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A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.
AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.
Between this bully and that, the end of Pax Americana
By Satya Sagar. India and Pakistan have been exposed as Trojan Horses for Western imperialism by openly collaborating with the US and Israel. They have lost respect worldwide and within their own borders by failing to stand by Iran .
Can commerce align with conscience, growth with grace?
By Suresh Nautiyal. Migration crystallised into culture, and capital crystallised into the skyline.
Do you remember that lazy afternoon...
By Sreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. In our youthful innocence... But we did create a moment... Which returns
The rise and rise of Ghost Newspapers: Fish Eye, Lake View, Bargi, Chinar, Bekhouf Shankh, Jumbo, Bhumi, Teesri Ankh, Teesri Duniya…
By Anuradha Bhasin. Free Press. That may be wishful thinking in times when the government is pushing independent media to the brink and patronising an ecosystem of noise and nuisance.
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The rise and rise of Ghost Newspapers: Fish Eye, Lake View, Bargi, Chinar, Bekhouf Shankh, Jumbo, Bhumi, Teesri Ankh, Teesri Duniya…
By Anuradha Bhasin. Free Press. That may be wishful thinking in times when the government is pushing independent media to the brink and patronising an ecosystem of noise and nuisance.
Imagined Homeland, and other stories
By Amit Sengupta. When the Tide Goes Out. Where ever they went, they enriched the land, made the earth golden, the sweat on their brow nourishing the soil.
Love, I thought...
By Sreela Das Gupta in Santiniketan. And the whispers of our kisses...
Which we stole from the pages...
Of an incomplete story...
Politics
AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.
Between this bully and that, the end of Pax Americana
By Satya Sagar. India and Pakistan have been exposed as Trojan Horses for Western imperialism by openly collaborating with the US and Israel. They have lost respect worldwide and within their own borders by failing to stand by Iran .
Imagined Homeland, and other stories
By Amit Sengupta. When the Tide Goes Out. Where ever they went, they enriched the land, made the earth golden, the sweat on their brow nourishing the soil.
History
Carnival time in Khajuraho
Photo feature by Raju Mansukhani. Timeless messages of magical love, aesthetic beauty and compassion in a world scarred by relentless volatility, war and chaos...
Woman, Dance, Resistance
By Aprameya Manthena. Chandralekha believed that the classical tradition had to be re-applied with the age-old questions surrounding body, sexuality, devotion, power, resistance, beauty, spirit,fertility, nature and intellect.
One-Liners and a Machete: Priyanka Chopra Returns to Action as Pirate ‘Bloody Mary’ in ‘The Bluff’
The Bluff with Priyanka Chopra as lead. “She stabs, she slashes, she shoots arrows, she shoots flintlocks,” according to The New York Times.
Society
A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.
Can commerce align with conscience, growth with grace?
By Suresh Nautiyal. Migration crystallised into culture, and capital crystallised into the skyline.
India Greens Party: STOP THIS WAR!
The people of Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East (West Asia) deserve peace, dignity, and the right to determine their own futures free from war, occupation, and external domination.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.
AI is not reliable. Especially in a conflict zone. QED. Hence proved.
By Ajith Pillai. Wars are mindless. It only spreads death and destruction. The script never changes—AI has only made it worse.
Between this bully and that, the end of Pax Americana
By Satya Sagar. India and Pakistan have been exposed as Trojan Horses for Western imperialism by openly collaborating with the US and Israel. They have lost respect worldwide and within their own borders by failing to stand by Iran .
Can commerce align with conscience, growth with grace?
By Suresh Nautiyal. Migration crystallised into culture, and capital crystallised into the skyline.
Do you remember that lazy afternoon...
By Sreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. In our youthful innocence... But we did create a moment... Which returns
The rise and rise of Ghost Newspapers: Fish Eye, Lake View, Bargi, Chinar, Bekhouf Shankh, Jumbo, Bhumi, Teesri Ankh, Teesri Duniya…
By Anuradha Bhasin. Free Press. That may be wishful thinking in times when the government is pushing independent media to the brink and patronising an ecosystem of noise and nuisance.
Imagined Homeland, and other stories
By Amit Sengupta. When the Tide Goes Out. Where ever they went, they enriched the land, made the earth golden, the sweat on their brow nourishing the soil.
One nation. ONE CYLINDER!
By Satya Sagar. Another great victory and ALL THAT GAS!
Love, I thought...
By Sreela Das Gupta in Santiniketan. And the whispers of our kisses...
Which we stole from the pages...
Of an incomplete story...
The pain of an eternal spectator
By Rupak Bardhan Roy in Nice, France. Ideology is not dead.
Why Israelis look down on Indians
By Ganpaty Nataraj. Modi called Benjamin Netanyahu — a man the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for — his brother.
India Greens Party: STOP THIS WAR!
The people of Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East (West Asia) deserve peace, dignity, and the right to determine their own futures free from war, occupation, and external domination.
Where have all the young men gone?
By Meher Pestonji in Mumbai. When they joined the army did these kids realise they might be sent to fight for another country?
The intimacy of Memory
By Suresh Nautiyal. This heritage shows how journeys across seas became roots in soil; how cultural inheritance adapts without dissolving; how identity, when shared with dignity, strengthens the broader social fabric.
The Subservience of Silence: India’s Complicity in US-Israel’s Unjust War Against Iran
By Ganpy Natraj. This is not just silence. It is complicity by absence.
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