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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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Last year, Kabir turned to his diary of two decades ago to check how he'd fared against the goals he'd set himself - the serious as well as the ...
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 ...
What we think of as "normal" is constantly evolving. Somewhere along the line, it became normal for people to prioritise work at the expense of ...
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 ...
What defines a "small" party in Delhi, an intimate gathering of friends, what a hostess might describe as "casual"? "That would be 50 heads," ...
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 ...
As we struggle through nearly two months of intense summer before the monsoon arrives in right earnest and brings relief, an undercurrent of ...
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 ...
Bayern could well be the next Manchester United, especially in the Indian context
The comment that our normally mild-mannered and scholarly prime minister was reported to have made in an interview with Science magazine, that ...
Back in my day, which was of course when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Delhi University suffered from a serious case of envy.It had the St ...
With the cunning of a master thief, Mohsin Hamid in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has stolen the form of a self-improvement guide with ...
What happens to children who never find their way home, or who do after an interim, is symptomatic of a society so violent that violence is
What an incredible seven days in the world of club football. Manchester United won their 20th league title; Barcelona were knocked off their ...
