Trafficked, traded, enslaved, raped and made to conceive babies for adoption. Adivasi girls are turned into baby-making machines that fetch Rs 1-4 lakh per child.
Placement agencies are trafficking agencies. Instead of curbing the sale of girls, rape, and the sale of their babies, the government seeks to legalise the agencies.
In mythology, the Sun God’s son is a tragic hero. But Justice Karnan, the first HC judge to be awarded jail term for contempt of court, has set a sad precedent.
Fear of the far right propelled Macron to the presidency. His En Marche! has to prove its mettle now in the parliamentary polls, and then in governance.
No rules exist in this game of spirituality. Fly and meet the yogi in his abode, where maximal joy is served out with a dash of Hindu
mysticism he picked from India.
Former Northern army chief Lt. Gen (Retd) D. S. Hooda on what motivates soldiers to live under rigid conditions in Kashmir, what motivates them to lay down their lives...
Southal’s Punjabi widows lead lives of abject pettiness, yet explode into lurid sexual thoughts when prompted. This novel unearths their buried desires.
The royal masque in Akbar’s glittering court at Fatehpur Sikri is occasion for Sealy’s exquisite poem-prose, decorated with words, absences and old longing
