By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The Grand Old Party has yet another election debacle in Bihar and as the dirty in house laundry is being washed in public by Congress top brass, maybe as a voter belonging to the middle class, whom Congress has lost a long time ago, I […]
Editorial
Editorial
Journalists Lives Matter
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Why you should be concerned about the arrest of journalists? Even the ones well know as Godi or lapdog journalists. I am not saying that journalists are above the law but investigation or arrest should not have a tinge of revenge. India ranks abysmally 142nd […]
Bihar: Jobs, Vaccines and Other Promises
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Bihar elections have become a sort of cruel joke on people. Among the poll promises of jobs that aren’t there, the development that never happened, and the free vaccines that probably won’t come whichever party or alliance comes to power. The elections won’t change anything […]
Le Canard Enchaîné
by the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal If you’d look at our news media, you wouldn’t believe if you are seeing the news, the reality show or propaganda. Except for a handful of exceptions majority fall under the latter two. Though media had always been a chained duck in this country but […]
Hathras Rape: A Question on Our National Conscience
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal In our country, I have heard stories of atrocities and human rights violations in the past but never have I heard or expected such horror, bigotry, and criminal conduct that were so brazenly displayed by government officials in Hathras. The cover-up and prejudice that district […]
Data and Privacy in Indian Context
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal The other day when a TV anchor read private messages of an actor in an investigation related to the drugs angle in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, it made me wonder like a lot of other shocked folks that you can read someone’s private […]
The Covid, Lockdown and Consequences
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal Unchecked power is a dangerous thing; sometimes it creates unintended ramifications that become the undoing of the very people or governments that exercise it. Our current political leadership is a good example of this fact; they act without impulsion or thought while taking a decision […]
The Exams and Ego
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal “We should do to others, what we want for ourselves; in short that is the essence of Dharma” ~ Vidura, Udyog Parva, Mahabharata I don’t think our ruling politicians have read much of Mahabharata; in fact, I don’t think they are that read as […]
The Concept of a Nation
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal What is exactly a nation, a fenced piece of land, a group of people tied by religion, language, ideology or some other idea, exactly what do we expect when we envision a country. Everyone has their own idea of a nation they want to live […]
Disasters and Accidents: A Repeated Pattern
By the Editor: Siddharth Sehgal When it comes to disasters and accidents, we Indians have a deadly consistency to wake up after the tragedy. Weather its floods, pandemic or our critical infrastructure, until there is human cost involved, it doesn’t bring our attention to the problem but the irony of […]