Manipur, especially the Imphal valley, is in the throes of an extraordinary mass movement which has erupted around the Inner Line permit (ILP) issue....

Typically, swear words tell us more about those who speak them than those towards whom they are targeted. Swearing is most effective when the target...

Sureshbhai Patel, a 57-year-old grandfather from rural Gujarat, had gone to visit his prematurely born grandson in the state of Alabama, USA. He was...

In a world of ‘breaking news’ and constant ‘updates’, we sometimes need time to digest the full implications of an event. A good example is the recent...

In a game of football, if someone commits a foul and breaks the rules, the referee blows a whistle. The referee in this case is letting everyone know...

‘Controversial’ films and protests against them have a very long tradition in the Indian Union. ‘PK’, the superhit Bollywood film, packs an eclectic...

The Indian Union has a division of power between entities called Centre and states in a way that the People’s Republic of Bangladesh does not. The...

If  you have not watched the YouTube video Enna Da Rascalas: South of India, you should. It is a crisp, catchy-tune video made by a talented group of...

Convicted war criminal Ghulam Azam is dead. He died last week. He was 91. In the subcontinent, many political figures enjoy interesting lives after...

The goras or firingis who ruled over large parts of the subcontinent for centuries often appear to browns as an undifferentiated mass. That there are...

Most human cultures in the subcontinent and around the world consider marriage (or socially-sanctioned variants of the concept) to be the purest...

‘Gnar mari tor motorgarir, Gnar mari tor shopping mall-er, Bujhbi jokhon ashbe tere, Nangto mojur shaban koler’ (Damn your cars and shopping malls,...