Read More 9 minute read Binders full of womenbyPrem PanickerFebruary 20, 2020 Why women? Why are they protesting (when they should be at home cooking and cleaning and looking after…
Brief breakbyPrem PanickerFebruary 18, 2020 PSA: Over the next two days the blog is on a hiatus of sorts (If something major breaks,…
Read More 13 minute read Republic of SpinbyPrem PanickerFebruary 17, 2020 Spin — the massaging of facts to make them palatable or, as someone once put it, “the artistic…
The state versus the studentsbyPrem PanickerFebruary 16, 2020 December 15, 2019: Police — many of them masked — entered the Old Reading Hall on the first…
Read More 10 minute read Cry me a riverbyPrem PanickerFebruary 6, 2020 In a previous post I wrote of Hitler, of fascism, of the means to the murderous end that…
Read More 16 minute read Fascism in the worksbyPrem PanickerJanuary 28, 2020 The Auschwitz Memorial twitter handle last evening posted two images, taken less than 12 years apart: One of…
Amusing ourselves to deathbyPrem PanickerNovember 28, 2017 For the two weeks that I have been away, I lived a pre-internet life. I consumed “news”, such…
WTF Just Happened: November 10byPrem PanickerNovember 10, 2017 #1. Pune University just announced that gold medals will be given only to those students who are completely…
WTF Just Happened: Sept 25byPrem PanickerSeptember 25, 2017 “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,…
WTF just happened: Sept 24byPrem PanickerSeptember 24, 2017 Three days into this WTFJH series that I started as a means to find/reclaim my voice, and I…