Issue 20

Diluting the Right To Information in India?| Sunday Reading List

The Central Government introduced the RTI Amendment Bill 2018 on July 19, 2018. The bill, inter alia, primarily, attempts to fix specific...

Deconstructing the Psychopath | Todd Squitieri

In criminal justice schools throughout the United States, from Fresno State to John Jay College, students are learning terms that law...

Discovering Maggie Rogers | Tanmay Raj Anand

It’s rare to find a combination of soft, simple and soothing music together in a track, and that’s just what Maggie Rogers does best. The...

Karimul’s medical motorcycle diaries

Souryajit Nath & Arindam Bachar & Debannita Biswas A tea garden worker in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal runs a unique ‘bike...

Ingmar Bergman at 100 | Sunday Reading List

Ingmar Bergman turns 100 years old today! To celebrate the centenary of the magician, here are a few articles and recommended essential...

Gore Capitalism: The Politics of Tony Montana | Richard Marshall

“ … you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the...

Kushti’s voice of social commentary | P. Sainath

He brings a whole new meaning to ‘running commentary’ – covering wrestling tournaments for up to 12 hours on the trot. That, on a public...

The Millennial Writer on Drugs | Andrew Marzoni

American writers have been writing about drugs since at least 1842, when English immigrant William Blair published “An Opium-Eater in...

A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi | P. Sainath

India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian. It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the...

The Two Cultures Revisited: On Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ | Jared Marcel Pollen

Does the Enlightenment require a defense? Aren’t its truths demonstrative and self-evident? In 2018, that a book like Steven...

Leaving farms in search of jobs that don’t exist | Parth M.N.

Till the age of 20, Angad Salunkhe held on to hope. Then it gave way to anxiety. A few years later, frustration and dejection took over –...

Limelight | Anand Jayprakash Vaidya: When I was looking up philosophy, and was transfixed by it

Anand Jayprakash Vaidya was born in Chicago. However, he spent most of his youth in Saudi Arabia. During his stay there he spent a lot of...

XXXTentacion: Should we mourn the death of a bad person? | Erica Schumener

Why should we mourn the death of a bad person? I was recently struck by an interesting philosophical conversation on death that emerged...