Put yourself in their shoes
For me, the first 56 days of the national lockdown was a housebound saga of domestic
By Swara Bhasker June 07, 2020
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Guest Column
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Patch work
By Dr Sachin Varma February 15, 2020 -
Growing up without godfathers
By Priyanka Chaturvedi December 21, 2019 -
Fighting it together
By Dr Kishore Kotha September 14, 2019 -
Preventing chronic kidney disease
By Dr Bharat V. Shah July 20, 2019 -
Building capacity
By Dr Sanjiv Kumar July 20, 2019 -
Patient safety, the prime priority
By Pavan Mocherla June 15, 2019 -
Hit in the heart
By Dr C.N. Manjunath May 25, 2019 -
Five worrying factors this election season
May 18, 2019
Swara Bhasker
Swara Bhasker is an award-winning Bollywood actor and sometime writer and social commentator.
Bitter Chocolate
Nudes and gender naysayers
Last week, an unexpected controversy fired up electronic and social media, following
By Swara Bhasker May 24, 2020
On cloud nine in my zoo
One of my favourite children’s books was Grandfather’s Private Zoo by much loved
By Swara Bhasker May 10, 2020
Let the hair down in lockdown
On January 7, the World Health Organization announced the identification of a new
By Swara Bhasker April 26, 2020
Look back and stay happy
A week into national lockdown and it already seems that we occupy a dystopian
By Swara Bhasker April 12, 2020
The Black Death of our time
The world became more connected in these past two weeks. Unfortunately, the reason
By Swara Bhasker March 29, 2020
In defence of protest as picnic
Ideologies of hate abhor proof of coexistence. This is true of Salafism’s stringent
By Swara Bhasker March 07, 2020
Songs about the dark times
Two weeks ago, some friends and I were discussing how public debates and
By Swara Bhasker February 22, 2020
Spring comes to Shaheen Bagh
India has always been a very exciting place. But nowadays, actions and occurrences
By Swara Bhasker February 08, 2020
Do women scare you, trolls?
In 2018, I acted in a female-driven film about four urban women and their trials and
By Swara Bhasker January 25, 2020
When JNU was saved—not by cops
On January 5, I had packed up early from a shoot in Mumbai. I was looking forward to
By Swara Bhasker January 11, 2020
The mob monster within you
Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness has the mysterious Kurtz exclaiming, “The horror,
By Swara Bhasker December 14, 2019
My mother, me and JNU
For as long as I can recall, my mother, Prof Ira Bhaskar, has always had her
By Swara Bhasker November 30, 2019
A trip down Nehru lane
The sheer scale of the smear campaign directed at Jawaharlal Nehru in the last six
By Swara Bhasker November 16, 2019
Hope that dispels darkness
We live in a time when our traditional festivals have all turned into mega-shopping
By Swara Bhasker November 02, 2019