Shruti Ravindran
Ironically enough, Steven Pinker’s peace theory is super controversial
The new crop of young Kashmiris think nothing of facing teargas shells or bullets. With them around, New Delhi needs to be worried. Extremely so
Kidnapping, guns, threats, blackmail. This is how school bullies are playing their power games nowadays. So much so that even the CBSE has had to sit up and take note.
Doctors are surprised if the victim co-operates with them, for policemen wives cannot be raped by husbands, the defence tries to prove that the victim is a major because anyone over 16 is thought to have given consent, judges worry about marital prospects of victims…everyone expects this crime to fit into their picture
Could it be that 62 years on, the scars of the Partition violence have still not healed because there is so little voluntary admission of guilt, so much glorified victimhood? Here’s a narrative finally that trains its gaze at the perpetrators.
The Censor Board has certified Kannada cinema as the most violent in India. The industry, too, is taking quite a beating for it
Why violence maintains its currency as a political tool in West Bengal
Belfast has shaken off its strife-torn image and wears the look of a boomtown these days
From the relative sanctuary of our daily lives, this would seem like war. But for the average Kashmiri, it is just another day