By Meher Pestonji. 'The Weight of Longing' (Iktsuarpok) received the Special Jury Award for Best Debut Director at the recently concluded 22nd Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai.

By Aditya Anurag Roy in Srinagar. Cement factories have turned the sublime saffron fields into a condemned wasteland. .

By Yadukrishna C S in Palakkad/Kerala. With even the famous Kerala monsoon unable to create ground water, the traditional Palakkad Red Matta rice is falling prey to the vagaries of the weather.

By Bidhi Adhikari in Kathmandu. In GenZ terms, Arundhati Roy is a woman’s woman.

By Seema Mustafa. For women, it all boils down to respect. And dignity. And perceived freedoms.

By Nityanand Gayen. It's time. Break your silence.

An incident involving two Indian researchers, because of the “pungent-smelling” desi dish they heated in their microwave has sparked debate in the US and in India.

By Nityanand Gayen. Love in the time of war and peace..

By Satya Sagar. Hope floats. In satire and caricature. In dissent and resistance. In freedom and justice.

By Warsha Mishra, Users have exploited the bot to create deepfake images that ‘undress’ photographs posted online, causing intense embarrassment and psychological trauma to the victims.

By Baishali Chatterjee . Would you like the story of your life to be told in a highly boring fashion, or would you like it to be told with beautiful music in it?

By Pervez Akhtar Khan. This is not justice. It is escalation by slogan.

By Rao Farman Ali. This alienation, she argues, severs the child from their cultural moorings. “When your worth is tied to a biology textbook or a physics equation, even problems of mathematics, what room is there for Lal Ded’s Vaakhs, Shaikh Ul Alam's Shruks or the revolutionary verses of Abdul Ahad Azad, even patriotic stanzas of Mehjoor?

By Rao Farman Ali. At least they will not be trapped inside, waiting for the storm.

By Rao Farman Ali. Last spring in Kashmir, Altaf secured the hives on his mini-truck successfully and happily caught the first light of the snow on the peaks. His journey, like that of his bees, was a search for sustenance and sweetness in a rugged, beautiful, and uncertain land, with that deep sense of hope, that this journey will continue -- come what may.

By Janaky Sreedharan. Seema Khanwalkar offers an interesting mix of insights into folk culture, popularity of nano cars, digital identity of the sari, vagaries of the Indian middle class and the branding of Gandhi, to name but a few.

By Regina Johnson. Even in her absence, Roy’s work created a space for critical thinking. The conversation illustrated the book club’s goal of using global literature as a bridge between cultures and struggles.

By Zafar Sobhan/The death of the charismatic and popular student leader Osman Hadi has sparked widespread violence across Bangladesh, including attacks on newspaper offices. This is just what his killers wanted.

By Narendra Pachkhede in Toronto. Francis Fukuyama saw an ending and mistook it for a universal horizon; Faisal Devji does not agree.

By Baishali Chatterjee. many of these forms of work have been abolished by the government, whether it's bar dancing, or imposing bans on erotic dancing etc, or legal restrictions oon commercial surrogacy.