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Cinema has been reduced to gossip
Their (of the women who are speaking out) information, their thoughts and their feelings are added ingredients in the formulation of the film policy.
This isn't about one person; it's about a broader issue
If you start unmasking, I am sure 90 per cent of the people would end up behind bars. This behaviour has become normalised, as if people think they have to give something to get something.
THEATRE OF OUTRAGE
A shocking report on abuse and exploitation in Malayalam cinema has unleashed a revolution for gender justice. Will the heroic struggle, led by a group of courageous women, succeed?
Blast from the past
Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy cries foul as the illegal mining-related case against him gathers pace
The rapist vote bank
I am sensing some ennui in the reportage around the horrific rape and murder at the R.G. Kar Medical College. Perhaps it is just me, but it seems that the media, while putting on their grimmest faces and asking—‘how many girls will have to die horrible deaths before we fix ourselves as a society?’—seem to be mouthing this often-repeated line a little mechanically.
MEDIA SENSATIONALISM CANNOT DETERMINE THE NARRATIVE OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
MAMATA BANERJEE HAS never shied away from a political challenge. But the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata seems to have put her government in West Bengal on the back foot.
HOP & WIN
Assembly polls may not be a straightforward MVA versus Mahayuti affair; ambitious second-rung leaders could switch parties or contest as independents, upsetting calculations of major alliances
Of hugs, handshakes, folded hands
Two years ago, the whole world was coming down on Narendra Modi like a tonne of bricks for not having condemned Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, and for buying the bad guy’s oil. So Modi flew to Samarkand, pulled aside the big bad Russian to a corner at the Shanghai gang-up, and told him bluntly—look here big boy, \"Today's era is not of war.”
In 2023, I Was Thinking Of Another Career
In a largely lacklustre Olympic campaign in Paris, Manu Bhaker was one of the few bright spots for India.
Paddy in Kashmir's killing fields
My job is to install an elected chief minister in Srinagar,” Paddy told us on an August evening in 1996.
Lessons from Bangladesh
The ‘Monsoon Revolution’ of August 5, 2024, was not about Bangladesh’s relations with India but about the relationship of Bangladesh with Bangladeshis.
How not to react to rape
The rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata has been an inflection point for the country.
Yet another hit
A new docuseries on scriptwriters Salim-Javed reveals the untold story of their partnership
Down history lane
India's first sunken museum will transport you back to the Mughal era
Give audiences the freedom to choose
Exclusive: Actor Vikrant Massey on globalising Indian cinema
Maximum fashion
Designers Abu Jani & Sandeep Khosla crave the complex, the multi-layered and the divinely detailed
Spin it like Shiamak
The acknowledged guru of modern dance in India—choreographer Shiamak Davar—has made several celebrities dance to his tune over the years.
HEART OF KINDNESS
Dr Ramana Rao has been running a free Sunday clinic near Bengaluru for 51 years. He has treated almost 18 lakh patients, setting a benchmark in rural health care
IT WAS THE PERFECT FAREWELL
To have your jersey number retired from the sport is an honour few receive. P.R. Sreejesh is among those few.
ECONOMICS DOES NOT JUSTIFY CHINA'S INVESTMENT IN GWADAR; THERE IS A SECURITY DIMENSION
Captain Alok Bansal’s Gwadar: A Chinese Gibraltar is the result of 18 years of painstaking research.
Sub-classification is not in the interest of the SC community
THE SUPREME COURT’S judgment on sub-classification of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has triggered an intense social and political debate.
Flawed script
Hema committee report highlights unscrupulous trends in Malayalam film industry, but lasting solutions are nowhere in sight
Wilting lotus?
In what is expected to be a direct BJP-Congress contest, the latter's fortunes seem to be on the rise
Little brother's handicap
Congress leaders believe that Uddhav Thackeray's impact is limited and they have to carry his party along
SUPPORTING VILLAGE DEFENCE COMMITTEES TO DETER TERRORISTS
ABOUT THREE DOZEN Pakistani terrorists entered the border areas of Samba, Kathua and Hiranagar through tunnels during the three-month-long Lok Sabha elections to carry out attacks in Jammu.
THE VALLEY OF HOPE
A high-stakes contest not just for the BJP and established regional parties, but also for the people
A VOTE AGAINST VIOLENCE
As Jammu and Kashmir prepares to hold its first assembly elections in a decade, building a cross-party consensus for ensuring peace and stability can be as radical a step as the voiding of Article 370 was five years ago
THE ELECTED GOVERNMENT WILL GET COMPLETE SUPPORT OF THE LG
When Sheikh Abdullah was sworn in as chief minister on July 9, 1977 after the National Conference won the assembly polls, it marked the end of the first spell of governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Word, A Spark And Nancy's Mission
America's most powerful woman says she is happy to relinquish that position in favour of Kamala Harris.
America Ready To Elect Kamala Harris Because She Is The Best
Nancy Pelosi opens her latest book, The Art of Power, describing what was perhaps the most traumatic day of her life, personally.