Cross Connections

I would have been tempted to title this piece, ‘Nobody Killed Aarushi’, which has become the standard headline for media prominent st...

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

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

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...

Few people realise that you could fear the familiar. The places and spaces you've been to before might have memories that claw at you. ...

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

Did the Defence Minsiter of India have to sound like a gully bully to make a point about the rightwing version of patriotism? Unfort...