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Gandhi Jayanti: Stop the bloodshed!
"All activity for stopping war must prove fruitless so long as the causes of war are not understood and radically dealt with. Is not the prime cause of modern wars the inhuman race for exploitation of the so-called weaker races of the earth?"


Six yards of elegance and grace: A love letter to saree
By Ganpy Natraj. Every Tamil wedding I attended as a child smelled like jasmine and sounded like silk.


Jhumpa Lahiri: The way love is shaped
Netflix released the first look images of Unaccustomed Earth — its upcoming adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2008 collection — and the premiere date of December 17, 2026.


Don’t restrict your daughters, educate your sons
By Antara Chandra. The boys and girls who marched at midnight: What the Internet can teach us about emotions and ethics.


‘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.


GO BACK, AFGHAN medical students in Pakistan told. WILL INDIA HELP?
India has an opportunity to demonstrate once again that education can be a bridge between nations and a powerful instrument of humanitarian solidarity.


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


And I Will Always Love You...
By Suresh Nautiyal. Dolly Parton: the woman who asked -- life gives us more than we need, what are we going to do with the excess?


‘We are the victims of the nationalist and militarist kind of society’
By Raju Mansukhai. Remembering Dr S Radhakrishnan on Teachers Day. We must break away from the past, we must get out of the rut in which we lived.”


Why something is so rotten about so many of our schools...
By Anuradha Bhasin. Over one lakh schools nationwide are run by a single teacher.


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.


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


Fear, surveillance and do it or else! The Making of Independence Day in Kashmir
The emphasis, a teacher adds, is more on collecting evidence of celebration than the actual celebration.


‘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.


‘You are not alone’: How Indians Across America Rallied for the Cockroaches, in a Divided Diaspora
A community that was identified with Modi’s project was, in significant numbers, now standing against it.


The Fractured Lens: A Kashmiri Student's Unfinished Theory
By Mubashir Maqbool. A dangerous, beautiful thought bloomed in his chest:


The M Fort: The young have knocked off the front door
By Subrat Kumar Sahu. The youth have not only knocked on the front door of the Modi fort, they have knocked it off.


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.


Why are journalists being booed in public places?
Why a big section of mainstream media in India, especially, TV, has lost all credibility.
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