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Gloom and doom

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- "The snow of the dying century still lay on the edge of the dark forest when Lajos von Lazar, the translucent child with water-blue eyes, first glimpsed the man he would believe ... Read More


Unmade in India

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- India has to become rich before it becomes old. And if it has to achieve this, it cannot keep a large section of its population, especially the young, out of work. India's demogr... Read More


UPending democracy

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Strength in numbers does not ensure rectitude. Democracies that function on the will of the majority are obliged to safeguard the rights of all. Liberal democracies recognise ide... Read More


Healthcare, bought and sold

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- There is an inherent dichotomy in Indian healthcare. On the one hand, accessible, affordable, quality healthcare continues to elude many; on the other, a roll call of India's tal... Read More


Our social media is highly politically controlled: Apar Gupta

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- Members of Gen Z, whose protests captured the imagination of the country, made their voices heard loud and clear on social media, especially Instagram. But their activism was met... Read More


It was the multidimensional tragedy that I wished to portray: Mitra Phukan

New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- Conflict, in its many forms, is at the core of the fiction of Mitra Phukan, the award-winning Assamese writer, translator, and columnist. A trained Shastriya Sangeet vocalist, sh... Read More


Why Omar Abdullah is treading carefully around the US on Kashmir

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- On August 19, the US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, called on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar. Before and after the meeting, Omar Abdullah was carefu... Read More


Fragments of home

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The exhibition "What Women Carry" asks a deceptively simple question: What do women take when they have to leave home? Its answer is rarely limited to what can fit inside a suitc... Read More


Satheesan's hundred days of U-turns

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The first 100 days in power are usually the sweetest phase of any government's honeymoon with the public. This should have been especially true for the United Democratic Front (U... Read More


Daisy Rockwell and the "little art" of translation

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- Is a translator a musician trying to play a score written for a specific instrument on a different device or a mother trying to soothe a wailing baby? Some metaphors for what tra... Read More