By Aayushi Rana. What could have led the father to pump bullets into his highly talented young daughter’s back while she was cooking in their home in upscale Sushant Lok in Gurugram? Was it the tennis academy she ran, and her high national rankings in the game? A music video she made last year? Wounded pride? Or, was it something else entirely?

By Ratna Raman. The idea of women as attractive but foolish was acceptable, because everywhere average women had less rights and dignity than the average man.

By Narendra Pachkede. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o leaves behind no fixed doctrine but a practice. A practice of listening to ancestral echoes. A practice of writing against forgetting.

In conversation with Seema Mustafa: As journalists, never forget that you are just a messenger between the poor and the deprived, and the corridors of power.

Karen Gabriel speaks about the 'element of instantaneity': everything is arriving simultaneously in the ‘feed’ – and it disappears just as fast..

By Tathagata Chatterjee. Ray’s masterpiece was not made to be liked. It was made to be remembered.