The long dark tea time of the soul

Blogbharti, on its anniversary has started a spotlight series, featuring essays from the Indian bloggers. Read on my essay, on the need to recognize education as a fundamental right in India, stronger government role and need for strict regulation on the private
education sector. Market is not a solution to guarantee human rights, state is the [...]

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Any individial who is above 35 years of age, and satisfies a host of other criteria can run for presidential election in India. More than 80 candidates tried their luck in this month’s  presidential elections, including a retired school teacher and a village sarpanch. Most of them  have their candidacy rejected. And India is [...]

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This is old news, but those who are still unaware of it, here is the declaration. I got married to Sonali on 6th Feb 2007. Marriage does wonderful things to people. This post is not about that magic.
Talking about information sharing, we recently saw the power and magic of RTI. On september 22 2006, Sonali [...]

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Despite the (over?)crowding of journalists in Indian blogsophere, and despite recent remarkable collective attempts at fighting censorship by the bloggers of our country, I was slightly disappointed that the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, fearless russian journalist found no mention on prominent Indian blogs. The lack of condemnation of that incident by the Indian government is [...]

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“Ami nirdosh, aamake ora mere phelche (I am innocent, they are killing me)”, this was one of the last sentences, and possibly the dying declaration of the first Indian to be sent to the gallows in 21st century. Amid widespread public debate, hysterical frenzy, Dhananjoy Chatterjee, 44, rapist and murderer, was hanged nearly two [...]

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On 1st of this month, the world witnessed the muder of a young Tibetan nun by chinese forces in full public view. A detailed report of what happenned can be found here.
According to it,
The Nangpa Pass serves as a main trading route between Tibet and Nepal, and is commonly used as an escape route by [...]

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Tabassum guru, wife of Mohammad Afzal Guru, wrote a public appeal for justice which was published on 21st October 2004 in Kashmir Times. Mohammad Afzal guru has beed declared as an accomplice in the attack on the Indian parliament in december 2001, and the death sentence awarded to him by the trial court has been [...]

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When our ‘honourable’ supreme court fixed the date of hanging for Afzal Guru last week, they knew precisely what is going to happen in the coming days. The widespread protests against the judgement in the Kashmir valley, raising Afzal Guru to an iconic stature by the separatists, the fundamentalists grabbing the issue with talks of [...]

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I don’t know Nagesh Anna. I have never met him or seen him, I have never seen his photograph, nor heard his voice. I don’t know his real name, nor am I sure whether he is a real person or not. For all it matters, Nagesh anna might not exist at all, he might be [...]

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This monday, on 17th july late evening, around 600 maoists attacked the Errabore relief camp. Apparently first a batch of 100 armed maoists attacked the crpf camp nearby and engaged the armed policemen in a bullet battle, and then 500, most of them armed with machettes, axe and knives, rained down on the relief camp [...]

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