What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape review: Without her consent
A #MeToo story, told with grace, compassion and courage
BY: R. Krithika Journalists, actors, directors, lyricists, authors, musician, corporate honchos… In the past couple of weeks, #MeToo in India has brought into the open something most people were happy to ignore. Despite the excruciating details being shared, there were people willing to discredit the women who have bravely opened up on their traumatic experiences. […]
Failing the girl students
The Supaul incident highlights the decline of the Kasturba Gandhi BalikaVidyalaya — an education scheme that has waited in vain for a long-term policy to guide its progress.
By: Krishna Kumar Supaul, where several girls were recently brutally thrashed while playing in their school compound, claims its heritage from Sita. This did not hold much meaning for the boys and their parents involved in the incident. The official website of this border district of Bihar presents an impressive list of measures taken by […]
The inevitability of MeToo
The global movement is the unfinished business of the 21st century
By: RaminJahanbegloo The #MeToo revolution is on the way. It is certainly a revolution, not only because it is changing structural habits in a male-dominated world, but it is also, as Hannah Arendt says, the only political event which confronts us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. Thus, according to Arendt, acting precisely […]
The Rural -Urban Divide in Kashmir
While one cannot generalize it, the phenomenon of Rural-Urban divide, globally or here in Kashmir, is undeniably one of those issues that has remained alive despite blurring lines between rural and urban life style. Many stories and experiences show that urban people usually demonstrate their urban bias towards rural populations which is nothing but a […]
Book Review: A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth
By: Jennifer Szalai Time has a way of sanding off the rough edges of historical memory, turning even the most convulsive, contentious lives into opportunities for national triumphalism and self-congratulation. With “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” the historian David W. Blight wants to enrich our understanding of an American in full who, for more than […]
Original Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years
Mr. Spinney’s remarkable run as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, two of the most beloved characters on television, will end this week.
By Dave Itzkoff WOODSTOCK, Conn. — The friendly, bearded face of Caroll Spinney may not be one you recognize immediately. But if you have watched TV at any point in the past 50 years or so, you are almost certainly familiar with his work. Since 1969, he has played the parts of the gentle, inquisitive […]
The great smog of 2018
Natural and man-made factors are well on their way to making the prevalence of cancer a dystopic reality for India. Urgent interventions are needed.
BY: Manish Kohli Dateline, September 2018: After a heavy monsoon season, which dumped over 4,000 billion cubic millimetres of precipitation, civic authorities were severely stretched with treating flood victims and the increased cases of acute gastroenteritis, Japanese encephalitis, dengue and malaria. While some parts of the country experienced a bumper harvest, others recorded heavy flooding. […]
Journalism after #MeToo
By: Ananth Krishnan, Meera Srinivasan Over the last week, Indian journalism has finally been forced to confront what has long been its dirty secret. Going by the numerous agonising accounts of women journalists, about some male colleagues and editors abusing power and crossing the line, it appears that sexual harassment is no media outlet’s exclusive […]
Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel
BY Stephen King “I’ve always considered myself to be, basically, a lucky person.” That’s the first line of Tana French’s extraordinary new novel, “The Witch Elm,” and much of what follows is a meditation on luck — the good, the bad and the extremely ugly. Here’s a things-go-bad story Thomas Hardy could have written in […]
VOX POPLI: Urdu Journalism- The challenges ahead!
Urdu- The language of Mir and Ghalib and revolutionary voices like Faiz Ahmad Faiz has enjoyed prominence for hundreds of years and has enjoyed the status of being the official language of the state of Jammu and Kashmir for a long period which continues till date. Many a great magazines, newspapers, tabloids were published in […]
