Out of the Mouth of Babes
Sometimes the wisest ideas come from children. Two cheerful boys from a village in Tamil Nadu have shown that adults can learn from kids too. Pre-teen brothers Deva and Jiva…
In search of our other self
By Jug Suraiya In Plato’s Symposium, a conversation between real and imagined participants, one of the speakers, Aristophanes, recounts how the concept of love came into being. Humans originally were…
Wars, Governments, and Facts
While many Americans were watching the Oscars, their president, Donald Trump, was angrily posting messages online saying “FIRED.” But he wasn’t firing someone directly. Instead, he was attacking TV channels…
Out Of The Mouth Of Babes…
…often comes the best of wisdom, as two pre-teen Tamil boys have shown. Adults, pay attention Two, toothy’n grinny, underprivileged kids, “child influencers” on Insta and YouTube, made it to…
The constitutional promise of dignity at the end of life
The question of how a society treats life at its most fragile stage has always tested the moral and legal conscience of nations. The recent order of the Supreme Court…
Circles & cylinders
On the shape of things, and how it shifts “You must get into shape!” Kamala pronounced, as she casually body-shamed my generous proportions. I insisted that round was also a…
Wars, Govts, Facts
Trump’s rage-posting on US media coverage of war shows why, in democracies, factual conflict reporting is so crucial While many Americans were watching the Oscars, their president was rage-posting “FIRED”.…
Can a system of equal justice ever be attained?
Human society today is highly evolved. From the age of hunter-gatherers, when people lived and worked in small groups for immediate survival, human beings have gone on to build elaborate…
For 13 years, an entire family lived inside Harish’s coma
Everyone today has an opinion about Harish Rana and his parents. His photograph is everywhere. Mouth agape. A tracheostomy tube in his throat. Eyes that look as lifeless as life…
From policy promise to lived reality
Ten years after the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, India faces a simple question: have the promises of the law translated into the lived reality of the…