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Culture
Nature's Greatest Open-air Theatre
By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.
Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.
Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘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.
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
Editor's Pick
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
Politics
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
It’s Time the Young Reclaim Indian Democracy!
By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.
History
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
At midnight, lane number 83, nostalgia arrives with a song
By Ramsharan Joshi..
And who could forget the talented beauties of Bollywood? The versatile, great, incredibly popular actresses?
Haldighati: 450 Years of the Battle
Photo Feature: 450 years of Haldi Ghati. The battle led by Maharana Pratap Singh.
Society
Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘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.
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
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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Nature's Greatest Open-air Theatre
By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.
Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.
Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘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.
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
How they used Clever Cutting-Edge Tech to break Jammed Internet, Stay Connected
By Jayashree Srikant. How GenZ subverted the Internet blockade using high-tech stuff on their digital devices.
It’s Time the Young Reclaim Indian Democracy!
By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
This generation does not see fun and resistance as opposites
By Divya Trivedi. Our job is not to tell the next generation how to fight and resist. It is to stand beside them. Or get out of the way.
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