And She Died…
December 29, 2012And she died this morning. In a land far away. With her family near her. A girl whose only fault it was to think that she was safe in India. In the capital city of India, the superpower in making, a woman out…
DNA Column – No Country for women
December 24, 2012My column in today’s DNA In the vast ocean that is the World Wide Web, is a site called Maps4aid.com. It is a crowdsourcing project that meticulously documents violence against women and children in India. Spending a fraction of an hour on…
The Narrative of Victimhood in the FDI debate
December 17, 2012Last week, Foreign Direct Investment in retail came up for debate and vote in Parliament.It was an opportunity to hear the views for and against the proposed plan. After many sessions of lost Parliamentary hours, it was great to hear politicians state their views for and…
Tehelka Blog – the Media Effect
December 12, 2012My blog for Tehelka, last week It is impossible to look at 26/11 and not discuss the role of the Media – especially TV news channels. As important as discussing the role of broadcast news, is also to ask if they…
DNA Column : Only laws can’t protect our freedom
December 10, 2012My column in today’s DNA In the recent past, the issue of free speech and expression has come to the fore in India. Censorship has been creeping up slowly but surely. It seems that institutions and groups are ganging up to…
Tehelka Blog : A Time for Retribution
December 3, 2012My last week’s post on the Tehelka blog platform, on the anniversary of 26/11 40 years ago, the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the Munich Olympics. Athletes and sportsmen from all over had come to represent their Nations and win glory for…
DNA Column – The State, Social Media and the Right to Offend
November 30, 2012My column in today’s DNA The UK is in the throes of a major scandal involving a child sex abuse ring and the attempts of the establishment to cover it up for over four decades. At the centre of the ring is…
Tehelka Blog – The War: Brought to you Live, Tweet by Tweet
November 25, 2012from this week i begin blogging on Tehelkablog …. the first of these is on the social media war between the Hamas and the Israel Defense Force (IDF) The Middle East crisis is as old as history. Different people, different kingdoms, different…
Jhing Chik Jhing plays at the National Archives in Pune
November 18, 2012Our film Jhing Chik Jhing plays at the National Archives in Pune, a part of the Reflections retrospective that looks at marginalised kids world over