Maria directs probe in police raids at hotels, beaches

In the wake of angry reactions from the public, Mumbai police chief Rakesh Maria has directed a probe into last week's raids by Malwani police at hotels and a beach in Mumbai for indecent behaviour......

Dear sexual predator

'I don't care how accomplished you are, and I don't care about your career which has burst into pretty flames.''I do care about all the women you've abused and scarred and made life hell for,' says......

Why are our leaders like fish?

'Politicians try to be the leader fish, pulling the country along -- except that they try to knock other aspiring leaders off their course as they go, says Mitali Saran.Illustration: Uttam......

We are letting BJP close its hands around democracy's throat

'Already, the BJP treats the Constitution like the unpopular old uncle at the party, whom everyone pays lip service to and then proceeds to ignore,' says Mitali Saran. IMAGE: Prime Minister......

What a fool I have been!

'Paying my taxes, diligently repaying my loans, following the rules, scrupulously doing things by the book, when there's this big, beautiful world of unregulated chicanery I could have indulged in......

The revulsion! The betrayal. The realisation you knew all along

'I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I know that everyone is behaving as if they've just discovered that their favourite grandfather is a peeping tom,' says Mitali Saran. My eyes generally......

Of Modi's silence and huge waste of resources

The Statue of Unity the prime minister is building in Gujarat is a disgraceful waste of resources that does nothing for India except add a big fat bill, says Mitali Saran. Twitter has been overrun......

Water: Learning to live without it

Until quite recently most Europeans -- especially the French -- didn't see much sense in bathing. One supposes it was cold and inconvenient, and that someone had to have a good reason to establish......

Sacred Games is terrific!

'As I watched Sacred Games, I kept flinching at the thought of all the thorns poised to lodge themselves in the sides of the thin-skinned,' says Mitali Saran. IMAGE: Nawazuddin Siddique as the......

Time to have an adult as Censor chief

'I've always figured that it's the people who don't get laid enough, or well enough, who feel compelled to constrain and tear down anyone who looks as if they're having a good time,' says Mitali......

The Indians who made us proudest in Rio are all women

'Sakshi Malik's medal is her individual and singular accomplishment.''So is P V Sindhu's badminton medal.''So is Dipa Karmakar's loss-by-a-whisker.''So is the surprise that is 18-year-old golfer......