WANTED: #METOO ON CAMPUS

Sexual harassment complaint committees in Delhi University colleges are conspicuous by their absence, as a reality check shows The Facebook list with the names of ‘sexual predators’ in academia, unveiled last year, broke the silence around sexual harassment on campuses and the fairness of complaint committees. Interacting with students of various colleges in Delhi University […]

BROILER POTBOILER

A public scare was caused by the revelation that the poultry industry uses antibiotics not meant for animal consumption. A closer look at the issue reveals that the truth is much more complicated Ignorance is not always bliss. On February 1, The Guardian carried a story titled India’s farmed chickens dosed with the world’s strongest […]

Dispute and disruption

The Delhi government barely functioned after the alleged attack on the chief secretary at the residence of the chief minister. Almost ten days later, the first cabinet meeting took place under the vigil of security guards This has to be said about the steel frame: the bureaucracy is a silent force. Its presence is felt […]

Sridevi — Death by Media

Long live Sridevi, Journalism is definitely dead Spectres of former wives haunting present wives. A reporter standing in a bathroom next to a bathtub on the side of which a wine glass rests. Amar Singh as an expert commenter on how much alcohol filmstars consume. Nasser Abdullah and Simi Chandok forming a crack team of […]

Nationalism: The Science and the Senselessness

Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail Nationalism is an unaccommodating relic and in today’s globalised world it represents a dangerous anachronism. There is nothing constructive that Nationalism can achieve in peacetime that Patriotism can’t. Nationalism is as useful to humans as their tail. Problem comes when the tail wags. As it did […]

Pakistan is under the radar

Pakistan to feature in the ‘grey list’ of the global money laundering watchdog after China revoked its support Pakistan will finally feature in the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) — a global money laundering watchdog — from June this year. This was made possible after China, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, reportedly […]

In line of fire

People living in remote villages close to the LoC in Uri sector had to leave their homes following the worst exchange of artillery fire in 15 years since the 2003 ceasefire At 8.15 am on February 22, Lal Hussain, 30, a resident of Charunda, one of the last villages along the Line of Control (LoC) […]

A case of the longest examination

ENTRY INTO KASHMIR ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IS VERY STRESSFUL FOR ASPIRANTS. THE PROCESS HAS LASTED FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS PLAGUED WITH ERRORS, CONFUSION, COURT CASES, AND DEATH OF DREAMS “Some of my friends are on the verge of suicide,” reveals a woman aspiring to join the Kashmir Administrative Services (KAS), and preparing to sit for […]