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...
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- Jul 20, 2018
- 7 min
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...
- Jul 17, 2018
- 2 min
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...
- Jul 17, 2018
- 1 min
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...
- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
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...
- Jul 15, 2018
- 16 min
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...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 3 min
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...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 7 min
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...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 6 min
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...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 11 min
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...
- Jul 14, 2018
- 6 min
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 –...
- Jul 10, 2018
- 57 min
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...
- Jul 10, 2018
- 3 min
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...