From Peshawar to Bethlehem
2014-12-19
A good beginning would be to recognize the “other” as a brother or sister, and not as a threat.Continue Reading
Why Kerala is like Kuwait, while Madhya Pradesh is like Haiti
2014-12-15
American poet Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”—“Do I contradict myself/ Very well then I contradict myself/I am large, I contain multitudes”—seems tailor-made for India. Which country can India be compared to, in economic terms? Is India’s level of economic development more or less like Vietnam’s, because their per capita incomes,Continue Reading
Human rights of tribal people: who cares?
2014-12-12
Kerala tribals’ stand up stir has completed five monthsContinue Reading
India’s deepening communal cleavages
2014-12-11
Emboldened individual Hindu activists “could be testing the waters, testing precedent, testing the limits of the politically possible”Continue Reading
Big salute to Rohtak sisters
2014-12-05
The Haryana sisters from Rohtak have said more eloquently what the society at large needed today. The actions of these girls from the hinterland have spoken louder than any words could have. The President’s medal for bravery which will be conferred on them on the occasion of Republic Day nextContinue Reading
India’s Tipping Point
2014-12-04
Isn’t self-discipline integral to both sanitation and progress?Continue Reading
CONSECRATED LIFE: Breaking the tether
2014-12-03
It is normal that all of us get used to things that we do routinely. We begin to do things automatically without even taking note of things, because we take things for granted that they would not change. That is how we could very easily become machines, and may loseContinue Reading