Deepali Srivastava
November 6, 2017
History records that when Mahatma Gandhi raised a handful of salt in 1930, he shook the mighty British Empire. But history, as we know it,...
Deepali Srivastava
May 11, 2017
At the Lahore Literary Festival held at the Asia Society, New York on May 6, Pakistani journalist and author Raza Rumi led a minute of...
Deepali Srivastava
September 8, 2016
Amitav Ghosh’s latest non-fiction The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable sets him apart from writers like Naomi Klein...
Deepali Srivastava
April 20, 2016
Spare a thought for Panama, folks. Yes, that tiny nation sandwiched between North and South America where the world’s rich and powerful...
Deepali Srivastava
November 8, 2015
More than 6 months ago, I had flirted here with the idea that come 2019, when India goes to vote in the world’s largest exercise of its...
Deepali Srivastava
February 13, 2015
When the going gets tough, they say, the tough get going. And gone is the tough Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata...
Deepali Srivastava
September 21, 2014
“How does it feel to see 200,000 people coming to New York for your book launch?” asked Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org , when...
Deepali Srivastava
April 17, 2014
In the 1960s, Nobel laureate economist Simon Kuznets conducted rigorous empirical analyses to conclude that capitalism inevitability...