Patralekha Chatterjee
When cancer becomes the alchemist
Not everyone sees the funny side of living with uterine cancer. Not everyone instantly gets jokes about the uterus, the cervix or lymph nodes. But then, not everyone is Eve Ensler. Nor can everyone read a book by Ensler without being shaken to the core.
Investing in women is smart economics
Tarja Halonen, former President of Finland, narrated a delightful story at the recent Women Deliver conference at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
We are writing, fighting and will go on: Bangla online activist
Paula Aziz was born nearly a decade after 1971 — the year Bangladesh became an independent nation after what must be one of the most violent wars of the 20th century. But as this thirty something online activist and writer speaks about Bangladeshi youth today, and her generation’s fight to rekindle the “spirit of 1971” the memories come tumbling back.
A man of many enemies and a few friends
Ramachandra Guha laughs at the suggestion that his latest book, Patriots and Partisans, is likely to earn him new enemies.The BJP already detests him and the Congress treats him with suspicion, he
A man of many enemies and a few friends
Ramachandra Guha laughs at the suggestion that his latest book, Patriots and Partisans, is likely to earn him new enemies.The BJP already detests him and the Congress treats him with suspicion, he points out. There may be some new enemies, but Guha hopes the book will also make him new friends. The acclaimed author and historian who, incidentally, did his masters in economics and his PhD in sociology, says his book
is “an appeal to liberals to speak more loudly and more consistently.”
‘Reform institutions... Let the young transform India’
In his new book India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, Gurcharan Das writes that “generally, leftists desire a large state and rightists a small one, but what India needs is an effec
‘Reform institutions... Let the young transform India’
In his new book India Grows at Night: A Liberal Case for a Strong State, Gurcharan Das writes that “generally, leftists desire a large state and rightists a small one, but what India needs is an e
Superstition, science & seven doctors
It is not the world which most English-speaking middle class newspaper readers are familiar with. Many of the stories here are soaked in a brand of rusticity which is fast disappearing even from rural India.
Polio-endemic nations look up to India for key lessons
This week will be critical for polio eradication.
