Questions unanswered

Looking beyond BJP’s victory, we need to analyse the recent Lok Sabha events in the context of the questions that were left unanswered by PM Modi Friday, July 20, was quite an eventful day in Lok Sabha. In a debate that lasted 12 hours, the Opposition mounted a spirited attack and the treasury fought back […]

ON AN EXPERIENTIAL BINGE

A young European man residing in Delhi expects us to be non-judgemental about the choices he makes. His quest unto self involves making others happy He best one-word description for John (name changed on request) is drifter. An English-speaking European in his late twenties, John works for a private organisation, and has been living in […]

Forbidden pleasures

With demand for sex toys on the rise in India especially after Lust Stories, adult toy merchants around the country say that the law needs to be liberalised so that the industry can grow Seema (name changed), a PhD student in Kolkata is so immersed in research that she says the stress was taking a […]

Toy story

Traditional hand-crafted toys are getting little play in a market dominated by plastic factory products even as parents prefer trendy global brands The sunrays on Monday afternoon are striking hot. At Delhi Haat, under a bamboo ceiling stands Satish Kumar, a man in his 40s, hopelessly looking for customers as not even a single toy […]

En route to Mecca

The withdrawal of the Haj subsidy in January is not an issue for the 1.75 lakh pilgrims headed for Mecca this season. But for a group of 16 camping in Delhi, there are other niggling problems “We couldn’t leave on the scheduled date but now they’re setting another date,” says one of the 16 people […]

LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT OF JAMS

Traffic congestion is another civic issue that will hopefully be tackled by the intervention of the Supreme Court. The Delhi Police Commissioner was pulled up for ‘inaction’ This has to be said: The city of Delhi is not run by a multiplicity of agencies, but the Supreme Court. Last week, when Patriot wrote about the […]

Separation anxiety

What happens to the ‘illegitimate’ abandoned children of influential people after their adoption by parents out of India? They face an existential crisis Former cricketer and the contender for the prime minister’s post in Pakistan, Imran Khan, was recently in the news for all the wrong reasons. The autobiography penned by his former wife, Reham […]

Politics of garbage

The Ghazipur landfill is a monument of government’s failure to deal with civic issues and of an impending ecological disaster in the capital. The apex court wants the L-G to act and not ‘pass the buck’ This is not new. Multiplicity of agencies are blamed for inaction in Delhi, people in power shun responsibility when […]