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Family, Fortunes and the Problems With Parrots in Indian Politics

Electioneering is in full throttle. As the temperatures and decibel levels rise, so do informed and uninformed rumours and predictions despite a...

15.04.2024 9

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

The Curse of the Rat

It is striking to what degree Hindu concepts of holiness and allied religious salutations have permeated India’s socio-political interactions. And...

08.04.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Tulips in New Delhi

They are gone as suddenly as they bloomed, three lakh tulips. Newspaper reports in city pages tell us they were imported in December of 2023 from the...

31.03.2024 9

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

The Big Fat Indian Wedding

In the taxonomy of traditional Indian families, my maternal grandmother Ama, was an accidental matriarch. Ironically, this mother of nine was pushed...

17.03.2024 20

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Mothers and Daughters: A Million Silent Mutinies Yet to be Recorded. So Don't Turn Us into the New MY

As we know, in India, parivar or family is the living reality of which elections are the dream. Congratulations mothers and young daughters of India!...

10.03.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

The Invisible Farmers

It is a difficult truth to accept that the images of dishevelled but spirited farmers being shown in endless loops on our TV are somewhat lopsided. ...

25.02.2024 20

The Wire

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Ayodhya Gets a Makeover       

In the fall of 1812, having successfully chased away Napoleon’s armies, Russian Czar Alexander the First decided to construct a grand temple for...

18.02.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Talking Uniform Civil Code

“On principle it is quite wrong to try founding a theory on observable magnitude alone. In reality the very opposite happens. It is the theory which...

11.02.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Padharo Mhare Des

The media, Bharatiya Janata Party media cell messages and sadhus are all furiously trying to establish (on the basis of several unreliable sources)...

28.01.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

What Happens in Ayodhya Doesn’t Stay in Ayodhya

A cluster of photos printed in a major English daily, the day after the week long rituals began in Ayodhya’s new Ram temple, confirms that our...

21.01.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Coalition Politics in a World of Israel and Ayodhya

Elections are once again in the offing. And all parties have gone into a huddle along with trusted strategists and media cells creating promotional...

14.01.2024 40

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

‘Excludable Aliens’: The Complex Landscape of Modern Migrations

On December 21, 2023, a chartered flight from Dubai to Nicaragua, carrying 303 Indians (mostly from Gujarat), was grounded in France. Subsequent...

07.01.2024 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

With militancy receding in J&K, drive against militants must now enter a decisive phase

The saga of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir has largely been dominated by the Valley narrative. The twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in the...

29.12.2023 10

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Women politicians in India play roles choreographed by men in a system shaped by men

India’s politics of the last decade has left no one in any doubt that power wears a male face. Masculinity as a form of power in politics, society...

29.12.2023 10

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The Choreographed Misery of the Powerful

As the year 2024 draws close, gods of tragedy and comedy – unlike our political parties – seem to have formed a coalition. Hindi’s largest...

24.12.2023 20

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Who Are Our Young Andolanjeevis?

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

17.12.2023 20

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

A Tussle Between Two Political Streams

Around the same time the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won back three majority Hindu states from the Congress, the National Crime Registration Bureau...

10.12.2023 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Men, Women and the Gendered Life of Labour

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

26.11.2023 8

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Sahara's Subrata Roy was the Great Gatsby of Hindi media

Few people embody the ’90s as aptly as Subrata Roy, founder of the Sahara Group of companies. He was also known as Sahara Shree. The boy from Araria...

16.11.2023 10

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The Blowing of Toxic Winds is a Pattern We Need to Break

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

12.11.2023 8

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

The Entertainment of War and Who It Is Good For

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

05.11.2023 4

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Motherhood Revisited

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

29.10.2023 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, Really?

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

22.10.2023 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: When Media Reduces War to a Video Game, News to Some Stale Jokes

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes about what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

15.10.2023 60

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

The three days that followed were a nightmarish blend of fear and shock as news and images from southern Israel surfaced

On Friday, October 6 , we were at an old friend’s house in Jerusalem, celebrating the end of the week-long Feast of Tabernacles together. Our hosts...

12.10.2023 9

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Mrinal Pande

The State, Formally, Remains Male

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

24.09.2023 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Delhi remade for G20 is for citizens as spectators, not participants

Last week, switching through news channels, I caught an unexpected sight: The Qutub Minar, Rashtrapati Bhawan and the flying saucer-shaped Bharat...

19.09.2023 9

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Mrinal Pande

Who Is Afraid of Otherness?

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

17.09.2023 10

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: Sanatana Dharma on Caste, Dissent and Democracy

Saakhi is a Sunday column from Mrinal Pande, in which she writes of what she sees and also participates in. That has been her burden to bear ever...

10.09.2023 6

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Attempts to rake up nation's naming issue are ill-timed and show us in poor light

In his old age, Groucho Marx told his friend and biographer that he hated the stage name “Groucho”, which he had carried for six decades and which...

08.09.2023 30

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