Known Turf

Bolivia, it seems, is living the curse of 'interesting times', as are we all. This situation is very interesting. Some people are o...

Dr Manohar Agnani is one of the few bureaucrats that one is glad to have met. I've encountered him twice, when our professional paths cr...

Apparently, these journalists were paid by the US government to put anti-Cuba things in the media. Further down in the article is this: ...

The Blank Noise Project has been active in Delhi over the last few weeks. Posters have been put up, streets have been negotiated, students ...

I'm annoyed. Somebody from NDTV (or claiming to be from NDTV) called me up. From a 'restricted' number. Asking if I wanted to b...

I get some really curious words and their histories, through the World Wide Words Newsletter (on bloglines). This one - etheromaniac - de...

In ' Do Not Feed The Humans ', (and sub-titled 'The global Explosion of Fat') the author says the world has more to fear fro...

A friend had asked me, some days back, whether it was not difficult to eat. I had just returned from Sheopur, having met starving kids . And...

A country cannot escape its politics. No individual, no organisation is free from the hovering aura of its national politics. Naturally. The...

1] Sticking to a principle means having to fight. On an average, I haggle with ten auto-drivers every day. I insist they use the meter. They...

What was I saying about education and merit ?

A strange problem - Kunwar Narain I have a strange problem these days — The power to hate with all my ...

Two things in the last week gave me part of the answer to some questions I've been asking myself lately. One, thanks to Josephus, was th...

I was much amused by this particular piece of newspaper-work. Who would have thought that the pesti-cola issue should have birthed, of all ...

Bubli (14) comes from Saharanpur orginally, but grew up in Delhi. Her mother left the father to marry another man, but the latter didn't...

Over the last few years, Rs 50 has become a sort of benchmark for expenditure, for me and other friends who aren't exactly rolling in it...

Suhail is 12. Remember Bubli? He's her little brother. He's not a shy boy. When he speaks, he looks straight into your eyes. He spea...

Sneha (name changed) is now 14. She is one of the first I speak to. We're sitting in one of the classrooms at the mukti ashram, where sh...

Budhiya isn't sure of how old she is. She looks up at me with a half smile and clear, light-brown eyes. Hazel? Amber-hazel? Her brows ar...

Sister Leona of the Domestic Workers' Forum is also a lawyer. She keeps a notebook which is covered with inky squiggles detailing cases ...