By Amit Sengupta. With her tenacity and idealism, Farida has achieved the impossible.

By Meher Pestonji. Three paragraphs are reportedly at the root of PRHI asking Sonia Gandhi to delete or edit sections which she has refused to do.

By Aayushi Rana. Rakhi has always been described as a thread of protection, of love, of belonging. But what happens when the ritual remains, and the emotion feels absent? This year, I found myself asking that question.

By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.

By Narendra Pachkhede in London. I had gone there thinking about Britain’s racial politics and found myself thinking about the weight placed on individual Black lives when collective politics weakens and institutions become hungry for symbols.

By Arjun Paudel. A 'Kathmandu Post' journalist witnessed his childhood village disappear, and with it all his loved ones, through fragments of video and phone calls that stopped connecting.

Rajiv Gandhi entered politics, over Sonia Gandhi’s fierce objections. “For the first time, there was tension between Rajiv and me. I fought like a tigress — for him, for us and our children, above all, for our freedom.” American Kahani News Desk On Tuesday, August 18, 2026, Alfred A. Knopf — one of the most prestigious literary imprints in American publishing, an arm of Penguin Random House — made an announcement that sent an immediate ripple through Indian political and lite

By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.

By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.

By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.

Professor Sumit Sarkar: A tribute to the intellect infinite, or as they say in simple Latin, intellectus infinitus.

Independent Ink Editorial: The secrecy surrounding the fund and its contributors is puzzling. If the money it receives is being used for public relief, why is there a need for secrecy?

By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.

The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.

By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.

UGC-NET exams: ‘It takes your money, your years, your mental health, your confidence, and returns nothing.'

A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.

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.

“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”

By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest: