Katherine Boo had a fair idea of how unpopular her enterprise could be, even as she was taking slow hesitant steps towards it way back in 2007.
One hundred and thirty-three years before Richard Dawkins launched his frontal attack against the idea of god in his 2006 book The God Delusion, Jotirao Govindrao Phule declared war against a religious system that sanctified one class of people trampling over others deemed to be inferior.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, famous as the creator of Tarzan, Rousseau’s Noble Savage transplanted to early 20th century Africa, never set foot in Africa
The vigour for wildlife and forests now remains only in schoolbooks and on television channels, sadly. It has totally gone missing from the conscience of an average Indian, who thinks more of today, than tomorrow.
Chetan Chauhan writes.
Tailor TalkSteve Jobs could push his teams to develop amazing products and he could whip up a frenzy for their creations. He was able to keep new products so secret that only a couple of dozen people at Apple might know what they looked like. But among all the things he could control, he couldn’t control his cancer.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has got approval for creating two more posts of Inspector General (IG) rank officers.
Commerce minister Anand Sharma said on Wednesday that an Indian business delegation would still visit Iran despite a string of bomb attacks blamed on the increasingly isolated Islamic republic.
A high rate of inflation may be pinching hard on day-to-day life of people in the country, but a global survey has named two Indian cities - financial hub Mumbai and national capital New Delhi - among the four least expensive places across the world.
The furore over Dow Chemicals sponsorship of the London Olympics and suggestion that Indian athletes should boycott the Games, reveals a lack of conscience on the part of the organisors of the Olympics and the lack of imagination of the Indian activists,
Vir Sanghvi writes.
Madversity | Dabs & Jabs | Tailor TalkThe row on enrolment has abated and the Unique Identification project appears to be back on track. But questions still remain over the Rs. 18,000-crore project.
Chief ministers of Tripura and Uttarakhand today joined the anti-NCTC chorus taking to 12 the number of opposing states even as their Gujarat counterpart Narendra Modi accused UPA of "attacking" the country's federal structure.
Some people make things happen; others see things happen; and a third set wonder what happened. India's foreign office mandarins, it seems, belong to the third category. Arnab Mitra writes. They Call Me Muslim | Mind's I | Dabs & Jabs
Corruption did dominate the noisy electoral discourse in Uttarakhand. But it wasn't as much about 2G, CWG, Anna Hazare's Lokpal or chief minister BC Khanduri's Lokyaukta praised by anti-graft activists. Vinod Sharma writes. Terminal 3 | Dabs & Jabs | Page Turner
The government gave citizens a unique power to question its policies and decisions through the Right To Information (RTI) Act five years ago but off late it has been desperate to kill it either by hook or crook.
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