The dog and pony show
On the forgotten soldiers of Kashmir and why patriotism is the last refuge of the demagogue.
The woman in red and other stories
With all that we have going on right here in India, a protest in Gezi Park, in Istanbul,…
Bad news
Everyone: There’s so much anger and helplessness flooding my thoughts, I worry that soon there won’t be any room…
Reading List 19/01/2020
Uttar Pradesh, about which a longer blogpost needs writing, continues to shock with its arrogant unconcern for either…
The sound of silence
I woke up this morning and, while still beneath the covers, reached for my phone. I checked mail,…
Some news, some views
HERE is what is known to a fair degree of certainty: For over a year now, the RSS…
Dotting the ‘i’
#1. The censor board, after consulting with its specially constituted panel, has decided to clear Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s…
The News in Briefs: October 2
#1. In Agra, members of the VHP and the RSS, armed with guns, pistols and swords fired in…
WTFJH: Random links and an open thread
Today’s post is not thematic, but more in the nature of a scratch-pad, a compilation of stories that…
WTF Just Happened: Sept 25
“The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” “It must come sometimes to ‘jam to-day,’” Alice objected. “No,…
