Kunal

Brotherhood is defined as a feeling of friendship, support and understanding between people. The hindi word bhaichara sounds even better, of course, implying something beyond, a feeling approaching harmony. To understand the role of Youth in promoting this feeling in India, it would be instructive to look at how our country has shaped up since its formation. Remember always that...

Every few months, the advertising on TV channels seems to go into an insane spiral of jingoistic patriotism. This has nothing to do with the nation, however, but rather with Cricket! Image source Yes, as the various Indian sports channels, soft-drink makers, phone manufacturers and a hundred other brands remind us (especially when a World Cup comes around), India loves cricket. To...

Depending on whom you talk to, the word ‘independence’ means different things. Freedom from slavery, freedom of thought, freedom to be who and what a person wants to be. For Indian women, this independence can take on many shades. Ours remains a patriarchal society, even though we are over a decade into the twenty-first century. India is country where a...

American presidential candidates make much of their humble origins. In the Republican party’s debate last month, Marco Rubio pointed out that he was the son of a Cuban bartender and John Kasich that his father was a postman. Then the contrast was drawn with Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, who has made so much political capital out of his career...

Mumbai is not a city that prides itself on its intellectualism. Unlike Kolkata, Chennai or even Delhi, the financial capital revels in its business-like attitude to culture – nothing matters unless it is making money. Perhaps that’s why the only bookstores that seem to make money are the ones selling textbooks – Mumbaikars love their degrees (Science & Commerce...