Bureau - Different Truths

February 6, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Turning Pot on Top, Congress Courts Controversy: BJP Gets a Neech-Like Handle for Karnataka

Spandana woke up to PM Modi’s ‘top’ comment and tweeted that question “Is this what happens when you’re on ‘pot’?”, which has now become a top controversy, with the...

February 6, 2018
IPA Service
Corruption, Economy, Exploitation, Mass Media

Looking at Elders through Selective Eyes: Retirees from News Organisations in Dire Straits

Retired people from newspaper companies and organisations were never granted proper salaries in their prime time of life. Having craftily ensured low salaries to these essential staff, the management...

January 9, 2018
Soumya Mukherjee
Humour, People, Potpourri

Idiosyncrasies of the Administrator

No amount of agitation, street theater, or NGOs can accomplish what one civil servant who is ‘civil’ and believes in ‘service’ can. So the time and energy spent in...

December 5, 2017
Dr. Navodita Pande
Politics

BJP sweeps the UP Civic Polls, with SP, BSP, and Congress Making Substantial Gains

Our Associate Editor, Navodita, analyses BJP’s sweeping the UP Civic Polls, wondering if it would bolster BJP’s Gujarat campaign. The emergence of women in the elections is a change...

September 20, 2017
Mahima Sharma
Gender, Interview

Rana Safvi: The Untold Story

The world knows her as a famous historian who came out with her first book at the age of 58, a firm believer in the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb of India...

September 17, 2017
Vedatrayee Dutta
Crime, Education & Career, Human Rights, Law & Order, Legal Issues, Opinion, Parenting, Special Feature

Red Alert: Future is Dead!

The recent shameful cases of an International school in Gurgaon where a seven-year-old boy was brutally murdered in the toilet of the school, a famous school in Delhi where...

July 7, 2017
Preeyan Abraham
Education & Career

Did we Choose the Career or the Career Chose us?

Our careers got shaped by choices we made along the way and not because we had a plan. Very few ambitious, self-driven, extremely studious friends who ended up getting...

May 28, 2017
Amit Singh
Activism, Cover Story, Economy, Politics, Subaltern & Dalits

Is the Indian Democracy Declining?

Our Editor-at-Large, Norway-based Amit, focuses on the declining democratic values and rising fascistic, extremist and dictatorial tendencies in contemporary Indian politics and society. An expose with hard facts, exclusively...

February 23, 2017
Sehar Siddiqi
Criticism

That Language Named Urdu

The fictional character of Urdu having a Muslim character persisted in times of Premchand and also exists till now. During one of his lectures delivered in Bombay during the...

December 10, 2016
Amit Singh
Advocacy, Cover Story, Human Rights

The Right to Life, Liberty and Security: Has India Failed to keep its Human Rights Obligations?

The growing number of extra judicial killings, rampant discrimination against vulnerable groups, tribal and Adivasi, including minorities and legal immunity (of perpetrators) Custodial torture, inherent in daily police practice, still remains...

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