Does your vote really count in a democracy?
As the elections in Karnataka near, there will be plaintive pleas for “educated people” not to waste their vote, the underlying belief being that uneducated voters will vote any way …
As the elections in Karnataka near, there will be plaintive pleas for “educated people” not to waste their vote, the underlying belief being that uneducated voters will vote any way …
On the day The Times of India launched in Madras, Bellur Ramakrishna steps across the ‘Laxman rekha‘ to see what the “prim, proper, orthodox, conservative, enlightened” reader of The Hindu …
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Probably I am making a mountain out of a molehill, probably I am just nitpicking, probably I am just trying to punch holes while celebrating …
Hindustani maestro Begum Parveen Sultana performs at the Sri Rama Navami celebrations at the Fort high school in Bangalore on Sunday. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Hyderabad: In law school, you can’t throw a brick without hitting someone’s opinion on reservation. People take this so seriously that the recent Supreme Court judgment …
Sudheendra Kulkarni writes on China’s bizarre response to the Tibetan protests, and recounts an encounter which Asra Nomani, the author of Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for …