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The Suns of This Soil
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The Suns of This Soil

“We have learned to ignore what people say,” says 10-year-old Gurnail Kaur.

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August 29, 2016
Sports For Poor And Rich!
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Sports For Poor And Rich!

Why some sports attract champions from the poor, while others largely remain with the rich

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August 29, 2016
Harappan Ships Go Up Mountains
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Harappan Ships Go Up Mountains

A callous anachronism has ruled Bollywood costume and set design. Exemplars exist, but no one learns.

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August 29, 2016
Cries In Twilight Hours
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Cries In Twilight Hours

A sense of filial abandonment stalks and steers the life of the heroine and provides the framework for this novel set in a brutal apartheid South Africa.

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May 21, 2018
This Song Is Our Song
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This Song Is Our Song

When a media mogul attempted to hide away the song of Tamil Nadu’s Mahakavi, it sparked a movement.

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May 21, 2018
Reign Again, Mahanati
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Reign Again, Mahanati

A new biopic on Savitri hopes to do justice to her legacy.

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May 21, 2018
Lessons, At School And In Life
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Lessons, At School And In Life

A day in the life of a quiet 11-year-old state school student, who loves nothing more than drawing life in colour on paper.

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March 25, 2019
Shoot Me With A Slogun
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Shoot Me With A Slogun

If politics is in our blood, the slogan is the pulse. Its rhythms aren’t partisan : they create a community of words.

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April 22, 2019
Karti And Friends
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Karti And Friends

The Congress in Tamil Nadu looks to benefit from a solid alliance, just like it did before in past polls

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April 22, 2019
What Drives The Party Workers? Stories From Around India
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What Drives The Party Workers? Stories From Around India

A journey through the electoral battle at its most fascinating and vicious— where the foot soldiers fight it out

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April 15, 2019
SGT University Where Aspirations Meet Reality
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SGT University Where Aspirations Meet Reality

SGT University is a pioneer in its focus on providing industry aligned futuristic education at par with the best in the world.

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May 20, 2019
Celluloid Closure For A Waiting Cult
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Celluloid Closure For A Waiting Cult

Finally, a Mani Ratnam film to add to the cult of Kalki’s stupendous episodic novel.

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May 20, 2019
Two Extremes
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Two Extremes

As Fani cuts a ruinous swathe across Odisha, patches of barrenness blot India. The misery has been cannily hidden in this season of high politics.

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May 20, 2019
Break-Up In Telugu
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Break-Up In Telugu

TO the average Andhraite, the 2014 bifurcation of the state united by the Telugu language took away more than the Charminar of Hyderabad.

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May 20, 2019
Aaphill Drive
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Aaphill Drive

Kejriwal toils to climb a mountain in Punjab, Haryana. BJP, Congress work to bring Delhi CM down.

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May 20, 2019
Wonky Bridge - Don't Cross
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Wonky Bridge - Don't Cross

It’s an Indo-Pak measure to build confidence. But cross-LoC trade has been snowed under much distrust.

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May 20, 2019
Rummy Cricket
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Rummy Cricket

Ace, king, jack...you select all of them and score the winning run too. But is not gambling?

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May 20, 2019
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Playing With Fire

The BJP could pay a heavy electoral price for forcing the citizenship bill on a reluct ant Northeast

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January 21, 2019
This MP Just Had A Bad Air Day!
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This MP Just Had A Bad Air Day!

How Osmanabad’s Shiv Sena MP benefits from the controversies surrounding him.

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April 10, 2017
Colonial Coat Tails In Feudal Fabric
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Colonial Coat Tails In Feudal Fabric

Thoroughly liveried, the judge comes across as a maharaja. A time-warp cloaks Indian judiciary’s etiquette.

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April 10, 2017
Rani & Rogues
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Rani & Rogues

The contrast between the way the police dealt with protests by Dalits in UP’s Saharanpur and Rajputs in Rajasthan is part of a pattern of selective aggression and selective silence that goes deep and wide.

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December 04, 2017
What's To Be Done With Our Cops?
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What's To Be Done With Our Cops?

With the world’s largest force, India is not short of police personnel. Free them from provincial satraps, and much of our policing troubles will end.

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December 04, 2017
The Slow Aarohan Of A Morning Raga
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The Slow Aarohan Of A Morning Raga

Finally, Rahul Gandhi’s anointment as Congress chief is imminent. Sights set on 2019, his task is to enliven the party.

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December 04, 2017
A Maritime Arc Of Saptaswaras
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A Maritime Arc Of Saptaswaras

Young Carnatic musicians, born or living in the US, are shifting base to Chennai as full-time performers

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December 11, 2017
Birth Of A New Hindu Nation
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Birth Of A New Hindu Nation

It can’t be without reason that the RSS now says a mandir alone will come up at the disputed site. The Sangh has been carving a Hindu India since ’92.

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December 11, 2017
Disposing Of A Sanitary Fad?
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Disposing Of A Sanitary Fad?

Indian women are warming towards a movement that seeks the return of traditional menstrual car.

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July 17, 2017
Amarnath Killings: Identify Politics Of Murder And Mayhem
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Amarnath Killings: Identify Politics Of Murder And Mayhem

Mehbooba Mufti comes closer to the BJP as Kashmir battles another crisis —the killing of Amarnath yatris

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July 24, 2017
Her Hand In The State's Grip
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Her Hand In The State's Grip

If the Rizwanur episode revealed the Left regime’s moth-eaten attitude towards women, Taslima’s banishment confirmed it

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February 26, 2018
Scoring With A Scoop
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Scoring With A Scoop

Hockey-mad Orissa, new jersey sponsor of the Indian teams, revels in a first

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February 26, 2018
The Grasping Quicksand
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The Grasping Quicksand

Mohammed bin Salman’s brutal power grab tramples tradition and pushes Saudi Arabia towards the abyss.

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November 20, 2017