Ode to Serena: I fear I am losing you.

By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.

By Ammu Joseph. 'The Silver Songbirds of Bengaluru,' a senior citizens' choir led by a top-ranking retired diplomat, is crossing borders and boundaries, and building bridges, creating solidarity with melody and songs.

By Ganpy Nataraj. India’s women, and India’s states, deserve better than that.

By Rahul. SIR data show that over 53% of the deletions were women.

By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.

the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.

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.

By Aditya Nigam. Will West Bengal be the Waterloo of the West India Company?

Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,

The Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), condemns the severe police action against striking factory workers of NOIDA and the attack on some reporters covering the protests on April 13.

Women workers, who have played a leading role in these protests, have been brutally beaten by male police personnel in places like Manesar and Noida, and several have been detained and arrested.

Cryptic Comment by Seema Mustafa. For the bad guys, all news is bad news.

By Sreela Das Gupta. A poem on hope amidst all-round angst and anger in Bengal.

Cartoons by Satya Sagar. From the stone age to empty gas cylinders to a fake ceasefire and a damned doddering donkey in the desert. Cartoons of the week.

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Targeting children. Two recent verdicts in New Mexico and Los Angeles exposes the sleazy side of social media:

By Uttara Shidore. Remembering Vincent Van Gogh. Not as a great artist, but as a compassionate human being rooted in the margins.

By Vijayan MJ. But hope remains—if it is grounded in struggle. Ambedkar taught hope as organised courage. Bhagat Singh rejected surrender. Che Guevara refused neutrality. Birsa Munda defended land and life as civilisational resistance.

By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.

By Aprameya Manthena . It reminds of the inherent beauty and awe of witnessing highly trained human bodies in motion.