By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Had this happened in any other country, it would have ended a lot of political careers and yet deaths of hundreds of children from encephalitis didn’t seem to be a problem for Nitish Kumar’s government in Bihar. The chief minister who was miffed about seat […]
Editorial
Editorial
It’s Not Easy Being a Journalist in India
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Few days ago we saw journalists being picked up or beaten by police. Whether its Pradeep Kanojiya who was arrested for a tweet or the News 24 news reporter who was arrested, beaten and urinated upon for doing a news on local police or Santosh […]
Language War & Regional Politics: Is it Worth Your Time?
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal There was this news about a twitter hashtag about Hindi imposition on non Hindi speaking parts of India and as our media blindly follows everything that goes viral. Suddenly news outlets started running breaking news that people in South India are angry over new education […]
The Start of an Era
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal This is an epic moment in Indian political history; this nation has chosen its leader and with an uncontested, unbelievable mandate India has chosen to pursue the vision laid by the man called Narendra Modi. No one doubted that he will come back to power […]
Less than 100 Rs a Day
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal It was a blistering summer afternoon and I had just came out of the metro station of Sector 34, Noida when the blistering Sun made me changed my mind of walking to my apartment complex roughly a kilometer or so away. I looked around and […]
Draupadi
By The Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The title may baffle you as to why I chose to name today’s discussion on a character from Hindu epic Mahabharata but some recent events have brought forth a very uncomfortable fact about our society that has not changed since the day Draupadi was disrobed […]
In Shadow of Sri Lanka
By The Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Before I begin discussion on today’s topic, I’d like to extend my prayers and thoughts to the victims of terror attacks on Easter Sunday gatherings in Sri Lanka. It was a cowardly attack on a community that had not wronged the attackers in anyway; in […]
Let’s Stand with Jet Employees
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Far away from electoral fanfare, people are not much aware about a topic that is just as important as national elections. You may not now but one of the biggest private airline in India has closed its operations for good but in the ongoing feud […]
An Appeal to the Voter
Dear Reader, If you are reading this and if you are 18 or above and an Indian citizen, then please go out there and vote. The elections have officially begun and you have a chance to have your say in the decisions of the home. Please do take out time […]
Make Politicians Approachable Again
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Election season is here in India. Every five years we get a glimpse, if we are lucky enough, of a rare species that is neither endangered nor extinct, yet it makes itself available for public view for few days till the date you press that […]