What is it like to live in a 'sealed' building?

A Rediff.com journalist reveals what it's like to live in a building sealed by the authorities because one of the residents is COVID-19 positive.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com These are......

2016: The year of the trolls

Internet trolls kept the social media abuzz in 2016 and spared none -- be it Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, cricketer Mohammad Shami or even ‘Saifeena’ -- unleashing posts and memes that......

The Wendy Doniger controversy: An Alternative View

In any controversy, the participants cannot decide who is right or wrong. A democracy has a process in place to settle these disputes: the judiciary. Dinanath Batra in true democratic fashion......

India's skewed internet censorship debate

The current mechanisms of internet censorship inIndiaare draconian and unconstitutional. They need to be replaced with a new set of rules that are fair, transparent and accessible for public......

Shah Rukh Khan's India

'Are we seeing the beginning of the communalising of one of the most iconic film industries in the world?' asks Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. In the late eighties Shah Rukh Khan, a boy from a modest......