When powerful people show concern and promise speedy action on injustice, there is a transient moment of hope. Given how many times this charade has...

A particularly painful moment in the Lok Sabha FDI debate saw ‘Netaji’ Mulayam Singh Yadav take the name of Ram Manohar Lohia. He talked about ...

The cold-blooded violence of the Taliban, the ability of Germans to build precision instruments, the courteousness (‘How are you doing?’) of a white...

Now that we have moved on from the serial Haryana rapes to newer headlines of the year in this holy land, and the urban liberal condemnation brigade...

Hurricane Sandy made landfall in Kingston. This is not a town in the USA. It is a city in Jamaica, immortalised among many people by Harry Belafonte’s...

US or ‘America’ is as much an idea as it is a swathe of land with people. It lives in different forms in minds of people all over the world, beyond...

It is perhaps not a co-incidence that two events happened almost simultaneously in Delhi. One was the final hearing at the Supreme Court of the Glivec...

With more than 40 people reported dead and upwards on one and a half lakh displaced in a week, the Kokrajhar riots between Bodos and Muslims have...

The athlete Pinki Pramanik, who has won numerous medals for Bengal and the Indian union, has been at the centre of unprecedented media attention...

My maternal grandmother, who I used to call Dida, and by whose side I was during her death more than a decade ago while I was still a medical student,...