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What I Know About That Midnight Meeting

1. Sanjiv Bhatt, the police officer who has been sentenced to life in prison in a 30-year-old custodial death case, is seen by activists…

Jun 22, 2019

Jun 22, 2019

‘Farmer Suicide’ is the Fake News of the Good Folks

In the transmission of the idea of “farmer suicides” activists have exploited a naive aspect of journalism — to assign causes to suicide…

Dec 29, 2018

Dec 29, 2018

Reading Science As If It Were Poetry

To deny ourselves the special languages that would help us understand great moments in science is the same as being partially literate

Feb 15, 2016

Feb 15, 2016

‘Incredible India’ Versus the Incredible Indian

To see the woman in the bikini he travels great distances to the Goan coast where he sits on the beach in his morose underwear with that…

Jan 14, 2016

Jan 14, 2016

The Careful Use of Unhappiness

We might be in the pursuit of happiness, but unhappiness can make us do marvellous things. Unhappiness is a resource

Jan 7, 2016

Jan 7, 2016

The Morally Fragile Battle Against Free Basics

None of the six emojis that Facebook is currently testing may capture how Mark Zuckerberg feels about India these days. When I spoke to him…

Jan 3, 2016

Jan 3, 2016

Manu Joseph

Manu Joseph

Journalist and novelist. Former columnist for The New York Times. Fiction:Serious Men, The Illicit Happiness of Other People and Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous

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