BUNKER TOWN

Sandbags, bunkers and overwhelming presence of armed constabulary gives the impressing that Delhi’s a police state. But it’s not easy to secure a city of Delhi’s proportions and complexities A denizen of Delhi, irrespective of his or her social status, cannot miss one fundamental fact of existence: the ominous presence of security forces with guns […]

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 […]

INSIDE THE PATCH-UP

Showing a ‘united front’, the two are gearing up to take on AAP in Delhi 2018 has not been a good start for AAP — considering that it is again circled by controversy — but things are looking up for another party, the Congress. While the national capital’s AAP government grappled with Delhi chief secretary […]