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Cockroach Janta Party: Beware of a Dangerous Android Malware
By Santosh Kumar. Warning: Beware of a deadly virus stalking the social media campaign.
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
After Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, its a Tamil British actress who is rocking: Simone Ashley
By Nadia Ahmad. The original earned its glamour. This one is renting it
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'
By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?
The cat is finally out of the bag
Editorial/independentink.in So don’t forget the rigged elections, the NEET question paper leak for the umpteenth time, the suicides of young aspirants, the soaring inflation, and the rising unemployment.
Editor's Pick
Reading Sumaira in Tehran
By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.
It’s raining a refreshing Green out there! And it’s real windy…
By Suresh Nautiyal. The Green Surge in UK.
The Cockroach Controversy: Don't Blame Jobless Journos, says Delhi Union of Journalists
Many competent journalists have been forced out of the system. Are they cockroaches?
Politics
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
The Oslo Syndrome: So why does the PM avoid unscripted Press Conferences?
By Satish Jha in Boston. In Oslo, Helle Lyng question dissolved into silence as Modi walked away
Sijimali Hills: STOP THE ATTACKS!
“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”
History
“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
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,
Society
Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'
By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.
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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Welcome to the 'Heat Islands'
By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.
Cockroach Janta Party: Beware of a Dangerous Android Malware
By Santosh Kumar. Warning: Beware of a deadly virus stalking the social media campaign.
Give One Hundred Flowers to the Cockroach Who Rebels!
By Amit Sengupta and Suresh Nautiyal. Give flowers to our brave young cockroaches.
After Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, its a Tamil British actress who is rocking: Simone Ashley
By Nadia Ahmad. The original earned its glamour. This one is renting it
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.
Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.
The Oslo Syndrome: So why does the PM avoid unscripted Press Conferences?
By Satish Jha in Boston. In Oslo, Helle Lyng question dissolved into silence as Modi walked away
Reading Sumaira in Tehran
By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.
Sijimali Hills: STOP THE ATTACKS!
“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”
Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'
By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?
The cat is finally out of the bag
Editorial/independentink.in So don’t forget the rigged elections, the NEET question paper leak for the umpteenth time, the suicides of young aspirants, the soaring inflation, and the rising unemployment.
the first taste of the first...
By Sreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. Prologue of my song.
It’s raining a refreshing Green out there! And it’s real windy…
By Suresh Nautiyal. The Green Surge in UK.
Oh Cockroach? I love them!
By Satya Sagar I love cockroaches...
The Cockroach Controversy: Don't Blame Jobless Journos, says Delhi Union of Journalists
Many competent journalists have been forced out of the system. Are they cockroaches?
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