Exactly 15 days ago, Gauri Lankesh perished at her door step. Her killers shot her at pointblank range and vanished into the darkness that India is beginning to revel in. …
I Am Gauri. March and convention to protest the dastardly killing of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh, in Bangalore, on Tuesday, September 12. Procession begins from Bangalore railway station at …
Three days before India’s 71st Independence Day, Sashi Kumar—the civil face of Indian television (when Doordarshan was the channel around) and the man who started India’s first private news channel Asianet—made an …
The stand-out aspect of the ongoing bigotry and hatred of the white supremacists in America is the response of its thought leaders: in the arts and in business in particular, …
It would be an understatement of Chamundi Hill proportions to say that the University of Mysore, once the cradle of the country’s best and brightest, is plumbing the depths of …
Fifteen years ago I wrote my obituary—all right, the first draft of my obituary. I wrote it, not after I received an intimation of impending mortality, but after I read …
The economist Prabhat Patnaik has a fine piece in The Telegraph, Calcutta, on the growing anti-intellectualism in the world. There was a time in Delhi when an absent-minded professor, like …
