Muslims would have rejoiced if the Jamiat had campaigned for establishing first-rate modern schools in Muslim neighbourhoods. Instead, they sought to obstruct even the feeble attempts of the government to modernise thousands of madrasas
Arshad Alam Delhi
Shivaji is a monument in Maharashtra today. But what of the men who engage with this monument through their life’s experience? And, what of their ballads?
Aritra Bhattacharya Mumbai
The writings are full of passion. There is a poet that runs through his prose and it lifts the ordinary to a level where it becomes the subject of admiration or plain gaze
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Even as the government flexes muscle, villagers are refusing to give their land to the multinational steel giant
Satya Sivaraman Dhinkia, Jagatsinghpur (Orissa)
How far the lethal combination of money power and political shrewdness will take the Bellary Reddys is worth watching, especially, after the brothers lost their biggest patron, YS Rajasekhara Reddy
Girish Nikam Delhi/Bangalore
Until the government forgets about maintaining the high Sensex levels, it’s nearly impossible to check frauds. The Market and the government work in tandem to help each other’s interests
Akash Bisht Delhi
The right to information campaign has unnerved the local bureaucracy in India. No wonder, they are hatching dubious conspiracies to block the dogged ghostbusters
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
