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Pakeezah, Zeenat, Asmat, Shaziya, Shobiya…
By Amit Sengupta. Kashmir Diary. Kashmir Diary 2: The future of the world is in this room


A shadow crosses her face...
By Amit Sengupta. Kashmir Diary Part One. She thinks. She is thinking. Her light eyes move into the distance, scanning the valley. And then turn inwards. She is thinking.


Which way is up?
By Uttara Shidore. What M.C. Escher taught me about autism and parenting.


‘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.


An 11-year-old girl, a birthday gift, 10 CCTV clips, one pair of shoes, and a marshy swamp
By Antara Swarnakar. Ordinary folks investigate a child’s rape and murder, while the police drag their feet.


Satluj is becoming a cult classic
By Divya Trivedi. People are taking projectors into villages across Punjab and organising screenings.


The Man without a CV, and the Man with a Charge Sheet of History
By Narendra Pachkhede in London. The Man without a CV.


The Dancing Girl
By Anuradha Bhasin. Pink dress or digital garbs, she stands as she is – with her naked truth...


So why did her tennis racket showcase the Water Melon?
Role model of the day: If the Ukrainian flag is allowed, why not the flag of Palestine?


The Magic of Wullar
By Shakeel ur Rasool in Bandipura.
In winter, Wullar Lake becomes magical with a kaleidoscope of magnificent colours stretched across a white blanket of snow.


From Shakira's Waka Waka to Dai Dai... LET'S GO!
The Gobal Village: Pictures of the week.


NOW DON'T ASK US WHY...?
The non-violent young uprising spreads.


Why are they hell-bent on destroying Vizag and its ecological lifeline?
Vizag simply cannot withstand further assaults on its fragile ecological systems.


'We forget things if we have no one to tell them to'
By Abha Soni. The acclaimed film, with Irfan, great actor, now a magical musical at Berkeley.


Shuttle cock democracy?
The English Badminton Club in London etcetera. Cockroach Commentary.


Oh! he, a fifty times cool. And me, fifty times a fool...
BySreela Dasgupta in Santiniketan. He was a man's man.


A $15 billion data centre in Vizag: So WHY this SECRECY ?
By Ajith Pillai. When a government or corporate entity opts for opacity and secrecy rather than transparency, it often indicates that it has much to conceal.
The $15 billion Adani-Google hyper-scale project in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, exemplifies this.
From the beginning, there has been a noticeable reluctance to share information with the citizens of this Tier 2 port city, who will be the most affected by the mega project.
By all accounts, it was a covertly concei


‘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.


Smartphone romance is cool, but don’t look for happy endings
By Abhish K Bose.The dopamine loop’s the same as teenagers, with added risks: anxiety, low self-esteem, fraud, insomnia, late-life depression, loneliness.


Tell me Serena...
By Suresh Nautiyal. And in that nothingness. We meet. Dear Serena..
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