Over the past decade, writers, journalists, and creative artists in India have found themselves increasingly trapped in the cross-hairs of a ruthless right-wing media machinery and its enforcers. What starts as a single voice—often a self-appointed guardian of propriety or a politically motivated zealot—taking offence quickly snowballs into a vicious onslaught. A pack of hounds […]
February will always be a painful month for some particularly the Jafri family: on 28 February 2002, Ehsan Jafri, a former Member of Parliament and an authentic and much-loved citizen of secular India was murdered; on 1 February 2025, his wife Zakiaben was called to her eternal reward. In the death of Zakiaben the people […]
On 28 January 2025, the well-known Calcutta daily ‘The Telegraph’ carried an article entitled ‘Rub your eyes: Hindu Rashtra Constitution to be unveiled at Mahakumbh on Basant Panchami’. The seemingly innocuous inside-page article, speaks volumes of the insidious yet meticulous plans which are being made, and also of the calculated attempts to destroy the secular […]
Gas stoves are estimated to lead to 40,000 premature deaths each year, shaving off roughly two years of an average person’s life span. Here’s a fly in the dal makhani for you ! The gas stove or cook-top , the heart of many kitchens, quietly boiling our morning milk, simmering soups, and so on, is […]
Can a couple of cyberpunks who can bring down entire nations with nothing more than laptops and an internet connection? It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi flick, but that’s exactly what two Sudanese brothers have been accused of doing. Federal prosecutors in the United States charged Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer and his […]
Call me Chicken Little, running around shouting that the sky is fallin’ on my head. But I do declare that that World War III has already started. If you take your noses out of your social media cocoons for a bit, and look at the events unfolding across the globe, it’s not hard to miss […]
Media trainer and communicator Frank Krishner breaks down Coke’s latest foot-in-the-mouth PR gaffe. The Perils of Miscommunication In a world where every word and action can be scrutinised, twisted, and amplified across continents, big brands like Coca-Cola need to tread carefully. A recent PR disaster in Bangladesh has shown just how quickly things can go […]
Ah, the Paris Olympics! A global stage for athletic prowess, unity, and…drag queens apparently causing a ruckus with the Christian right. The opening ceremony, with its dazzling spectacle of colour and dance, has been accused of mocking Christianity. But let’s unpack this alleged blasphemy, shall we? During the ceremony, a woman in a shimmering, halo-like […]
[Cedric Prakash, in his latest opinion piece, reflects on the current happenings in the country- Editor] Don’t Forget the Emergency India will and should never forget that infamous night of 25/26 June 1975, when, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared all over the country. During that dark chapter of […]
The scariest horror stories are not on Netflix and the multiplexes, they’re lurking outside our very houses, in the shadows. Have you heard of the ‘fake cancer drug racket’, busted about 3 months ago? It must have been drowned out with all the ‘election news’ which hogged prime time. Yesterday, (July 17), three months after […]
By Cedric Prakash SJ When on 5 July 2021, the fascist regime of India, killed Jesuit Fr. Stan Swamy, they succeeded only in destroying the frail body of an 84-year-old Catholic Priest. Today, three years after that fateful day, the Spirit of Stan Swamy lives on. Millions of people: the Adivasis and the Dalits, the […]
FRANKLY SPICY by EFFKAY Well, butter my toasted buns and call me a Buddha! The saga of Ram Bahadur Bomjan, Nepal’s very own “Buddha Boy,” has reached a spicy climax, and it’s not the sort of zen-like enlightenment you’d expect. Instead, it’s more like a soggy soufflé that’s caved in on itself. Back in 2005, […]
