Shoma Chaudhury on why we need to have a reasoned debate about the Jan Lokpal Bill and the movement that forced the Indian government to action on the bill which was lying in dusty files for over 40 years. Please send in your views through comments or write in length to chaikadai[at]gmail[dot]com. Blogroll on the [...]

No Direction Home | OPEN Magazine. “It’s a short distance from Chennai to Colombo, but 29-year-old  Sri Lankan journalist Sritharan Someetharan will not be flying back. He expects to be shot by ‘unidentified men’. It happened to one editor he worked for at North Eastern Herald, a monthly that gave a voice to the Tamil [...]

We have just written to Willie Smits and so many other people, but we don’t know where to go. Whose land is it? Whose forests are these? How far can “online” participation take us? This is a short film on Thervoy Kandigai, the 1120+ acres SIPCOT has sold to build an industrial park. If we [...]

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love letters lost in space to people lost in time By Sarah Jost If you haven't taken the time to peruse the Missed Connections section of Craigslist, you're missing out. In Missed Connections, people post little love letters to strangers they saw on a train, passed at a library, or shared a brief moment with [...]