With apologies to Leonard Cohen’s and his song, “Democracy”
It’s coming through a hole in the ground, from the depths of Nagpur’s fear, It’s coming from the feel that
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Opinion
Should you watch Dunkirk? Here’s what our film critic has to say…
Went to see Dunkirk with friends. I was driven to the hall by my son and on the way he
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Justice demand to be Achilles’ heel for Erdogan
“March for Justice is an attempt to remind Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party that democracy is not an
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The wood in the axe
THESPIAN Dilip Kumar used an interesting metaphor in his movie Kranti, or revolution. The earthy couplet went thus: “Kulhadi mein
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How about the 4th july for Iraq and Syria?
I came across this post which was written by Doaa Saleh Nassar an Egyptian-American and addressed to “American and European
Read MoreKurd Region—A New Likely Theatre of War in Middle East
The rapidity and haste with which changes are taking place in the Middle East are unprecedented since the World War
Read MoreThe curious case of two lynchings and India’s reactions to them
Back to back, in the past week, two Indian citizens were lynched by mobs in two different states of India
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The blood connection of the ‘Lynchers’
The people who beat DSP Md Ayub Pandith to death in Srinagar, Kashmir, are of the same tribe as the
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All’s nearly well that ends well
ALL’S well that ends well. It was like a war averted between nuclear neighbors. How much poisonous hysteria can a
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Taj Mahal is not a reflection of Indian culture, says Yogi Adityanath
The Yogi says, “Foreign dignitaries visiting the country were gifted replicas of the Taj Mahal and other minarets, which did
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65 former bureaucrats speak out against intolerance
TOI tells us, 13th June ’17, “In an open letter, 65 former bureaucrats of Central services said they decided to
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Wrath over Qatar’s attempt to cross the Rubicon
The propensity of being drawn into the whirlpool of crisis has been overriding in the Middle East since long. The
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The Tale of two emigrants
Consequent upon the end of the WWI, the interregnum in Russian Poland and the rise of Nazis thereafter in Germany,
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The X Files of Turkey & the US: The Conflict Is Out There
According to Hurriyet Daily News, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on May 12, 2017, that U.S. support of the Syrian Kurds
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Everything about Paresh Rawal and Arundhati Roy twitter war
By Roy Daniels, Edited By Adam Rizvi, TIO: Actor and BJP MP Paresh Rawal says Arundhati Roy should be used
Read MoreFive male Judges, Different Faith, Triple Talaq, No Women Judge, Give me a break!
“Five Supremes, from five different religions, are listening to the case for and against the triple talaq in the Supreme
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Sonia Gandhi is not a foreigner anymore
Mr. Modi says Sonia has been living in India for almost 50 years and still can’t speak Hindi. He’s just
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The Khowai Reminisce
Come summer and it was journey time! The much awaited sojourn chugging to a land which we know as Birbhum,
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Kashmir in Mainstream Indian Cinema – a Tale of Deception, Dehumanization and Desensitization
When Fitoor – an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations – hit cinema halls on 12th February 2016, I went
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WHAT BORDERS DOES A FRIENDSHIP SEE?
This is a throwback to that one fearless journey I embarked upon just about 3 years ago, a throwback to
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Indian subcontinent; land of unique sense and sensibility
Divergence in sense and sensibility of an area owes much to its historiography, which not only results in interpretations of
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Love in the times of moral policing
Mera sheher ek lambi behes ki tarha hai, Sadkein- betuki daleelon si, Aur galiyaan iss tarah, Jaise ek baat ko,
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