Cross Connections

Should the son of a man considered a terrorist be feted for scoring 95 per cent marks and topping the 10th board exams?  Afzal Guru is no...

Twenty five percent of women make up the Modi cabinet. Are we sexist if we question the credentials of some of these women, as much as w...

What’s going on here under the garb of promoting the idea of voting as a right? Young man stands before visa officer at the US consulate....

"Screw it, I’ll just be a porn star.” What started as a joke became real. This is about Lauren, a student, desperately trying to fi...

A Mirage called Malala : Another Daughter of the East?  by Farzana Versey, CounterPunch, July 15 Had Edward Snowden exposed the dirt of ...

It is easy to run down television, but aren't we overdoing its impact on children? Does it convey a dumbing down if childre...

Right said, Premji? Pic: The Telegraph Azim Premji is the right type of man. India deserves every bit of him and his contribution, bo...

This news comes from the director of IIT Guwahati. Well, not quite rotten, but if you are not literal you will get the gist of the apparitio...

Anybody writing a book on Arindam Chaudhuri ought to be sued – for writing it at all. I mean, he runs some fancy management coaching classes...

A distorted image of a scene from the Hindi film 3 Idiots Since when have IITs and IIMs become shrines that everyone has to bow before t...

Do not expect the UID (Unique Identity) scheme to track absconders and the corrupt. It will see to it that the backward remain where they ...

"Go take a walk." And before I am branded as not Muslim enough, if at all, then let me assure you I am closely acquainted with ...

Before you raise your eyebrows, do see things beyond the obvious. The new Darul Uloom vice-chancellor, Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi ,...

When Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal announced plans for ‘navratna’ universities, his blueprint was not our own ancie...

You would not catch them attending a leadership programme at one of our universities or management institutes. But twelve of our ministers w...

Jairam Ramesh threw off his robes. As a minister for environment and forests, he was making no point, but by discarding the convocation robe...

I thought we'd finally realised the importance of erotica when I read about the proposed sex museum in Mumbai. Turns out that it will ed...

Why should anyone want to know how long it will take for India to have a Muslim prime minister? How does it matter? Some student from Aligar...