C. .M NAIM Last year, Urdu institutions in India celebrated a landmark in the history of that language—the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jam-i Jahan-Numa, the first modern newspaper in Urdu. It debuted on 27 March 1822, carrying a name that was clever and most befitting. It referred to the fabled “world-revealing goblet” of… Read More India’s Urdu Press: A Bitter-Sweet Bicentenary
Ground reports by Hridayesh Joshi By हृदयेश जोशी 23 Jan, 2023 https://hindi.newslaundry.com/2023/01/23/uttarakhand-joshimath-tehri-dam-crisis-houses-ntpc-project उत्तराखंड में जहां भी हाइड्रोपावर प्रोजेक्ट हैं, वहां गांव दरक रहे हैं. लोगों की जमीन धंस रही है और खेत बर्बाद हो रहे हैं. “बेटा, हम घर से बेघर हो गये हैं. ये घर तो टूट कर गिर रहा है. मेरे नाती-पोते सब… Read More Joshimath: उत्तराखंड का जल शोक, बांधों की बलि चढ़ते गांव
Fatima Bhutto If recent Bollywood films are any indication, it is fair to say that India’s film industry is obsessed with Pakistan. Obsessed. Like standing outside your apartment and trying to peek through your windows at night with binoculars obsessed. If the films were smarter or more daring, Pakistan might be flattered. Instead, we are beginning to be mildly… Read More Bollywood is obsessed with Pakistan. We’d be flattered if it weren’t so nasty
NB: All I can say is thank you Kumar. You restore our faith in humanity. You may be an atheist, but if there is a god, you have blessed us all by your act of grace. God bless you, and Siddique too who had gone to Uttar Pradesh to do his duty. DS By Puja… Read More Meet Kumar Sauvir, the journalist who stood up for Siddique Kappan
By Vidya The Bombay Lawyers Association approached the Bomby High Court with a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and Union Law minister Kiren Rijiju saying they should be discharged from their duties because they have shown a “lack of faith” in the Constitution. The lawyer group said the VP and Kiren… Read More PIL against Vice President, Law minister, for ‘no faith’ in Constitution
Vidya Krishnan “Narendra Modi is directly responsible” for what happened in Gujarat in 2002. Those four words do more to acknowledge the grief inflicted on India’s Muslims, who have been at the receiving end of twenty years of gaslighting, than anything the government has done or said. In a documentary, the BBC—based on thoroughly reported… Read More What the BBC’s “Modi Question” reveals about India
Gandhiji has been killed by his own people for whose redemption he lived. This second crucifixion in the history of the world has been enacted on a Friday – the same day Jesus was done to death one thousand nine hundred and fifteen years ago Father forgive us These lines in white on a black… Read More The Lady Vanishes
RAMA LAKSHMI In a country where two-thirds of the population is below 35, it took a 57-year-old actor’s movie – Pathaan — to bring the ka-ching back to a battered Bollywood. That’s the gravity-defying, logic-defying stardom that Shah Rukh Khan represents. Not too long ago, the know-it-alls were writing hasty obituaries of Bollywood and about… Read More Pathaan is Shah Rukh Khan’s love letter to his fans. And RSVP for boycott gang
First posted January 29, 2015 Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca // samanyam etat pasubhir naranamdharmo hi tesam adhiko viseso // dharmena hinah pasubhih samanah (Hunger, sleep, fear and sex are common to men and animals / What distinguishes men from animals is the knowledge of right and wrong) (Bhagwadgita; Tr S. Radhakrishnan, 1948, 1971, p 79) For the Hindi version… Read More The Abolition of truth
Jonathan Barrett The US investor targeting Indian conglomerate Adani Group over what it claims is the “biggest con in corporate history” has dared the company to sue, given it would open the coal producer to further scrutiny. Hindenburg Research’s report has already wiped billions of dollars of value from the sprawling empire of Gautam Adani, the world’s… Read More US activist investor who accused Adani of ‘biggest con in corporate history’ dares Indian group to sue
