Cross Connections

Like many others, I too have been riveted by the Bihar elections. Or, rather, its coverage. And the feeble response to and recognition of t...

When a murder case is described as a circus, an edge-of-seat drama, you know that nobody is interested in the dead. It is the killi...

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

I can understand the usual speeches of politicians, but what makes us repeat the same old songs again and again as evidence of our patriot...

A woman breastfeeding her child can be a rather sublime sight, that is if she is not stared at. But does sublimity or subtlety even matter ...

I don't like this tree, a hybrid tree that bears forty different kinds of fruit and flowers in varied colours. This "sculptur...

The Eid namaaz had just been offered. The maulvis at the Dargah Ala Hazrat in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh issued a fatwa: say no burial ...