What a washout!

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 […]

Familicide

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 […]

Those college days

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

Inter-faith imbroglio

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 […]

Taxi journalism and Bajrangbali

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 […]

Story time in the village

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 […]

MR MAMAGOTO’S NEW AVATAR

The new outlet at Cyberhub has added world street food to the Japanese menu to catch the attention of office-goers Mamagoto caught the fancy of the college-goers when it opened at Khan Market. Now it has a new incarnation. As per Wikipedia, Mamagoto is an interactive, context-aware Japanese dining system which encourage kids to ‘play’ […]

DRYING UP

The UN World Water Development Report 2018 paints an alarming picture of India’s plight by 2050, a result both of climate change and population growth A new report released by Unesco makes grim reading. It shows that the water crisis will be intensifying across India by 2050. Central India is staring at deepening water scarcity […]