Swati Singh

Design festival for new talent and ideas

Serving fresh and innovative ideas from diverse arenas like design, organic gourmet and art on one platter, is KONA, Delhi's first multidisciplinary pop up....

Reflections on the rape protests and their significance

The past month has witnessed a number of interesting discussions around gender issues, particularly violence against women. Public outrage against the recent gang rape...

Aaron Swartz and the battle to democratise the Internet

If you look at Aaron Swartz's Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto, you'll find an old photo where a painfully young Swartz (not more than 22...

Forget ‘shuffle’, craft your own mixtape with care

Hit by the digital storm, the music enthusiast in most of us gradually forgot the joys of listening to songs on mixtapes. Now, taking...

A vibrant forum of young scribes for human rights

It is always encouraging to see a youth-led initiative that works towards social or political change in any respect, be it activism, plain old...

Nations, borders pose unique threat to Net’s free speech

On January 16, the Editors Guild of India, Index on Censorship, and Sage Publications organised a panel discussion titled 'Is Freedom of Expression Under...

An unimaginative battle to the end, where chaos reigns supreme

Developer: Platinum GamesPublisher: SegaGenre: Massive online battle arena/Fighting gamePrice: Rs. 1499 for Xbox 360(Also available for Playstation 3)Platinum Games is a fun developer. Not...

Scripts of substance: How to doctor a perfect tale

The tomato garden; it always comes back to the tomato garden. A decade of asking my friends and family over their favourite scene in...

Not any ‘baby boomer epic’: A bantam cultural history of 60’s America

For years, I have been lecturing all who will listen to my theory that the greatest achievements in Western long-form narrative post-2000 were on...

God’s Land bought and sold for ‘progress’

We recognise now that in a bid to make India the next Shanghai, the way of life of millions of people is being altered,...

Gringo premieres at DT Cinemas

DT Cinemas hosted a glamorous and snazzy red carpet premiere of the Mel Gibson starrer Get the Gringo at DLF Place Mall Saket on...

Debut collection launched in style

Debut designer Sanya Jain launched a fine leather brand SVJ last Wednesday at 'The Dirty Martini', were she had displayed her collection of textured...

Tarot reading for everyone

Neera Sareen launched her First Tarot Deck in India & abroad out of the series of three Decks Discover Tarot at Lodi–The Garden Restaurant. The...

Scoop Snoop’s desi avtar, West coast rap in da NCR

Dressed in a Jazzy green sherwani, the West Coast rapper, Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion was received by a huge crowd at the leisure...

Ogaan puts Indian design on global stage

It is perhaps a sign of economic recovery when design becomes a focal point around which industry activity is rallied. For the organisers of...

World cuisine captured in an ingenious eatery

Walking into the not so popular MGF Metropolitain mall, little was expected to be found amid the dead contours of the complex. However, an...

UK plans inquiry into female foeticide by Indian immigrants

The British government is under pressure to open an inquiry after ministers admitted that illegal abortions on the grounds of gender may be taking...

Punjab gets a leopard scare

Leopards have been spotted in different residential areas of Punjab recently, creating a scare. The state, which has a sparse forest cover, has seen...

Shell shocked villagers flee border areas

Villagers residing along the Line of Control are leaving their homes in droves as tension escalates between India and Pakistan. Churunda in Uri sector...

Bahuguna faces flak for anti women order

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna's order to prohibit women from working beyond 6 pm has invited criticism from various quarters, including his own party....

Delhi zoo opens ‘hibernating’ reptile park in winter

The Delhi Zoo has opened a reptile park for the public in the middle of deep winter, when reptiles are hibernating in their burrows....

Traffic snarls will continue for another month

Commuters travelling between Noida and south Delhi during peak hours on DND Flyway and on Mathura road will have to brave traffic snarls till...

Pak special forces embalmed indian soldiers’ heads to keep as trophies

The Pakistan Army's Special Services Group (SSG), through its Border Action Team (BAT), is alleged to have carried out the 8 January brutal mutilation...

Congress wants residency for J&K refugees

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is facing intense pressure from his coalition partner, the Congress over granting Permanent Resident Certificates (PRCS) to...

Air Chief Browne issues warning to Pakistan

Indian Air Force (IAF) chief, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne issued a warning to Pakistan in the aftermath of the 8 January beheading of...

Dhule residents believe communal riots were pre-planned

The residents of Maharashtra's Dhule believe that the minor brawl that sparked off a bout of communal rioting on 6 January was pre-planned. Six...

School dropout rate goes up in national capital

Delhi has seen a massive increase in the dropout rate of school-going children in 2010-11, according to data provided by the Ministry of Human...

Temple idol robbery rises in Maharashtra

• In Guhagar village in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, a 4 kg silver idol and four donation boxes were stolen from a140-year-old temple in 2010....

HP MLA in police remand for murder

Newly elected Congress MLA from Himachal Pradesh, Ram Kumar Choudhary, surrendered before the Panchkula district court on Tuesday in connection with the Jyoti murder...

Rajinikanth protests against new tax

Rajinikanth led the protest of the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce (SICC) against the government's decision to impose a 12.36% service tax on...

Delhi police bribe rates see a surge

The police is under pressure to improve its law and order record on the streets of Delhi after the gang rape incident. This has...

Badal burst leaves kin minister Majithia vulnerable

Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal's public opprobrium of Punjab's most powerful minister Bikramjit Majithia at the NRI conference here this week has left...

Congress, JMM explore options to form govt

The Congress is in talks with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) to explore the possibility of forming the next government in Jharkhand, The Sunday...

MMRCA losers likely to skip Aero-India

Asia's largest air show, Aero-India 2013 will not see participation from the manufacturers who lost the MMRCA (Medium multi-role combat aircraft) deal. There will...

TMC mocks Dasmunshi for copying Didi

Deepa Dasmunshi, the Union Minister of State for Urban Development, was ridiculed by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for copying Mamata Banerjee's style of registering...

AP gauged public mood, delayed Owasi’s arrest

The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh deliberately delayed the arrest of MIM legislature party leader Akbaruddin Owaisi for making hate speeches. Highly placed sources...

11 girls raped for more than two years

Eleven tribal school girls in the age group of 6 to 13 years were raped for more than two years by two employees posted...

Sexual harrasment not new in Army

The Indian military is not unfamiliar with cases of sexual harassment, although often it's the women who have had to pay a price for...

Amended bill against rape is silent on molestation

The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2012, which was introduced in Parliament by Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde last month, has several lacunae. It fails to...

Poor medical evidence reduces rape conviction rate

The absence of uniform guidelines in gathering medical evidence for rape cases is one of the main reasons why conviction rate is so low....

More than 6,000 families live on Delhi streets

Prahlad (one name, according to his Aadhar card), is the eldest member of a large family of around 20 to 25 people, living under...

Katju is an ambitious man

Retired Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju is an ambitious man. He is lobbying hard for the post of Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. The...

Not on speaking terms

Mamata Banerjee's first meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after withdrawing support from the UPA took place last week. At the inauguration of the...

‘No tickets to new entrants’

Some Trinamool Congress leaders do not want Mamata Banerjee to give panchayat election tickets to new entrants to the party. Last week, at a...

Tickets blocked for private airlines

K.C. Venugopal, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, was in for a surprise on 4 January. When he arrived at the Thiruvananthapuram airport to...

Tickets blocked for private airlines

K.C. Venugopal, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, was in for a surprise on 4 January. When he arrived at the Thiruvananthapuram airport to...

Good, healthy press

The Manmohan Singh government has accepted the demand of accredited journalists for health cards. The cards will ensure that they get heavy discounts if...