A chat with Anupam Kher in sun-soaked Karachi at the Karachi Literary Festival by our intrepid reporter
He is the man of the moment, a man Indians love and the Indian government hates. Anupam Kher, 60 years young, an actor, an activist, a human rights campaigner, is facing the heat.
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Laying siege to hotels, targeting unsuspecting students is part of this dreaded terror organisation’s modus operandi.
When clues don’t emerge, biases do.
Wars don’t end that easily, and peace doesn’t last that long. Mizoram is an exception. It deserves our attention, and so does its history.
Vandana Shiva vs GM Foods – examining the battle lines and fallouts of this war.
Vandana Shiva is a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. It can only be witnessed from a safe distance. The process of achieving critical mass was a slow and arduous one and to understand it one has to go back to her formative years in activism.
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Delhi doesn’t need condemning; those who hold in their hands its future do.
For an article that talks in excruciating detail of the cataclysmic effect of Delhi’s air, Harris Gardiner quotes but a single scientific study.
The release of the Henderson-Brooks report was in national interest when the BJP was in opposition, but not when they are in power.
Faulty and misinformed journalism is leading us to believe that Christians are under attack in India.
A look at what has changed in land acquisition law from 1894 to 2015.
Dharna clouds are hanging low. Thunder from the loudspeakers, lightning from the cameras. Except that this time around it has nothing to do with the Aam Aadmi Party.
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The Aam Aadmi Party is opposed to every idea, every scheme and every development that the communists are opposed to.
Why did the embodiment of Secularism – Nehru and Ambedkar – reject the insertion of the word SECULAR in our Constitution?
In all the controversy stoked by the government’s R-Day ad, we forgot to stop and think what the words in the Preamble really mean.
The Hindu population has faced persecution in Pakistan ever since 1947, but it didn’t vanish – it came home.
The history behind the India-Bangladesh land deal and how the BJP flip-flopped on the issue.
Tejpal’s attempt to return to the literary circuit made a mockery of justice and the countless women who have fought for it.
Anand Ranganathan sifts through the Rajdeep NL interview and comes up with some uncomfortable observations.
Have your evolutionary cake and eat religious pre-destiny too? Why Pope Francis needs to get his foot off one boat (and out of his mouth).
Down Syndrome foetus abortions: are the lines between science, rationality, morality and hope blurred?
Somewhere along his evolutionary timeline, Richard Dawkins turned from a priest to a preacher. The difference is subtle; indeed, in many parts of the world, perhaps non-existent.
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A hair-raising tale of playing “double” agent, and how it led Uncle Ranga to Madhu Kishwar’s doodles.