Update
First up, apologies for the long absence — trust me, it was out of necessity. Secondly, some news: I am working, with a friend, on plans for an extended storytelling trip across a large part …...
4 Years Ago
Saturday (April 13) scratchpad
Call Them By Their True Names is the title of one of Rebecca Solnit’s wonderful collections of essays. In the foreword, Solnit reminds us of the fable of Rumpelstiltskin, and uses it to set u…...
5 Years Ago
Scratchpad: April 12 edition
Round one of voting, covering 91 Lok Sabha seats, is over. Last evening, TV channels struggled, on prime time, to make sense of the voting percentages and what those numbers were telling us. So, as…...
5 Years Ago
Scratchpad: April 9 edition
FLASHBACK to Adityanath’s recent speech wherein he spoke of Modiji ki sena, directly contravening an Election Commission directive that the armed forces cannot be invoked in political campaig…...
5 Years Ago
News, views: April 8 edition
Kalpana Sharma, readers’ editor of Scroll.in, asks the media to go beyond the usual ‘Who will you vote for?’ type questions when out in the field. A clip from Sharma’s piece: Elections give jâ...
5 Years Ago
…and the clocks were striking thirteen.
There are times when I suspect that more people cite Orwell than have actually read Orwell. (One of those times occurred during my recent trip, which is what put me in mind of this). Anyway. Consid…...
5 Years Ago
