Ajmal Kamal edits a quarterly Urdu literary journal “aaj” from Karachi and runs a small publishing house and bookshop.
Kathi Padma Rao
The police firing and subsequent killing of five OBC Muslims in Bhajanpur village in Forbesganj of Araria district in Bihar on June 3, 2011 has been analyzed in most reports in the public sphere through the frame of ‘communalism’ and there has been little effort to grapple with the other dimensions that the event entails. …
Kancha Ilaiah
Kancha Ilaiah is director, Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
Bobby Kunhu
Bobby Kunhu is a human rights activist and lawyer.
Rupesh Kumar
Rupesh Kumar is an award wining documentary film maker, watch some of his documentaries here.
Dilip Mandal
Dilip Mandal is a journalist and author.
Khalid Anis Ansari
Khalid Anis Ansari is with The Patna Collective, New Delhi. He can be reached at khalidanisansari@gmail.com
Change is on cards
By Chandra Bhan Prasad Our democratic set-up is heading for a complete revamp. To decode Anna Hazare’s Jan Lokpal Bill vs Government’s Lokpal Bill cry and to translate that is a phenomenon in itself. To understand this, one will have to travel the path that Britain underwent in creating their Parliament and democracy. Approximately in …
Mayawati and WikiLeaks: How Media lies to you
by Dilip Mandal, translated from Hindi by Ritu Ranjan Kumar [A set of unverified gossipy statements about the UP Chief Minister Mayawati from unnamed journalists forms the basis of the WikiLeaks cables released a few days ago. Yet, the Indan media went to town about the contents being the truth. For, it only extended the …