The Maharashtra Migrant Crisis

Its an Us v. Them.
The Northies don’t like the Marathis and now the Marathis don’t like the Northies. Raju and his boys are using the occassion to gain some political milage. He’s now a Marathi icon and inside every Maharashtrian there is a small, if not large, connection (read smypathy) with Raju and his politics.

A Mouse from Mumbai Responds to a Stunning Photo Essay

I was sent the below link through a forwarded email. The images speak for themselves. I would just like to add that I met some of these photographers recently. As an amateur photo-journalist myself, I can’t begin to imagine the kind of courage these shutterbugs must have mustered to point cameras at madmen carrying Kalashnikovs [...]

VP Singh, a Leader of India and Student from Pune, Dies at 77

Haresh Pandya wrote in The New York Times, on 29th November, 2008, on the death of V.P. Singh, India’s tenth Prime Minister and an alumnus from Pune:

Vishwanath Pratap Singh was born into a landed family in Allahabad in the northern state Uttar Pradesh on June 25, 1931. When he was 5, his parents gave him [...]

“Stand up. Speak Out. Enough is Enough. Let’s take back this country.”

The Mumbai terror attacks have certainly injected much anger, despair and frustation in the minds of many Indians and foreigners. Several people who were previously indifferent to terrorism have suddenly been shaken by the utter brutality of last weeks strikes. Here’s an extract from a young Indian voice in Pune that cries out in the [...]

Work-In-Progress: A Nation Unites

Akshara Kumar Chittoor writes on the Mumbai Terror Attacks:
Woke up this morning and thought, ‘Please God, let it be over!’ Got out of bed and headed straight to the television: pictures and reports of what I was dreading continued to spew from it – the encounters at the Taj, the Trident and Nariman House dragged [...]