Manoj Das
The day after the elections
But the day after the event we the people should wonder if the nation’s social, moral and intellectual visage had not turned paler by one more shade.
19 Feb 2019
The instinct of compassion is still alive
From a remote corner of rural India comes a message that matters, thanks to the bravery shown by two teenaged girls.
18 Jan 2019
Politics and the vanishing individual
A pleasantly cool mid-December forenoon in Tiruvannamalai in 2018.
03 Jan 2019
On the Enigma of Hanuman
However, identifying Hanuman as a Dalit in either the old or the current sense of the term would have mystified the seer-poet Valmiki and defied the farsightedness of any savant of any genre.
17 Dec 2018
Lessons from the recent poll campaign
Lately this dark trend owed its revivalist articulation to the spokesman of a party resenting a tea-seller climbing to a lofty position.
05 Dec 2018
WWI maimed mankind’s image forever
Permit me to take you back, briefly, to the summer of 1914—a beautiful summer.
10 Nov 2018
Rising above sectarian secularism
The dozen-strong assembly included the noted Urdu poet Sajjad Zaheer.
30 Oct 2018
Supreme Court verdict and a call for introspection
The Supreme Court’s suggestion to Parliament to make laws to ensure decriminalisation of politics has a message for all.
01 Oct 2018
Beholding oneself as a deity
Is it not ridiculous that one should impose one’s illusory importance on one’s own as well as the future generation?
25 Sep 2018
The fading face of self-esteem
It seems more and more people are fast developing immunity to their instinctive feeling of guilt-conscience. What is the reason?
08 Sep 2018
Daughter of the earth Re-emerges
Sita, for whom a shrine and an university are to be constructed from April 24 in Bihar,
is a largely misunderstood figure
20 Apr 2018
Must Science Bypass Myth?
To explore a myth is not to endorse it, but to probe its core. The Indian Science Congress should not shy away from this topic
06 Feb 2018
Celebrating innocence this XMAS
Both the child and the grown-up embraced the spirit of Christmas earlier. But recently its quiet old essence has been hardly felt
21 Dec 2017
Let Rani Padmavati rest in peace
Armed as we are with our right to freedom of creativity, we ought to ask what the motive is behind altering the basic nature of a legend
19 Nov 2017
‘How could China do this to us?’
The reason behind Beijing’s muscle-flexing at the Indian border is the idiosyncratic will of a single powerful leader
08 Aug 2017
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