N. Jayaram is a journalist now based in Bangalore after more than 23 years in East Asia (mainly Hong Kong and Beijing) and 11 years in New Delhi. He was with the Press Trust of India news agency for 15 years and Agence France-Presse for 11 years and is currently engaged in editing and translating for NGOs and academic institutions. He writes Walker Jay's blog.
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Published in: openIndiaIs India preparing to hang an innocent ‘untouchable’?Should the court rule against Koli and were he to be hanged, it would be the second consecutive execution in India...
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Published in: HomeWhy Hong Kong mattersCould mainland China not seek eventual convergence towards a democratic system, respectful of the full gamut of...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia’s questionable choices of iconsIt was only in 1990 that one of twentieth century India’s finest minds, principal author of its constitution and...
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Published in: openIndiaHindu chauvinism and the denigration of human rightsSuch baseless and cynical claims are the stock-in-trade of Hindu chauvinist propagandists: as if to be critical of...
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Published in: openIndiaNarendra Modi, British invitation and universal jurisdictionSome British MPs have invited an Indian politician widely accused of having committed crimes against humanity in his...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia in the early twenty-first century is not 1930s GermanyThe Modi camp seems to have studied Chinese success in keeping saturation control over the media. But Indians are...