Editorial

In Pursuit of Passion

IN OUR trade happenstance is the hero. A news here, a glance at the past and suddenly there is a thread of an idea which grows as a story. Two fortuitous event set the path for the present edition; one a mention of an interesting art gallery tucked away in Neb Sarai. The other, a visit to a house wh...

Cover Story

Meeting an Artist

WHAT YOU SEE... ...Is what you get; that is painter, artist, sculptor and graphic artist Jatin Das for you. He is an electrifying personality who hates to mince words, which should make him a pain for his publicist (thankfully, he has none) and a dream for journalists. But before his straightforwa...

Up-To-Date

Twin Fires in Pakistan Lead to Deaths

DISASTER \\ In September, Pakistan faced one of its worst industrial disasters till date when a garments factory caught fire and was gutted. The death toll rose to 259 leading to the government registering a case of murder against its owner and manager of the Karachi factory—Ali Enterprises, his t...

Violence spreads across Middle East

UNREST \\ A low-budget, crudely-produced film called Innocence Of Muslims, which allegedly portrays Prophet Mohammed as a “fraud”, a “womaniser” and a “child molester” sparked off controversies across the Middle East leading to violence and disruption. The violence began when Islamist pr...

Andy Murray Breaks Grand Slam Jinx

SPORTS \\ Tennis star Andy Murray ended Britain's 76-year wait for a male Grand Slam singles champion with an epic victory over Novak Djokovic in the US Open final. Murray, 25, emulated Fred Perry's 1936 achievement, winning 7-6 (12-10) 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2 in four hours 54 minutes in the Arthur Ashe Sta...

Diesel Hike Leads to Nation-wide Protests

HIKE \\ The Centre came under heavy flak from all quarters—industrial sectors, political parties, citizens and organisations—over the diesel and LPG price hike which came into being in mid-September. The Union government increased the price of diesel by `5. The new price is `6.2 per litre, inclu...

foreign despatches

It’s not about how great an idea is. If you can’t execute, it won’t work

RAJU VEGESNA: It was in the late 1990s, when right after finishing with my Bachelor’s of Engineering from Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davanagere, Karnataka, I had just began working. My job was to handle website promotions which led to my interest in network management. That is...

Social Agenda

Know Your Online Clout

The world’s your stage, and clients your avid audience, if you know how to conduct yourself online Influence n. the power or ability to affect someone’s beliefs or actions, arising out of status, contacts or wealth. As succinctly as the Oxford English Dictionary defines the word, social influen...

Platform 1

Locating Civil Society Today

New Alliances and Reallignment EVER SINCE the revelations about the 2G imbroglio, the media has been lamenting the decline of public morality. Indeed, it has been able to sustain this narrative because alleged scams are being unearthed with relentless regularity. In all of its lamentations, the med...

Looking Back

THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MARY!

A boxing champion, a doting mother, a loving wife and a woman of substance. Meet Mary Kom, India’s Million Dollar Baby There is a scene in Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, where Maggie’s (Hillary Swank) mother asks her to quit boxing and do something more suited for a woman. Maggie simp...

Issue

Is India Letting its Women Down?

The molestation of a teenage girl on July 9, 2012 in Guwahati, Assam, which happened in full public view, was taped, recorded and then flashed across news channels, was just the tip of the iceberg of the problem of safety of women in India. Not a day passes without cases of atrocities against women,...

Platform 2

The Corruption Gene

Have we come to see the world in a way that allows us to exercise and condone corruption? CORRUPTION is hardly a new phenomenon in India but in the past few months we have seen corruption of a scale never witnessed before. Every week brings in a new scandal. Corruption seems to have moved beyond i...

Good Karma

WHEN WOMEN EARN, CHILDREN LEARN

A simple move to set up a school in NCR’s slums led to India’s first profit-for-all voluntary organisation Holistic education is one which imparts an applicable set of skills. To do all that a child needs exposure to books—lots and lots of them along with newspapers, storybooks, and educated ...

Reading Room

The Timekeeper

An interesting perspective on time but lacks originality WHAT IF THERE were no clocks in the world? What if you did not know what time of the day it is or going to be? How different would the world have been? Would you have lived your life any differently? Mitch Albom’s latest novel The Time Kee...

Jinnah Vs. Gandhi

A lucidly-written, balanced study of constrasts by one of the better-known historians writing on India MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH, born as Mahomedali Jinnahbhai, in his vision for a new land for his Muslim brothers wanted six provinces and a sperate state of Pakistan. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or the Ma...

Board Canvas

Strokes of Silence, Indigo

Vivid colours of Kerala captured in the creations of K.G. Babu A friend of K.G. Babu, who also happens to be a colleague, informs me that Babu is a reticent man. He speaks only when prodded and prefers to pour his words into his canvases instead. That to know him one needs to understand a multitud...

Garnish

Served with Style by the Sous Chef

Achal Aggarwal is obsessed with perfectly-cooked food which tastes, and looks, good For all who survived the good-old 1990s here is a pop quiz—who was that grinning man who ruled your hearts, stomachs and television sets? If you saied Sanjeev Kapoor then you are spot on! Chef Sanjeev Kapoor has i...