Jyoti Punwani And Uttam Ghosh

Stories by Jyoti Punwani And Uttam Ghosh

Uttam's Take: India on Global Hunger Index

Uttam's Take: India on Global Hunger Index

Rediff.com   20 Oct 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on India on the Global Hunger Index.

Who cares for Bhima Koregaon Commission?

Who cares for Bhima Koregaon Commission?

Rediff.com   7 Oct 2020

'We want the Commission to finish its work; the issue it is investigating is too crucial for its work to be left incomplete.'

Uttam's Take: Theatre of the Bizarre

Uttam's Take: Theatre of the Bizarre

Rediff.com   7 Oct 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on this Theatre of the Bizarre.

No one demolished Babri. No one raped Hathras victim

No one demolished Babri. No one raped Hathras victim

Rediff.com   1 Oct 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the tragic events of September 30 in the most populous state in the Indian Union, Uttar Pradesh.

Uttam's Take: Another Blow to Democracy

Uttam's Take: Another Blow to Democracy

Rediff.com   23 Sep 2020

Uttam Ghosh asks if the hasty manner in which the farm bills were passed means another strike against democracy in a nation which prides itself as the most populous democracy in the world.

Uttam's Take: Ignorance is bliss

Uttam's Take: Ignorance is bliss

Rediff.com   18 Sep 2020

Uttam Ghosh compares the two events -- the labour ministry's ignorance and a young intellectual's incarceration -- and is mystified as many Indians are by what occurred.

Uttam's Take: Kangana vs Sena

Uttam's Take: Kangana vs Sena

Rediff.com   9 Sep 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the Sena versus Ranaut take.

Uttam's Take: And the vultures gather...

Uttam's Take: And the vultures gather...

Rediff.com   8 Sep 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the shocking media treatment of a young woman whose only crime appears to be loving a young man who decided to take his life

Uttam's Take: No Question Hour: What is Modi afraid of?

Uttam's Take: No Question Hour: What is Modi afraid of?

Rediff.com   3 Sep 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the strange decision to not allow Question Hour in Parliament at a time when the government has forced lakhs of students to answer questions in the JEE and NEET exams, citing no danger from the coronavirus.

Why is Right to Health denied to political dissidents?

Why is Right to Health denied to political dissidents?

Rediff.com   1 Sep 2020

The callousness with which these political dissidents are being treated goes against the Supreme Court's directive, given right at the beginning of the lockdown. The apex court had directed states to release prisoners to decongest jails, which had become hotspots of the coronavirus.

Uttam's Take: Two kinds of Freedom of Speech

Uttam's Take: Two kinds of Freedom of Speech

Rediff.com   1 Sep 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on these contrasting images of Freedom of Speech that exists in our great land.

Why is Varavara Rao being denied Right to Health?

Why is Varavara Rao being denied Right to Health?

Rediff.com   31 Aug 2020

On August 31, a fresh report was supposed to be submitted, and his plea for bail on health grounds was to be decided. Before that could happen, the 81-year-old poet was stealthily discharged and taken back to the Taloja jail hospital on August 25. Not even his lawyer on record, Advocate Satyanarayanan, was informed.

Uttam's Take: Does FM know how to fix Act of God?

Uttam's Take: Does FM know how to fix Act of God?

Rediff.com   31 Aug 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the dismal state of the Indian economy and the terrifying rise in COVID-19 infections with each passing day.

Uttams Take: Does the PM Care?

Uttams Take: Does the PM Care?

Rediff.com   25 Aug 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on Prime Minister Modi feeding peacocks when hundreds of millions of his countrymen have been savaged by the lockdown-ravaged economy.

Uttams Take: Facebook's Snake Charmer

Uttams Take: Facebook's Snake Charmer

Rediff.com   18 Aug 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the controversy that erupted after The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook may have supported the Bharatiya Janata Party by permitting hate content to be posted on its platform.

Uttam's Take: 5/8, a date India won't forget

Uttam's Take: 5/8, a date India won't forget

Rediff.com   8 Aug 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the events of August 5, 2020.

When riots tear your life apart, and you rebuild it

When riots tear your life apart, and you rebuild it

Rediff.com   6 Aug 2020

Anyone with such experiences could have been expected to turn fundamentalist. But Shaheen Kadri is anything but that.

'Bakri Eid is a day away and there is such confusion'

'Bakri Eid is a day away and there is such confusion'

Rediff.com   30 Jul 2020

'Why the restrictions for Bakri Eid?'

Uttam's Take: Rafales are good, but what about COVID?

Uttam's Take: Rafales are good, but what about COVID?

Rediff.com   30 Jul 2020

Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the Rafales's arrival at a time when India's coronavirus crisis is getting worse.

The Mystery of Varavara Rao's Injury

The Mystery of Varavara Rao's Injury

Rediff.com   23 Jul 2020

'In what must go down as one of the most nonchalant remarks by the head of any hospital, J J Hospital Dean Dr Ranjit Mankeshwar said: 'We do not know where the staff was, but he did not suffer serious wounds'.'