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Panel reviews socio-economic impact of ONOE

New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The staggered election cycle in the country results in massive fiscal waste, discourages private corporate investment, ties up the administrative and security apparatus and perpe... Read More


SC strikes down K'taka recruitment law

New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- The Supreme Court has questioned the changing political positions of successive Karnataka governments in a 15-year-old recruitment scandal, observing that the state's shifting st... Read More


Don't get too personal

India, Oct. 31 -- You know what makes a good gift? Remembering that your friend has been hunting for a particular book for six months. Knowing that your sister will always choose silver jewellery over... Read More


A fine balance between the said and unsaid

India, Oct. 31 -- Originally published in Marathi as Parivrajak in 2004, The Seekers, a collection of five short stories by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated by Sirius J Libeiro, questions social tradit... Read More


Journeying across the many worlds of Himalayan life

India, Oct. 31 -- The Living Himalaya, co-written and co-edited by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal, is a rich exploration of Himalayan culture, spirituality, ecology and ethnography. Bringing together... Read More


An insider's account of a radical movement

India, Oct. 31 -- Formed in 1972 and inspired by the Black Panther movement, the Dalit Panther emerged as one of the most radical movements in post-Ambedkarite India. Led by writer-activists such as N... Read More


'We can never reconstruct the past perfectly'

India, Oct. 31 -- 1You look at Assam before the Ahoms, a period many know little about. Why did you feel this story needed to be told? In December 2021, when I was working at chief minister Himanta Bi... Read More


Per my last scream

India, Oct. 31 -- A group of advertising employees are shipped off to a remote mountain convent for a company retreat. Phones are confiscated. Team-building exercises keep getting weirder. There are t... Read More


Be a beauty and a beast

India, Oct. 31 -- Count the calories, weigh the protein, celebrate the sweat. But while you're busy building a stronger body, your skin and hair negotiate an entirely different workout. An hour of jog... Read More


The perfect little treat

India, Oct. 31 -- Can a hotel be very large and still be luxurious? Yes it can. The country's most famous hotel, the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, is huge. But can a hotel be very small and still be lux... Read More