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Farida's dream
By Amit Sengupta. With her tenacity and idealism, Farida has achieved the impossible.


Dropping a potential bestseller: Fear of the Establishment?
By Meher Pestonji. Three paragraphs are reportedly at the root of PRHI asking Sonia Gandhi to delete or edit sections which she has refused to do.


Nepal Floods: ‘There’s nothing left, she said simply. ‘Most of the people are gone...’
By Arjun Paudel. A 'Kathmandu Post' journalist witnessed his childhood village disappear, and with it all his loved ones, through fragments of video and phone calls that stopped connecting.


‘Heartbreak and Loss Threw Me Into Politics’: Sonia Gandhi Breaks a Lifetime of Silence With a 544-Page Memoir
Rajiv Gandhi entered politics, over Sonia Gandhi’s fierce objections. “For the first time, there was tension between Rajiv and me. I fought like a tigress — for him, for us and our children, above all, for our freedom.” American Kahani News Desk On Tuesday, August 18, 2026, Alfred A. Knopf — one of the most prestigious literary imprints in American publishing, an arm of Penguin Random House — made an announcement that sent an immediate ripple through Indian political and lite


The Violence of Humiliation
By Suresh Nautiyal. It's a deliberate attack on a woman's autonomy, dignity and self-respect.


ISRO: Privatization triggers an unprecedented exodus
By Ranjit Bhushan. Over 100 scientists and engineers have quit the country’s prestigious national space agency, ISRO.


The Age of Innocence
By Ratna Raman. This is a book that Indian children must be asked to read, since it captures growing up in a large family in the countryside with friends and community, in an age of innocence; unheard of in the modern nuclear families in the cities and circumstances in which we currently live.


Nature's Greatest Open-air Theatre
By Kishore Kumar Singh. Kenyan Rift Valley and Maasai Mara: An epic masterpiece held together by delicate balance.


GROUP PHOTOGRAPH next to a BHAGAT SINGH statue?: NOT ALLOWED!
“Go anywhere and take a photo, but not here in front of Bhagat Singh’s statue…”


Here’s an idea: MAKE MORE REELS
By Narendra Pachkede in London. Yes, make more reels. Pass it from one phone to another, one campus to another, one language to another.


How they used Clever Cutting-Edge Tech to break Jammed Internet, Stay Connected
By Jayashree Srikant. How GenZ subverted the Internet blockade using high-tech stuff on their digital devices.


It’s Time the Young Reclaim Indian Democracy!
By NR Mohanty. The youth must rise against this corrupt and authoritarian regime, and help restore a liberal-democratic government.


The Instagram generation knows its mind
By Aditya Nigam. Much of the initial response to the movement, was based on prejudice, completely devoid of any factual basis.


The Cost of 'Non-Lethal': Kashmir's Pellet Gun Legacy, and Its Return to Delhi's Streets
At least four people were in Delhi hospitals with wounds their doctors have linked to pellet-firing shotguns, a ‘dangerous’ weapon whose use against civilians outside Jammu and Kashmir is unprecedented.


This Gen Z will not go down so easily
Independent Ink Editorial: Those who perpetrated the atrocities on June 20, 2026, especially those who sexually assaulted the women protesters, must be severely and immediately punished under law


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


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


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.
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