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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 …
Muh mein Ram, Ram. Bagal mein R.K. Laxman?!
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 …
A game too big to be played by ordinary mortals?
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 …
It’s a cliche but, truly, music has no boundaries
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
Why the quota verdict is smarter than you think
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 …
Tripitika (abridged) for our political bloodhounds
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 …