BEING TABASSUM GURU

The wife of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru says she had suspected her husband’s involvement A small cluster of houses stand hidden behind Gulnarg Park, Sopore. The last house, a quaint brick house, stands alone, overlooking a meadow. A quiet stream flows along the side and a metal bunker with security forces inside keep a […]

‘FOREIGN HAND’ IN ELECTION

Will the BJP and Congress please come clean on their association with CA’s India partner? Cambridge Analytica (CA) is in the eye of a storm after an undercover investigation caught some of its senior executives boasting about psychological manipulation, entrapment techniques and fake news campaigns in order to manipulate voters. Not only that, a Britain-based […]

WHY JNU IS ON FIRE AGAIN

Professor Atul Johri has called himself ‘a victim of politics’ but the accounts of his sexually coloured remarks and inappropriate touches leave little room for doubt The campus of Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has been under the spotlight yet again, with a fresh wave of protests against School of Life Sciences’ professor Atul Johri. The […]

JAMIA RELAXES CURFEW

Women students of Jamia Millia Islamia have scored a small victory over the administration. Students can now stay out till 10.30 pm and the administration has also agreed to other demands On Monday night, the university extended curfew timings for women residing in the college hostel from 8 pm to 10.30 pm — as well […]

VOICE OF FURY

‘Be quiet and stand in a corner!’ the Centre seems to be telling those who want to be in the vicinity of Parliament to raise issues their MPs don’t care about Some say angrily that it is an “undeclared emergency,” a strangling of democracy. Others say it is an attempt to silence dissent, to “thwart […]

Gangetic Dolphin edges closer to a tricolour send-off

There may not be too much of a difference between the Gangetic Dolphin and those who make the policy decisions for its conservations – both swim blind There might just be a caste system among our National Symbols that we didn’t know about. The Gangetic Dolphin has been our National Aquatic Animal for just nine […]

Stephen Hawking: a brief history of the genius

 Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, was Britain’s most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. Born on January 8, 1942 – 300 years to the day after the death of the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei – he believed science was his […]

It’s a pain in the…

From denial to a course of treatment that does not relieve the symptoms, endometriosis is a debilitating condition which needs to be discussed more. I lay motionless with my eyes fixed on the ceiling. A plethora of emotions flooded into my mind. Anger, discomfort, misery, despair. I’m tired and desperate. My mind has become numb […]