I am writing this at a time when, apart from Covid-related news stories, reports of post-poll violence from West Bengal are doing the rounds in the media. It would be unfair to claim that none of those reports are substantial, or to be in a state of denial about them…

As we near the completion of one year since the commencement of The Great Lockdown in India, there remains little doubt about the enormous and unique challenges posed by the coronavirus to not only India, but to the world at large. From the pan-Indian migrant crisis, the falling economy, the…

2021 awaits us, with a gun or a garland we do not know. An effective vaccine will also do. It does not require any more emphasizing that 2020 has been the worst year in recent human history, and the Christian coinage annus horribilis is the best phrase to describe it…

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the globally celebrated icon of the Indian freedom struggle, would have completed 150 years of his life today. He was a lawyer, saint, freedom fighter, spiritualist, writer as well as a journalist. He had an ascetic lifestyle with the sartorial sense of a monk. He had inspired…

100 days are left for 2020 to come to an end. The year has wreaked havoc in the lives of most people on this planet. The invisible enemy, which claimed its first victim late last year, swung into full-fledged action early this year and is still on the prowl as…

In a land where a group of people are increasingly assuming vigilante roles to enforce a kind of supremacy of identity, the eponymous character Bhonsle is a retired member of the law enforcement. For the vigilantes and self-proclaimed guardians of a parochial identity, the law and the police are mere…