Society in India is coming of age. It has begun to openly acknowledge the word ‘gay,' before kids and in movies etc. Unfortunately our minds are not open enough to accommodate and treat the gay community with the same respect ...Read More
Long minutes, maybe a few hours were spent this week in the heart of a police station where I for the first time witnessed the daily workings of a place we usually associate with dark images of intimidation, apathy and ...Read More
The memories of being beaten up in a Bangalore bus in 1995 have faded away. Bangalore to me is a safe city where I have moved around freely without being conscious of my clothes and have worked late hours as ...Read More
I have tried not to write, after the hopeless events in December 2012, when along with an enraged India, I last reacted to the brutal rape of an innocent girl in New Delhi, in broad urban limelight. The hopelessness that grips me is ...Read More
The Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar missed his vocation in life. He should have been a performer. From what little we can make out from his wooden expression, whenever he appears on television to participate in well orchestrated press conferences, ...Read More
The following piece was written post a series of blasts in Bangalore in 2008..today another bomb attack in the city refreshed the horror..
Terrorism kills more than just people. It blasts to bloody pieces, our faith in the ultimate rightness of ...Read More
I do not know if this matters. If anything matters. Especially when close to 4000 lives did not matter. When the survivors who were left behind to mourn them and battle an implacable system, did not matter. Have not mattered ...Read More
It will be annual diary time for teachers soon. There will be records to fill up; lists of textbooks and duties, methods of teaching to be detailed, workshops attended, special measures for bright students, remedial measures to improve the weak ...Read More
The word icon is used so cheaply today. The fact that it has the word, con in it may have something to do with it. Perception is more important than substance. Image more important than truth. Marketing more important than ...Read More
Untouchability has its roots in India like its culture,religion,pride and diversity.We are born with it and we die with it.We neither question nor dare to find answers.It has survived like a label,a name,an identity.One may not believe in caste,yet one ...Read More
`Trying to remember our way back into past realities, past rooms, past beliefs is a first step towards measuring the depths of change in ourselves and the world. It’s also a reminder that the progress we may now take for granted is ...Read More
Was it coincidental that I wrote the introduction to the Chicken Soup for the Indian Woman's Soul on the eve of Woman's Day? As I wrote it many years ago, I recalled women who have triumphed in big and small ways ...Read More
