All this book needed was to be treated like a book in its own right, out of the column straitjacket
Annie Zaidi
Editor
The notion of privacy is rapidly losing out to data mining
The year 1995 summoned up visions of a spring for Indian writing in English. But charges of elitism, of not sufficiently ‘belonging’, have never ebbed. A contemporary writer responds:
Breathless and frightened, and not even the touch of a hand on your forehead. Not even if you die...that last touch is abolished. Strangers might carry your bier and lower you into the grave, or onto the pyre.
- Opinion | Stones, Blades And Sticks: 92 Rapes In A Day, And The Thought of Justice Hanging On A Tree
Capital punishment for rape leaves me more scared than before -- for self and society -- writes poet-playwright Annie Zaidi, after the Nirbhaya hanging.
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