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'We forget things if we have no one to tell them to'
By Abha Soni. The acclaimed film, with Irfan, great actor, now a magical musical at Berkeley.
Shuttle cock democracy?
The English Badminton Club in London etcetera. Cockroach Commentary.
Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.
Oh! he, a fifty times cool. And me, fifty times a fool...
BySreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. He was a man's man.
A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?
By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal.
The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this.
From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project.
By all accounts, it was a covertly concei
‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'
By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.
Editor's Pick
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
Why not BLAME IT on the students? And kick the damn can down the road!
By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?
A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
Politics
A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?
By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal.
The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this.
From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project.
By all accounts, it was a covertly concei
‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'
By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.
A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
History
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
Society
Mirror Mirror tell me: Am I the Most Perfect One?
By Diksha Kashyap. We live in a world where imperfections are edited out. Perfect lives, grades, beauty, happiness.
NOT ACCEPTABLE...
The demolition drive of the Gujjar Bakrwal community by the Jammu Administration is in absolute violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and Forest Rights Act 2006.
The Leaks. The Scandal. The Botch-up. The students' protests. Every image tells a story...
Images of the week: NEET leaks. CBSE scandal. CUET botch-up. The massive protests. Etc.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
All Posts
Predators, Perverts, Paedophiles: And all that Sleaze on Social Media
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:
'We forget things if we have no one to tell them to'
By Abha Soni. The acclaimed film, with Irfan, great actor, now a magical musical at Berkeley.
Shuttle cock democracy?
The English Badminton Club in London etcetera. Cockroach Commentary.
Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.
Oh! he, a fifty times cool. And me, fifty times a fool...
BySreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. He was a man's man.
A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?
By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal.
The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this.
From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project.
By all accounts, it was a covertly concei
Mirror Mirror tell me: Am I the Most Perfect One?
By Diksha Kashyap. We live in a world where imperfections are edited out. Perfect lives, grades, beauty, happiness.
Why not BLAME IT on the students? And kick the damn can down the road!
By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?
NOT ACCEPTABLE...
The demolition drive of the Gujjar Bakrwal community by the Jammu Administration is in absolute violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and Forest Rights Act 2006.
‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'
By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.
The Leaks. The Scandal. The Botch-up. The students' protests. Every image tells a story...
Images of the week: NEET leaks. CBSE scandal. CUET botch-up. The massive protests. Etc.
A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'
By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
‘Resistance to the forces of tyranny is not only an option, but the only option’
Amit Sengupta in conversation with Priyamvada Gopal, Cambridge University.
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