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A friend mentioned that my name was entrenched in the midst of a pitted blog-war over at Great Bong's . I followed the thread (which, o...

Here I was, lounging through desipundit , thinking how lucky I am to live in times when we can demand gender sensitivity, when wise people a...

What? What? What? What is wrong with them? And now that I'm angry, I might as well say that I have often wondered why the RSS doesn...

Speaking of crows , according to nature writer Candace Savage, crows can make tools, play tricks on each other, and caw among kin in a diale...

People have often thrown strange tags at me – this - is t and that - ist. Now, there are several online tests that will give you your tags i...

Update: I hear the last date has been stretched forward until June 10th. There is a travel-writing contest on, for bloggers . I had written ...

Recently, I finished reading a book called Machhli Mari Hui , by Rajkamal Chowdhary. It is not a new book – probably written in the sixties,...

Here's another blog I’ve been following with a great deal of interest. Via this blog, we hear of the great tragedy of the Jarawas , and...

A story from nine years ago, in Lucknow. I was enrolled at Aptech for a computer course and had shifted location to Lucknow during the summe...

This year, I have not been able to read properly. I am reading, but in fits and starts, as if I have lost the art of being absorbed. Or at l...

I'd come across this story weeks ago. It's worth reading. It's worth replicating. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/mar24...

Since people have begun to ask, I had better post something about where I am and what keeps me from blogging (though I must confess that I h...

This is a mail I received from an activist with the Samajwadi Jan Parishad, in Betul, Madhya Pradesh (I am reproducing it, sic, below) and I...

My grandmother used to say ' qayamat se daro ' (Or maybe she didn't; maybe it was some other grand-maternal figure in the family...

And now, Judith Miller blames the bloggers too! Miller describes to Vanity Fair the process by which the Pajama People destroyed her: The b...

Now this is how a government deals properly with women, if it wants to treat them with respect. To me, the act - of letting strippers take ...

Two spaces I've been meaning to link to, for a while now. How The Other Half Lives For some good writing and some significant questions,...

When rows upon rows of cycle-rickshaw-wale lie curled up on the passenger seat of their blue rickshaws, head and shoulders swallowed by the...

Yesterday, I was filled with a deep, deep sense of despair. Never, in recent memory, have I felt this numb, this deflated. As I read, accoun...

I had my doubts about blogging this - writing about street harassment . After all, it's as common-place as paan stains, as ubiquitous a...