Because my friend Annie is Pakistani!
Despite her best efforts and my father’s sincere attempts, Annie could not get a visa
By Swara Bhasker April 02, 2023
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Guest Column
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The Iran nuclear deal is dead. And it is a good thing, writes Jeff Jacoby
By Jeff Jacoby April 10, 2022 -
Case for coalitions
By Marten van den Berg March 21, 2021 -
Innovate and collaborate
By Sanjaya Mariwala March 07, 2021 -
Block buster
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni March 07, 2021 -
The invisible pandemic
By Dr Alok Vinod Kulkarni February 07, 2021 -
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
Swara Bhasker
Swara Bhasker is an award-winning Bollywood actor and sometime writer and social commentator.
Bitter Chocolate
Love is hard. Interfaith love in India is harder
In 2023, shouldn’t the right to marry who you choose, be a basic right for all?
By Swara Bhasker March 05, 2023
I am tempted by celebrity weddings, says Swara Bhasker
Social media-fuelled wedding mania has led to a shift in our fiscal values
By Swara Bhasker February 19, 2023
When humans fail each other and society
Why have Indians become so angry, uncouth, callous, violent, so feral?
By Swara Bhasker January 22, 2023
How 2022 had been a rocky year for women the world over
2023 is unlikely to be starkly different
By Swara Bhasker January 08, 2023
My walk with Rahul Gandhi
I marvel at Rahul's focus. I think to myself ‘Pappu’ is rather erudite!
By Swara Bhasker December 18, 2022
Shraddha Walkar murder: 'Dear parents, keep the doors open'
What can we learn from the gruesome and tragic case
By Swara Bhasker December 04, 2022
May our hearts and minds grow with love, not shrink with hate
Since 2014, we have seen new kind of majoritarian assertion during festivals
By Swara Bhasker November 06, 2022
Manipulators of history, beware
Today, every historical seems like it was scripted at Nagpur headquarters of RSS
By Swara Bhasker October 23, 2022
What price will Indians pay for surging populism?
Iranians, meanwhile, took 43 years to realise that they have been betrayed
By Swara Bhasker October 09, 2022
How Swara Bhasker's nana taught her the meaning of life
Bhasker's maternal grandfather passed away on Sep 4, at 88
By Swara Bhasker September 25, 2022
Why right wing hates Bollywood
Greatest thorn in their eye is that three Muslim men have reigned hearts of audiences
By Swara Bhasker September 11, 2022
Swara Bhasker on her grandmother's best friend
Kusum nani and my nani shared recipes, laughs, gossips, opinions and more
By Swara Bhasker August 14, 2022
India's uncanny Iranian connection
Like in Iran, jail, in new India, is a real possibility for anyone
By Swara Bhasker July 31, 2022
Why it's hard not to look to the judiciary
Citizens’ rights in India have nose-dived since BJP’s landslide win in 2019
By Swara Bhasker July 17, 2022