Khusar-Pusar

Author(s): Sherein Bansal
"Kab poora hua?" "Hafta toh ho hi gaya" "Dekhna bua ni aayi" &quo...

Responses to - Some Thoughts on India's Republic Day‏

Good morning. Actually it is one day late to say happy republic day. it is all due to Government o...

Some Thoughts on India's Republic Day‏

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
I have never felt like celebrating 15th August, Independence Day. For me, coming from a family of ...

Gently Stooped a Shadow Amply Serene

Author(s): M. Hasan
  This poem was written in response to an article on Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant D...

ILL Founded Prejudice

Author(s): Maj Gen Raj Mehta (Retd)
In recent years, there has been animated debate in the media and certainly within the uniformed fr...

Lesser Citizens

Author(s): Bhoomika Joshi
Shanta (name changed), a domestic worker came to the U.K with her employer from Delhi, having work...

Responses to "Some Thoughts on Dipawali"

I recollected a beautiful story when I read of your habit of losing things like shawls etc. on a r...

Some Thoughts on Dipawali

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The happiest memories of my life are connected with the festival of Dipawali even though I hate the ...

Police Raj in Kashmir

Author(s): A Manushi Report
One of India's finest journalists, David Devadas, who is also the author of In Search of a Future,...

Lokpal Bill - Need to Look Beyond Magic Wands

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The country owes a debt of gratitude to Team Anna for succeeding in channeling popular anger again...

Symphony of Golden Poories

Author(s): M Hasan
  Slowly kneading American dough from her aged face drips some salty spontaneous drops...

Counterpoint: Jan Lokpal: A Quack’s Prescription

Author(s): Amitabha Pande
There exists an astonishing perversity of consensus about the desirability of having a Lokpal. Ev...

I Wish I Was Malamasa

Author(s): Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor
The concrete, colourless and crude staircase of the Civil Secretariat building in the heart of th...

Civil Society: a New Threat for the Congress Party?

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The Congress Party has suddenly discovered a new threat in "Civil Society," not just t...

Communal Games of the 'Secular' Congress

Author(s): Madhu Purnima Kishwar
The Congress Party may think that by dividing the anti corruption movement and by tabling its own ...