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Sedition Law In India, Constitutionality, Supreme Court’s Verdict and...

The Supreme Court of India has on Wednesday May 11 put the law of Sedition (Section 124A of Indian Penal Code) in abeyance. A three Judge Bench lead by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana has directed...

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Is Jeremy Renner In India For His New Show Rennervations on Disney Plus?

Moments ago, Jeremy Renner Tweeted about his long travel day and 24 hours of new experiences tagging it with Rennervations and India. So, is Renner coming to India for an episode of his new documentary...

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Remembering Rajiv Gandhi Through His Historic Speeches – First Election...

On Rajiv Gandhi's martyrdom day, remembering him through his historic speeches. This is first election victory speech which he began by vowing to protect secularism and the Sikh community.

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Electronics For Progress: Can you keep up with what we are doing?: Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi’s Inaugural address to the seminar on “Investment Opportunities in Electronics”, organised by the All India Manufacturers Organisation, New Delhi, 21 February 1985. Reproduced from “Rajiv...

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Blow Your Own Trumpet, Celebrate Self-hood, Life Narrative Is Powerful:...

They say don’t blow your own trumpet. I don’t get it, who else will do it if not me? Why would somebody else blow my trumpet don’t they have their own trumpets to blow? We are all tiny people in a big...

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Rahul Gandhi’s Speech at Conclusion Of Chintan Shivir: A Strong Message For...

Rahul Gandhi gave a strong and significant speech today at the concluding ceremony of the 3-day Congress Chintan Shivir in Udaipur. He remained firm on his repeated statements that the battle of Indian...

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Thoughts on RSS’s Attempts To Make India Hindu Rashtra By 2025

Writing this in response to another embarrassment faced by India due to former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s hateful comment against Islam. US Secretary of State Ned Price condemned both BJP...

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How Rahul Gandhi Guided Modi Govt Through Two Years of COVID Pandemic: Timeline

From February 2020 to April 2022 Rahul Gandhi continuously raised various issues related to Covid19 pandemic, made useful suggestions and asked relevant questions. In response, govt lived in denial,...

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Ms Marvel Dispels Myths, Introduces American Audience For First Time To...

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a stunning India-Pakistan partition scene in a Marvel Cinematic Universe. As an Indian it is the part of history and geography I never expected the US to care...

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Tom Cruise’s Scientology, Jeremy Renner’s App, Why some celebs are always on...

On the occasion of Tom Cruise’s birthday on July 3, a user on movies subreddit community, which has over 28 million users, posted a link to Tom Cruise’s life in photos. Soon, a commentator mentioned,...

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Creative Freedom Is Also Harmed When You Cannot Make Film About The Prophet,...

Refraining from making a movie with a provocative sexualized poster of Goddess Kali restricts creative freedom. Of course. But it is also restricted when you cannot make a film about The Prophet. So...

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TV Series Lost: s6 ep 15 Across the Island, Jacob and Man in Black’s story...

Lost was always about science vs religion, good vs evil, light vs dark, and obedience vs rebellion. This was best articulated in Jacob and Man in Black's origin story which represents every...

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Election for President post of Indian National Congress, 9000 delegates to...

Polling is underway for the post of President of Indian National Congress, India’s grand old party. Around 9000 PCC delegates from every Indian State are casting their votes. The voting is by secret...

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Hate I receive From Some of the So called Liberals on Twitter

I have been on Twitter for 15 years, and I must write a book on the many Twitter encounters, the love, the hate, happiness, success I have got from Twitter. But today, I just wanted to make a small...

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Twitter Shutting Down Would Be Like Losing An Entire Civilization To An...

Around 20k people from across the globe including from non-first-world countries such as India, Ghana, Mexico etc. gathered this morning (India time) on a Twitter Space hosted by @katienotopoulos...

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Siddique Kappan Walks Out of Jail: He Should Now Sue the Government and...

In October 2020, Kerala based journalist Siddique Kappan was in a cab with three other men traveling to Hathras to cover a rape case that had caught large scale media attention. He was stopped...

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A Place In The World: Painting by Sanjukta Basu

This is my life’s first attempt at a pencil sketch and then colouring it. I always wished I could draw but never learnt and never tried. Occasionally I used colours to make abstract art, geometric...

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My Work On The Questions of Gender And Space, Women and Public Space and...

My work on Gender and Space (the travel and photography project I did in five Indian Metro Cities which was published by Firstpost) was mentioned in an EPW Engage article titled, “How Do We Help Women...

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My Live Tweets on the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Results Day

Here is a set of my Live Tweets posted on the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Results from 4-June 10 am to today 5-June morning. I had believed the exit polls and still kept my calendar for today totally free...

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Gender and Public Space in London

Recently, I visited the United Kingdom including the cities of London, Oxford, Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne. As I travelled around, I constantly looked at the urban landscape with my gender and...

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