Kabuliwala of the Eden Gardens
As an homage to Tagore, Atrayee writes a modern version of Kabuliwala. This Mini’s world is that of crayons, TV, Cricket matches, and more. But, the echoes of...
Empowerment and Wellbeing of African Women
Many cultural customs and traditions infringe on the rights of women and children by subjecting them to abuse, in keeping with Africa’s gender equality and women’s empowerment agenda, and...
Rabindranath Tagore: An Inquiry into Ideas and Ideals
In order to acquire a worldview for himself, Tagore strove to achieve a balance between Humanism and Naturalism, Individualism and Determinism, Hedonism and Asceticism, all of them being...
Pak Junta Grounds ISI Durrani to Grind Him: Book Reveals Games Played by Spooks across the Border
Lt. General Asad Durrani, once chief of Pakistan’s notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is in trouble. He danced a tango with ex-RAW head Amarjit Singh Dulat – who is in...
Media in the Times of Impeachment: Opposition Politicians, Mutineers Speak Same Language
Ideologies are basically left of centre and right of centre. Governments are ideological. The judiciary has to be above politics. And media has to walk the tightrope. So, when...
Foreign Law Firms Prohibited from Setting Offices in India: Sanctity of the Advocates Act Upheld
Here’s a landmark judgement by the Apex Court on the foreign law firms setting offices in India and a weekly round-up of the major judgements from around the country...
Centre Appoints New Prosecutor for 2G Spectrum Case
Here’s a report on the 2G Spectrum case and other weekly round-up of major cases for Different Truths. The Government of India, in a surprising development, appointed Tushar Mehta,...
The Gun Laws in the US: More Guns, More Homicides
A strong finding of a study by Philip J. Cook was on gun use and crime was that gun use intensifies violence, making it more likely that the victim...
CPI(M) Under Severe Pressure Over Murder Of YC Worker: Congress Ups the Ante, Plans Statewide Agitation
The Congress is bent on extracting as much political mileage out of the Shuhaib murder as is possible. The party is planning to up the ante on the issue...
Islamabad Shaken by Pashtun Resurgence: Traumatised by Terrorism, Racial Profiling
The Pashtun resurgence, hyphenated from political parties, is the expression of a new identity politics. Anger got accumulated out of individual and collective experiences of Pashtuns in the distinct...