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The health advocates have appealed to the police to actively support the medical community and allow unhindered access to medical treatment for all injured, and urged the government and courts to independently and impartially investigate allegations against the police for hindering medical assistance to the injured protesters and hold accountable those responsible.

Everyone should have access to medical care

The visuals of policemen storming into a hospital and banging on doors are hard to forget.

27 Dec 2019 4:23 AM IST

Anti-CAA protesters hold placards and shout slogans at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

As protests rage, is our democracy at risk too?

The Central government in Delhi and governments in BJP-ruled states are coming down heavily on the protesters.

26 Dec 2019 12:48 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: File)

A series of missteps by Imran govt on KL summit

Saudi Arabia may have its own reasons to oppose the KL Summit but it could not prevent other countries from...

26 Dec 2019 12:39 AM IST

There are 55,000 people living in tents and straw huts inside the geometric garrison, protected from Boko Haram jihadists by the military. (Representational Image)

Nigeria's Taliban' not so different from Pakistan's

Nigeria's population is largely tribal and comprises about 350 ethnic groups speaking 520 languages.

25 Dec 2019 2:18 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Stoke animal spirits' to let India breathe again

The economic downturn has cannibalised the participation of women in the workforce -- down to 26 per cent from 37 per...

25 Dec 2019 2:13 AM IST

Pakistan is a key player in the talks between the Taliban and the US in an effort to end the war in Afghanistan and allow withdrawal of American troops. (Photo: AFP / File)

America seems like it's on a war with truth in Afghanistan

On October 11, 2001 President George W. Bush was asked if he could avoid being drawn into a Vietnam-like situation in...

24 Dec 2019 1:38 AM IST

Students and local residents protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act outside Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

India burns: Can't stop this thing we started

The State responded with deliberate pointed violence.

24 Dec 2019 1:34 AM IST

Anti-CAA protesters hold placards and shout slogans at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

Rape and CAA: Both are strifes for space

Hearing my friends talk about the Citizens Amendment Act and the NRC allowed me an opportunity to tap into the subtext.

23 Dec 2019 2:46 AM IST

Many of us with a Western education consider our clerical parties a retrogressive force that wants to push Pakistan back to the medieval era.

White-collar hooliganism, groupthink & Ziaist schools

Sizeable sections of Pakistan's professional classes are outright hooligans and gangsters.

23 Dec 2019 12:43 AM IST

In yet another case of a juvenile being sexually targeted, a 61-year-old man allegedly raped his neighbours six-year-old daughter at Kurla in central Mumbai after luring her with chocolates.

Exploring the idiom of bodily integrity'

The idea of bodily integrity has not been extended to deconstruct the hegemony of heterosexual patriarchal caste...

22 Dec 2019 12:49 AM IST

Nirbhayas mother Asha Devi outside the court on Wednesday. (Photo: Biplab Banerjee)

A letter to Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya'

In the Indian Penal Code, the punishment for rape is now 10 years of imprisonment, even as it is a criminal offence and...

20 Dec 2019 5:52 AM IST

The sum of the three elections, and the re-election and election of strong-arm politicians with a history of hating Muslims, should concern everyone.

Islamophobia, and a tale of 3 elections in India, UK, US

With Brexit will come a more complex set of mechanisms that determine travel to the UK.

20 Dec 2019 5:48 AM IST