This was a year of protests and arrests. Of activism and muzzling of activism. Of Indian democracy taking to the streets and of moves by the...

Friends, Indians, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to declare that democracy has won in India, not that it has lost. I will now present some...

Work is proceeding in a blurred rush in the office of a leading national daily in Delhi on a Sunday evening. It is time to take out the evening...

Lalit Bhanot is facing trial in the Commonwealth Games scam. He was in jail for a year. Now he is general secretary of the Indian Olympic ...

Patna hosted a grand mushaira (Urdu poetry recital) recently. Big names of Urdu poetry were among the poets who had come from various cities to read...

There must be something terribly wrong with the way people are educated if all the degrees and academic brilliance can’t ensure that people are...

They are VVIPs. And I am what I am, the smallest unit of we, the people who have made them what they are — elected representatives of we, the people....

In June 2007, a news channel said that the World Wide Fund for Nature had listed the Ganga among the five most threatened rivers of the world, ranked...

Bakreed was a time for me to visit old Muslim friends and have excellent home-made mutton preparations. The social function festivals fulfil is of...

Arvind Kejriwal’s allegations of corruption against politicians may or may not be true. But even though his charges have not been proved true in a...

It is a matter of serious sociological examination why a society that worships the female principle of creation as goddesses frequently becomes...