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Lakshmi Bayi

Lakshmi Bayi loves travelling, books, films, and elephants. Writing is her way of muttering to herself

Nature’s Designer Googly
Columns
Nature’s Designer Googly

Horrors of the human-controlled ecosystem have a price

24 April 2020
Ravana’s Salvation
Columns
Ravana’s Salvation

Rama sat by the feet of the fallen demon king to gain knowledge from him

11 April 2020
The Death Dance of Coronavirus
Guest Column
The Death Dance of Coronavirus

How a tiny virus has made geographical boundaries and GDPs irrelevant

27 March 2020
Kerala: Demolition Conundrum
Columns
Kerala: Demolition Conundrum

The demolition of the Marad flats show that in India, self-righteousness holds greater sway than rational thought

13 January 2020
The Ocean of Love
Columns
The Ocean of Love

What bridges the distance between the human and the divine

06 January 2020
Rama and Krishna: Two Sides of Divinity
Columns
Rama and Krishna: Two Sides of Divinity

Both Ram and Krishna have Maha Vishnu as their fundamental source. Yet their manifestations are completely different

28 October 2019
Tomorrow Land
Column
Tomorrow Land

With a long history of soothsaying, India has various methods of divining the future

04 October 2019
Love and Fear in Religion
Column
Love and Fear in Religion

Ego, politics and wealth, whether deliberately or otherwise, cater to conflict rather than consensus

25 August 2019
Colours are sacred, never skin deep
Special
Colours are Sacred, Never Skin Deep

These colours also stand for various human races

18 August 2019
The Bliss of Dying
Columns
The Bliss of Dying

Even though feared and often unwelcomed, death is indeed blissful

06 August 2019

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.

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