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Needed, a Single-Button Distress Caller for Women
In India we are rolling out 3G and 4G services but we have never felt the need to introduce a single number for emergency...
Why We Should Never Forget December 6th
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DECEMBER 6th has once again come and gone. It was on this day that Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar died in 1956.
Ambedkar gave to the...
Mandela Will Never, Ever Be Your Minstrel
Mandela was about politics and about race and freedom and he was even about force. He did what he felt he had to do...
Iqbal, Jinnah and Muslims of India
Most of Iqbal’s high sounding exhortations and Jinnah’s promises and logic of a better future have rebounded on Indian Muslims. In a sense they have...
The Tangled ‘Tonalities’ of Mr. Tejpal
Disgraced Tehelka boss Tarun Tejpal single-handedly (and four-facedly) assays the parts of an entire courtroom — Victim, Defendant, Prosecutor and Judge. Truly a character...