Climate change provides a moral challenge to India to create new experiments, to read nature and industry.
01 Dec 2018 1:14 AM
The tragedy of Amritsar is that we can get away with the story that no one was responsible in a causal sense.
27 Oct 2018 1:13 AM
The challenge we have to propose for ourselves is how do we reinvent a peace movement for our time.
08 Oct 2018 6:08 AM
The five-judge bench in the Navtej Singh Johar case did just that: it decriminalised homosexuality in India.
18 Sep 2018 12:04 AM
As women struggled and society changed, law had to respond, but often the response was still archaic.
26 Aug 2018 6:24 AM
Orality links up to memory. Our street performances emphasise memory and the constant reinvention of memory.
02 Aug 2018 8:22 AM
The politics of environment and the battles for livelihood become a microcosm for the democratic struggles today.
06 Jul 2018 12:33 AM
US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are seedy characters, yet even they seem desperate for peace.
26 Jun 2018 12:53 AM
Somehow one senses that the everyday nuance of feminist struggle has not penetrated the younger generation.
14 Apr 2018 5:53 AM
Science provides a generalised model of truth, objectivity, fairness and the need for rituals of experiment to verify facts.
12 Mar 2018 12:30 AM
Three crises haunted 2017 and we lack even a discourse, a language for dialogue.
24 Jan 2018 1:29 AM
All genocidal intent in India’s new policy is a clerical act of reclassification and the Rohingya go missing.
04 Jan 2018 2:58 AM
We confront two kinds of violence, one that is codified into institutions and another that is institutional violence.
20 Dec 2017 2:01 AM
The BJP’s acts of moral policing, whether of food, dress or sexuality, or even movies, has been a source of deep concern.
10 Dec 2017 12:12 AM
Yemen happens to be captive to the Houthi rebels, who obtain aid from Iran.
24 Nov 2017 6:41 AM
To appoint a security official to head the negotiation already closes options in the imagination.
15 Nov 2017 1:10 AM
The conference was an appeal to “listening” and the vital role that listening as an art and a ritual plays in a democracy.
29 Oct 2017 12:31 AM
Amitabh reinvents himself as a quizmaster in Kaun Banega Crorepati.
13 Oct 2017 1:04 AM
The modern norm calls for merit, and the best example are the various competitive exams from IIT to IAS.
04 Oct 2017 3:17 AM
The academies were playing plagiarist while the laymen were seeking to sustain scientific argument.
02 Oct 2017 12:41 AM