OPEN TO OPINION
Freelance writer, photographer and women studies scholar, and a part of the Karwan E Mohabbat group. She writes on social marginalisation, minority rights and women issues.
POLITICS
| 7-minute read
Statue of (Dis)Unity: Why Modi should have built Gandhi’s image, not Sardar Patel's
BJP is desperate to appropriate the legacy of leaders like Subhash Chandra Bose and Sardar Patel by pitting them against Nehru. That's how low its politics has gone.
POLITICS
| 11-minute read
Why Rafale isn’t flying: For BJP, Raj Dharma should be answering charges on deal with gravity
The government's response to allegations of a Rafale scam is making it look flighty.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read
Falling rupee and rising fuel prices: How Rahul Gandhi caught Modi govt off-guard with Bharat Bandh
As things stand today, BJP's ‘Congress-mukt bharat’ mission is far from being over.
POLITICS
| 5-minute read
Why the case against Robert Vadra will boomerang on the BJP
Corruption is a cancer in the nation's body, hard to diagnose, harder to treat and it eats away the nation's wealth.
POLITICS
| 8-minute read
Why he hugged PM Modi, to the dangers of exclusion: What Rahul Gandhi said in Germany
The Congress president spoke of how the current government’s policies were fuelling violence and hampering India’s growth.
POLITICS
| 9-minute read
Narendra Modi is no Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Comparisons are made of the oratorical skills of both. But Vajpayee valued truth, dissent, inclusion. Modi is the opposite, not the inheritor, of such talents.
VARIETY
| 7-minute read
BJP's Dalit love - Why the party is feverishly indulging in 'appeasement' now
Dalits are a mere vote bank for the party and the cynical politics of rejection and persuasion around them shows this.
POLITICS
| 7-minute read
Modi government has failed on all fronts, it has no option but play the communal card
PM's Azamgarh speech is proof the BJP has dropped the last curtain on the show of Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas and is only aiming at polarising voters.
VARIETY
| 5-minute read
It's tragic Priyanka Chopra is sorry for ‘Hindu terror plot’ in Quantico
The actor should condemn the mob instead of fanning its ego.
POLITICS
| 8-minute read