COMING SOON — CHASE: THE PERFECT CANDIDATE — HOW TO WIN A DELHI UNIVERSITY...
Apart from its sky-high cut-offs, Delhi University is also known for student politics. Every year in the first week of September, the campus is abuzz with excitement as the results of the DUSU (Delhi...
View ArticlePATIDARS TO AMIT SHAH: ‘GENERAL DYER GO BACK’
Posters with the slogan “General Dyer Go Back” greeted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah on Thursday when he entered Surat, after addressing a party workers’ meeting in Tapi, Gujarat....
View ArticleTHE TRUTH ABOUT ANTI-BACTERIAL HANDWASHES
Cleanliness, we’re told, is next to godliness, but how do you ensure this with all the germs that are floating around? Since they’re so exposed and come in contact with a variety of surfaces, hands...
View ArticleA REVIEW OF NL HAFTA FROM RAGHU SHARMA, TABIZ IMTIAZ & PRAKASH IYER
Hi, Sorry I was thinking you will be reading comments on Hafta section but realized you only look at email sent to you and not comments . Also I have an inquiry, whether you read only emails from...
View ArticleHAFTA 84: MOTHER TERESA: SAINT OR SINNER?
We move our focus to the South of the Vindhyas this week as columnist T S Sudhir, Hyderabad-based journalist and author, joins us on this episode of NL Hafta. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka are at it again...
View ArticleDUSU ELECTIONS: FEWER VOTERS, RIGGING CHARGES, BIGGER COMPETITION
Delhi University Students Union election’s first voting phase lasted till September 9 afternoon and polling trends have begun emerging. In a turn of events, significantly low number of students have...
View ArticleWHAT’S HAPPENING WITH YOUR TAX MONEY?
Taxes: A chunk of money that disappears from your bank account and goes into the deep dark void. A layperson like you and me understands taxes in the simplest of terms: The government takes money from...
View ArticleDUSU: ABVP’S BACK, FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN A ROW
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) stopped just short of making a clean sweep and a hattrick in the Delhi University Students Election. ABVP won three seats out of the total four....
View ArticleTHE LEGACY OF 9/11
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a turning point in world history. That day, everything changed. The consequences of the events of 9/11, as the day has come to be known since, still continue to...
View ArticleDUSU: DOES THE LOW VOTER TURNOUT POINT TO THE DISENCHANTMENT IN DU POLITICS?
Delhi University Student Elections results are out and once again, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has managed to come out victorious. ABVP won three seats out of the total four positions –...
View ArticleRAMACHANDRA GUHA TALKS ABOUT FREEDOM, JOURNALISM AND GOVERNMENT REPORTS
Ramachandra Guha is a historian, but really, he is essentially a philosopher who makes history relevant to current events. He has authored multiple books on history, cricket and the environment....
View ArticleTHE DOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS
By Tasbeeh Herwees The green dome of the Omar ibn Al-Khattab mosque in Los Angeles interrupts the low skyline with a quiet gravitas. The mosque has been here since 1982, next door to the University of...
View ArticleREWRITING HISTORY, THE RSS WAY
Less than a month after he replaced Smriti Irani as the Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD), Prakash Javadekar met with representatives of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and...
View ArticleCAUVERY VIOLENCE: MAYHEM IN BENGALURU, ATTACKS ON KANNADIGAS AND TAMILS
#Saambarbatch #UglymindsetofTamilians #NammaKaveri #WehateKarnataka #SaveWoodlandMeals It is hashtag-to-hashtag confrontation taking place between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, with the black sheep among...
View ArticleFOR THE VALLEY, THERE’S NO MUBARAK DURING EID THIS YEAR
Traditionally, after offering Eid ul-Adha namaz, people of Kashmir say “Eid mubarak” to one another. Tomorrow, however, that symbolic gesture is a painful reminder of how little cause for joy there...
View Article#JUSTSPORTS 1: MAN U’S HUMILIATION, MORGAN’S DROPPING OUT AND OTHER DRAMA
A Manchester United nut and a Liverpool fanatic bring you all the premier league action that unfolded over the weekend. Samar Khan tells you why he thinks there is no best tennis player in the world...
View ArticleCHANGES IN ZEE: SAMIR AHLUWALIA OF ZEE BUSINESS QUITS
Samir Ahluwalia, who was head of Zee Business and is a co-accused with the Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary in the case of alleged extortion of Rs 100 crore, has been forced to resign. After nearly 19...
View Article#SPEECHBILL EXPLAINER: WHY TATHAGATA SATPATHY WANTS TO DECRIMINALISE DEFAMATION
In the past few months, the Supreme Court (SC) has issued two important statements related to criminal defamation, both of which seem to be at odds with each other. In May 2016, a SC bench upheld the...
View ArticleUTTAR PRADESH POWER PLAY: YADAV VERSUS YADAV
Samajwadi Party is having an eventful week. Ministers and bureaucrats sacked, family spats, power tussles – the average television soap has nothing on Uttar Pradesh politics. First came the sacking of...
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