The writer is former chairperson, Prasar Bharati.

September 07,2023 18:53:51 PM
The question of what the nation’s name should be had been laid to rest. Attempts to rake up the issue are ill-timed and show us in poor light
Fri, Sep 08, 2023
July 26,2023 07:30:35 AM
It is time to reimagine our society and state. Only then can gender equality be guaranteed
Wed, Jul 26, 2023
May 30,2023 19:50:12 PM
The women athletes' heart-breaking gesture shows their resolve to stand up to demand justice against their abusers
Wed, May 31, 2023
December 18,2022 14:29:44 PM
In the history of meeting, clashing and quiet co-mingling of religions in India lies the seeds of our syncretic Dharma
Mon, Dec 19, 2022
October 25,2022 04:15:53 AM
Medical translation involves understanding nuances of language and intricacies of super speciality fields. A hasty political decision could do more harm than good
Wed, Oct 26, 2022
August 26,2022 04:02:46 AM
Mrinal Pande writes: We are witnessing the infantilisation of a democracy and its gods
Fri, Aug 26, 2022
June 23,2022 18:28:03 PM
Mrinal Pande writes: Did no one pause to think of how the images of the homeless rushing to safe spaces with their minimal possessions would play against the backdrop of MLAs thumping each other on the back and smiling for the cameras in plush hotels?
Fri, Jun 24, 2022
May 29,2022 23:13:16 PM
Mrinal Pande writes: ‘Ret Samadhi’ (Tomb of Sand) defies generalisations, reveals larger truth about polyphonic, unpredictable and porous human life
Mon, May 30, 2022
May 18,2022 14:40:23 PM
Mrinal Pande writes: The Indra dhwaja represented divine power that brought joy and celebration into everyone’s lives. Can any flag that represents only one group surpass that?
Thu, May 19, 2022
February 07,2022 04:30:28 AM
It would be wrong to pin her down to a single identity, of a grand dowager queen of music, all white sarees, and an isolation of fervent religiosity and meditational silences
Mon, Feb 07, 2022
January 26,2022 04:00:04 AM
🔴 Mrinal Pande writes: The state needs to take the first step towards examining women’s actual experiences in the contexts of unequal pay, allocation of inferior work and denial of rights over their minds and bodies
Wed, Jan 26, 2022
January 01,2022 03:44:21 AM
🔴 As the new year dawns, Ayodhya reminds us of the fragility of human relationships and the precariousness of women’s lives
Tue, Jan 04, 2022
December 18,2021 04:30:05 AM
🔴 Mrinal Pande writes: It is an alchemical blending of dream and reality, a fakkad universe in which the real seems fantastic and the fantastic suddenly unmasks the real. Maybe this will help Kashi survive the latest challenge to its soul
Sat, Dec 18, 2021
November 17,2021 03:00:11 AM
Mrinal Pande writes: She wrote about having choices, about the power and powerlessness embedded in the male-centric world that all women must inhabit
Thu, Nov 18, 2021
July 08,2021 03:40:09 AM
Mrinal Pande writes: Dilip Kumar's films encapsulated the bits of us which remain important but to which we have the least access
Thu, Jul 08, 2021
May 04,2021 03:12:22 AM
Mamata Banerjee recognised that in the land of the Mother Goddess, BJP’s fabled 56-inch male energy is irrational.
Tue, May 04, 2021
October 30,2020 03:15:39 AM
Ardern’s success proves that democracies today need politicians, male or female, who can represent a host of races, castes and tribes that live together as a nation. Even as the incumbent PM facing elections, Ardern was able to keep her nation united in the fight against COVID-19.
Fri, Oct 30, 2020
September 17,2020 03:18:26 AM
You yourself have imbibed most of your deep insights into human nature, not at Oxford or Cambridge, but in India from your seasoned, kind and wise mentors of the Sangh Parivar.
Thu, Sep 17, 2020
August 15,2020 03:38:46 AM
Each generation of our women will need to tweak old freedoms and laws. But the young women today need to realise that they have inherited a well-documented past.
Sat, Aug 15, 2020
November 23,2019 04:10:23 AM
It is obvious that these students and their faceless instigators are not aware of the 1962 collection of the BHU founder’s speeches on the concept of dharma. The learned educationist says, again and again, that ultimately there is only one Supreme Being whom peoples following different religions worship under different names
Sat, Nov 23, 2019
July 20,2019 02:00:16 AM
Every language, culture has its history of oppression. But it is also in the infinite plurality of language that tensions of identity, of politics, are resolved.
Sat, Jul 20, 2019
March 13,2019 00:28:35 AM
Politics is one area where we have not come a long way. In 2019, we need to move beyond reflections about family relationships and motherhood and women’s inalienable duties to society.
Wed, Mar 13, 2019
January 26,2019 00:10:57 AM
Krishna Sobti’s work exposes the horror of a segregationist regional jingoism.
Sat, Jan 26, 2019
January 01,2019 01:04:29 AM
As Jawaharlal Nehru, much reviled by the BJP, and B R Ambedkar, well understood, progress in the world can at best be incremental. Only the willfully or otherwise ignorant will ignore that the history of nations’ progress is simultaneously the history of pain, murder, gross venality, slavery and cyclical horror.
Tue, Jan 01, 2019
December 21,2018 00:10:17 AM
In history and scripture, UP CM will find little basis to build a giant statue of Lord Ram. Then the invaders arrived in waves through the Hindukush pass and the force of Islam collided with the immovable presence of the local faith. The post-10th century period saw a period of hot clashes and cold fusion.
Fri, Dec 21, 2018





