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A naked man addressing politicians in the assembly should raise eyebrows. But in India this is cause for reverence. It is the same India...

Natwar Singh is right about one thing: Sonia Gandhi should have kept quiet. The one-time Congress loyalist and senior minister has writte...

Sometimes, words are impotent when they shoot in the dark or do not serve much purpose. Yet, they seem to attract a lot of attention. How p...

This should be treated on par with 'honour killing', that execrable term that props up the worst form of patriarchy. A 20-year o...

The manner in which the case of the editor who sexually exploited an intern is being played out one would imagine that people never had a...

In August last year Geetika Sharma ended her life. In her suicide note, she blamed former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide an...

Baba died this morning of April 24, 2011. According to his own spiritual calculations, he was scheduled to depart earth in 2022. While I u...

“Even though I am a little brat... 33 girls in two months seems like too much even for a 30 year old. It’s too much for anybody." - Si...

Time for 'zandu balm'? Why are Indians taking out morchas saying that the frisking of our ambassador to the US is an insult to I...

How did a rape victim become an icon and why? Is Jamshed Dasti a stand-alone, callous bloke trying to use pressure and clout to stifle justi...

Ram Jethmalani certainly deserves the Rajya Sabha seat. The BJP is happy to acquiesce, at least one section that counts. He is also making t...

She is an advocate and the first woman attorney-general. But trust the headlines to play that down. Hindustan Times had ‘Indian-origin grann...

Mind your language The White House Whitewash Job by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, April 9-11, 2010 Forked tongues are part of the political a...

Why should anyone want to know how long it will take for India to have a Muslim prime minister? How does it matter? Some student from Aligar...

Just when I thought we were done with the tacky ‘Singh is King’ headline in national newspapers, we now have ‘Rahul’s Young Turks’. Never mi...

Aung San Suu Kyi exudes tranquility. The power of still waters that can create such variegated images with a mere ripple. The only way one c...