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  • May
    26

    How to read cartoons

    Governments on a weak wicket fear cartoons. Weak leaders hate cartoons. Autocrats dread cartoons. Satire is dangerous. It can cut you down laughing.

  • May
    11

    Mindless medics

    Women who seek medical assistance in having a baby in India are routinely put on a heavy dose of Letrozol, which is a cancer medication.

  • Apr
    27

    Vows and laws that trap

    This year, the government had some success, preventing scores of child marriages, and getting parents and even grandparents to sign bonds promising not to marry off their kids as long as they ...

  • Apr
    14

    What Grass must say

    This is the time for the people who want to save me… to get to know themselves, through me.” That was little Oskar in The Tin Drum.

  • Mar
    30

    It’s an issue, Queen B

    Eight papers were chosen, which included neither the largest circulated dailies, nor a single English newspaper.

  • Mar
    18

    Happy journey!

    You expect us to pay? Excuse me, Mr Minister? You can’t be serious! Don’t you know that in the sarkari sector there is really no link between

  • Mar
    02

    Please mind the gap

    The government cares. It feels our pain. And it is now attempting, yet again, to make our roads safer.

  • Feb
    18

    Nature, law and order

    Excuse me, mister, please take your pants off. And your shirt, too. Oh yes, and the underwear. No, I must insist.

  • Jan
    21

    Dogmatic dissent

    If the polls come, can identity politics be far behind? With the crucial Uttar Pradesh elections round the corner, our sad, gutless, governance-less

  • Jan
    07

    Culture of callousness

    Are you responsible for things you don’t know? Of course not, snorts the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry