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Rama Lakshmi

Rama Lakshmi

Rama Lakshmi is a writer for Washington Post and curator of the Remember Bhopal Museum.

By Rama Lakshmi

Breaking my silence about rape accused Mahmood Farooqui

This post first appeared on the writer's Facebook page.

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Why is the Saraswati river ‎such a heady cocktail of faith, science, history and politics?

Maybe it is better to let the river remain "antarvahini" and "gupt" and not make it manifest itself.

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Beawar: The town that gave us the Right to Information

On April 5, 1996, protesters descended on the Rajasthan town to demand the law.

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Charlie Hebdo: Dangers of becoming a republic of the offended

But the dastardly attack on Charlie Hebdo's staff in Paris on Wednesday poses another awkward dilemma - what do we do when one man's satire becomes another man's bigotry?

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We need more museums, not memorials

It is time to build new kinds of museums more suitable for the questions we confront today.

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