Who Will Listen to Para’s Silent Screams?
I read about this shameful and horrifying rape in Tehelka’s recent issue and it filled me with rage and a deep sense of frustration…Rage at what happened and the indifference of police authorities and...
Author: B Shantanu
Gandhigiri, Taliban and the need for reform in Islam
Be careful before you try “Gandhi-giri” – It may earn you a fatwa. Most of you may have already come across these two seemingly unrelated news items. A closer look at them though underlines the need for...
Interview with Geeta Gokhale, BPD – Part I
Regular readers of this blog would recall a short series of posts I did earlier this year (see here and here) on the emergence of new political parties in India being formed by young professionals who...
Hinduism, “Caste System” and discrimination – Join the debate
Dear Readers, I am moving several comments on the Turkey and Secularism post here due to the fact that they are more to do with Hinduism and discrimination and less with the subject of...
Is India now officially “Hindu”?
…Wall Street Journal thinks so. And if the eminent WSJ says so (in a title, no less), it must be true, right? During last weekend, came across this half-baked opinion passing off as a...
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