Bird flu: Like mad cow disease, is it a revenge of the victims?

Friday 21 April '06

While even humans have the right to kill for food, no other species on this planet subjects its victims to calculated, cold-blooded savagery because they are a source of food. One should live and let live

Missing the pawn for the smut

Friday 14 April '06

Mumbai’s bar girls are caught between a blinkered moral police and a hypocritical liberal lobby, each smelling opportunity in controversy

The Lexicon of Lewd

Monday 10 April '06

As a nation, we justify sexual assault either by belittling it as harmless fun, or by insinuating that the feminine gender invites it merely by being female

Don’t market it for Madonna

Monday 3 April '06

Ayurveda is being vulgarised. Official reaction misses the point

One flew past the songbird’s nest

Friday 31 March '06

Lata Mangeshkar’s appeal against a crucial flyover has galvanised a healthy backlash, finds Farah Baria

Why do we kid ourselves?

Tuesday 28 March '06

As school-leaving exams end, one set of participants has already failed: the parents