After Karan Johar, Kajol takes on growing intolerance in India
JAIPUR-- After filmmaker Karan Johar's remark on growing intolerance in the country, actress Kajol on Saturday said there was "insensitivity" in India and that...
The Peace to End All Peace: Terrifying rise of ethnic nationalism after WW-I
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR--Nationalism got a fillip in the aftermath of World War I as several empires disintegrated and new nations were born, but an...
So-called experts behind all problems, don’t trust them: Uncertainty, randomness guru
By Vikas Datta
Jaipur-- People would be better of trusting experts like dentists and plumbers, and even rickshaw-pullers rather than economists or bureaucrats, whose incompetence...
Cities tell the tale of an empire: British Historian
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR--Less than half a dozen cities, almost all ports, of the British Empire are enough to give a vivid idea of character,...
Booker Prize winner flays Delhi airport
JAIPUR--Booker Prize 2015 winner Marlon James's first trip to India turned out to be a bitter one. The Jamaica-born writer poured out his woes...
An Unsuitable Boy: Karan Johar
By Wire Services
JAIPUR--With his candid confessions on how he was "effeminate as a child" and how he used to have "sleepless nights" over the...
The Honor Code: Do honor killers know their action morally wrong?
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR-- Honour and morality can oppose each other, and the former can lead to people into committing despicable acts like "honour killings"...
Does the Indian Constitution need a revamp? No, rule legal experts
By Vikas Datta
Jaipur--Does the rise of judicial activism, the conflict between the judiciary and the executive and the inability of parliament to properly carry...
Correct misconceptions about Partition to allow healing
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR-- Much of the toxic memories and legacies around Partition in 1947, which continue to create bad blood even seven decades later...
The Pakistan Paradox: The world must help
By Vikas Datta
JAIPUR-- There is a change in Pakistan where the civil society is slowly gaining ground, but the world needs to change its...