The #Tehelka Consensus
Extraordinary events ought to be documented somewhere, and when it comes to a media consensus, the secondary chroniclers of our era are bloggers. So I am looking at this moment […]
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Tehelka: a bad lapse of judgment and awful misreading of Vishakha guidelines
Tehelka stands on the wrong end of an outrage this time. Tarun Tejpal stands accused of sexual harassment of a young journalist during their iTHINK festival. While I don’t downplay
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Campa Cola Society demolitions tamasha
It is all over the media. Unsuspecting, well educated residents of an upscale locality are losing their homes over something that is “not their fault”. The builder didn’t tell them
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Spouting Vedanta, Modernity and tradition
When a “senior journalist who has written several books on development” abdicates either sanity or integrity or both and starts spouting propaganda that has been rejected by the people it
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Farmer suicides in India: Peddling anti-farmer bull shit
There is a category of journalists and publications which consistently publish seemingly scientific articles that are aimed at one or more of the following goals: Trivializing the problem of farmer
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A Life in Clothes – Part 6: From marriage to trap
A life in Clothes is a five part autobiographical series I did in support of the slutwalk Delhi to illustrate what it can be like to live in a male
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Crowdsourcing the future
It has been a while since I have problems with my husband. Every time I tried to walk out, I thought I may not be able to, without support. Depended
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Transcript: Why Democracy – P. Sainath
The following is the transcript of snippets of P. Sainath’s insights on democracy. I think there is much to think of here. Many thanks Atul Hirde for making this video
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Those torturous women
I get a lot of these myths about women. Astonishing, because women aren’t yet so rare that people can’t simply look around them and find out truths. Here goes. Women
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