Tag: Reads

For Deccan Chronicle, Pavan K Varma talks about his recent trip to Kashmir and the growth in several sectors, whether its tourism or sale and exports of apples, to gauge the reception by Kashmiris on the developments and life since Article 370 abrogation. He states that many Kashmiris said ...

Why bail — even for UAPA and corruption charges — must not be deniedIn her column for The Indian Express, advocate Anita Abraham argues that many special laws — such as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA), the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS) and ...

Bangladesh Isn’t Pakistan: Elections MatterIn this piece for The Indian Express, Sanjay Bhattacharyya, zeroes in on Bangladesh's tumultuous electoral journey and how the elections in the country on Sunday, 7 January, the first in a series of polls in 2024 will be significant.Mapping the trajectory of Sheikh Hasina's Awami ...

Chip War (Scribner) by Chris Miller elaborates how complicated and sophisticated chip fabrication has become. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Knopf) by Gabrielle Zevin was recommended by my daughter, and is a very readable novel about game development and love. Forks in the Road (Penguin) is a personal favourite ...

Researcher and writer Chakshu Roy, in his column for The Indian Express, interrogates the intersection of cricket with the world of politics and policy. Roy takes the case of the three supposed favorites at this stage of the World Cup — Australia, South Africa and India. Roy strings in ...

Goa, 1961: The Complete Story of Nationalism and Integration, Valmiki FaleiroThe subject of the liberation of Goa in 1961 and its integration into the Indian Union in 1962 is sparsely understood at best and misunderstood at worst. What were the events that led to the thirty-six-hour military operation – ...

How artist Nalini Malani’s show at London’s National Gallery dismantles patriarchal dominance and challenges linear viewing Inside a dark room at London’s historic National Gallery, four walls, over 40 metre in length, are covered with projections. Some may seem familiar, others not. But each has a role to play ...

The Story of a Reclusive Dancer: Roshan Kumari, who once lit up the world of Kathak Often, the most fascinating conversations are those that have been pent up for too long. So, when veteran Kathak exponent Roshan Kumari, who has stayed away from the spotlight for decades, turned us ...

Melbourne: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion had been indicated via a leaked draft opinion some weeks ago, but that doesn’t diminish the impact it will have.The ruling handed down by the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, upends 50 years of reproductive rights ...

Writing for The Hindu, Suhasini Haider points out how India's responses to the recent (non-electoral) regime changes in the neighbourhood, that is, in Myanmar, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, are starkly different from its approach to the same countries when they were in similar situations around six years ...