Shah Rukh Khan is a Delhi boy turned a bouncy Bollywood actor. He is married to a Hindu girl, and like most actors,…
I Long years ago, at the conclusion of my doctoral work in America, pressure was put on me to stay and…
Poor naked wretches, whereso’er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed…
"Genius: a person who has a strong influence upon one for good or ill." (Advanced Oxford Dictionary) I All of…
Ki merE qatL kE ba’d us NE jafA sE taobA, hAE! Us zUd paSEmAn kA paSEmAn hoNA (Mirza Ghalib). (She swore…
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one…
On December 6,1992, hordes of right-wing Hindutva extremists (called karsevaks) took the town of Ayodhya hostage with the full and willing connivance…
“There has been a systematic failure in giving tribals a stake in the modern economic system—the alienation built over decades is taking…
1. At a public talk someone asks you, "okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What…
I Even as the Indian state ponders the situation along its international borders with Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Nepal, it is increasingly…
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