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
Columns
- Anuja Chauhan
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- Meenakshi Lekhi
- Shobhaa De
- Shashi Tharoor
- Sachidananda Murthy
- Mani Shankar Aiyar
- Prasannan
- Sanjaya Baru
- Swara Bhasker
- Bibek Debroy
- Navtej Sarna
- Barkha Dutt
- Lakshmy Ramanathan
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Bose Krishnamachari
- M.K Bhadrakumar
- Vinod Rai
- Ashwini Nachappa
- Geeti Sen
- Vandana Kohli
- Sadhguru
- Gen Bikram Singh
- Manu Chandra
- Sanjna Kapoor
- Jerry Pinto
- Saina Nehwal
- Nandita Das
- Sania Mirza
- Bala Ambati
- Maroof Raza
- Ajish P Joy
- Mallika Sarabhai
- Amjad Ali Khan
- Hemant Oberoi
- Binayak Sen
- Patrick French
- Nupur Sharma
- Derek O Brien
- Sourav Ganguly
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
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
What JNU taught me
Jawaharlal Nehru University has achieved both iconic status and a glamorous
By Swara Bhasker October 19, 2019
Praise Gandhi, chant Godse
Mahatma Gandhi has been described in many ways during his lifetime and since his
By Swara Bhasker October 05, 2019
When English became Indian
On September 14, on the occasion of Hindi Divas, the Union home minister made a
By Swara Bhasker September 21, 2019
Hussain made my Ganesh
India is a land of many things. But, above all, it is a land of festivals. I do not
By Swara Bhasker September 07, 2019
When I met my internet troll
Let me begin, dear reader, with a confession. I am probably one of India’s most
By Swara Bhasker August 24, 2019