Why Indian media isn’t concerned about Indian interests? Unlike Khaleej or Straits Times?

I have been guilty of leave without absence, multiple reasons, one of them being an attempt to complete a long-form article on the actual true ownership of India's...

Times when I faced my own Shaheen Baghs and SC was the Big God

Many decades ago, before Indian Railways became better at moving container traffic on trains and certainly before the advent of Container Corporation of India...

Moaners on a year’s education gone to pandemic: What they could learn from my Chachi

Like many Partition widows, the eldest paternal Aunt was called Chachi or Bhabhi or BeBe or Big Grandma, and for those growing up around her variously, she was also very...

Atal Tunnel: When prepaid media didn’t exist and tourists were not invented

Somewhere in the noise in the prepaid mainstream media has been drowned out the actual revival of an ancient trade and pilgrimage route. Now an important 3rd axis land...

Hathras: How mainstream media is missing wood for tree; Why Kalpana Chawla is a clue

To some extent, the movie BANDIT QUEEN directed by the recently appointed Head of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune, tells you more about how things were...

India’s tragedy: Mughals and European colonialists alike bayed for our blood

The core philosophy of the Mongols, Mughals and then the European Colonials was simple - surrender and convert, or die. Everything else was so much public relations and...

Block roads, rails, ships, whatever: Indian farmers can’t be held to slavery anymore

What has been the hallmark of conflicts globally, but especially after the Second World War, when two major changes happened? Simple - grabbing natural resources so that...