Opinion
Democracy threatens to become our morphine, dulling our sensitivity to the world around us. Add to that another catch-word: “Development” - the one being used for framing the current debate over Maoism.
Web | Nov 03, 2009
Opinion
In our obsession with the West or “catching up” with China we ignore, and are ignorant of, countries that have much to teach us, countries that we simply do not have any excuse for being behind on key human development parameters
Web | Oct 13, 2009
Counterpoint
The government of the day might lack the courage to defend on honest grounds what it has quite reasonably done, but was the substance of the joint statement really as bad for India as the opposition parties and sections of the English-language media claim?
Web | Jul 20, 2009
Response
The azadi demanded by the Kashmiri movement, and used by Roy as a rallying cry, is not the answer. The freedom we need is azadi from the mindset that thinks of peoples and communities only in terms of nation-states; and equally, an azadi that demands that the Indian state honour its promise, to itself and to us.
Web | Sep 04, 2008
Counterview
'Bizarre, outlandish and a crashing bore; so over-smart, smug and self-indulgent...'? Was Tashan really all that bad? What accounts for severe panning from just about every reviewer?
Web | May 07, 2008
Opinion
Dev goes beyond usual pieties and refuses to succumb to the easy, banal secular-communal divide-- it offers a meditation on ethical obligation and responsibility, from within the Hindu tradition.
Web | Jul 01, 2004