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The faraway mirror

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- I have never been to India. To me, this country is one of the main, if not the main, laboratories of the contemporary world, from its decades as "the greatest democracy in the wo... Read More


Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Robert Hall and Michael Woodford

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Two US-based academics who reframed the thinking of John Maynard Keynes after the oil crises of the 1970s won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Robert E. Hall of Stanford University... Read More


Mobs run amok on Bengal campuses as authorities look on

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- The Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI) in Kolkata has been in turmoil for the past few weeks. There has been violence and on campus and the walls are pockmarked w... Read More


This must not happen to another Sahil: Deepali Salve

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- The ongoing hunger strikes by IIT Bombay students and by the parents of Sahil Wakode, a second-year student who died on campus, over alleged caste discrimination have brought ren... Read More


Everyone's festival: The making of 'Sarbojanin Puja'

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- When we were preparing the dossier for the nomination of Durga Puja to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity, we were repeatedly pres... Read More


The irresistible pull of Anne Carson

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- "The task of a writer is to notice small things because noticing large things is for people like Descartes basically and I can't do that.. I have learned to pay attention to thin... Read More


Single goal, twin tracks

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- A half-day event in Delhi on August 21 had a group of young people and social media influencers voicing opposition to reservation. It was organised by a group that calls itself t... Read More


Happiness hubs

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- A small pop-up book with drawings and text in Kannada, created by a 14-year-old school student, Mamta, describes how she misses her father, whom she rarely gets to see. He leaves... Read More


Why is the Modi government so paranoid of a protest?

New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- On October 10, the day the Cockroach Janta Party called for a protest at Jantar Mantar, the ambience in Lutyens' Delhi was only a shade less than that experienced during the 2020... Read More


There is no substitute to field observations: Asad Rahmani

New Delhi, Oct. 11 -- Asad Rafi Rahmani grew up in the colonial-era bungalows of Uttar Pradesh, where his father, a judge, was posted to a new district every few years. The gardens, trees, and open gr... Read More