Articles by M S Prabhakara

In death Nelson Mandela is undergoing a droll kind of transformation. A revolutionary fighter who led an armed struggle against the apartheid regime became towards the end of his life a universally beloved, almost cuddly, icon of peace and reconciliation. It is true that Mandela mellowed towards the end of his life, evident in what one saw of him in photographs. But the fi re never died, except to the extent that the body itself was losing its vigour. Mandela himself took pains to deny that he was a "saint".

Though not always in harmony, Hindus and Muslims have for centuries lived together all over this country.

Perhaps this is a sign of the times; for the first time as I can recall in nearly 20 years, the anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 went unnoticed by most newspapers this year.

Is azaadi the only way for the unending violence, the pain and alienation in Jammu and Kashmir, specifically in the Kashmir Valley, to come to an end?

In their zeal to suppress “Maoist” activities, the authorities in Karnataka are targeting a media that is only performing its duties by carrying reports of such activities.