Awareness is vital

To build confidence among victims to file complaints against teachers, there needs to be a student movement to strengthen their position. Dr Vinita Chandra of Ramjas College is among the most vocal advocates against sexual harassment on campuses and played an active role in the struggle to set up redressal mechanisms in Delhi University. Excerpts […]

Amazing Asian fusion

Japanese and Chinese food with a dash of American and Indian adaptations proves to be quite enjoyable, though purists might not be amused Kylin is a unicorn of Chinese myth depicted with the tail of an ox and the legs and body of a deer. It is also an Asian chain with 14 restaurants in […]

SORDID SEX SAGA: another story of rape from J&K

It took three months for the nation’s conscience to wake up to the grisly rape and murder of an eight-year-old in Kathua, Jammu. Around the same time as when the Bakerwal girl’s body was recovered in January, another minor girl from Kulgam, Kashmir, came out with her story: she had been kidnapped, drugged and raped multiple times, […]

A bed-time story

Confessions of a broken heart, in a haze of alcohol and tumbling memories that refuse to go away even in the cold harsh light of day It’s 2 am on Thursday. I wake up with a terrible headache, courtesy of all the drinking of the past few days. It has started to rain, crazy mid-November […]

How crime is buried

When extraneous issues are raised and misinformation is circulated, injustice is done to the innocent victim of the crime, whose suffering is forgotten There is a disturbing trend in the making that whenever a brutal rape takes place, somehow the caste, creed and profession of the family comes into focus. While the debate is dominated […]

Hungry for action

Delhi Commission of Women chief Swati Maliwal’s tenure has been the journey of an activist. She is now on indefinite hunger strike demanding capital punishment for rapists In past 30 months, the DCW conducted rescue operations in Delhi’s red-light area, raided illegal liquor vendors in Delhi and campaigned for women’s safety. Can the Centre agree to […]

Fading princess

Premier Padmini, that much-desired streetcar, is an endangered species as less than 300 units are still in running condition. is now. The time to write its epitaph has come In 1964, former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri took a loan of Rs 5,000 from Punjab National Bank in 1964 to buy it when it was […]

LIFE OF A PENCIL

Despite the advent of the ball pen and the stylus, the humble graphite-and-wood pencil continues to hold its own, especially with students, artists and designers Many creatives have had a special relationship with a pencil, out of the many writing tools available in a stationery shop. Perhaps it is the limitless chances it gives us […]