Every war is not won with weapons. Every trench is not built for wars. There are times when societies build these with their hearts more...

"What goes around, comes around," the quote does not seem true of the current times given our media stories. What goes around in India,...

The photo is a courtesy of Al Jazeera India is a country where inequalities are so rampantly visible that people have started to disregard what they see. Disparity has become the norm. People see normlessness as an outcome of living in a developing country. The repetitive use of the very label of "developing country" has made a majority of Indians accept their position as it is, and consider it as an inevitable part of life. There have been several uprisings of different sca

The very question, “is there still no place like home?,” springs from the horror of not being able to distinguish between me and not me....

It was in 2004 that I was first introduced to Toni Morrison. Not in person but through her fictive work. I have always preferred it that way-the writing before the writer. It was after her passing away that I realized how much I related to her vis-a-vis places, the place of freedom and those of oppression, but also as an overseer. I was eighteen and imagining God as a woman, questioning the patriarchy that I had already begun to feel like a roll of satin cloth (or maybe jute