Cross Connections

I do not know who would buy a mattress after seeing such images. Kurl-On is a well known brand. It has run a series using three public fi...

“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we ...

I said I was an Existentialist without quite knowing what it meant. Between the crevices of poetry and philosophy, my life was wormi...

  “Alexander Cockburn no more” would sound like a terrible headline. The reality of it is as biting as his prose. To think that I just got ...

Yes. So? I don’t plead guilty to it. I am not guilty about it. The accusations have been piling up for many months now: I do not feel victi...

 Not given to political correctness for the sake of it, I yet find the idea of a ‘blind restaurant' revolting. It isn’t new, and has b...

The Shiv Sena and Shahrukh Khan have "climbed down" a bit, without altering their "ideological" positions. So, the SS is...

I do occasionally put up feedback received and my replies, if any, here. Many of them are those that disagree. This is not to say there have...

Last night I was watching a ‘serious’ discussion as part of the ‘State of the Nation’ surveys conducted by CNN-IBN on women across the count...

Killing people with statistics amounts to zilch if you don’t have an original idea to stand on its head and yours. When I started getting le...