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Merry-making, a pliant media, an oily narrative, straight from His playbook
By NR Mohanty. The writing on the wall is clear: our so-called ‘legacy’ media is beyond salvation!
“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.
Not an idea, an ache: GIVE ME GREEN
By Suresh Nautiyal, Change does not always arrive as revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a question, a doubt, a enigma, that refuses to say goodbye.
Listen Serena, I do not travel… I arrive…through you
By Suresh Nautiyal. It is not distance… but awareness… that carries me to you
Editor's Pick
If God did not Exist: Ganesha, Swati and the White Peacock
By Ratna Raman. To this day, you can find both Ganesha and the white peacock on the small balcony, outside Swati’s study window.
My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
Politics
“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
India’s Fossil Delusion and Just Transition Opportunity
By Dr Vishvaja Sambath. West Asia Crisis: Let us ask the hard question: Why are we still subsidising the very vulnerabilities that are strangling us?
Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
History
Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,
The beauty of a Body in Motion... Rhythm, Presence, Percussion
By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.
Society
Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.
Tax the super-rich, close the gap
the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.
STOP these FORCED marriages
Instead of a life of slavery in forced marriages, educated daughters deserve a future forged by choice not compulsion.
degree remains a quiet indictment of progress unfulfilled.
Ground Report
To Rebel is To Be!
By Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.
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Merry-making, a pliant media, an oily narrative, straight from His playbook
By NR Mohanty. The writing on the wall is clear: our so-called ‘legacy’ media is beyond salvation!
“Are you taking us to the police station?” Phooleshwari asked, jokingly
By Amit Sengupta /Bom/Sonebhadra. A revolution has already unfolded here. A peaceful, protracted, non-violent revolution. With fearless, resilient women as vanguard.
India’s Fossil Delusion and Just Transition Opportunity
By Dr Vishvaja Sambath. West Asia Crisis: Let us ask the hard question: Why are we still subsidising the very vulnerabilities that are strangling us?
Live. Observe. Experience. Don’t dramatise. Draw.
By Suresh Nautiyal. To see the Himalaya today is not just to admire it. It is to recognise its fragility, its complexity, and our connection to it.
Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.
Not an idea, an ache: GIVE ME GREEN
By Suresh Nautiyal, Change does not always arrive as revolution. Sometimes it arrives as a question, a doubt, a enigma, that refuses to say goodbye.
Listen Serena, I do not travel… I arrive…through you
By Suresh Nautiyal. It is not distance… but awareness… that carries me to you
This Meme: Violent. Misogynist. Nationalist?
Condemn the misogynist and violent Meme against Mamata Banerjee.
If God did not Exist: Ganesha, Swati and the White Peacock
By Ratna Raman. To this day, you can find both Ganesha and the white peacock on the small balcony, outside Swati’s study window.
Daughter, mother, attacked by Forest Department staffers: Women activists protest
By Amit Sengupta/Saharanpur. How dare they enter the home of a woman, when she is alone with her teenage 14-year-old daughter, assault her and physically harm her
My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.
The Silver Songbirds… listen to them sing
By Ammu Joseph. 'The Silver Songbirds of Bengaluru,' a senior citizens' choir led by a top-ranking retired diplomat, is crossing borders and boundaries, and building bridges, creating solidarity with melody and songs.
Why Delimitation can be dangerous: A Not-So-Quiet Coup Against South India
By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.
90 lakh voter names deleted! What's going on in West Bengal?
By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.
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