Ramzan and the Taste of Togetherness
When Hindus flock to Mohammed Ali Road during the holy month of Ramzan, “ek apnapan sa lagta hai,” say restaurateurs
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‘I got support in all jail authorities except Tihar’
Kobad Ghandy, has been a sympathiser of the Communist movement for half a century including its radical wing, the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Along with his late wife Anuradha Shanbag Ghandy, he dedicated many years to the cause…
‘Some countries don’t welcome Indians’
'I have to treat patients and there they don't like Indians. The patients don't like me, they are not going to come to me, then what is the point of studying there?' "My year has been wasted, from January till now. We have had no practicals…
‘We have lost 10 months of our lives’
'You can't tell a student who is already in a medical course to give the entrance exam all over again.'
‘Authorities Want Every Prisoner To Die Neglected’
'That is how our machinery operates and sees every prisoner.' I feel like the 'Phoenix Rising' after the Dark Knight of the soul when all is lost! -- Shikha Rahi Journalist and human rights activist Prashant Rahi has been in different jails…
‘No girl should go through such torture’
She was kidnapped by child traffickers when she was 14. Today, this 17 year old wants to become a lawyer so that she can help the survivors of such heinous acts. This interview will not be easy to read. But read it you must. In doing so,…
‘It is very difficult to see my mother like this’
'The only way to kill time in prison is to read and she can't even do that properly any more. Her knees, too, are in terrible shape. I could see how she was trying to hide her pain every time she got up from the bench where she was seated.'
When your mother is in prison…
'Just waiting outside the prison gate, thinking that your mother is inside those walls even though you know she is innocent, affects your psyche.' But life turned upside down for the film-maker and columnist when her mother Professor Shoma…
‘Nobody in India will be saved’
'Nobody will be saved if you don't stop this ideological and political-strategic bulldozer.'
‘My time in jail scarred me forever’
'Your faith in the system, and in the fact that you are a citizen of this country and have rights, starts eroding.'