To be an Indian these days is to have precious little to cheer about. There is the occasional victory when the Indian cricket team has its collective ass saved by Sachin
It is today politically fashionable to speak of a certain community and its culture as truly Indian, but the fact is that there are no pure native Indians, or any pure native Indian culture
All the intellectuals of India seem afraid that a proposal for discussing the question of caste at a UN forum might make it into a global talking point...
When extraordinary levels of violence are systematically inflicted on the same people, it makes them more visible, where previously they were not noticed
The Indian small town has been wiped off the map, the measured hopefulness of its middle class replaced by an acquisitiveness unchecked by social concerns, propelling itself on the twin cylinders of fundamentalist politics and global capitalism
To seek truth at the extremities of the Indian experience, correspondent Sandipan Deb and photographer Prashant Panjiar travelled to the corners of the country. They found faith, bitterness, patriotism, and complex questions of identity.
'Native' literatures run close to the living nerve, but English too must find its way to Imagining India and, in the process, enrich itself by looking beyond its class horizons
Vested political interests have made FIs like IDBI and IFCI anachronistic in the post-liberalisation scenario. And they run the risk of going the UTI way.
