A cat, not a coward

Perumal Murugan's Songs Of A Coward reminds Uttaran Das Gupta of Orwell's Animal Farm and Ionesco's The Rhinoceros.Both works, as well as Murugan's stark poetry, are poignant for our times, when......

With lockdown easing, monkeys are back to trouble Shimla

Having developed a taste for what humans eat, monkeys are wreaking havoc in Shimla, reports Ashwani Sharma.  IMAGE: Monkeys throng the Mall in Shimla. Photograph: Pradeep Kumar. Shimla is......

The anatomy of an ugly protest

The anti-CAA protest was an ugly rant more consistent with the violent chaos of anarchy, argues Vivek Gumaste. IMAGE: A protest at the Gateway of India in Mumbai against the Citizenship......

'Chanting Ambedkar's name makes Dalit leaders cross over to BJP'

'The BJP stems from the RSS that craves, notwithstanding its myriad camouflages, to re-establish their supremacist regime.''They believe in everything that India had in its ancient 'Vedic' past,......