Ambedkar as a prophet
28 Jun 2012 5:11 PM GMTEver since I characterised Ambedkar as a prophet, in the context of the lampooning cartoon on him in the XI class NCERT text book, there has been an...
SC/ST aspirants slam DU
9 Jun 2012 8:29 AM GMTProspective students belonging to Scheduled Caste [SC] and Scheduled Tribes [ST] are facing problems while submitting admission forms at the Delhi...
Muslims want NYPD to end spying
8 Jun 2012 1:13 AM GMTA group of eight Muslims has filed a federal lawsuit against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) demanding that it brings an end to its...
Once leaders could laugh
25 May 2012 12:20 AM GMTWhat is noteworthy about the cartoon row is that neither Jawaharlal Nehru nor B R Ambedkar found anything objectionable about it when it was published ...
Whipping a dalit in a text book also
24 May 2012 12:15 PM GMTMany intellectuals of India are making the cartoon in a text book of NCERT an issue of pedagogy and teaching political science through cartoons as a...
Mirchpur dalits killings: HC rejects bail pleas
16 May 2012 7:55 AM GMTThe Delhi High Court denied bail to three persons, convicted along with 12 others in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalits killings case on Tuesday. A bench of...
Indians in US rally for Dharun Ravi
16 May 2012 2:01 AM GMTLess than a week before Dharun Ravi's sentencing on hate crime charges, hundreds of Indian- Americans participated in a rally in New Jersey protesting ...
Uyghurs ‘face fight for existence’
15 May 2012 5:17 AM GMTExiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Monday her people face a fight for their very existence against Chinese repression as a conference in Japan...
Fiji dumps controversial beauty queen
14 May 2012 4:22 AM GMTFiji beauty queen Torika Watters, who was the target of racist criticism about her looks, has been replaced as the island nation's Miss World Pageant...
North East is in India, right?
10 May 2012 2:10 AM GMTWe in India proudly parrot the ‘unity in diversity’ line ever so often. Nothing puts it to shame more than the shocking way the young from the north...
Fair and Lovely Indians!
5 May 2012 3:32 PM GMTJust back from a lecture tour of American universities, there is so much to write about. But what I wanted to share this time is something about which ...
A North-Eastern in the un-melting pot of Delhi
2 May 2012 10:03 AM GMTOne day, a guy walks up to me and asks me if I come from China, a reference that often comes to me naturally with my looks. Not that I have any...
