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I Could Invent a Religion…

Like anyone who lives in India, I have been dunked in an ocean of religiosity from childhood, watching my mother fast herself sick, the daily lighting of the lamps, the weekly payasam offered first to the deities before we could partake of it, and after p

A Moment in Time

You still haven’t mouthed that hideous C-word. You are now just a statistic, trailing a plastic drainage box attached by a tube to a spot uncomfortably close to that area where your flesh has been sliced off

Rifts, Fissures, Cracks, Gaping Holes

The spate of visits to India by important and self-important men and women from all corners of the earth signifies something that only the very blind and impervious will see as being a good thing

Words of a Woman

Why do women write? I think it is all tied up with their awareness of themselves, their bodies, the physical and emotional world around them, relationships…

Jayalalitha---The Caped Wonder-Woman

Where the Brahmin is still anathema, she is a fair Brahmin woman ruling over a largely Dravidian population.

A Certain Age

Everything one reads seems so dire. Endless implications for the fate of civilization and the way the world turns and is going to go in the next ten, twenty, fifty years.

This thing called Love of Country

If we want to know why we are what we are, psychology, science, anthropology, sociology, geography, environment, economics ---everything can be used to excavate the past. Uncover inconvenient truths. But we have to be brave enough to look these truths in

Book: Governance and the Sclerosis that Has Set In

When a man like Arun Shourie writes for the hundredth time on the failure of the system, is he writing for our amusement, to make us angry, to push and prod us into changing the way things work?

The Truth About Beauty

The infinite enigma of beauty can turn out to be the falsest mirage, the mystery of love can turn into a cruel trap, religious and philosophical truths so beautiful when they are first encountered can become unbreakable chains around one’s neck and

A Good Reason To Cheer

When Mr. Modi speaks about the pride of India being insulted by his being rejected by the US government, let him know that he himself is considered a blot, a blight a horrible insult to India.

Movie: Page Three

We all love stories about who is doing what to whom, then why has watching Page Three left such a taste of bile in my mouth?

Rage Against the Dying of the Light

Do we actually possess a soul? Are we actually being judged at every second for our thoughts and words and actions?

The Three Queens

My mother was her mother’s slave. And her mother was queen. Who was my father? I do not know. It was not important... As worshippers of the old religion, of our mother goddess, we understand that women are the subtle rivers that carry the world forw

Pink Flowers

The fat one has come back and my Didi’s face grows pale as ash. Why does she come again and again when she must know that she is not welcome, when all she can do is destroy the peace of our household...

The Way We Were

Hearing Paul McCartney sing “Yesterday” recently, I was surprised to find my eyes moist. It’s a long time since any song has really moved me, but that used to be My Song.

Passion and Obsession in Kathmandu

To drag a feudal society kicking and screaming, into the twenty-first century is not the easiest of tasks. We should know. India has been trying to do just that for the last fifty-four years.

Inventing India—Again and Again

If one were a spin-doctor in the present rancorous climate of Indian politics, dealing in Resurgent Religion, how would one go about manufacturing a mythology that would win votes?

The Great Illusion

How pure is our bloodline?

The Future Is Another Country: 2050 And Beyond

Osama bin Laden has his own vision of a perfect world and millions will die

Revathy Gopal

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