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This book found me in London. When I finally reached for it, something shifted
Amit Sengupta’s A Sudden Golden Smile enters with the tempered force of early spring,


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.


STOP these FORCED marriages
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.


Tax the super-rich, close the gap
the country's richest 1% control close to 40% of the national wealth.


Rocky is gorgeous. The movie is beautiful. Go see it.
By Ganpy Nataraj. You can be brave and self-sacrificing and still want to come home.


“My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him"
By Ganpy Nataraj. Her son, Suchir Balaji, 26, a prodigy, worked for OpenAI and helped build the engine that powers ChatGPT.


A pheran over blue jeans
By Amit Sengupta. “Young girls and women love to wear the pheran on top of blue jeans these days,” said Nadeem, with a smile. “Even in the mild cold of September-October, they can be worn with chappals,” he said.


The very being, of being transgender
By Suresh Nautiyal, The shadow of criminalisation looms large. Vague penal provisions risk being misused against families, doctors, educators, and allies, fracturing networks of care, and pushing the community further into isolation.


Stupid. Honestly stupid. Here comes the Clown-Artist
By Sarita Chouhan in Mumbai. Lulu’ as a clown. Lulu is a girl from Paris who loves people.


Can commerce align with conscience, growth with grace?
By Suresh Nautiyal. Migration crystallised into culture, and capital crystallised into the skyline.


The Locked Gates of Park Circus
By Shabina Akhtar in Kolkata. “Can you beat this? My wife’s name was in the adjudication list. We transferred the case to Kolkata and presented all the documents during the hearing. Her name was cleared from the adjudication list. But, surprisingly, back in our native place, she has been put on the doomed list.”


Return of the dotbusters
When asked last year about comments made by Fuentes, the vice president said that Fuentes can “eat shit.”


India Greens Party: STOP THIS WAR!
The people of Iran, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the wider Middle East (West Asia) deserve peace, dignity, and the right to determine their own futures free from war, occupation, and external domination.


The intimacy of Memory
By Suresh Nautiyal. This heritage shows how journeys across seas became roots in soil; how cultural inheritance adapts without dissolving; how identity, when shared with dignity, strengthens the broader social fabric.


You Can’t Blame AI, My Lord
What steps can a judge or lawyer take to ensure that a cited legal document is not the result of an ‘AI hallucination’, which may produce false or fabricated information along with seemingly legitimate citations?


Brand Kashmir: Lavender, roses, deep red saffron, pashmina, tulips…
By Dr Mubeen Shah. Branding Kashmir is not about logos or slogans. It is about economic dignity, cultural preservation, and global positioning.


AI to the left of them, AI to the right...
By Ajith Pillai in Chennai. AI. Will we become slaves to the machines and the corporations that run them?


Wazwaan: Aromatic Rogan Josh, Rista, the celebrated Gushtaba…
By Rao Farman Ali. Mutton holds a central place in daily life and family/community celebrations. Dishes such as the aromatic Rogan Josh, Rista, and the celebrated Gushtaba highlight how mutton is the essence of Wazwaan, Kashmir's traditional grand feast.


The forest lives in the community
By Bhola Adhikari. In the early 1980s, the Chipko Movement began in Uttarakhand, India. Leaders such as Gaura Devi, Sunder Lal Bahuguna and Chandi Prasad Bhatt carried out a strong civic movement against forest exploitation by contractors and companies through campaigns of hugging trees. This movement brought the role of local communities in forest conservation to the center.


Little Aalin. Why did she die?
By Binu Mathew. The death of ten-month-old Aalin Sherin Abraham in a road accident in Kerala is a tragedy that words cannot hold.
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