Articles
By Mark Antony Rossi I’ve been a risk-taker all my life. Most times it paid off but when it didn’t the damage was serious and contrary to popular belief time doesn’t heal all wounds. The very reason married people with children become conservative is because they quickly realize risks gone […]
By Mark Antony Rossi Life is most hectic when working a full-time job and heading a family consisting of a wife and two small boys plus a healthy amount of writing for various publications. Indeed, I asked for all of this and I am making it work whenever I observe […]
By Mark Antony Rossi There’s a certain arrogance in those who wait for tomorrow. Did I miss the memo that proclaims we have plenty of time? Whatever happened to solving today’s problems so can have a better tomorrow. That sentiment is usually lost in the politics of hesitation which masks […]
By Srinibash Das and Ranjit K Sahu Tribals and indigenous people comprise about 22% of the population of Odisha and inhabit the forest and hilly tracts of the state. Though several decades have passed since independence their health and living standards has not seen any change in spite of rapid industrialization […]
By Ananya S. Guha Now after seeing red, we are witness to black. Black everywhere, in ques, lines, shops and markets. We have been blackened, so the change is on. Black to white is the mantra. Then the change.To banks for white, to the shops, to the banks who refuse […]
By Mark Antony Rossi I wrote a piece recently, entitled “Black Mayonnaise,” which laments how reckless manufacturers polluted the river I swam and played in as a child and how presently it’s impossible to bring my children to its poisoned environs. This situation, unlike activists who chain themselves to fences […]
By Mark Anthony Rossi The U.S. 2016 Presidential Election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is bound to be considered a political contest of historic proportions — but not for the most obvious reasons — a 40-year political insider versus a billionaire neophyte. A wider analysis reveals a seismic repudiation […]
By Mark Antony Rossi I remember the first time feeling the gravity of being a writer when the military dictatorship of Nigeria hung a playwright (Ken Saro-Wiwa) for writing a radio play about the poverty of his region. It terrorized my being more than the murders of anti-apartheid activists. At […]
By Mark Antony Rossi History has drummed into masculine minds that war is an inevitable venture necessary to balance the scales of national interests and cultural jealousy. We are told “War will turn a boy into a man.” We are lectured “Only in War can bravery be truly tested.” But […]
By Sudha Dixit “People have to bear it” declared Karnataka CM Siddaramaiya, when he along with his entourage caused a traffic jam to great inconvenience of citizens of Bangalore. There were school children who were late for classes. There were patients (some – critically ill) who could not reach hospitals […]