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Before We Do, Smile Please

Couples and wedding photographers dive deep into the pursuit of atrangi —soar high in the air, or go boudoir topless...

Rape Is Not Just Another Crime

Another victim. Parliament and people debate. But safeguards for women fall into pieces once the headlines die.

To Dilli Gate

Is Arvind Kejriwal still the X-factor in Delhi? Can AAP retain its darbar?

When The Levee Breaks

Bangalore’s 200 lakes—how a boon became a bane

Guru's Army of Outsiders

They revere the Sikh gurus. Their annual calendar is an itinerary of Sikh history’s sacred sites. In the everyday life of Sikhs, though, the Nihangs are mostly a quaint curiosity.

From Alt to Real Politik

How AAP and Kejriwal merged an earlier idealism within the real demands of political survival

Exclusion, Their Turn

NRC scare sinks the BJP in three bypolls; Congress-Left do poorly too

Breaking The Canon Code

A proposed law extracting transparency from the Church divides the laity and its leaders

Maharashtra - Uddhav The King, Pawar The Maker

A Thackeray to be enthroned for the first time as wily Pawar beats BJP at its own game

Why Are Students Angry?

Behind the rage of the young in India’s campuses is a conflict over the fate of public-funded higher education

Clear Stream Of Reason

JNU is emblematic of the liberating potential of the humanities

Callertunes Ring Loss in Gigabytes

India’s digital revolution goes awry with telcos forced to go for hefty tariff hike. Jio likely to be least affected.

‘Ram Mandir Will Be A Part Of Our Campaign'

Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das is confident about winning a second term in office despite desertion by allies and rebellion by senior party members. Ahead of the first phase of polling on November 30, Das speaks to Preetha Nair about his government’s achievements and why he is not cowed down by setbacks to the BJP. Excerpts.

Nayakan 2 - The New K-town Show

Can a Rajini-Kamal combine derail the Dravidian parties?

Oh No, Not Again!

As government pushes for NRC repeat, people in the state fear the worst

Apples Of A Frozen Wrath

Mushtaq Ahmad Malik could barely recognise his orchard.

Bitter Truths In Sealed Cover

Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi assumed office with a messianic aura but left behind a legacy scorched by controversies

Your Shopping, Her Wings

Your Shopping, Her Wings

Tweeterverse

QUACK! The gander gives away the nest’s position behind an arbour of foliage.

Veni Vidi Vanchy

K.R. Vancheeswaran, 57, or simply Vanchy as everyone calls him here, wakes up to the sweet call of the Malabar whistling thrush every morning.

Thou Art Here, Nanak!

Iconoclast and pacifist, the first of the Sikh Gurus belongs to all humanity

Their Last Rides

Their Last Rides

The Slytherin Wizard

“COMElet’s release this fellow in the bushes,” says Shravan as he led me into the forested tracts of the sprawling Theosophical Society campus in Chennai.

The Portfolio Of An Aam Aadmi

IT’S a bright day and Delhi’s deputy CM is walking briskly on the tread-mill at his official residence on Mathura Road.

The Jungle Book

AROUND four in the evening, after a late lunch, Pamela Gale Malhotra is standing at a bay window in her living room looking out at a picture-perfect landscape—a rainsoaked forest with the Brahmagiri hills framing the backdrop.

The Cycle Of Life

EVERY day of renewed energy is a message by Nature to continue adding value to life and living.

Slow Gathering Of Life's Net

AS ducks swim, Virender Sehwag timed the leather orb. Of the 17,253 international runs he scored, Sehwag’s innate ability to spank the cricket ball boiled down to precise hand-eye coordination.

Show A Man His Place

AS the swish set of south Delhi crowd the serpentine lanes of Hauz Khas Village, Punjabi hits and techno tracks reverberate with the kaleidoscopic colours of the dance floor.

Pressing On Still

Pressing On Still

Passion-Fruit Mojo

WITH the top hat, ’tache and three-piece, Gopinath Muthukad almost looks straight out of a Lee Falk comic panel.