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Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
This is why our school children are protesting...
Photo Story: Why are children from poor families deliberately denied the right to education.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
Editor's Pick
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
Politics
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
'We will write our future with this ink'
By Shahnawaz Akhtar in Ranchi. The Ranchi ‘ink attack’ highlights a historical pattern of targeting women leaders —from Savitribai Phule to Aruna Roy
History
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
This is not a love song...
By Ganpy Nataraj. Kya kamaal hain: a world where no one is angry, no one is unfaithful, no one is separated, no one is ever lost again, where every sorrow shrinks smaller than the smallest flower and the coins of grief turn out to be counterfeit, refusing to pass from hand to hand.
At midnight, lane number 83, nostalgia arrives with a song
By Ramsharan Joshi..
And who could forget the talented beauties of Bollywood? The versatile, great, incredibly popular actresses?
Society
Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
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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Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.
‘I claim Tagore and Iqbal, Lata Mangeshkar and Mehdi Hassan, Mohenjo-daro and Taxila’
By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.
‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing'
UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'
‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.
This is why our school children are protesting...
Photo Story: Why are children from poor families deliberately denied the right to education.
Odyssey: The desire to return...
By Narendra Pachkhede. Odysseus must leave home once more. He must carry the instrument of his voyage beyond the reach of the story that made him heroic, into a country where his name, his ordeals and the sea itself possess no authority.
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”
The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
'We will write our future with this ink'
By Shahnawaz Akhtar in Ranchi. The Ranchi ‘ink attack’ highlights a historical pattern of targeting women leaders —from Savitribai Phule to Aruna Roy
Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.
How they used Clever Cutting-Edge Tech to break Jammed Internet, Stay Connected
By Jayashree Srikant. How GenZ subverted the Internet blockade using high-tech stuff on their digital devices.
This is not a love song...
By Ganpy Nataraj. Kya kamaal hain: a world where no one is angry, no one is unfaithful, no one is separated, no one is ever lost again, where every sorrow shrinks smaller than the smallest flower and the coins of grief turn out to be counterfeit, refusing to pass from hand to hand.
It’s Time the Young Reclaim Indian Democracy!
By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.
Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
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