai, where the life of a family gets inextricably tangled due to the communal riots sweeping the city He jammed his foot on the accelerator. Thankfully the rush-hour traffic had dwindled down and he could speed towards Kala Ghoda where Salma was waiting […]

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India has a history of festivals spreading to different parts of the country either for greater cultural interaction or political mobilisation Mornings in a large part of the Hindi heartland often reverberate with chaupaiis (verses) of poet-saint Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas. In one of the most widely sung and popular verses, Tulsidas runs out of possible simile […]

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Libraries run by an NGO in seven Rajasthan villages are not only encouraging children to read beyond textbooks but also create their own stories It takes a certain thoughtfulness to not miss the resemblance of a scalloped leaf with an imaginative form of human heart and also name it Lokesh. If you read the full […]

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