Cross Connections

A measure of how 'backward' a society is to see how it portrays progressiveness. If you need to pat someone for what is considered n...

One would probably do a double-take thinking of the Barack Obama administration intimidating the CIA operatives who were in Benghazi, when t...

Beep-beep. Early morning. Text message from a friend in Karachi. So, bleary-eyed, I read that “My party has won. It is 5 am here and I...

Like most things in life, The Times of India has been a habit. It is easy to break, but I never felt the need to give it the 'kick...

Can you imagine Libyan pro-democracy group overtaking the headquarters of an extremist organisation, that too to protest against the ki...

“I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we wor...

He won’t utter the R word. He won’t call it racism. His job matters. It took the President of the United States of America one month to com...

What can be worse than Swami Nityanand video clips in uncompromising positions? Swami Agnivesh in Bigg Boss. The whole promos-on-television...

Winfrey the Pooh   Oprah’s Divine Comedy by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, May 27-29  They were discussing thighs. The woman was wea...