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A Good Read on a Long Flight
Off to Boston, for the long flight, I took two books- Pakistani-British writer Kamila Shamsie's Kartography was one of them. There is a backstory to it
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July 21, 2025
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Iran-e-Sagheer
Many Kashmiri students choose to study in Iran due to a combination of affordability and cultural familiarity. A degree in medicine is the most preferred option
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July 21, 2025
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The Othering of Learning
Once a magical place for learning, universities have become a space of conflict, of tension, a space to be derided and ridiculed
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July 21, 2025
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Going, Going, Go-aah
Goa < 2075, India's first live, bilingual novel, is set in a futuristic Goa under corporate rule where corruption and environmental degradation are rampant
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July 21, 2025
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From Crisis to Credibility Strengthening Publication Ethics in Academia
In academia, publishing a research paper was historically regarded as the apex of meticulous thought, experimentation, and sincere investigation.
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July 21, 2025
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Free the Word
Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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July 11, 2025
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Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye to Kya Hai
Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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July 11, 2025
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When the Words Stop
Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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July 11, 2025
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Rath Jatra
Is Mamata Banerjee's embrace of Lord Jagannath the latest counter to the BJP's Ram-centric politics?
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July 11, 2025
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Zan, Zindagi, Azadi
As missiles fall silent—for now—it's time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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July 11, 2025
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The She Voter
Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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July 11, 2025
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Veil, Women and Warfare
Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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July 11, 2025
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Forever Hotel
This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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July 11, 2025
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Regimentation
The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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July 11, 2025
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The Way We War
Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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July 11, 2025
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Red-Blue Republic of New York
Not the conservative 'red' as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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July 11, 2025
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Drink From the Poisoned Chalice
Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
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July 11, 2025
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War's New Script
Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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July 11, 2025
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Many Folds of the Persian Carpet
Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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July 11, 2025
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The Hands that Guard the Ayatollah
The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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July 11, 2025
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Notes from the Inside
Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
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July 11, 2025
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Netanyahu's Imposed War
A new era of hegemony has begun in the Middle East as Israel has attacked Iran to assert the Zionist state as the pre-eminent military and political power in the region
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July 01, 2025
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A Recitation of Becoming
This debut novel plunges into the fissures of contemporary womanhood stretched across the blazing Arabian Peninsula
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July 01, 2025
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The 32-Second Flight
Dreamliner's nightmare continues for the ones left behind
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July 01, 2025
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Mid-air Fallout
The Air India tragedy exposes cracks in India's aviation boom
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July 01, 2025
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Justice as Performance
In an era when court proceedings are being livestreamed, it looks like justice is being done to be seen. Not seen to be done, as it should be. This has grave implications for the quality of justice itself
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July 01, 2025
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And then, the Lion was Torn Apart
Israel's reckless Operation Rising Lion might attain ends that are the reverse of its intentions: Iran might hastily build a nuclear weapon
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July 01, 2025
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After Shock
While the world is in shock over the June 12 Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad that killed around 270 people, the aviation community says it was just a matter of time before a disaster like this struck the company’s fleet
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July 01, 2025
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In My Tongue
The CBSE's move to implement the 'mother tongue first' policy aims to enhance early learning and equity, but there are practical hurdles in implementing it in linguistically diverse Indian classrooms
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July 01, 2025
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Now, Post-mortem the Accident
The crash of Air India Flight 171 underlines the importance of investigation, implementing its recommendations and holding the Air India management responsible
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