In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to award-winning theater director Suba Das about his play, “Pink Sari Revolution.” In 2006, Sampat Pal Devi, a woman from the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, started a vigilante group,...
We now seem poised for a change: Instead of understanding women and men as two different halves of a binary, we will see them as different points on a spectrum. “A man can decide to be female, take hormones if required by whatever sporting...
In a Birmingham primary school, young children learn to accept homosexuality within the context of an equality-led curriculum, but parents are outraged. Parkfield Primary School in the inner-city area of Birmingham, UK, has around 98% Muslim...
The challenge of fixing India’s job crisis is an unachievable task for any one-term government. India is the world’s fastest-growing major economy. It is also home to the highest number of unemployed in the world. More than half of India’s...
Across India’s main religions, crimes committed by spiritual leaders normalize criminality among their followers. Karl Marx’s notion that religion is the opium of the masses could not have been truer in India. By a crude extension of the...
