OTHER VIEW

By: Shiv Visvanathan This is about footage and photographs of two events, like two strips of memory; cuttings from everydayness....

JUNE 26 marks the day Indira Gandhi imposed her 21-month-long emergency rule on India in 1975. There will be the...

By: Shaikh Mujibur Rehman Post-2014,  cow vigilante groups have emerged as the most prominent non-state actors in India in terms...

By: Boris Johnson Like architecture and art, the value of some international agreements lies in the eye of the beholder....

Two policemen leading the mob which ultimately lynched a Muslim in Hapur is, ofcourse, part of familiar communalism which has...

By: Munir Akram A WEEK ago, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued the first-ever report on human rights...

Have I really lost my mentor, yet so uncertainty? But his blissful thoughts will always live in my mind. It...

By: Amitabh Mattoo Almost every introductory course on contemporary Indian politics begins with a fundamental question: Why did democracy survive...

I never had the pleasure of meeting Shujaat Bukhari, the soft-spoken editor of the Rising Kashmir with a steely spine,...

By: Andrew Mitrovica Like all the other episodes when memory fails and even a passing understanding of recent history evades...