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Shackled, Bound and Fettered!

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- Shackled, bound and fettered, heads bowed, they stumbled out of the American military aircraft. Our brothers, our sisters, our children, thrown back, in an undignified manner, b... Read More


Attempts to Undermine Gandhi's Contribution to Freedom Movement Musings on Gandhi's Martyrdom Day

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- Eric Hobswam famously stated that history is as important to (sectarian) nationalism as poppy is to an opium addict. The right wing is surging with great speed; its ideologues ke... Read More


The Future is Already Here When They Misname It 'Civilisational Justice'

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- Power Dictates, 'Creates' Truth Almost on his first day in office, Donald Trump took America out of the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Agreement. He considers a... Read More


Budget 2025-26 Misplaced Priorities

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- The first day of February has come and gone amidst the hullabaloo witnessed by the national Capital due to the Delhi elections. Within minutes of the Budget speech, headlines abo... Read More


Rajasthan Turns Criminal Law Upside Down

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- If passed, the Rajasthan Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Bill, 2025, tabled in the Rajasthan Assembly on February 4 2025, will turn the criminal jurisprudence upsi... Read More


Ram Teri Ganga Maili Ho Gayi!

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- In 1985, a Hindi film titled Ram Teri Ganga Maili became a superhit and the highest-grossing Indian film of the year. The heroine Mandakini sings a song: "Ram Teri Ganga Maili Ho... Read More


Speaking Truth to Power.

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- A video of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington speaking at the inaugural prayer service of U.S. President Donald Trump went viral. Many who watched the video commented that she ha... Read More


A Flight of Disgrace Stand Up Against Bullying

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- We were seated in the last but two rows on an Air India flight from Paris to Delhi in the year 2000. After almost everyone had taken their seats and stored their luggage, two Fre... Read More


Evicted Without Honor

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- It is a farce that in modern India, a nation whose leader prides himself on being a Vishwaguru, our own policies are compelling desperate citizens to seek fortunes abroad-only to... Read More


The Weight of Hope: Deportations and Broken Dreams

NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- The C-17 Globemaster III, a US military transport plane-a symbol of both American power and shattered Indian dreams-touched down in Punjab's Amritsar on February 5. Its massive f... Read More