Antara Dev Sen

Apr 28, 2010
Letters to Editor

Letters to Editor

Antara Dev Sen

A healthy dose of poison

Give it up, buddy. You can’t eat your way to health in our country. And your attempt at giving your child a healthy nutrition is doomed.

India’s obsession with wasting food

Remember the various perplexing rules we grew up on?

Hinglish’s polkadodge with English

Have problems with English? Never fear, the new Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is here. Out this week, with more than 2,000 new words and phrases, it includes riveting English like “rasta roko”. Your troubles are over, dude-bhai. Now even the Queen of England would need a dictionary to understand proper English.

Watching out for whistleblowers

The law to protect whistleblowers may be finally here.

When RTI proved lethal

Earlier this week, Amit Jethwa was shot dead in front of the Gujarat high court. He was in his thirties, a caring, law-abiding citizen, committed to the environment, humanity and animal life.

We want our own octopus oracle

Okay. I have the answer to all your problems. We can deal with everything from terrorism to fiscal deficit if only we make a small lifestyle change. All we need is an octopus.
Octopus Paul in Oberhausen, Germany, has picked Spain as the winner of the World Cup. His 100 per cent success rate in predicting winners for all six matches till now h

Reform police, spare us the torture

There’s this old joke about our cops.

Poisonous justice

So Warren Anderson, 89, chief accused of the Bhopal gas disaster, is still “absconding”. After a quarter century, the verdict in the Bhopal gas disaster case didn’t mention him.

Census, consensus or caste aside?

As the government sets up a committee — a group of ministers, no less — to debate the inclusion of caste in the 2011 Census, a young minister has gone public with his passionate appeal to the youth br

Caste in our own image

Come now, you aren’t really surprised by the wealthy young member of Parliament (MP) Navin Jindal’s smarmy genuflection to the khap panchayats, are you?

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