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Aha! Vozinha!
By MJ Vijayan. They dared to challenge the champions and almost got them down on their knees!
Jul 75 min read
The Colonised Feet that now carry the White World
By MJ Vijayan. What is the most striking question the FIFA World Cup throws at us today?
Jul 56 min read
If New York can halt it, why not Vizag?
By Ajith Pillai. Data Centres: The citizens of Visakhapatnam deserve to be in the driver’s seat.
Jun 216 min read
The ‘Good Bahu’ Checklist vs The LinkedIn Bio
The Generation in the Middle: The pressure arrives in waves. First, it is the well-meaning aunt at a wedding. Then it is a forwarded article in the family WhatsApp group. Then it is a reel on Instagram, featuring a 29-year-old woman tearfully describing how she "waited too long". Independent Ink Feature Service There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep deprivation, though millennial women are certainly familiar with that too. It is the exhaust
Jun 204 min read
NOW DON'T ASK US WHY...?
The non-violent young uprising spreads.
Jun 141 min read
A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?
By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal.
The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this.
From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project.
By all accounts, it was a covertly concei
Jun 117 min read
Why not BLAME IT on the students? And kick the damn can down the road!
By NR Mohanty. So why are students up in arms across India?
Jun 104 min read
‘Guns may shoot, and knives may carve, but we won’t wear your silly scarves'
By Divya Trivedi. Tribute to Marjane Satrapi. Rebel, graphic artist, writer, filmmaker, a great human being.
Jun 54 min read
A Disaster in the Making: Red Carpet for Hyper-scale Data Centres
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. So why are global tech billionaires zeroing in on Visakhapatnam?
Jun 28 min read
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?
Jun 111 min read
'Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque…. India belongs only to me' : Mira Nair's Amrita Sher-Gil
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.
May 248 min read
Reading Sumaira in Tehran
By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty.Sumaira Khan, an intreped news reporter from India, shifts the western narrative on Iran.
May 232 min read
It’s raining a refreshing Green out there! And it’s real windy…
By Suresh Nautiyal. The Green Surge in UK.
May 163 min read
The Cockroach Controversy: Don't Blame Jobless Journos, says Delhi Union of Journalists
Many competent journalists have been forced out of the system. Are they cockroaches?
May 163 min read
‘I meet my god through my camera,’ Raghu Rai said
By Suresh Nautiyal. Tribute to two legends, Mark Tully and Raghu Rai, at the Press Club of India, Delhi.
May 93 min read
My Dear Serena,
Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.
Apr 251 min read
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.
Apr 254 min read
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.
Apr 177 min read
Don’t restrict your daughters, educate your sons
By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.
Apr 165 min read
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.
Apr 155 min read
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