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Dear Editor, (Countercurrents.org) I have just had a book out – a collection of essays based on reportage and travel over the last few years...

So, this is out next week. Look out for it in bookstores. There will be a few readings, discussions, book events in different cities, sta...

I do not yet want to write about the constitutional validity (and I do think it is questionable), morality, or impact of Greenhunt at the mo...

This place is for journalists, writers, or anyone who believes in saying it like it is. Or like it isn't. In my view, the only speech w...

So this piece says that men are more or less obsessed with sex. And while we can argue about the research that backs the claim and surveyors...

There are times when you begin to wonder about what it means to do what you do, even if you are deeply involved with your work. Report, writ...

The war against just-shut-up-and-get-a-degree attitudes. Two days after Aman Kachroo’s death I wrote that it won’t be the last case of ragg...

I have time these days. A little more time than I have allowed myself over the last year or so. Time to think about myself, life, patterns, ...

Doing green stuff is a lot harder than posing for cameras. I wish someone would tell some of our celebrities, particularly actors and models...

Two pieces worth reading if you are interested in understanding farm subsidies in India and the not quite charitable business of microfinanc...

A piece published in Tehelka as ' The Bhaiyya, the Bandit and the Bak-bak artist' . When the family first began to entertain itsel...

Something has been changing and yet, what has? I write this in the context of my involvement with Blank Noise and my experience of having l...

Here is a piece I did for Valentine's Day and here is where it appeared . We no longer understand. Those of us who were nourished on a c...

This is a Rs 14,296-crore (Rs 142.96 billion) scam and the Gujarat government has no right to 'donate' public wealth to a private pl...

Had been in a taxi recently and ended up feeling quite literally as if I'd been taken for a ride. The taxi driver told me he'd agree...

'The only chance I see of a temple being built here (Ayodhya) is when Rahul Gandhi becomes prime minister.” I was perplexed by his expec...