Abhijit Joshi

A proposed rule for taxi drivers is turning into a wider test of Marathi identity and the political risks of enforcing linguistic pride. Maharashtra marked the 66th year of its foundation yesterday. As with every other May 1 celebration that has taken place in six decades, this year, too, Maharashtra Day was celebrated not just with mere pageantry, but with a memory of fire. The state’s birth in 1960, wrested from the old Bombay State after a turbulent Samyukta Maharashtra Movement, still...

From concert floors to coastal routes, Maharashtra’s drug problem is no longer easy to ignore In 1971’s ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna,’ Asha Bhosle’s languid rendition of the song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ gave Indian cinema one of its earliest, stylised encounters with narcotics. The Dev Anand-directed film itself was perhaps the first to deal starkly with the corrosive effects of drugs. Either way, for years, such portrayals seemed distant from Maharashtra’s reality. Drugs, to the extent they existed, were...

The TCS Nashik scandal reveals a profound institutional failure where HR inaction turned a marquee workplace into a site of sustained abuse. Imagine getting your first big job at a famous company. You are young, excited, and full of hope. That is exactly how hundreds of young women felt when Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) opened its Nashik center in March 2016. For many of them, it was the start of a bright future. But for some of those women, the workplace became a nightmare without end....