Cross Connections

In India today, nationalism has a religion. Hinduism. We may pussyfoot around it and refer to it as Hindutva, saffronisation or, wh...

Qandeel Baloch sometimes looked like Amy Winehouse; her death was as tragic as Amy's. Both were on drugs. Winehouse was on the hard s...

When a comedy show that has managed to bring out the closet bad taste in comedy elite to openly vouch for it offers unconditional apolog...

One did not realise this was about competition, that too of the superficial kind. The celebrated anchor moving on to the sterilisation de...

Only because the police force represents the establishment, should we ignore how some cops, especially female, are treated by civilians? In ...

Why are we a part of so much noise? Sometime last month, a friend from Pakistan sent me a text message after a long gap of non-communicati...

If a celebrity sells a refrigerator to an Eskimo, it will be sold. We see this often in our society pages. So, why is it surprising if ...

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

Those applauding the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for dropping Narendra Modi from its list of keynote speakers had b...