Tag: Longreads
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In the Honest Ulsterman today
‘Puberty’ is out in the @HonestUlsterman today, Northern Ireland’s leading literary mag.
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EconHistorienne collaborates with Newslaundry
A story is bigger than the one who writes it, that we shall never forget. A story must be read and acquire a life of its own.
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Vaak
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/lf1FezLBsjto8VKxCp79ZM/Vaak-a-newspaper-that-helps-brush-up-8216practical8217.html
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Sanskrit: reviving the language in today’s India
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/RF9fH5Q1wNOBdI0R46SlkL/Sanskrit-reviving-the-language-in-today8217s-India.html
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Will English become India’s weakness?
First published here: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/0L6cHNcnZ9nw7WlPU66PdO/Will-English-become-India8217s-weakness.html
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Dalits look upon English as the language of emancipation
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/ItCo2HSpKjf98VvW8X4yAO/Dalits-look-upon-English-as-the-language-of-emancipation.html
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The pitfalls of Linguistic Jingoism
First published here: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/0txPDNXphHIOmb2htIJ1UK/The-pitfalls-of-linguistic-jingoism.html
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In this book of history, you are the hero
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/m0grFAuh6qGn4O09ieI5VI/In-this-book-of-history-you-are-the-hero.html
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From Bhopal to London, quest for justice travels in a bottle
First published here: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/ld6IKPkZXNNR8k7hnYVp9L/From-Bhopal-to-London-quest-for-justice-travels-in-a-bottle.html
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Neighbourhood B-schools: can they deliver?
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/QbtpPYTVCckhsFz9mNEGPJ/Neighbourhood-BSchools–High-on-promise-but-can-they-deli.html
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Seeking interns in new political culture
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/jwEQuxKpEyAgKDTy0oxN8H/Seeking-interns-in-new-political-culture.html
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25 years on, what’s next for Mayawati?
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/BfUgIQbCr0xrgTr6cdHfjK/25-years-on-what8217s-next-for-Mayawati.html
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A woman sarpanch finds her place under the sun
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/MNfpZSM9Wlm8jzKFtUC4yJ/A-woman-8216sarpanch8217-finds-her-place-in-the-sun.html
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Reading Hindustan in Bihar
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/Z1r7HfBhwKSstRvClBJ0cJ/Reading-8216Hindustan8217-in-Bihar.html
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Bharti’s cellular theory of growth
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/trjewrH7xTTOmOj9tHSPcN/Bharti8217s-cellular-theory-of-growth.html
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High on education
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/qYVv2AMqgAi6pW7WS6joeO/High-on-education.html
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Hullabaloo in the Hinterland
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/p5VNtDHKPA1WbpxCKirCyO/Theatre–Hullabaloo-in-the-hinterland.html
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Kamla Balan Bridge in Bihar – it’s a disaster waiting to happen
First published in Mint: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/hXg4cJufdI5JSr5YbU0DoK/Kamla-Balan-bridge-it8217s-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen.html
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The business of caste in India
Priyanka P. Narain and Pallavi SIngh Mumbai/New Delhi: Images of adventure reside in their collective memory—journeys into the cobbled streets of Antwerp to compete with powerful Hasidic Jew merchants for grubby stones, which, when polished and cut, would sparkle and dazzle. The journey that transformed the Palanpuri Jains from cloth and perfume traders into moguls…
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Bihar’s IIT dream
Patna: Along the busy Rajendra Nagar flyover in Patna, the skyline is dotted with huge, irregularly placed hoardings. More than a hundred in number, they congregate with a purpose: to help every child in the city enter the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the country’s premier technical institutes. This dream caught Navneet Rajan’s fancy when…
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Patna’s Brave New Nights
Pallavi SinghPatna That hot June afternoon in 1992 left an indelible imprint on Shanker Dutt’s memory. “June 5, in fact, let me tell you,” he says matter-of-factly. The professor of English was at Patna University’s Darbhanga House, the heritage precinct where postgraduate classes for literature students are held, attending a farewell function for one of…
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Rise of India’s caste warrior
Pallavi SinghDuhai, Ghaziabad: Caste is most often seen through the prism of conflict—the heated national debates about reservations, the political polarization on the census and the attacks on young couples that have been blessed by caste panchayats. But far away from the spotlight, there is the more benign world of organizations and activists who continue…
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Islamic students body on a mission for peace
Pallavi SinghNew Delhi: Hashmatullah Khan says the combination invites scrutiny: students, computers and Islam. In his case, it gets worse. He is general secretary of the Students Islamic Organisation (SIO). No, not the Students Islamic Movement of India, better known as SIMI, and effectively banned for alleged extremist activities. But Khan can’t avoid the connotation.…
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Government’s madrasa reform plan hits theological hurdle
New Delhi: The impasse over a government proposal to modernize madrasas, or traditional Islamic schools, illustrates how a “minority mindset” imposed by the ulema, or clergy, and politicians could draw Muslims deeper into the morass of conservatism, poverty and unemployment. Fostering education: (from left) Shafiqur Rahman, Abdul Khan, Afaque Rahmani and Salim Akhtar Bellali at…
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In the job market, Caste role reversal
I am absolutely thrilled to share another story on caste. This one again has gone missing from Mint’s website. I found this story’s draft on my drive and googled with the first four lines. Guess what, this blog had shared the story with the Mint link that does not work anymore. Thanks to the blog,…
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Dalit Capitalism
I covered Dalit capitalism for Mint in its early days when DICCI as a chamber of commerce for the Dalit community had just come up. My boss at Mint, who is an economist, always felt proud of my work, especially on Dalit capitalism. Today, I spoke to Milind Kamble, founder and chairman of DICCI, in…
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Changing approach to dealing with rape
The young girl, visibly bruised and shaken, was brought for questioning amid blaring sirens and numerous cops stirred by her sudden appearance. She was reporting rape on a summer day in 2001 in a police station in central Delhi, where the policemen struggled to make sense of her distress. In an instant, they went hurling…
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From Bhopal to London, quest for justice travels in a bottle
Bhopal: It was probably the label that deterred shoppers in London from grabbing a free bottle of water being distributed one summer afternoon this year. B’eau Pal’s water was deceptively clear even though it came from a slum colony hand pump in Atal Ayub Nagar, Bhopal. Its bold red label told the real story, the…
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Bharti’s cellular theory of growth
Olhanpur, Bihar: Until about three years ago, Nizamuddin Ansari, 65, a retired head clerk from the Indian Railways mail service, spent most of his days on the verandah at home. The monotony of watching over his courtyard as the women of his family went about their household chores would be broken by the occasional visitor…
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Reading Hindustan in Bihar
Raghopur, Bihar: At 3am, a newspaper van from Searchlite Printing Press in Patna sets out in the dark with bundles of Hindustan, the best-selling Hindi daily in Bihar (Hindustan is published by HT Media Ltd, which also publishes Mint). It makes its way through a narrow, straight road to Khushrupur, around 40km away, every day.…
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