Cross Connections

“Go corona! Corona go!” Ramdas Athawale, a minister in the state government of India, chanted this phrase again and again at a prayer meet...

Remember the time every Indian politician promised that India would be like Singapore? Remember how its former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Y...

Is America humiliating India by riding on the case of a maid? Sounds illogical, but if true then it is bizarre. The incident in sh...

Is she dead? Injured? Her limbs blown off? I will never know. I knew her only as a pseudonym. She often spoke about training for the ...

There are teems of people in the roads everyday, uprooted from homes. For them survival is a dream. A little money to be earned, wrenched fr...

He is just a killer. Got it? No? Don’t you read the papers, watch the news, listen to the experts? Heck, don’t you see that Muslim organisa...

The Anti-Islamism Hobby Horse   Out of the Wilders by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, June 24-26 It was indeed “a beautiful day” as Geer...

Everyone is upset with Germany’s interior minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, for saying, “Islam in Germany is not something substantiated by hi...

Like most people in the world, I do not like mosquitoes, whether they infect with malaria or merely take a sip of my blood. However, I alway...

Political expediency can be this obvious: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan has formally agreed to become the brand ambassador. Bachchan ...

Mukesh bhai is a smart cat – he used the Mumbai/Marathi taxi driver controversy to push the Indian liberalisation idea. During a panel disc...

I thought it was Raj Thackeray. But it was Maharashtra chief minister, Ashok Chavan, trying to convince us that is was important that taxi d...