Interview

A Killer Virus. Fire in Arctic, Heat Wave in Siberia, Snow in the desert!

A global virus. New strains of diseases. New ecological catastrophes. All apocalyptic weather aberrations are man-made – a deadly consequence…

3 years ago

‘Each individual lives and experiences war differently’

The successful launch of her book on conflict zones has yet again focused the gaze on the trauma and violence…

4 years ago

Media, courts and the malice of the State

The year 2020 would be remembered for the manner in which a section of the media has been complicit in…

4 years ago

Covid-19 Vaccine Dilemma: To vaccinate or not? And which one to take?

Covishied (SII-Oxford-AstraZeneca), BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech), Covaxin (Bharat Biotech-ICMR), and Sputnik V (Dr Reddy’s-RFID) are in the most advance stage of development.

4 years ago

‘We need to have children of different abilities, cultures and social classes in a classroom’

The power of value-based quality education can transform society and highlights the teachers’ crucial role in nation-building

4 years ago

Climbing the Covid peak: When governments have turned confidence tricksters

If renewed consumption is what the powers-that-be intend to achieve, they should know that dead humans can't be consumers. Tricking…

4 years ago

Trust the artist to show a way forward, to imagine another world!

To me the bigger question is whether this recovery of art and culture will be led by Asia?

5 years ago

City of Spectres

RV Smith, who died recently, spent a lifetime getting to know the many spirits who inhabit Delhi

5 years ago

‘The government is counting money. We will soon be counting the dead.’

There is a strong demand for participatory democracy, social justice and a radically different economic policy, to support people and…

5 years ago

‘Bhagat Singh would have fought fascist forces’

Prof Chaman Lal, expert on Bhagat Singh and the revolutionary freedom movement, speaks to Amit Sengupta

5 years ago