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ROMILA THAPAR’S BOOK A WORK OF FICTION? THIS IS THE STUFF GREAT STORIES ARE...
If you recently bought the e-book format of Romila Thapar’s book of essays, The Past as Present, you might see a note on the second page saying, “This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places...
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RAJYA SABHA VERSUS THE PEOPLE: WHO SHOULD PREVAIL?
We have discussed how voters can be fallible, against minority rights and corrupt in previous articles. It is because of the lack of faith in voters’ judgement in the short term that the concept of...
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KAR LI DUNIYA MUTTHI MEIN: MUKESH AMBANI SHOWS US WHO THE REAL BHAI IS
When Mukesh bhai and Reliance get their show on the road, everyone notices. The only other time you will have so many celebrities cheering someone on, it will probably be the Indian cricket team...
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THE YEAR INDIAN JOURNALISM LOST SOME OF ITS FINEST NEWSROOM LEADERS
Year-ends are a time of reflection as we weigh in on the gains and losses of the year gone by. When we look back at 2015, perhaps the balance sheet will show the entries for debits higher than the...
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11 TAKEAWAYS FROM HINA RABBANI KHAR & RAM MADHAV’S INTERVIEWS WITH MEHDI...
Having watched two episodes of Head-to-Head, back-to-back, what struck me was how ill-prepared political guests are on what old-timers would call “the art of the interview” and I call “combat”. That...
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DESPITE THE DIGITAL BOOM, PRINT MEDIA CONTINUES TO FLOURISH
Image: Shajankumar (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons According to the annual ‘Press in India 2014-15 Report’ compiled by Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI), the total number of...
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FIVE THINGS THAT SHOULD WORRY INDIA
1. With growth rate of 0.2% and 600 million Indians depending on it, agriculture remains in crisis The year 2015 began with unseasonal rainfall that damaged crops across 18 million hectares of...
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GLOBAL SUMMITS: WHERE ARE WE GOING? – EPISODE – 9: POST WTO 10TH MINISTERIAL...
Development writer and international negotiations watcher, Biraj Swain discusses the WTO 10th Ministerial Conference in Nairobi with farmer and Farmers’ Forum editor Ajay Vir Jhakar, trade analyst...
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WHAT DID WE LEARN FROM ALL THE DEBATES ON RELIGION AND (IN)TOLERANCE THAT...
It has been an interesting year for India. 2015 began with the NITI Aayog replacing the Planning Commission that had till then set independent India’s development agenda every five years. It ended...
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ENCOURAGING DALIT ENTREPRENEURS
The then Union Finance Minister, P Chidambaram announced the setting up of the Venture Capital fund for promoting Dalit Entrepreneurs in his budget speech in February 2014. The fund was set up with...
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5 THINGS INDIA HAD GOING FOR IT
Amid a year of conflict and controversy, India had some good things going. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to global leaders, set in motion reforms and launched several initiatives to boost...
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OF NEGOTIATORS, REPORTERS AND SELECTIVE READINGS: HOW COP21 WAS REPORTED IN...
Paris, je t’aime (Paris, I Love You) seemed to be the overwhelming sentiment when the 21st United Nations’ climate conference came to an end with a deal signed by 196 countries. The fact that the city...
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2015: THE YEAR WHEN JOURNALISTS AND POLITICIANS BRAWLED LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Politicians and journalists have never been best friends. They are not supposed to be. It’s simple: you don’t bromance a person you are supposed to ask uncomfortable questions of and consistently give...
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NL HAFTA – EPISODE 48
It’s the first Hafta of the new year and we discuss what we hope to see in 2016. We share our take on the Free Basics debate and Facebook’s PR push for the initiative. Isn’t the Internet supposed to...
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CHILD-HEALTH SPENDING SOARS, BUT 40 MILLION INDIAN CHILDREN ARE STUNTED
Image Credit : Flickr Here are some health statistics for Indian children five years or younger: 38.7% are stunted (below normal height for the age), 19.8% are wasted (underweight and short) and 42.4%...
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RS 20 LAKH AS COMPENSATION TO PARENTS OF STUDENTS WHO WERE WASHED AWAY IN THE...
24 students from the VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology were washed away at the beas river while on a study tour. The incident took place due to sudden surge of river water...
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THE INDIAN MEDIA’S LACKLUSTRE COVERAGE OF AN IMPORTANT TRADE SUMMIT: WHY SO...
Okay, the title is a cheesy rip-off from the 1929 war classic “All Quiet on the western front” by Erich Maria Remarque. But the similarities couldn’t be starker. The protagonist by the end of the...
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THE SUBCONTINENT’S SYNCRETIC RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: WHY WE NEED IT NOW MORE THAN...
Mastani’s character in the latest film, Bajirao Mastani, is fascinating not just because of her beauty, wit, and bravery – but also because of her syncretic religious identity. Mastani, as historian...
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