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If God did not Exist: Ganesha, Swati and the White Peacock
By Ratna Raman. To this day, you can find both Ganesha and the white peacock on the small balcony, outside Swati’s study window.
Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
The Silver Songbirds… listen to them sing
By Ammu Joseph. 'The Silver Songbirds of Bengaluru,' a senior citizens' choir led by a top-ranking retired diplomat, is crossing borders and boundaries, and building bridges, creating solidarity with melody and songs.
Not an idea, an ache: GIVE ME GREEN
By Suresh Nautiyal, Change does not always arrive as revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a question, a doubt, a enigma, that refuses to say goodbye.
Editor's Pick
Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India
By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.
Don’t restrict your daughters, educate your sons
By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.
From Bengal, despair... and the optimism of resistance
By Sreela Das Gupta. A poem on hope amidst all-round angst and anger in Bengal.
Politics
Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India
By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.
90 lakh voter names deleted! What's going on in West Bengal?
By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.
History
The beauty of a Body in Motion... Rhythm, Presence, Percussion
By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.
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.
Society
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
Tax the super-rich, close the gap
the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.
STOP these FORCED marriages
Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion.
degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.
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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If God did not Exist: Ganesha, Swati and the White Peacock
By Ratna Raman. To this day, you can find both Ganesha and the white peacock on the small balcony, outside Swati’s study window.
Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
The Silver Songbirds… listen to them sing
By Ammu Joseph. 'The Silver Songbirds of Bengaluru,' a senior citizens' choir led by a top-ranking retired diplomat, is crossing borders and boundaries, and building bridges, creating solidarity with melody and songs.
Not an idea, an ache: GIVE ME GREEN
By Suresh Nautiyal, Change does not always arrive as revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a question, a doubt, a enigma, that refuses to say goodbye.
Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India
By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.
90 lakh voter names deleted! What's going on in West Bengal?
By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.
Don’t restrict your daughters, educate your sons
By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.
Tax the super-rich, close the gap
the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.
STOP these FORCED marriages
Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion.
degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.
Bengal: Daylight Dacoity as a Public Spectacle?
By Aditya Nigam. Will West Bengal be the Waterloo of the West India Company?
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
Justice for NOIDA workers: Delhi Union of Journalists
The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), condemns the severe police action against striking factory workers of NOIDA and the attack on some reporters covering the protests on April 13.
A Wave of Protests Rock Noida
Women workers, who have played a leading role in these protests, have been brutally beaten by male police personnel in places like Manesar and Noida, and several have been detained and arrested.
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