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Amri. Mira Nair's iconic inspiration. Amrita Sher Gill

She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.

Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'

By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?

The cat is finally out of the bag

Editorial/independentink.in So don’t forget the rigged elections, the NEET question paper leak for the umpteenth time, the suicides of young aspirants, the soaring inflation, and the rising unemployment.

the first taste of the first...

By Sreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. Prologue of my song.

It’s raining a refreshing Green out there! And it’s real windy…

By Suresh Nautiyal. The Green Surge in UK.

Oh Cockroach? I love them!

By Satya Sagar I love cockroaches...

Editor's Pick

Mirror Mirror tell me: Am I the Most Perfect One?

By Diksha Kashyap. We live in a world where imperfections are edited out. Perfect lives, grades, beauty, happiness.

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

Sijimali Hills: STOP THE ATTACKS!

“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”

The cat is finally out of the bag

Editorial/independentink.in So don’t forget the rigged elections, the NEET question paper leak for the umpteenth time, the suicides of young aspirants, the soaring inflation, and the rising unemployment.

a Bulldozer a day -- makes Bengal happy, healthy and gay?

By Dr Soumya Sahin. Across loyalist TV studios and social media, demolitions are celebrated as instant justice.

History

“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.

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,

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Society

Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'

By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?

Marissa, Arielle, two soulmates, a Hurricane, and a Tsunami

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.

Worming

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - Chinua Achebe By Aayushi Rana That is how they spelled it. The threatening notes , slipped under the door of a school for girls, placed in the corners of a hospital full of the sick and the dying, in 1896 Bombay. Warning. Spelt worming. The Native Society, anonymous, invisible, full of bile. That detail is from a novel, not from the two books under review here. But reading M

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Amri. Mira Nair's iconic inspiration. Amrita Sher Gill

Sijimali Hills: STOP THE ATTACKS!

Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'

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.

Come, sit beside me by Arjun Janah

" The self impedes, where duty beckons most / So try to leave the self and all its weight / Behind. ..."

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Amri. Mira Nair's iconic inspiration. Amrita Sher Gill

She arrived like a comet, changed what Indian art could be, and died at the age of 28 before the world had fully understood what it had lost.

Sijimali Hills: STOP THE ATTACKS!

“The people resisting mining in the Sijimali Hills are not criminals,” a representative of the Human Rights Forum said. “They are cultivators, forest dwellers, labourers, women and youth seeking to protect their land, forests, water sources and constitutional rights.”

Facebook, Apple, Neem Karoli Baba, and the devotion of a 'power couple'

By Shamya Dasgupta. So what's common between Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Virat Kohli, Anoushka Sharma?

The cat is finally out of the bag

Editorial/independentink.in So don’t forget the rigged elections, the NEET question paper leak for the umpteenth time, the suicides of young aspirants, the soaring inflation, and the rising unemployment.