About ban on Salman Rushdie’s book/person
Some tweets that say it all. Now Deoband demands ban on Video Conferencing with Salman Rushdie saurabh srivastava Mon, Jan 23 2012 02:19:56 ReplyRetweet BAN freedom of speech, […]
Some tweets that say it all. Now Deoband demands ban on Video Conferencing with Salman Rushdie saurabh srivastava Mon, Jan 23 2012 02:19:56 ReplyRetweet BAN freedom of speech, […]
While I have not written about Bhanwari devi here, I have been following her story for a while now. One of the main reasons I have not written is that
Sunny Singh makes a very intriguing and perceptive observation about the Arab Spring and the rash of self-immolations that it brought. She points out that while self-immolation is known culturally
I am very, very angry right now. In a country reeling with inflation, with a majority of its population under poverty, the government is set to “privatize water”. The Union
Different quotes from Sainath’s work that I found interesting Well, I would like to tell you the rat race is over. The rats have won.— P. Sainath, Lecture: The Importance of Citizen
As I post up a lot of transcripts from Sainath and at the same time am posting a lot of information on nuclear power that never makes it to our
When I wrote my post on Kashmiri Pandits, a friend responded privately with a nugget of political insight – before the ethnic cleansing, Kashmiri Pandits did favor independence over merger
Some thoughts on Pakistan and Independent Kashmir Read More »
“Uraniam found in 241 water samples” the headline could have screamed, but it didn’t. It made modest appearance and slid into obscurity, unheralded on the news site’s social networks. This
In 2006, I attended an event of ISABS. I had just returned to Mumbai after spending several years in the mountains, and was still missing rural life. So when the