When we fall sick, we say the doctor knows best. We trust these men in white with the medicines they scribble on the prescription paper and the investigations they ask us to get done. We swallow the bitter pills without questioning what’s needed and why. But last week when eight injections were pricked into my arm every day and my face was hidden under the oxygen mask though I could easil
Jeffrey Sachs is due in New Delhi and I have managed to get an appointment to interview him. The celebrity economist, one of the 100 most influential people according to TIME magazine, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, a special advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, even a Padma Bhushan awardee, is scheduled to attend the Delhi Sustainable
Dandakaranya (or DK as bureaucrats and Maoists prefer to call it) lives up to the reputation it acquired in the days of the Ramayana—remote and forsaken. Then it was home to demons who spread terror all around, forcing the meditating rishis to seek Lord Rama’s help during his exile (which he did only to come to grief; demon king Ravana kidnapped his consort Sita). Now it is the Maoi
