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(This is a fictitious account that I would have written if I were young and at Delhi on this day)    I live in Delhi and have alrea...

What do names of places mean? Is it an honour? Is it a sop? Why has Pakistan woken up to name a square in Lahore after Shahid Bhagat S...

...and the rest of India wants to be foreign It is shameful that the chief of a ‘nationalist’ group, the RSS, feels that India was better o...

They talk about the second independence. It is really another partition of the country – a partition that will last until the next popcorn e...

Last night I did not watch ‘The Buck Stops Here’ on NDTV. I caught it on the Net today. The video showed an image with the words, “This is n...

Of Nations and Notions The Bangladesh India Forgot by Farzana Versey Countercurrents, December 16, 2009 On December 16, a nation was...

Maverick: The Indian Colonisers of India By Farzana Versey Covert, Aug 15-31 I miss those days. They would exclaim, “Oh, Indian!” and all yo...