By Raju Mansukhani. Ritam Mondal’s recent suicide is not the first tragic case. On January 12, this year, Shaon Malik, a third-year electrical engineering student, died by suicide. On April 20, Aniket Walker, a final-year Ocean Engineering student from Maharashtra, died by suicide in JC Bose Hall. On May 4, Mohammad Asif Qamar, a third-year BTech student from Bihar, was found dead in his room at Madan Mohan Malviya Hall.

In conversation with Priyamvada Gopal. The scholar, Paul Gilroy, talks in terms ‘post-colonial melancholia’ and that is certainly there, but, also, I think, a toxic cocktail of rage, entitlement, false victimhood, exceptionalism, and vanity.

By Jasmine Mishra. Review: Sitaare Zameen Par. The film ends on a heartening note – that our own ‘normal’ need not be someone else’s. The ‘normal’ simply doesn’t exist.

R Kalpana. The issue is not the generation gap itself, but the lack of formal orientation and preparedness across all stakeholders.

By Ratna Raman. As a university teacher dealing with impressionable minds, I feel that social media has  succeeded in creating multiple forms of digital schizophrenia  and new forms of cyber elitism.

Karen Gabriel speaks about the 'element of instantaneity': everything is arriving simultaneously in the ‘feed’ – and it disappears just as fast..