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Sadhvi Sharma
After the Delhi rape, a deluge of authoritarianism
An Indian writer asks: if the protests about that awful gang rape really are progressive, why are they leading to less freedom?
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| Thursday 4 October 2012 |
Woudhuysen, Kaplinsky & Seaman
How to make blackouts a thing of the past
The key to providing for our energy needs is technological development, not sterile rows about energy sources.
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| Tuesday 14 February 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
The real reason we should cut aid to India
When Britain begs India to keep taking handouts, you know aid is more about nourishing soulless Westerners than feeding hungry Southerners.
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| Monday 16 January 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Putting tribespeople in a human zoo
In demanding the utter isolation of Third World tribes, Survival International turns communities into freakshows.
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| Tuesday 30 August 2011 |
James Woudhuysen
Anna Hazare: apostle of political hygiene
James Woudhuysen reports from India on why the middle-class warriors against corruption aren’t so heroic.
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| Thursday 18 August 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Sterilise yourself and win a car!
The bribing of Indians to stop having babies is not that different to the moral blackmail used by Western Malthusians.
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| Tuesday 3 August 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
David Cameron and the death of diplomacy
The PM’s Israel-upsetting, Pakistan-isolating world tour shows that celebrity-style badmouthing has taken the place of diplomatic nicety.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Tara McCormack
Are we witnessing ‘the rise of the rest’?
The elevation of the G20 over the G8 has prompted talk of an international power shift. The reality is more complicated.
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| Monday 27 July 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Hands off India’s carbon emissions!
Hillary Clinton’s pressure on India to shrink its ‘carbon footprint’ is little more than eco-imperialism.
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| Thursday 16 July 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Watch TV instead of having sex
Sadhvi Sharma reports from Bombay on one Indian official’s mad scheme for reducing the number of poor people.
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| Thursday 2 July 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
You say Dilli, I say Delhi
Rebranding Indian cities, streets and landmarks with ‘authentic’ Hindi names is parochial and chauvinistic, says Bombayite Sadhvi Sharma.
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| Monday 18 May 2009 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Give us something worth voting for
Sadhvi Sharma reports from Bombay on the gimmicks and threats that were used to get people voting in the elections.
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| Friday 30 January 2009 |
Rob Lyons
A dimestore novel that reveals India’s beating heart
One Night @ the Call Center, still a bestseller in India four years after it was published, perfectly captures young Indians’ disdain for tradition and foreign snootiness, and their desire for prosperity and liberty.
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| Tuesday 27 January 2009 |
Rob Lyons
In this film, it’s every Slumdog for himself
Danny Boyle’s Mumbai melodrama reduces humanity to a collection of brutal oppressors and helpless victims.
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| Thursday 15 January 2009 |
Rob Lyons
India’s ‘festival of
first-time fliers’
As British eco-activists fly into a fury over the Third Runway, millions of Indians are exploring the skies on cheap flights.
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| Monday 1 December 2008 |
Frank Furedi
Terror in Mumbai: the same old, same old
Claims that the attacks represent a new form of ‘Fourth Generation Warfare’ are infused with historical amnesia and fearmongering.
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| Monday 1 December 2008 |
Sadhvi Sharma
Bombay bounces back
Sadhvi Sharma reports from the streets and stations of a city that remains resilient in the face of ‘hair-raising experiences’.
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| Friday 28 November 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
Mumbai: the nihilism that dare not speak its name
The terrible assaults on the Indian city of growth and ambition suggest that contemporary terrorism is not as alien as we think.
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| Tuesday 7 October 2008 |
Alka Sehgal
India’s economic progress left in Tatas
The campaign to shut down a cheap car factory is driven by elite green angst more than the Indian people’s interests.
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| Tuesday 24 June 2008 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
This year’s must-have fashion: pity for Indians
Recent TV documentaries exposing that Primark’s clothes are made by Indian child labourers have been nauseatingly elitist.
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