Cross Connections

Charlatan godman Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan, head of the Dera Sacha Sauda, has been sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonme...

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...

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...

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

Kamal Haasan recently played martyr. It is fairly common for the arrogant and liars to play martyr. It is the prime ticket to a clean s...

A news story on untouchability among the Parsis may seem like an anachronism, but this is how the pallbearers in the community are trea...

He was the only public intellectual in India who could make sense of the nonsense. The good thing is that he would baulk at being referred...

You go out for a meal and take a picture and post it. What are you really telling the world? You drive and capture the streets, the clouds,...

Rape should be treated as a crime not only against women but society, only then will it be seen as more than a ‘zenana’ issue cloistere...

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

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

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

Fine dining, by definition, is exclusive. Can a foreigner bar Pakistanis from his restaurant in Pakistan, their country? The obvious r...

What do you think about Pope Francis being chosen Best Dressed Man of 2013 by Esquire? When the magazine says , "Pope Francis's s...

Why has everything become about rape? The US ambassador to India, Nancy Powell, was asked why Americans did not come to India for studies....

A measure of how 'backward' a society is to see how it portrays progressiveness. If you need to pat someone for what is considered n...

Would you expect a biology teacher who also takes a geography class to explain mountains and oceans in biology terminology? Or a writer of...