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Parole, Furlough, and a Full Page ‘Ad’ as Icing on the Cake: So How Sacha Is This Sauda?
By Suresh Nautiyal. He has reportedly been released 17 times since 2020. His latest release, in August 2026, is a 21-day furlough; earlier he has been out of prison for roughly 435 days.
Great Cricketers Stand Up for Imran Khan, a Cricket Legend, now Half-Blind, Rotting in a Dark, Solitary Cell, as Army Generals Call the Shots
By Ganpy Natraj. More than 20 great captains and cricketers, including Clive Lyod, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, David Gower, Ian Chappel, Mike Brearley, Michael Atherton, Dilip Vengsarkar, David Gower
Eiffel Tower, Paris: Women staffers asked to remain ‘invisible’, hide in the back rooms. Why?
By Rajiv Shah. The Eiffel Tower was forced to close for the day after its staff staged a walkout and strike, in protest.
GO BACK, AFGHAN medical students in Pakistan told. WILL INDIA HELP?
India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.
Pakistan’s Shame: Expulsion of Afghan Medical Students and Moral Bankruptcy of the Army Generals
By Murtaza Shibli. The image of a 24-hour eviction notice handed to final-year Afghan medical students will haunt Pakistan’s reputation for years.
Staged shows with a tamed audience. Speaking? Yes. Listening? No. Once again, a Monologue.
By Anuradha Bhasin. What do the BJP leaders see when they look at themselves in the mirror?
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A ‘generous’ Rs 20,000 crore write-off...
By NR Mohanty. The question remains: why was the loan write-off approved in th
AI tech giants buy books in bulk. Even rare books. Why? To destroy them!
By Ajith Pillai. Amazon, the largest online seller of books, buying books to destroy them is indeed ironic.
And I Will Always Love You...
By Suresh Nautiyal. Dolly Parton: the woman who asked -- life gives us more than we need, what are we going to do with the excess?
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Parole, Furlough, and a Full Page ‘Ad’ as Icing on the Cake: So How Sacha Is This Sauda?
By Suresh Nautiyal. He has reportedly been released 17 times since 2020. His latest release, in August 2026, is a 21-day furlough; earlier he has been out of prison for roughly 435 days.
Great Cricketers Stand Up for Imran Khan, a Cricket Legend, now Half-Blind, Rotting in a Dark, Solitary Cell, as Army Generals Call the Shots
By Ganpy Natraj. More than 20 great captains and cricketers, including Clive Lyod, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, David Gower, Ian Chappel, Mike Brearley, Michael Atherton, Dilip Vengsarkar, David Gower
Eiffel Tower, Paris: Women staffers asked to remain ‘invisible’, hide in the back rooms. Why?
By Rajiv Shah. The Eiffel Tower was forced to close for the day after its staff staged a walkout and strike, in protest.
History
AI tech giants buy books in bulk. Even rare books. Why? To destroy them!
By Ajith Pillai. Amazon, the largest online seller of books, buying books to destroy them is indeed ironic.
There may not be any 'Other' like you
Professor Sumit Sarkar: A tribute to the intellect infinite, or as they say in simple Latin, intellectus infinitus.
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
Society
GO BACK, AFGHAN medical students in Pakistan told. WILL INDIA HELP?
India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.
Farida's dream
By Amit Sengupta. With her tenacity and idealism, Farida has achieved the impossible.
And I Will Always Love You...
By Suresh Nautiyal. Dolly Parton: the woman who asked -- life gives us more than we need, what are we going to do with the excess?
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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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Parole, Furlough, and a Full Page ‘Ad’ as Icing on the Cake: So How Sacha Is This Sauda?
By Suresh Nautiyal. He has reportedly been released 17 times since 2020. His latest release, in August 2026, is a 21-day furlough; earlier he has been out of prison for roughly 435 days.
Great Cricketers Stand Up for Imran Khan, a Cricket Legend, now Half-Blind, Rotting in a Dark, Solitary Cell, as Army Generals Call the Shots
By Ganpy Natraj. More than 20 great captains and cricketers, including Clive Lyod, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, David Gower, Ian Chappel, Mike Brearley, Michael Atherton, Dilip Vengsarkar, David Gower
Eiffel Tower, Paris: Women staffers asked to remain ‘invisible’, hide in the back rooms. Why?
By Rajiv Shah. The Eiffel Tower was forced to close for the day after its staff staged a walkout and strike, in protest.
GO BACK, AFGHAN medical students in Pakistan told. WILL INDIA HELP?
India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.
Pakistan’s Shame: Expulsion of Afghan Medical Students and Moral Bankruptcy of the Army Generals
By Murtaza Shibli. The image of a 24-hour eviction notice handed to final-year Afghan medical students will haunt Pakistan’s reputation for years.
A ‘generous’ Rs 20,000 crore write-off...
By NR Mohanty. The question remains: why was the loan write-off approved in th
Staged shows with a tamed audience. Speaking? Yes. Listening? No. Once again, a Monologue.
By Anuradha Bhasin. What do the BJP leaders see when they look at themselves in the mirror?
AI tech giants buy books in bulk. Even rare books. Why? To destroy them!
By Ajith Pillai. Amazon, the largest online seller of books, buying books to destroy them is indeed ironic.
Farida's dream
By Amit Sengupta. With her tenacity and idealism, Farida has achieved the impossible.
And I Will Always Love You...
By Suresh Nautiyal. Dolly Parton: the woman who asked -- life gives us more than we need, what are we going to do with the excess?
Facial Recognition: Next time, a Selfie with the Cops?
Toxic language from the Red Fort. Crackdown on dissent. But this time, the tide is turning. No doubt about it.
‘We are the victims of the nationalist and militarist kind of society’
By Raju Mansukhai. Remembering Dr S Radhakrishnan on Teachers Day. We must break away from the past, we must get out of the rut in which we lived.”
Does the PM care?
Independent Ink Editorial: The secrecy surrounding the fund and its contributors is puzzling. If the money it receives is being used for public relief, why is there a need for secrecy?
Farewell to a great comrade, leader, dreamer, pioneer...
"His big dream was to see the union led by women."
Dropping a potential bestseller: Fear of the Establishment?
By Meher Pestonji. Three paragraphs are reportedly at the root of PRHI asking Sonia Gandhi to delete or edit sections which she has refused to do.
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