Editor's Pick

Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:

Why not BLAME IT on the students? And kick the damn can down the road!

By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?

A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?

Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'

By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?

'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil

She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.

Reading Sumaira in Tehran

By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.

It’s raining a refreshing Green out there! And it’s real windy…

By Suresh Nautiyal. The Green Surge in UK.

The Cockroach Controversy: Don't Blame Jobless Journos, says Delhi Union of Journalists

Many competent journalists have been forced out of the system. Are they cockroaches?

‘I meet my god through my camera,’ Raghu Rai said

By Suresh Nautiyal. Tribute to two legends, Mark Tully and Raghu Rai, at the Press Club of India, Delhi.

My Dear Serena,

Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.

Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree

By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.

Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India

By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.

Don’t restrict your daughters, educate your sons

By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.

Patriarchy and Indian women's empowerment

STOP these FORCED marriages

Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion. degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.

From Bengal, despair... and the optimism of resistance

By Sreela Das Gupta. A poem on hope amidst all-round angst and anger in Bengal.

The Potato Eaters, and the Sunflowers are not blooming

By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.

Not in the Church’s Shadow, But in the Shadow of the Cross

By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.