Politics
From Darkness to Light
Diwali, the festival of lights, and its lights and fireworks are the things you miss  the most when far from home
By Vanit Sethi
After his...
It Need Not be Her
While blaming others few of us realize that the shoe is actually on the other foot
A friend of mine called me desperately about a...
Patel, RSS and Gandhi’s Assassins
The following article was written nearly ten years ago and first appeared in People’s Democracy in 2004 but is particularly relevant today in view...
1984 and the Specter of Narendra Modi
The thought of Gujarat being replicated on an all-India scale is beyond imagination. Yet the ‘what about 1984’ argument is not only on morally thin...
The War in Syria and Media Games
The Syrian opposition is not perfect by a long shot. Many of them are disorganized, and a few of them are no better than...