When a win is not a win
Finally, the last ballot has been cast in the 2022 round of assembly elections to five states. Exit…
Binders full of women
Why women? Why are they protesting (when they should be at home cooking and cleaning and looking after…
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,…
Cry me a river
In a previous post I wrote of Hitler, of fascism, of the means to the murderous end that…
In the beginning was the word…
In early 2009, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC mounted an exhibition using Nazi propaganda material — posters,…
Bad news
Everyone: There’s so much anger and helplessness flooding my thoughts, I worry that soon there won’t be any room…
Justice delayed…
Approximately 140 petitions have been filed, most of them in different courts across the country, challenging the constitutional…
People versus the State
Earlier today there was a hearing at the Tis Hazari court in Delhi, where Judge Kamini Lau sat…
Reading List 19/01/2020
Uttar Pradesh, about which a longer blogpost needs writing, continues to shock with its arrogant unconcern for either…
Anatomy of an ‘unrest’
During my time away, a story that fascinated me — in a train-wreck kind of way, and as…
