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For all its noise about gender equality, the media seems reluctant to overstep the boundaries of regressive social norms
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If it were not for the refusal of Shafique-ur-Rahman Barq, BSP member of Parliament, to join in with the singing of Vande Mataram, I might never ...
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There is something disturbing about the sort of restrictions that gay rights advocates seek to impose on speech
I walked into the cavernous, dark room and drew back with a start. In that imperfect light, there were hundreds of eyes looking at me. Some were ...
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In this column last fortnight, I wrote about a film - Lessons in Forgetting - that centred on a protective father and his free-spirited ...
The reading was at a sedate mela; literature was tucked in sideways, in between the food stalls and the sellers of heavy machinery. Jeet Thayil ...
A ban on porn will be unenforceable and a waste of resources. What may work is the government selecting, grading and promoting porn that ...
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Whenever I used to think of dentists, tall males with impressive degrees, grimly doing their worst, oblivious to one's screams of agony, would ...
It starts as breakfast is being laid. "I've boiled eggs for everyone," the cook says. "I'd prefer pancakes," my daughter sulks. "Fruit," demands ...
