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What is it about Valentine’s Day that gets so many people so riled?
The past decade and more has seen the growing popularity of Valentine’s Day in South Asian countries as a festival of romance, specially for the urban youth. And it has also attracted significant opposition, often violent, from religious groups and conservative opinion which have attacked it for destroying our religion(s) and culture with its Christian, Western and commercial character. Read the rest of this entry »
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This is a review of Religious Demography of India, A.P. Joshi, M.D. Srinivas and J.K. Bajaj, Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai, 2003, pp. i-xxii + 358, Rs. 800.
I wrote it in October 2003 when I was working for The Hindu, but unfortunately, it never got published. The issue of “religious demography” remains as important today as ever and the carnards spread by Hindutva propagandists as vile as ever, therefore I am posting this review. Read the rest of this entry »
This report was part of a media fellowship given by ICRISAT, Hyderabad to write on environment and water. It recounts an attempt to transcend the Government to Government deadlock in the Kyoto agreement by initiating people to people carbon trading and getting individuals and institutions to take responsibility for their carbon emissions.
Here are two reports on Nepal from January 2005. The first one is an assessment of the Maoists and the political situation just before the takeover of power by King Gyanendra. The second article is on the discrimination faced by Dalits in Nepal and the political implications of that.
These two articles were published in February 2003 as a special report on the then proposed river interlinking scheme for India.
These three articles were published in April 2003, as a special report on the Muslims of Hyderabad.
The following are my reports from the World Social Forum held in January 2007 in Mumbai published in The Hindu. I was part of the team of journalists from this paper assigned to cover this event.
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