How we can actually save the Aravallis
My grandfather, T H Tehsin, once held eight mining leases in the Aravallis around Udaipur, each stretching some 40 miles, and then gave them all back to the government. I’ll…
My grandfather, T H Tehsin, once held eight mining leases in the Aravallis around Udaipur, each stretching some 40 miles, and then gave them all back to the government. I’ll…
The catalogue of everyday horrors in India this week has a grim parallel in another corner of the world. In Sandton, an affluent Johannesburg neighbourhood, a women’s running club now…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet says, “conscience doth make cowards of us all”. What is conscience? How does it make us “cowards”? Hamlet’s outburst is his anger at himself for repeatedly putting off…
I hate it when someone says, “Let’s meet for a coffee,” and means it literally. Why not talk over ice cream? Or a walk? At least then I won’t be…
5 min readSep 26, 2026 06:40 PM IST First published on: Sep 26, 2026 at 06:40 PM IST It is that time of the year when endless discussions about India’s…
5 min readSep 26, 2026 06:54 AM IST First published on: Sep 26, 2026 at 06:54 AM IST In an interview to the media while in Delhi to attend the…
Neutrality is not an ornament of the Election Commission. It is the constitutional reason for its being. In Mohinder Singh Gill (1978), Justice Krishna Iyer, echoing Lord Camden, cautioned that…
I barely consume OTT content despite subscribing to all the major platforms, which everyone in my circle benefits from. Sacred Games, Paatal Lok, Mirzapur — I have seen none of…
Back in 2024, as I prepared to move to New Delhi and made a checklist of items to carry, my mother added “pepper spray” to the very top. A basic…
4 min readSep 25, 2026 06:20 AM IST First published on: Sep 25, 2026 at 06:20 AM IST Deliberation, debate, and internal dissent form the lifeblood of any functional constitutional…