Low lying areas in Jamia Nagar in Delhi were partially flooded after an increase in the water-level of river Yamuna on Wednesday, 19 June. Photos by Ankit Agrawal

India’s big pomp and show in allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail is down to the ground with a thud. Neither have we seen the retailers, nor have the investments even begun. Of late, the details being released in respect to sourcing and investment is so obtuse and obfuscated [...]

I must confess, I have a problem. No, let me rephrase that, it’s not so much a problem, but more of a superpower, a special ability that goes back to my childhood. Now my parents didn’t throw me into a vat of toxic waste, nor was I bitten by a [...]

On 29 May 2013, AS Reingamphi from Choithar village, Ukhrul district of Manipur was found dead in her rented accommodation at Chirag Dilli under Malviya Nagar Police Station in Delhi. There were signs of brutal assault on her nose, face and legs. The deceased girl’s relatives submitted a complaint letter [...]

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently carried a story about newly-released data from the British Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) which has revealed that, in the past five years, Israel has sold weapons to Egypt, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Pakistan. In a rare and amusing concurrence of [...]

Just before the Karnataka elections were held in May, a journalist working for a regional language newspaper was made ‘tadipaar’ (externed) by the local police, so that they could be spared of his reportage. Like in the past, they feared that his writings would throw some more muck on the [...]

“A 55-year-old woman was beaten to death by a mob in Aligarh on Tuesday because she allowed her college-going daughter to wear jeans. Shockingly, the mob was led by a woman.” India Today, Lucknow, June 12, 2013. Horrifying as this news snippet is, it is something that we could see [...]

In case you missed it (although it is highly unlikely that APCO and other propaganda machinery, paid for by the public money of hardworking Gujaratis, would have let you miss any news about the recently appointed campaign committee chief (CCC) of the Bharatiya Janata Party), a 182 metre tall statue [...]

It’s a painstaking task when you return back home and the first thing you’re expected to do is dispose off the old stuff rotting in the store upstairs. Procrastination needs to flow in your genes, else you’ll never be able to get those excuses right (though maybe genes are the [...]

An air conditioned bus, filled with strangers spanning the spectrum — from annoying aunties cracking open parantha-achaar tiffins to ill-tempered noisy kids running amok to newly-weds sneaking furtive cuddles — making its way through a wildlife reserve. You, the eager wildlife enthusiast, are now seated in this fancy contraption with [...]

The way we perceive another, the way we react and the manner by which we approach another individual depends upon the third law of Newton, every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction. Each individual is different, yet a differently-abled person stands out in the society and thus faces ostracisation. [...]

LK Advani has made sure of two things for the BJP this week. One, that the National Democratic Alliance can be formed despite Modi. And two, the question of prime ministership remains within the BJP. These are the two most important and burning issues before the BJP as it prepares [...]