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This is an essay on the issue of sexual harassment in university Campuses and the role of the student community in its prevention. This essay was submitted as an entry to the GSCASH…

This 800 words essay was written in response to the Mera India Bridge the Gap Essay Contest. It was very hurriedly written (not at all a scholarly attempt) in less than one hour and comprises…

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Sometimes some handicraft item looks so beautiful. This hand-made cycle made of aluminium wires is so beautiful! I bought it in 20 Rupees near Rajghat, New Delhi (it was also available at Lal…

Sometimes some handicraft item looks so beautiful. This hand-made cycle made of aluminium wires is so beautiful! I bought it in 20 Rupees near Rajghat, New Delhi (it was also available at Lal…

A religious festival in a premiere educational institution and that too in the ‘bastion of the left’? Yes! It is not only the Durga Puja which is celebrated within the JNU campus but…

At about 11 AM today [25 September 2009], a man was caught in my hostel [Sabarmati, JNU] who claimed to know people in the hostel and tried to enter students’ rooms with the intention of…

Yesterday evening [22 September 2009] I was at the Green Carpet Premiere of the hard-hitting ‘drama-documentary-animation’ on climate change ‘The Age of Stupid’ at PVR Premiere […

Click here to read the part I of the report which has snapshots from his twitter account about the ‘cattle class holy cows’ controversy raked up by people who do not understand and…

Trouble is brewing over Shashi Tharoor’s tongue-in-cheek twitter remark to a question by journalist Kanchan Gupta [associate editor, the Pioneer] asked on September 14 2009, 11:57 PM on…