Sagarika Ghose is currently a senior editor on CNN-IBN. I am not particularly a fan of her. To be fair to her, I might be misrepresenting her by taking issue with a couple of occasions where she has been, let's say, less than stellar. As with all of Indian news channels in English, she is an active champion of the shouting match culture. Don't take ( Read more... )

I very briefly mentioned about Indian Government atrocities in Manipur, while talking about the abject state of civil liberties in India.

On July 23rd this year calm unarmed Chongkam Sanjit, a 27-year old was murdered by Manipur police. Here are a series of pictures that document Sanjit's murder. Shoma Chaudhury's excellent story from ( Read more... )

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Stop saying "Girls outshine boys," because they don't. It is this time of the year, and board exam results across the county are announced. The recurring theme is girls do better than guys. I was always puzzled on how this could be possible. The data is crying out loud asking someone to take a look. Where are all the anti-Larry Summers of India?

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My friends know I was clearly excited on the day the votes in India's parliamentary elections were counted. I was very nervous that voters might return a fractured verdict. Voters proved all the pundits wrong by voting for stability with a clear preference for the leading coalitions UPA and NDA and rejecting the "parking lots." and ( Read more... )