Jayanthi Natarajan

Jayanthi Natarajan

Jayanthi Natarajan

Gudda-guddi ka khel

Just two weeks ago I had written in this column about the progressive and gender-sensitive court judgment which had commented strongly on the im­p­ortance of giving due credit, in the national Census

Opposition: Foul play

The alarming deterioration of public discourse, reflected by the acts and behaviour of the principal Opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), does not portend well for the prospect of a hea

Nurture with care

In this season of high emotion and revisiting of very painful experiences such as the collective trauma over the Bhopal gas tragedy, one particularly poignant and painful articulation was that of Ajay

Politics over Raajneeti

Over the last few days, despite the continuous array of nationally important events, including the municipal polls in West Bengal, with its attendant consequences, the completion of one year in office by the United Progressive

In pursuit of honour

The structure and extra-constitutional authority of khap panchayats, who recently declared that their rulings could not be fettered even by the Constitution of India or the law of the land have been the subject of considerable national debate. Khaps are geographically confined mainly as old systems of social administration in villages of

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.