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We wanted something that would be simple, scalable, replicable, sustainable, and could one day become national health policy: Dr Sujoy Ghosh

New Delhi, July 28 -- Globally, India has the highest number of children and adolescents living with type 1 diabetes, yet for years, very little has been done to set up a structured model of care for ... Read More


A history of kicking around

New Delhi, July 26 -- Dear Reader, In the Museum Five Continents-one of the first ethnological museums in Germany-there exists an ancient text written by the Chinese poet and philosopher Li Ju (who l... Read More


Many happy returns of the martyrs

New Delhi, July 23 -- For the past 32 years in West Bengal politics, July 21 was a day that belonged exclusively to Mamata Banerjee. Since 1994, when she was a top Congress leader, Mamata has observed... Read More


Bulldozed lives: Inside West Bengal's eviction crisis

New Delhi, July 10 -- Across West Bengal, a sweeping eviction drive has left thousands of families without homes or livelihoods. Slums, railway colonies, and hawker stalls have been demolished in the ... Read More


Anatomy of an implosion

New Delhi, June 27 -- West Bengal politics is going through a particularly unusual phase-one that can even be construed as bizarre. Never has the scenario in the opposition benches in the State Assemb... Read More


It is not the end of Mamata: Sagarika Ghose

New Delhi, June 19 -- In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Sagarika Ghose, Rajya Sabha MP, Trinamool Congress, discusses the unprecedented political crisis facing the Trinamool Congress followi... Read More


FIFA World Cup: The greatest spectacle on earth

New Delhi, June 17 -- THE British author Terry Pratchett writes in his Unseen Academicals : "The thing about football-the important thing about football-is that it is not just about football." And so ... Read More


Maradona, the god of football, dies

New Delhi, June 17 -- "In the frigid soccer of today's world, which detests defeat and forbids all fun, that man was one of the few who proved that fantasy too can be effective," wrote Eduardo Galeano... Read More


Pele (1940-2022): At his feet, football transformed into poetry

New Delhi, June 17 -- In 2010, Tomas, a young Brazilian student, was visiting Kolkata. The FIFA World Cup was taking place in South Africa, and football-crazy Kolkata was in the grip of a sporting fev... Read More


A cupful of surprises: Football World Cup 2018

New Delhi, June 17 -- "The Championship is something you either believe in or you don't, like God," wrote Nick Hornby in his seminal book on football, Fever Pitch . Though the Championship he refers t... Read More