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October 31, 2025

TAF's 'night, Mother is a searing portrait of loneliness backed by real-world action

- —Shivani Illakiya

SOME PLAYS WHISPER before they wound. 'night, Mother is one of them. A story that unfolds not through spectacle, but through stillness, through two women locked inside the last conversation of their lives.

The play begins on an ordinary evening, then protagonist Jessie turns to her mother and calmly says she plans to end her life before the night is over. What unfolds after is not loud or theatrical but terrifyingly still.

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The Accidental Chronicler of India's Soul

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'It's Not Every Day You Get to be a Pirate'

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Uniformly Unforgettable

The ornate Napoleon jacket returns as summer's statement piece

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HC acquits Ram Rahim in scribe killing case

THE Punjab and Haryana High Court on Saturday acquitted the self-styled godman and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh almost a little more than seven years after a special court had convicted and sentenced him to life for the murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.

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Halt in exports: Egg prices come down to ₹.3.5 apiece

Eggs sent for UAE on Feb 28 stranded at sea due to West Asia war

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Decluttering the Mind

In a hyperconnected world, true strength lies not in control, but in conscious pause, emotional hygiene and inner clarity

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Line of Fire and Freedom

In the ongoing exhibition, With Her Hair Running Wild, Seema Kohli charts a life where line becomes liberation and colour becomes return

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The Old Man and the Hill

Some books feel like a warm hug—comforting, steady, and quietly restorative.

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Green ripple effect

Led by Vanitha Mohan, Siruthuli mobilises citizens to restore lakes, and rebuild Kovai's lost green cover

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3 mins

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The Republic of Appearances

The farce at the recent AI Expo, where Galgotia University sought to pass off a Chinese robot dog as its own ‘original’ work, could easily be dismissed as an embarrassing aberration, but in fact exposes a national system increasingly built on falsehoods, where projection substitutes for reality.

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2 mins

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