Columnists
Shobhaa De | A monument to a monumental ego
Heritage and history need to be respected, even by those determined to rewrite both
Farrukh Dhondy | The politics of erasing Gunga Din
The Black Lives Matter upheaval has resulted in this reappraisal of history
Anand K. Sahay | Kashmiris respond to Centre with ‘Gupkar II’
Its defining feature can be summed by a phrase in it: “nothing about us without us”
Dilli ka Babu | 7 former DGPs jump in to defend Mumbai police
Their petition to Bombay High Court says there are sinister designs behind the campaign
Bela Bhatia | Lockdown for some, lockup for others
More humane provisions are needed for prisoners, including political prisoners and those charged under special laws
Aakar Patel | Jaishankar’s prescriptions are simplistic, just excuses
The assumption Jaishankar makes about liberalisation automatically producing economic growth is false
Mohan Guruswamy | Mediation vital on LAC, Ladakh disengagement
The problem is that India and China never agreed on where the LAC was, as the perceptions of what each side “controlled” varied
Shashi Warrier | JFK, yoga, and intermittent fasting
The shop that supplies most of its contents, incidentally, is the JFP, or Junk Food Paradise
Waqyanawis | Swami Agnivesh, who fought against BJP’s Hindutva, denied in death
Agnivesh had given up a career as a professor in Calcutta to be a full-time social activist. His mission was to resist the RSS at all levels
K.C. Singh | De-escalation in Ladakh: Mixed signals after talks
China has chosen the moment well, with the world distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the US presidential election and an economic slowdown