‘BJP fearful of Hindu-Muslim unity’
20 April 2014 10:27 PM ISTKashinath Singh, who might well be the most popular Hindi author of last decade, reminisces a time when Banaras was a garh – bastion – of the Left....
Has the Left lost its relevance?
15 March 2014 5:53 AM ISTOn 10 March, The Guardian (UK) published an article by Vijay Prashad on the upcoming general elections in India. Prashad, a well-known Marxist...
Paswan’s tango with Modi
8 March 2014 4:51 AM ISTThere are times for things such as ideology; and there are times for swift negotiations: 2014 is for latter.Consider the timeline of Ram Vilas...
A Khirki to the soul
28 Feb 2014 4:53 AM ISTOkito Christophe, a 28-year-old Congolese, is short man with a soft voice; with his spectacles and semi-formals, Christophe has the air of a geek who...
What it means to stop a book in 2014?
15 Feb 2014 4:34 AM ISTBy now it’s too familiar a story to be surprising: a writer writes a book (often with years of slogging and painstaking research); someone – an...
Anatomy of an urban village
3 Feb 2014 6:10 AM ISTThe only entrance to Jia Sarai – a tiny suburban sprawl in south Delhi, surrounded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) campus from three sides...
