Terror - Different Truths

August 9, 2017
Payal Talreja
Crime, Gender, Opinion, Politics

The Perpetrator Beta vs. the Victim Beti: Tales from a Chauvinistic Society

Varnika Kundu, daughter of an IAS officer, was terrorised and almost kidnapped, in Chandigarh, by Vikas Barala, son of BJP Haryana chief. Our New Delhi-based columnist, Payal says that...

July 26, 2017
Tribhawan Kaul
Fiction

Is Kashmiriat dead? Long live Kashmiriat!

In the backdrop of fundamentalism, gloom, terrorism, there is hope. Arzan Nath and Gul Nisaar, a Kashmiri Pandit and a Muslim, had to suffer. Here’s a story how humanity...

July 11, 2017
Soumya Mukherjee
Human Rights, Migration & Diaspora, People, Place

Memories of Sangla Hill

This is a question that we all have to answer. Shia, Sunni, Catholic, Protestant, Bengali, Marathi, Brahmin, Jathav, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, do we all mark our territories and...

March 19, 2017
Amit Singh
Conflict & Resolution, Cover Story, Multiculturalism, Politics

Do the Muslims of Norway Pose Cultural Threat to Norwegian Identity?

Norway is a country which claims to protect and promote human rights at home and abroad. However, within the deeper layers of Norwegian society, to some extent, hidden racism...

November 13, 2016
Sreelata Menon
Cover Story, Politics

Who are the Indian Political Junkies and What Angers Them so Easily?

Taking to the streets over state issues, to eat or not to eat something, to be allowed to pray or not to pray; burning public property and disrupting everyday life,...

October 22, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Short Story

The Bride of Death

Life is full of strange surprises. It’s rightly said that facts are stranger than fiction. The protagonist, Anita, found acceptance of her love with Shubho perhaps a little too late....

October 12, 2016
Lily Swarn
People, Travel & Food

The Trial and Tribulations of Life of an Army Wife in Kathua District

Lily went in an auto-rickshaw to teach in Kathua town. The ride was long but she enjoyed the young vibrant faces of the college students. Militancy was rearing its monstrous head...

September 3, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

Bitter Dregs of Coffee

A poem with a universality by Mamta. From coffee that two people have to the terror attacks in another continent, depicting the life and times of the now generation. A...

July 15, 2016
Mamta Joshi
Poem

The recent senseless killings, a terror attack, in the French Riviera (Nice) has appalled people around the globe. Mamta recounts the savage violence in verse. In another Continent Like a leitmotif...

July 4, 2016
Amit Singh
Opinion, Politics, Religion, Terrorism

Is Violence Inherent in Religion?:Need for Open Discussion

Disconnecting roots of violence from religion would be disregarding the historical facts. Violence is deeply rooted in almost all religions. Some religion propagate violence openly, some are discreet. Following...

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