Ujjawal Krishnam

This writing is uninspiring, let alone could this take inspiration from Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities. One Babelish hell of expression the writer has fallen into since is not yet beyond redemption, yet he would endeavour to steam and froth it as long as it would last. Just like he goes about his cup of coffee he so desires, so he sips at it, grotesquely amorously, muttering to himself, “If humour is not sacrilege, what is?”

Speaking of hell, this genre-busting writing — as twirls the buzzword, twirls the writer — is the exclusive property of Ujjawal Krishnam.

As the dust settles . . .

. . . so you tasted magic realism and enjoyed it? I thought I was one of the few Rushdie stans...

“Tree, look at the tree,” Vladimir says. Estragon looks at the tree, and asks, “Wasn’t it there yesterday?” He believes that everything oozes. But do trees dream? If yes, when, and does this follow the principle of least activity? Do trees experience sleep paralysis? And do anxiety dreams ooze out of a static body?
In spite of all this, the sun shines, in Murphy’s static world, on nothing new.
Trees too cannot escape the wrath of a wildfire. Sun’s thermal predicament. Sacrifices are made and,...

In other words, it subjugated womanhood. Unsurprisingly, it is not an unusual act for many Lockeans and Rousseauists to judge sexual predation through the lens of political spectrum.
A major case in Kashmir, in early 1990s, was censured and forgotten. And what happened to Thangjam Manorama was discredited. It is perhaps for this very reason that Tarun Tejpal, Mahmood Farooqui, Khurshid Anwar and Vinod Dua have always had a run of good luck.
However, much to the chagrin of his apologists, M J ...

Indians find themselves filled with a psychedelic pride every time a large western corporate hires a former Indian citizen for a key position. Shortly thereafter, a vague sense of loss is projected — that the country has failed to...

By Ujjawal Krishnam
In 2010, the then Union Minister of Law and Justice fobbed intersectional feminists — basically those advocating inclusion of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBCs) in the Women’s Reservation Bill — off with a realpolitikal anachronism: unavailability of national-level SEBC data. Though Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) was conducted between 2011 and 2013, wide discrepancies in its data and other national surveys on major indicators were enough to show th...

Paris Principles — adopted in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) — guided the establishment of National Human Rights Institutions; Law Commission’s 152nd Report further empowered the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and State Human Rights Commissions (SHRCs) to intervene to stop custodial crimes.
Now, after two and a half decades of their existence, it will not be a premature assessment of their position on custodial crimes, or for that matter, any other human rights vi...

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, Government of India broadcasts, has propelled India’s rank in World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 report to “63rd position as compared to 77th position in 2018 ”. This and positive commentaries [1, 2, 3,…] notwithstanding, drastic year-on-year change of 56 positions in the subindex for ‘Insolvency Resolution’ should be taken cautiously, insofar as the question of data irregularities in the World Bank publication persists.
In any case, IBC is not an absolute re...

The act of throwing dead bodies of the pandemic victims into rivers involves the question of morality.

South Africa and India, leading a group of 100 countries, have been jointly communicating with the WTO for a waiver from TRIPS agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) since October 2 last year. While many developed countries continue to oppose this, the Government of India (GOI) is optimistic about the waiver. Still, any intervention, in favour of temporary TRIPS waiver is misplaced.
Put simply, this is the reason why the developing bloc should look forw...

माननीय संपादक रवीश जी,
छठ की हार्दिक शुभकानाएं। आपका बिहार आना हुआ, जान कर खुशी हुई। अब कुछ दिल्ली की बात करें, और देश की भी, पत्रकारिता और दोहरे मापदंड की भी।
‘मादी शर्मा’ नाम है न उनका, जिन पर बहस छिड़ी है, “दूसरे दरवाजे” की चाभी वाली। आखिर कैसे एक अनजान चेहरा मोदी सरकार के लिए “दूसरे दरवाजे” से यूरोपियन संघ के सांसदों को कश्मीर भ्रमण के लिए ले आया।
मेरा शीर्षक पढ़कर अजीब लगा होगा, लगना भी चाहिए। रुकिए, मुद्दे पर आ रहे हैं। आपको चेता दें कि यह स्वकथित निष्पक्ष पत्रकारों को उन्हीं की भाषा मे...

The threat of eviction hanging over more than a million tribal Indians is a blot on the nation

Kaleeswaram Raj is a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and the High Court of Kerala. He successfully fought to decriminalise adultery in India and, he appeared in several other important cases before the Supreme Court, including the Kerala liquor policy case, the National Highway liquor ban case, the government advertisements case, the Interstate Motor Vehicle Tax case.
In this exclusive interview, he talks to Ujjawal Krishnam about the issues pertinent to women’s rights in India.
“Feminis...

Ammu Joseph is a senior Indian journalist who has dedicated her career to gender issues. She is a founder-member of Network of Women in Media, India or NWMI. Author of six books, Joseph also contributed to frame UNESCO’s gender sensitive indicators for media (2012), world trends in the state of freedom of expression and media development (2013) and global monitoring report on the implementation of the 2005 convention on diversity of cultural expressions. She was awarded with the Donna Allen A...