India, Feb. 20 -- A few days ago, the newspapers did not just carry a headline. They carried a memory. Three men sentenced to death for gang rape and murder. Clinical words. Legal words. Necessary wo... Read More
India, Feb. 16 -- At the farthest edge of a village, where people once lived in harmony, but in the last eleven years had not, a white-bearded chief stood staring into the horizon. His bald deputy sto... Read More
India, Feb. 9 -- I read the news and blinked twice. Then I rubbed my glasses. Then I read it again. The Prime Minister was advised not to attend Parliament because the Speaker could not guarantee his ... Read More
India, Feb. 2 -- Someone powerful is suddenly no more. Someone who occupied space in the national consciousness. Someone who had arrived. To see a person taken away at the height of influence is dist... Read More
India, Jan. 26 -- The courtroom of the International Court of Justice was unusually quiet that morning. Even the translators had stopped whispering into their microphones. The judge adjusted his glass... Read More
India, Jan. 12 -- Sixty-nine candidates elected unopposed! Just like that. No ballot papers warmed by human fingers. No queues outside schools. No indelible ink on proud index fingers. Democracy, app... Read More
India, Jan. 5 -- While the rest of the world sits with diaries open and gym memberships renewed, resolving to drink more water and scroll less, something far more honest happens in the capital of Indi... Read More
India, Dec. 29 -- I love the national anthem. You do not question it. You stand up, straighten your back, look noble and sing it with more enthusiasm than talent. I have sung it in school halls, dusty... Read More