By Nalini Ranjan Mohanty. "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French," Gandhi said.

By Raju Mansukhani. Ritam Mondal’s recent suicide is not the first tragic case. On January 12, this year, Shaon Malik, a third-year electrical engineering student, died by suicide. On April 20, Aniket Walker, a final-year Ocean Engineering student from Maharashtra, died by suicide in JC Bose Hall. On May 4, Mohammad Asif Qamar, a third-year BTech student from Bihar, was found dead in his room at Madan Mohan Malviya Hall.

Photo Feature by Avinash Kumar. Moments overlooked. Fleeting. The dignity, beauty and melancholy of ordinary folks.

Freida Pinto will star in Netflix adaptation of the author’s acclaimed ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, whose first book, ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ was a big success. The award-winning short story collection will now get the streaming treatment with a star-studded creative team.

By Tathagatha Chatterjee. A charismatic cinema legend in his lifetime in Bengal, Uttam Kumar’s unfading brilliance continues to cast a magical spell across all generations -- his immortal legacy endures. A tribute to the Mahanayak on his 45th anniversary.

By B Sivaraman. Ramnaresh from Kanahiya Durlapur village, Pratapgarh, says once they reach the towns, they turn anarchic. They climb on top of private vehicles, block roads, eat free from roadside shops, and forcibly hitch free rides. Anti-Muslim sentiments are whipped upwhen the yatras pass though Muslim areas. The yatra becomes an exercise in communal polarization.

By Shubho Roy. Over 75 years ago, a landless immigrant arriving in the city of Kolkata planted a tamarind tree. The act of planting a tree in an unfamiliar land thus became a part of the long negotiation for inclusion, for rehabilitation. An act of re-rooting oneself in the new land.

By Hussain Naqvi. Muharram and the Legacy of Channu Lal Dilgeer's Marsiyas. A forgotten poet of the Ganga-Jamuni culture — this Hindu poet transcended religion to immortalize the tragedy of Imam Hussain.

In conversation with Priyamvada Gopal. The scholar, Paul Gilroy, talks in terms ‘post-colonial melancholia’ and that is certainly there, but, also, I think, a toxic cocktail of rage, entitlement, false victimhood, exceptionalism, and vanity.

R Kalpana reviews Aap Jaisa Koi: Love is blind in this adult rom-com. But this infatuation lacks punch.

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 Ramsharan Joshi. When journalists resist authoritarianism, they are punished. A glaring example of this is the police filing an FIR against a brave journalist like Ajit Anjum.

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 Amit Sengupta. The sudden, radical rupture inflames the rain-soaked afternoon. The fire spreads in the eyes, and inside clenched fists. A mother holds her little child close to her heart, eyes blazing. A thin, wiry young woman in a red sari, becomes a fiery symbol of shakti – women’s power. A grandmother is so intense, that her entire history of angst and anger explodes.

R Kalpana reviews 'Nayanthara – Beyond the Fairy Tale'. Why not enjoy this moment when there is so much of happiness, love and romance in two people’s life?

By Amartya Acharya. The success of the Holdovers is partly due to its depiction of the 1970s as a decade where people lived beyond being wallowed in cynicism.

By Raju Mansukhani. Vignettes from the just-released catalogue of 'Picturing Place: Painted and Printed Maps at the Udaipur Court'.

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.

By Aayushi Rana. Give them confidence to cope with life’s mysteries, the wonder, the highs and the lows.