The Story of an Ideal Village
Devli in MP has a committee on everything, from marriages to migration
08 September 2011
Condom Madam
How one sex worker reformed a brothel in Sangli by counting condoms collected in a bucket
23 June 2011
The Call of the Camera
When Rajesh Jala made one documentary on the son of a militant and another on children who stole shrouds for a living, he didn’t expect the films to transform their lives, least of all his own
06 May 2011
Not One to Wage War
On 24 December, Dr Binayak Sen was sentenced to a life term on charges of waging war against the State, sedition, and for colluding with Maoists. I saw a very different man on my last visit to his house
21 January 2011
Aruna’s Keepers
Last Saturday, Aruna Shanbag, a former employee of KEM Hospital, Mumbai, completed 37 years as its ‘baby’. This is the story of the nurses and doctors at KEM who have taken care of one of their own ever since that fateful evening of 27 November 1973 when Aruna was raped and strangulated by a ward boy.
03 December 2010
Authors
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of the forthcoming book Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism and India’s Road to Modernity. Views are personal
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