Afzal Guru: The Afterlife Agitator
Three years after his hanging, the spectre of Mohammad Afzal Guru has returned to haunt Indian politics, fuelling a series of reactions and counter-reactions, dividing the people of this country into...
View ArticleJustice CS Karnan
There’s a basic tenet in law that requires judges to not hear cases that involve a family member. The reasons are obvious—your judgment may be clouded. But Madras High Court judge Justice CS Karnan did...
View ArticleThe Funeral Pyre Economics
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to stop supplying cow dung cakes to the city’s crematoriums, citing pollution and expense. It also wants to encourage the use of electric...
View ArticleUmberto Eco (1932-2016): Philosopher as Storyteller
‘Beyond custodians of historical memory, multimedia tools can be devices to strengthen our ability to remember’: reads a tweet dated 21 November 2015. Written in Italian, that was the last day Umberto...
View ArticleB S Bassi
‘Innocent until proven guilty’ is a rule of law followed in almost every civlised nation. However, soon-to-retire Delhi Police Chief BS Bassi would like us to believe otherwise. In the ongoing movement...
View ArticleAdarsh Sharma
Barely two days after JNU Students’ Union President Kanhaiya Kumar was released on bail, posters were put up in central Delhi offering a bounty on him. Bearing the name of an organisation called the...
View ArticleAn Avoidable Embarrassment
It is rare for a cricket team to cross the border between India and Pakistan. Political realities being what they are, relations between the countries are always frosty. Yet, the ICC having to shift...
View ArticleWhere Alcohol is Not Injurious to Health
NECESSITY MUST surely be the mother of invention, and you can see it happening in some parts of rural Maharashtra where farmers, fed up with fighting pest infestation and low yields, have found a...
View ArticleA Tech Revolution for the Dabbawala
ONE E-COMMERCE giant is now tapping into one of Mumbai’s most fabled and efficient distribution networks— the dabbawalas. For over a century, Mumbai’s dabbawalas, one of the city’s most endearing...
View ArticleRam Kumar: The Last Landscapist
BACK IN 1960, the artist MF Husain made a suggestion to Ram Kumar. “One day Husain came to me and said, ‘Let us go to Benaras and sketch,’” Kumar recalled this incident a few years ago in an interview...
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