Cross Connections

Did the Defence Minsiter of India have to sound like a gully bully to make a point about the rightwing version of patriotism? Unfort...

How different are the two pictures really? In one the man poses with his kill; in the other the industry caters to consumerist bloodthi...

We seem to have become numb to the dehumanising methods of the ISIS. The response to the Jordanian pilot burned to death has b...

How many of us, whether in the media or human rights organisations or as aware citizens, had bothered to highlight the case of James Fo...

“What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things tha...

Look around. The same story everywhere. In different forms. Different victims. Different perpetrators. Is it us? Nothing more to say...a pow...

A young man is killed by a group of people. They ought to be arrested and questioned for the motive of the crime by the police. The court...

I detest the term 'honour killing'. It assumes that somebody's honour is at stake and therefore the murder has social sanctit...

It takes a death to bring us alive to what we are, but choose to ignore. The question is: How long will this wake-up call last? Are we...

Should culture be a denial of history? And what history ought to be remembered? When Karnataka decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan in thei...

It takes extreme heartlessness to lob grenades, to shoot people in the head, and hold them hostage. People who have nothing to do with an...

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

Now a dying declaration can be recorded by anyone, according to a judgement passed by the Supreme Court in its reversal of a high court verd...

They hacked a soldier to death. What was as bad as the spectacle of TV anchors giving tantalising sound bites about the possible image...

The re-opening of the case yesterday against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots could prove to be a b...

Veerappan Veerappan was probably the last of the bandits. Shot dead in 2004 by the security forces that he eluded for a good few decad...

Are India and Pakistan at war? If we take a pragmatic view, then there has never been peace between the two nations. Does this transl...

What happened? A man is killed after appearing on 'Satyamev Jayate '. Is there a limit as to how far reality shows can and should ...

Rahul Gandhi, like the rest of the Nehru-Gandhi clan before him, will never contest an election from Kashmir. When he says, “I myself am ...

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