Sinking of the Secular Project
We live in the best of times and the worst of times, as Charles Dickens would say. For, we live in times of polarisation --...
Hating Mahatma, Deriding Nehru: Twin Ghosts that Haunt the Right Wing
The right wing has developed a two-pronged strategy to deal with the ghosts of Nehru and Gandhi. The political arm of the right wing,...
Raising Legal Age of Marriage for Girls Resonates with Vidarbha Youths
A discussion with a group of students from Elgar Academy on the central government’s decision to raise the legal age of marriage for girls...
What Feeds the Indian Right Wing?
What feeds the Indian right wing? Undoubtedly, centrally orchestrated spectacles and narratives of fierce nationalism have strong roles to play but there are other...
Rising Age of Marriage for Girls: Shrugging Responsibility on Child Marriage Issue
The recent decision by the Central Cabinet to raise the age of marriage of girls from 18 years to 21 years does not even pretend...
What’s your age? (A Poem)
What's your age?
Many a time people ask me-
" What's your age?"
Now ,what will I tell them?
Do I really know for sure?
The moment the plane...