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The Pelicot rape trial has reminded the world of the tenuousness of a woman’s sense of safety. Gisèle has done her bit. But where do we go from...
The undermining of liberal values by liberals themselves, the ascent of conservative forces, the politics of exclusion, we have seen it all.
Time and again, a harsh but obvious truth asserts itself - men cannot stand women. The latest example is the outgoing Corps Commander (17 Corps) Lt...
We, the people of Delhi, are in a bad marriage with the city. This marriage is beyond redemption, but both parties dither in calling it quits. Because...
“My brother forced my pen to move.” That's what Sandhya Mridul, a Hindi cinema and TV artist, says about the motivation behind her debut book of...
It's not misogyny that defeated Kamala Harris. There is a certain insincerity lurking behind this explanation for the decisive victory of the...
All of us can be forgiven for mistaking 2024 as the year of the longest-running live TV entertainment. Thankfully, one leg of it is over. As the votes...
“Irreparable loss,” the phrase that leapt out for this author from economist and author Bibek Debroy's last piece of public writing published...
In the annals of history, few narratives illuminate the dynamics of international relations as vividly as trade. The East India Company's interest in...
All eyes have been on Iran for more than a year. Naturally, the first BRICS summit with Tehran's membership is bound to breed speculation about what...
"We're not so different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weakness in one another's systems. Don't you think it's time to...
"If it's good for Ratan Tata, it's good for us" was my saintly-strictly in the sense of being indifferent to extravaganza-husband's winning line last...
"It's good these people are in jail," a fruit seller shared his frustration, keeping his shop open despite a lowered shutter in response to the...
Typing this essay on a MacBook Air, tethered to an iPhone Pro (not the latest model) for accessing the internet, reeks of hypocrisy. Yet, certain...
The problem with sexual abuse, as suspected in the Diddy-Bieber case, is twofold — the impact and the perpetrator-victim dynamic
In an ongoing hearing, the Supreme Court of India has decried the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for not serving its purpose. The...
"You should have married me," the lover said ruefully. "Then I'd be doing this with him." 'This' being a sweaty steamy rendezvous on a yacht. It...
Votaries of the US presidential debate - including many of our senior politicians - may want to hold their horses. The first presidential debate...
I'll be 39 in exactly ten days. I'm a mother of two daughters-21 and 15. I have all the privileges that you can count-caste, class, religion, skin...
(In light of the controversy over the Netflix series 'IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack', here is a view on the 1999 hijack and its aftermath. Click here to...
"Could we really scan a dog's brain to figure out what it was thinking? Would we find proof that dogs love us?" In the prologue to his trailblazing...
The Russia-Ukraine war started exactly two years ago. The very next day, on February 25, 2022, India abstained from voting on a draft resolution in...
"Why harp on the facts, it's the exaggerations that makes a tale interesting!" A favourite aunt once exclaimed when I tried to fact-check a funny...
Some victories are sweeter than others, some defeats more bitter, whatever the arena be. But what about the cruelty of fate? How does one take heart?...
'In my beginning is my end.' There is no situation in the world that cannot be explained through poetry in general, T.S. Eliot's in particular....
So what if our team turned up in an eyesore of a formal kit at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics? Our shaadi ceremonies are way grander than...
"We did it, Joe," exclaimed the 49th Vice-President of the United States four years ago-the phrase becoming a war cry of sorts, coming from a...
Everyone loves a good host. Everyone loves a powerful host. Everyone loves a host who gives guided tours. In this limited regard, the Prime Minister...
The day Baba died, my childhood breathed its last, too. I was in Benares, shooting a documentary, when a text message from my mother on the family...
Is the presidential debate an act of intervention for the public at large in the US and abroad? It would seem so, going by the public response to the...
Is the presidential debate an act of intervention for the public at large in the US and abroad? It would seem so, going by the public response to the...
A Mouthful of Sky. A heart rate dangerously above normal. A pulsating country of 1.5 billion people erupting in joy and frenzy. Even before India...
Credit: Reuters Delhi's meteorological and political climates seem to be in perfect sync this year. After the infernal heat and dust, the city is...
My yoga class is a microcosm of modern society. A group of individuals coming together in a spatio-temporal context to achieve different goals. It is...
No, this essay is not an alphabet primer on coalition politics for dummies. The youth of India, coming into their political being in the last decade...
"When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure...
Everyone loves a good exit poll. A good exit poll is, essentially speaking, a controversial one. The period between the last minute of the polling in...
Everyone loves a good exit poll. A good exit poll is, essentially speaking, a controversial one. The period between the last minute of the polling in...
Mah Laqa Bai in the court of Raja Rao Rambha Bahadur Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons "Delhi was a city of courtesans who wielded extraordinary...
Knife, his latest is a sharp work of literature that cuts the flab of Joseph Anton and presents Rushdie as barebones.
The fireworks and jubilation in some quarters of Iran over President Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash are an ocular reminder of the...
What is this pervasive fragrance in our Garden of Time? Can we pick the notes? Is it that of dissent or conformity? Is the garden resonant with an ode...
In many countries, May Day is celebrated by raising a wine glass to toast the fruit of human labour that makes the world go round. It is ironic,...
In 1989, when people 'defected' to vote the Indian National Congress government out, leading to a minority National Front government, there were loud...
Vinay Pathak in Nothing Like Lear Courtesy: Unmask Studio Vinay Pathak wakes up to bad news one day. Out of habit, as he opens the newspaper to...
In the Oppenheimer universe, the US is right even when the US is wrong.
Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...
Yet another woman has been raped in India. She's part of the crime statistics this time because she happens to be a foreigner, a traveller, a vlogger,...
While it may still be some time before Indian men go all Timothée Chalamet in donning Cartier necklaces while stepping out, luxury jewellery brands...
Are there any mitigating circumstances for the actions of the collaborators of a murderous regime? In the graveyards of empires, the tombstones of...