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Blaring Sirens, Numbing Silence

When the sirens go off, no matter how calm and rational one tries to be, there is a definite shift in energy in the body. A first-person account

GAZA'S ECHOES OF DESPAIR

The road to peace is becoming more and more tortuous and old strategies are crumbling under the rubble of new conflicts

In Memory of Elusive Peace

For 17 years, I have kept this little memory of him. A frame of the mosque with bullet marks. He had signed his name along with the others. This was in Syracuse University in New York in 2006.

The Other Ramayanas

Pluralistic renditions offer a different narrative of the epic

Devi Versus Rakshasi

The women of Ramayana seem to have been discriminated against, based on their birth, gender, origin, and political belief or background

Tapasya of Epic Changemakers

Women in the Ramayana inspire fascinating leadership trends

The Lost Queen

Each version of the Ramayana gives Ravana's wife a different role and story. But who was the real Mandodari?

Faithful Husbands, Faithful Wives

Marital fidelity is an important theme in the Ramayana

Sita's Sisters

The close bond between Sita, Urmila, Mandavi and Shrutakirti proves that women are not women's enemies-a convenient narrative cultivated through centuries

How To Start An SIP?

Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is a popular investment method that allows investors to invest a fixed amount of money at regular intervals in mutual funds. It is a disciplined approach to investing and can help individuals to achieve their financial goals over the long term. Here’s how you can start an SIP:

Thumbs Up!

THE slanting sunrays lose their sting of September; they are mellow like the lions in the older national emblem; benign with their thick grinning whiskers; and, not snarling and sabre-toothed like the new avatar. The wind no longer feels like a slap across the face, but a zephyr, its sweet embrace is soothing and languorous, with political pundits trying to gauge which way it’s blowing. Plump Mexican silk cotton flowers twirl down from the high branches, like Vishnu’s Sudarshan Chakra, sans the firepower, landing silently to make a spongy, pink-purple carpet. The neem and the pilkhan have a blow-dried look, the generous rains and the assorted acids in the air have bleached them to an indescribable green. The parakeets and the barbets, the treepies and the hornbills, the doves and the babblers chirp around, merrily flying hither and thither as if they are in Ashoka Vatika.

The Humble Hut that Changed a Nation

IN the heartland of Rajasthan, nestled on the slope of a spur of the bleak, rock-strewn Aravalli range, lies the quaint village of Devdungri

A Prohibited Touch

Artist Madhukar Mucharla uses leather art as a medium to depict the socio-cultural issues faced by marginalised communities

Words of Her Own

Indian women writers have bravely choosen to tell the tales that were suppressed or silenced by the dominant narrative

Imperfect Images

The increased representation of women leaders in Bollywood is a heartening first step, but we await their more complex avatars

How Women LEAD

Glimpses of women-led constituencies in Uttar Pradesh provide insights into the way women legislators think and work within a patriarchal system

Natural Farming in the Ganga Basin

In the middle of a big farmers’ gathering in Bulandshahar, a hand rose, enthusiastically, to say a few words on Natural Farming

A Different Gaze

For residents of women-led panchayats in Rajasthan, 33 per cent is not just about numbers in Parliament and state assemblies, it represents a new vision, a new idea, and a different nazariya

Glass Ceilings, Lost Leaders

The political odyssey of Dakshayani Velayudhan, KR Gouri and K K Shailaja: Confronting the grip of patriarchy

Success and average don't have anything to do with each other

These quotes are applicable in most aspects of our life. However, in the world of investing, the pursuit of average can actually be fruitful for an individual investor

Breaking the yoke

Caste and class have remained at the core of exclusion even in the Panchayati Raj system where reservation for women was implemented more than 30 years ago

'Rough and Tough'

ALMOST all major women politicians in South Asia either inherited their position of power from fathers, husbands or male mentors or were backed by family wealth—from prime ministers Indira Gandhi, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia to Indian chief minister Jayaram Jayalalitha, Mayawati and Vasundhara Raje Scindhia

Bihar's Electoral Secret

Nitish Kumar has created a women's vote bank by unveiling different schemes for women

33% Shall Not Cloud Over The 50%

The Women's Reservation Bill carries the ominous possibility of overshadowing all other forms of social demands

The First 'Iron Lady'

INDIRA Gandhi inherited her father’s position of political authority, but had an approach quite opposite to her father’s—in contrast to Jawaharlal Nehru’s largely democratic approach, she was authoritative and dictatorial

Consumed by Political Motivations

The Modi government had no time to get into the more demanding fundamentals concerning the implementation of the legislation

Mapping Women's Political Journey

India’s women-centric policies were conceived mostly under global influence, until the rising women voter turnout in the country changed the trend

In Defence of Reservation

The support for the Women's Reservation bill reaffirms India's faith in affirmative action even as it highlights its dichotomous allegiance to 'meritocracy' at the cost of inequity

Ravana's Women

Why does Hindutva only see women as Sita or Surpanakha and not talk about the warrior women of Ramayana at the receiving end of violence?

Letters from Death Row

The arts have a huge role to play in changing the atmosphere within prisons and in getting the world to engage with prisoners as people