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Las Vegas: Deep pockets and the gambling instinct
By Ramsharan Joshi. Travel story: Flashy lights. Flashy wealth. The show goes on. The hunt for new victims, is in full swing.
Oct 102 min read


We do not have to leave behind the things that make us who we are…
By Beena Vijayalakshmy. You do not have to name English books to sound well-read. Embrace what moves you. Speak what matters to you. You do not need to hide yourself.
Oct 104 min read


All is not well
By Rakesh Agrawal. Trump's tariffs are going to hit India real hard.
Oct 65 min read


From the river to the sea...
By Amit Sengupta. There is a huge global campaign to ban Israel from all international sports and cultural meets, including football, as it was done during apartheid in South Africa. Football stadiums are erupting with Palestine flags.
Oct 57 min read


Operation Golden Cow
By Ajith Pillai. Does this suggest that people, citizens of a nation, brainwashed over the decades to accept totalitarian authority silently, have lost their will to protest?
Oct 59 min read


The Ghost of Versailles dressed as Good Friday
By Narendra Pachkhede. And who speaks for Gaza?
Oct 49 min read


The Joke
By Satya Sagar. My cartoons. Are they perfect? Certainly not.
Oct 42 min read


Women UNITE on Bhagat Singh anniversary
By Roma. The objective was to celebrate the revolutionary ideas of Bhagat Singh among women so that they can unite and fight against injustice and social inequality, and for their dignity and fundamental rights.
Oct 43 min read


From Barcelona to Gaza...
Photo feature/Exclusive: Now that the Israeli murder machine has surrounded some of the ships sailing with essential humanitarian aid, baby formula and medicine, we bring to you the first pictures of hope and courage as the bravehearts started the long journey on international waters from the port of Barcelona.
Oct 23 min read


‘Literature, fine arts and poetry thrive in turbulent times’
By Kumudini Pati. 'Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most remarkable novels were written against the backdrop of the most turbulent times in Latin America. American literature flourished during the great depression. In Russia, the best literature came out during oppressive regimes.
Sep 2911 min read


Manipur: Report to the Nation
Indeed, what is it that caused the outbreak of violence in Manipur on May 3, 2023, and who was responsible for stoking the fire over the next two years?
Sep 295 min read


NO HOUSE FOR SHAMA BISWAS
By Ratna Raman. In VS Naipaul's semi-autobiographical ‘A House for Mr Biswas’, there are only fleeting glimpses of its most attractive woman character. What if she were to tell her story and that of Naipaul – or Anand, her son in the novel – instead of the other way round? Hence, her story.
Sep 287 min read


The Burden of Memory
By Beena Vijayalakshmy. A heartbreakingly beautiful, brutally honest book that unsettles as much as it moves. Arundhati Roy remains a masterful storyteller.
Sep 284 min read


Roots...
By Ita Mehrotra. 'Uprooted' invites us to bear witness to the changing relationship that the Van Gujjars and the Taungyas have with the forests around them—as they live, laugh and struggle in the face of exclusionary conservation, state antagonism and encroachment under the guise of ‘development’.
Sep 282 min read


The books they don't want us to read
By Beena Vijayalakshmi. If The Book Thief teaches us anything, it is that the impulse to destroy stories is ancient, but so too is the courage to save them. Just as Liesel Meminger reached into the flames, surrounded by Nazis and fanatics who were burning books, to rescue a single book, we too must reach into this moment and rescue the stories being pulled from our shelves.
Sep 247 min read


Like a Rollling Stone...
By Amartya Acharya. It's all in that ‘perhaps’, and thus we needed more. We didn't need Dylan depicted as ‘A Complete Unknown’. Rather we needed to understand the mindset that makes him Like a Rolling Stone.
Sep 232 min read


Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
By Anuradha Kumar. In this withdrawing from intimacy, is there also a related fear of loss of masculinity, a loss of control? And what about the women who wish to wander? Will history and the future be kind to them?
Sep 2310 min read


ANJU SHOWS THE WAY…
By Ajith Pillai. Political Science Fiction: The government’s Mahasamadhi Bill as forced Euthanasia for millions of the jobless and poor. Only the rich could live and flourish. The advertising blitz that accompanied it was persistent. ‘Death is not Elimination; It’s an Elevation’ -- was the official slogan that haunted citizens 24/7.
Sep 2312 min read


The Eggplant Tempura
By Ratna Raman. Aubergine. Brinjal. Baingan. Begun. Celebrated and reviled. Loved and devoured. The humble vegetable adorns the kitchen in every corner of the world. Including all over India.
Sep 239 min read


‘Blinded, shadowless and true...’
By Meher Pestonji. Adil’s existential dilemma took a new twist. You don’t need to declass to have empathy. Yet, significant change can only happen through collective action.
His search for authenticity continues.
Sep 224 min read
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