Sleazy and wild ‘hen parties’ with male strippers. The underground party scene for affluent ladies in Delhi marks a new high and a new low
Prateek Chauhan Delhi
The Naveen Patnaik regime has unleashed the terror of police and party goons to push the Tata steel plant at any cost. Even if democracy is crushed at gun-point
Bibhuti Pati Kalinganagar (Orissa)
Why do governments in India refuse to accept mass malnutrition and starvation deaths, while the reality is so intensely stark, widespread and tragic?
Shaweta Anand Delhi
When women opted to teach a long time ago, they opted out of unequal lives and enabled other women to add dignity and dimension to stultifying lives. Today, women remain single, teach and educate, occasionally even inspire and illuminate
Ratna Raman Delhi
In CGnet Swara, a phone-based news platform, the tribals of Chhattisgarh have found a way to voice their grievances in their own language. But will they be heard?
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
Even health schemes are put on hold to fund the 12-day extravaganza. Secrecy, evictions, galloping costs, fund diversion and sheer illegalities — yet another report brings out the dirty truth about CWG
Sadiq Naqvi Delhi
If the Naxalites can muster ‘company strength of forces’ to battle with the government, it may not be without support from those who feel angry at the inaction against massive corruption and blatant nepotism of the current system
MR Sivaraman Chennai
Does the smell of poetry indeed drive people away? In the large noisy world that we all live in now, louder and louder music, with fewer and fewer words, fills our ears
Ratna Raman Delhi
Bollyhop turns the street and open spaces into a magical spectacle with young bodies and hearts leaping out into ecstatic flames of dancing joy
Mehru Jaffer Vienna
The Orissa government, backed by the Centre, brutally unleashes the police on its own people to keep its promise to Posco. Will the people overcome the challenge and save their life, land and livelihood from absolute ruin?
Bibhuti Pati Jagatsinghpur (Orissa)
If the situation in Afghanistan is so desperately serious, why is the US running away from the bitter realities on the ground?
Shrinivasrao S Sohoni Kabul
It’s the impoverished poor led by the Red Shirts who have taken on the dictatorship of the elite and military in Thailand. And, inevitably, the rebellion will flare up again
Satya Sagar Bangkok/Delhi
