By Amit Sengupta. Kashmir Diary. Kashmir Diary 2: The future of the world is in this room

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.

By Pervez Akhtar Khan, retired Air Commodore of the Pakistan Air Force. Patriotism does not mean hate another country.

By Antara Swarnakar. Ordinary folks investigate a child’s rape and murder, while the police drag their feet.

By MJ Vijayan. They dared to challenge the champions and almost got them down on their knees!

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

By Amit Sengupta. Fly in the sky, celebrating love, passion and peace.

By Dr Aditi Parimoo. So where are you from?

The Generation in the Middle: The pressure arrives in waves. First, it is the well-meaning aunt at a wedding. Then it is a forwarded article in the family WhatsApp group. Then it is a reel on Instagram, featuring a 29-year-old woman tearfully describing how she "waited too long". Independent Ink Feature Service There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep deprivation, though millennial women are certainly familiar with that too. It is the exhaust

The Gobal Village: Pictures of the week.

Images of the week: NEET leaks. CBSE scandal. CUET botch-up. The massive protests. Etc.

By Dr Shiwani Pandey. Expand disaster management to include heatwaves as a primary hazard.

By Diksha Kashyap. We live in a world where imperfections are edited out. Perfect lives, grades, beauty, happiness.

The demolition drive of the Gujjar Bakrwal community by the Jammu Administration is in absolute violation of Article 21 of the Constitution and Forest Rights Act 2006.

By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. Is the novel autobiographical? No.

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - Chinua Achebe By Aayushi Rana That is how they spelled it. The threatening notes , slipped under the door of a school for girls, placed in the corners of a hospital full of the sick and the dying, in 1896 Bombay. Warning. Spelt worming. The Native Society, anonymous, invisible, full of bile. That detail is from a novel, not from the two books under review here. But reading M

By Suresh Nautiyal. What replaces a river that is also memory?

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