While socio-economic and medical structural barriers continue to pose challenges, criminalisation of abortion through a restrictive legal framework creates a chilling effect on the willingness of medical practitioners to...
Hindi Diwas: The government should be concerned that the younger generation dislikes language imperialism
The wounds of history may heal if Muslims return Krishna Janmabhoomi and Kashi Vishwanath. It may open the doors to lasting amity between the two communities.
Literature coming out of the state once celebrated communal harmony, but current political developments have exacerbated the paradox and dilemma of Hindi literati
Hindi Diwas: With Hindi being pushed by the Centre as Rashtra Bhasha, the spectre of language imperialism haunts the Indian Union
How the author morphed into a purveyor of socio-political conflict and a catalyst for Muslim radicalisation
Hindi Diwas: Even the otherwise Hindi-friendly Malayali rises to resist the imposition of Hindi on them
If Goa’s official language sustained despite an attempted colonial wipe-out, there’s hope that people will find a way to preserve their Goan-ness irrespective of the ruling party
In the world of sports and writing, it is hard to explain even in life whether your luck shines because you work hard on your form, or whether your form...
By announcing on Twitter that he was stepping down from the India T20 captaincy, he may have played into BCCI’s hands
Physically, Virat Kohli doesn’t appear to be struggling, but as it often happens when you are out of form, the first mistake you make tends to be your last.
Not only are fake ‘encounter’ killings by cops rampant across the country, they are wildly cheered by a people who have lost faith in the criminal justice...
The Maximum City of Mumbai is groaning under its own weight as the metropolis continues to find ‘space’ to house all those who have made it their home
Nurtured over decades by an instinctive hatred of the Other, the Sainik on the streets today finds himself rudderless
The history of GKSS, a trade union representing workers of closed textile mills of Mumbai, encapsulates the evolution of working class unity and class action...
All the films that I have made, I have gone back to them. They are masters of their craft, and now they are superstars in their field. They don’t have time,...
They certainly lack the ability to understand that a lawful and peaceful life is far more adventurous and profitable than the life of a gangster
The trend of prominent singers lending their voices to pressing political issues of the state has only intensified after the farm agitation.
Multiple factors including the law have made it impossible to collectivise the women in the locality
Plans to revive Mumbai’s infamous locality of Kamathipura have remained, at best, a dream for its residents
It is this same dust that found its way to Nini Lungalang, an extraordinary Naga poet who wrote Dust, a poem that delicately and powerfully invokes in 40...
The Indian season of rain is made for music and merrymaking and mating, in that order.
In India, the monsoon is not merely yet another season, it’s a cultural phenomenon. And it is of matchless historical importance in the world of Indian music.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of...
We don’t need to excavate the acrimony of the past. Rather, we need to be honest about it, accept it and move beyond it. A country that needs to reconcile...
