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From the Magic of Wullar Lake, to the World Stage on Ecology
Documentary film Wullar Lake, the second largest freshwater lake in Asia, has been accepted in a prestigious initiative: in Canada.
2 days ago3 min read
Dragged, man-handled, detained: A woman journalist tells her story
By Astha Savyasachi. There was hostility, yes.
There was also solidarity. One did not cancel out the other.
3 days ago6 min read
Gandhi Jayanti: Stop the bloodshed!
"All activity for stopping war must prove fruitless so long as the causes of war are not understood and radically dealt with. Is not the prime cause of modern wars the inhuman race for exploitation of the so-called weaker races of the earth?"
Oct 22 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.
Oct 24 min read
Sep 2710 min read
Jhumpa Lahiri: The way love is shaped
Netflix released the first look images of Unaccustomed Earth — its upcoming adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2008 collection — and the premiere date of December 17, 2026.
Sep 266 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.
Sep 255 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.
Sep 254 min read
GO BACK, AFGHAN medical students in Pakistan told. WILL INDIA HELP?
India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.
Sep 113 min read
Farida's dream
By Amit Sengupta. With her tenacity and idealism, Farida has achieved the impossible.
Sep 107 min read
And I Will Always Love You...
By Suresh Nautiyal. Dolly Parton: the woman who asked -- life gives us more than we need, what are we going to do with the excess?
Sep 77 min read
‘We are the victims of the nationalist and militarist kind of society’
By Raju Mansukhai. Remembering Dr S Radhakrishnan on Teachers Day. We must break away from the past, we must get out of the rut in which we lived.”
Sep 47 min read
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.
Aug 304 min read
Nepal Floods: ‘There’s nothing left, she said simply. ‘Most of the people are gone...’
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.
Aug 296 min read
The Violence of Humiliation
By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.
Aug 286 min read
Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.
Aug 218 min read
‘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.
Aug 205 min read
‘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.
Aug 198 min read
The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:
Aug 95 min read
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.
Aug 65 min read
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