Tenzin Tsundue: The ‘Tibetan Bhagat Singh’
Hours before Chinese President Xi Jinping was to visit Sabarmati Ashram during his India trip last month, Tenzin Tsundue was whisked away from inside the premises of the museum, once a residence of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The writer and activist had been hiding there overnight to stage a demonstration in Jinping’s presence, a mode of protest he has mastered over the years with his repeated…
Hok Kolorob! says Calcutta
It rained the whole day today in Calcutta. It poured, and poured, the intensity of the rain matched only by the spirit of the city’s young who showed what makes Calcutta a city with a soul. In many ways, Calcutta is a dying city. There are no jobs, there is no future, and most educated…
Why the police explanation for JU violence is not acceptable
Alright, let’s assume the students were wrong. Let’s believe the police when they say the students of Jadavpur University provoked them and thus deserved to be manhandled, beaten up and thrown into lock-ups in the wee hours of September 17. After all, many, even those who have now joined the students in protesting against the “alleged”…
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Interview: Ruchira Gupta
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Ambi ride in the UK
How many of you can boast to have been driven around in an Ambassador car in the UK? I don’t think there are too many of you out there. I was purely lucky. I had first heard of Adrian Shooter (in picture above) and his garden railway about 10 years ago in my hometown Siliguri,…
Nepal to legalise homosexuality and same-sex marriages, says law minister
“[The bill] shall be our effort to grant equal status to homosexual and heterosexual relationships,” he said in reply to questions from Scroll.in. “The Muluki Ain is 160 years old and the last serious amendment to was [made] 50 years ago. Efforts are under way to revise it and give it a new progressive face.”
Modi must deliver on his promises to Nepal
India’s relationship with Nepal, or for that matter any of its neighbours, has not been that smooth in the past few years. Somehow or the other an “arrogant” India has managed to irk its neighbours with its “big brother attitude”. During my Nepal visit some years ago, I was surprised to see how China had…
Once upon a time in Muzaffarnagar
It has been almost a year since the western UP riots. I visited Muzaffarnagar in March this year when preparations for the upcoming general elections had just begun. I spoke to many riot survivors, especially women and children, who were still languishing in large numbers in both officially designated and unofficial camps. I wrote my…
Anuradha Sharma 