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...

For over ten days now, all of India is talking about money. A nation where over 32 per cent people live below the poverty line, and where s...

Mukesh Ambani's home at Mumbai's Altamount Road still appears to me to be under-construction. There is something incomplete about ...

Everybody needs to use the toilet. Every day. But in India, we exaggerate it. By doing so we do not give it importance; we merely magnify i...

Just the other day, they were telling us how bad the situation is in Mumbai. How do you solve this problem? Bring a group of Kashmiri kids....

While I am against the globalisation mirage of India, I think that any of us firing the gun from the shoulders of the poor and dispossessed,...

The roads were slushy. Two boys sat near a puddle, cleaned some space in the rubble and squatted. There was a traffic jam. I could see as do...

Bihar's Mythic Development No Looking "Backwards" by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, December 1, 2010 India, once considere...

…or a sprint It is becoming increasingly clear that while the Commonwealth Games are rife with corruption, I am not quite certain what the ...

Where are the bats? The darkness? Why are these two cave-dwelling examples more about urban chic than an honest attempt at starkness? Daniel...

Dialled one? Do you expect to get beaten up for it, have your hair shaved off, and then be paraded through the streets? In Bhiwani, a villag...

We are free today? Rubbish. Slaves walk, talk, mock. Kuttey-kaminey , a curse made famous by Bollywood, is a reality. The strays are left to...

This is a party in Berlin. They are indulging themselves. The theme is the Great Depression. It is supposed to mock at a time in history wh...

Do we have a spine at all? Do the citizens of our country have a say and reach the highest authorities, unless they are somebody…and that to...

Everyone knows I love my city. In that sense I am quite parochial. It is a great place to watch life as though it were one of those cinema v...