WILL PAK POLL BE FREE AND FAIR?

In a fair election, his party the PMLN would be in a pole position. If it doesn’t manage to get a simple majority, it would at least be the single largest party Despite being badly wounded and pushed into a corner, the tiger (election symbol of Nawaz Sharif’s party and his own image among his […]

CRIMINAL MINDSETS

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 […]

SUMMER ACTION

The heat is around the corner ad so are the holidays. Don’t waste these precious weeks, especially as the capital bristles with opportunities Summer holidays should be spent in having fun while also learning something new. With schools piling up students with homework one might want to look at some activity that doesn’t make you […]

YOUR GOD OR MINE

That’s the essence of the unholy war being waged by the Congress and the BJP to woo voters of Karnataka as leaders of both parties go temple hopping If Gujarat was the test case, Karnataka has seen the temple run being patented as an electoral strategy. In the run-up to the assembly elections on 12 […]

Highway to Hell

The Yamuna Expressway is a valuable addition to infrastructure but the number of accidents taking place on it raises question marks about enforcement of safety standards It was 8 am when our taxi crossed the Delhi border into Noida. This is not a highway like any other – it has eight lanes, clear signage and […]

TREASURE HUNT

A walk with Rana Safvi in the Walled City brought to life the battles of Delhi’s first female Islamic ruler Sultan Raziya. And along the way emerged more treasures   No ornamentation, no decoration—it could have been a mound of carefully placed stones, anything except the tomb of a ruler. The only female Islamic ruler […]

LONELY IN A CROWD

A woman reveals her a-sex drive over a conversation in the nude Asexuality. This word has complex meanings, open to interpretation. But to avoid that discussion, the asexuality described here is when a human is not attracted enough to anyone sexually — none of the three genders. Not necessarily because the person is immune to […]

INDIA’S UMAMI BOMB

Hing, arguable the world’s smelliest spice is an olfactory shock for westerners but an integral part of Indian cooking Umami is a word that has been defined and in existence since 1908, but it is only lately — say the last two decades — that chefs, gourmands and food writers have been talking about it. […]