DESI VIDESHI

Delhi, despite being a city of extremes, has this incredible capacity to assimilate people from varied nationalities, ethnicities and make them feel at home Delhi has a charm of its own and many fall for it. People from all over the world come make Delhi, a city of ‘glorious contradictions’ their favoured home. It’s almost […]

BONE UP ON CALCIUM

May is the month for spreading awareness about osteoporosis, so here’s what the doctor orders Ever wonder why some older people have hunched backs? This may be due to shrinking of bones which weakens the vertebrae. And this, in turn is due to osteoporosis, the bone disease. It can also lead to fractures, which is […]

PAIN IS THE ONLY CONSTANT

If you have a medical condition for which current medical science has no answers, learn to live with it, and take care of your mental health For every ailment under the sun There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.” […]

Singing the blues

If we have to be outraged about something, let it not be about the auctioning of a costume worn in a Hindi film, the proceeds of which are going to a charity Recently, Film star Akshay Kumar and his wife Twinkle Khanna let it be known on social media that the costume which Akshay Kumar […]

Audrey Trushke’s dishonest translation

The objections to Truschke’s tweets were never about interpretation It is nothing short of poetic justice that the final blow to claims made by Audrey Truschke about Sitaji’s use of the phrase “misogynist pig” in Valmiki’s Ramayana came on Sita Navami, the day the goddess’ appearance is celebrated. On that day (April 24), Swarajya magazine […]

The case against death penalty

The government’s recent Ordinance on child rape is more of a political decision than a real answer to the problem In 2012, India stepped back in time, into the pro-death penalty era for the crime of rape. Before that, academicians, jurists, judges, lawyers and other intellectuals were thinking about the abolition of the death penalty […]

SOARING AMBITION

For Jamaluddin, perpetuating his father’s kite flying legacy is a passion, but he has his own dream — to popularise it as a sport that would lure the younger generation into wide open spaces When he was a child, he used to watch intently while his father flew kites. For Syed Mohiuddin alias Bhai Mian, […]

Dormant feelings

Extract from ‘The Red Flower’s Blue Petal’, a story in The Other anthology Ramola reached home buzzed by the amount of coffee she had drunk that evening. She shared a flat with Sanjay, a childhood friend from Jaunpur, her hometown, and to all and sundry he was her ‘brother’. He was really like a brother […]