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The Artistic Alchemy

Unleashing the transformative potential of professional education

Why Liberal Arts?

A liberal arts education forces students to be thrown out of their familiar corners and confront multiple viewpoints.

Power of Literature

In a world faced with loneliness, profits and othering, literature helps us to connect, to empathise and to have compassion

A Long Battle Ahead

The wrestlers' pursuit of justice has so far been heroic, but their fight will clearly not end with Singh's arrest

Celebrating Chattisgarh

The state of Chattisgarh is in celebratory mode celebrating its own history, culture, people and achievements.

Wrestlers Vs Brij Bhushan

As protesting wrestlers hope for justice to prevail, there is anger among various sections of society about why a protest of this nature should drag for so long

It Takes a Hundred Years to Love

This creative non-fiction essay is about creating memories throughout our lives so that after we die, it becomes less heavy, difficult and empty for the ones whom we are leaving behind. Filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh has written a very simple, beautiful and profound line in the screenplay of the film Memories in March in which he has acted too). He said: If have to go away, can leave a bit of me with you?” This short essay centres around creating memories, many of them

It's Time to Reflect...

What does the wrestlers’ protest tell us about the reality of violence against women in India?

It Is Time To Speak Up

Sexual harassment and gender bias continue to exist in Indian sport

Twisting Facts and Narratives

Immediately after the Odisha train tragedy, when the minds were the most vulnerable, why was an attempt made to feed the conspiracy theory angle?

Out of The Loop

Why did three trains collide in Balasore? Were the railway systems in place and working? Or was there any meddling at the signalling and interlocking points?

TRACKS OF TRAGEDY

The Balasore train accident is a grim reminder of shattered hopes and separated families. But what has made it worse is the politicisation of a catastrophe

A Timeless Video Loop of Disaster

A temple was touted as a mosque; a process of 'othering' began soon after; and, sabotage permeated the media, WhatsApp and everything else. But for now, we must give dignity to the dead

Mewat In The Mirror

Jasraj was one of the early popularisers of Hindustani classical, his voice timbrally pleasing and rich, but ductile enough to be drawn into thin filigree

‘I am happy about the new phase in my life'

Bobby Deol made a grand entry into Bollywood with Barsaat way back in 1995 and followed it up with major hits like Gupt (1997) and Soldier (1998). The youngest son of Dharmendra, however, failed to hold onto his early successes and had to sit at home without any work for three years in the new millennium. The 51-year-old, who makes his digital debut with Class of ’83, a Shah Rukh Khan-Netflix production on August 21, speaks to Giridhar Jha about his latest film, his 25 years in movies and how he handled his failure. Excepts:

Bharat Cadre

The IAS isn’t a preserve of the elite any longer. Candidates from the hinterland, often with disadvantaged backgrounds, are laying claim to its hallowed ranks.

Language of politics

More voices from the state demand learning of Hindi

A Rotor Blade

MSD impressed as rookie, champ, skipper in the quest to excel for India

THE GLOBAL DALIT, THE INDIAN BLACK

“We come together as voices, as figures, as persons who are willing to live and to die for that quest for truth, beauty, goodness, and justice.”

Tried Axone With Paneer Yet?

BEING a Northeasterner in India is not easy—a shadow of suspicion, that oddballish mistrust, tails each one who ventures west of those river valleys and forested highlands of the tourist brochures.

New Guard Against Uneven Bounce

English sports has gracefully acknowledged the Black Lives Matter movement. But cricket, football and all other sectors need to have people from diverse ethnicities in senior management positions.

Noir and Rouge: Getting Under the Skin of Indian Cinema

India, a land fertile in caste and colour racism, readily embraced the bias against ‘Black’ inherent in cinema technology and Western cinema—sometimes nakedly, as in Bollywood, and sometimes mediated through twisted, conflicted desires, as in regional films

PERIYAR Sunset?

Dravidian ideology is in regression. And the Hindu Right is at work trying to render irrelevant the small sites of struggle that may breathe life into it.

Full Citizenship Chai, With Ilaichi

Denial of the right to love still kills young people in India. For LGBT couples, not even the law is on their side.

Harry Them Not

From food to dialect, the jibes, sneers and bias directed at Biharis all over India aim to reduce them culturally

A Quarter Renaissance

Even with its self-deprecating tropes, the acme of ‘the modern Indian’—as seen by the Bengali in the mirror—was built around exclusions of ‘non-Bengalis’ and other marginalised groups

New Flint Knapping

From PPE kits to diagnostics, informatics and ventilators, tech start-ups have repurposed their expertise and preferences for the fight against COVID-19.

‘Our education must be culturally rooted and suit 21st century needs'

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ tells Prakash Kumar that the National Education Policy 2020 aims to “transform India into a ledge society and global knowledge superpower”. Excerpts from the interview:

‘An actor is bound to shine under Mira Nair's guidance'

In Mira Nair’s latest offering, A Suitable Boy, based on the novel by Vikram Seth, Ishaan Khatter plays Maan, a prominent politician’s son. He talks to Lachmi Deb Roy about working with Mira Nair, the chemistry between Tabu and him in the show and his choices as an actor.

Singam On long leave?

The Sattankulam police violence has cast a shadow on super cop movies in Tamil cinema