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Tried Axone With Paneer Yet?
BEING a Northeasterner in India is not easy—a shadow of suspicion, that oddballish mistrust, tails each one who ventures west of those river valleys and forested highlands of the tourist brochures.
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August 24, 2020
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New Guard Against Uneven Bounce
English sports has gracefully acknowledged the Black Lives Matter movement. But cricket, football and all other sectors need to have people from diverse ethnicities in senior management positions.
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August 24, 2020
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Noir and Rouge: Getting Under the Skin of Indian Cinema
India, a land fertile in caste and colour racism, readily embraced the bias against ‘Black’ inherent in cinema technology and Western cinema—sometimes nakedly, as in Bollywood, and sometimes mediated through twisted, conflicted desires, as in regional films
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August 24, 2020
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PERIYAR Sunset?
Dravidian ideology is in regression. And the Hindu Right is at work trying to render irrelevant the small sites of struggle that may breathe life into it.
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August 24, 2020
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Full Citizenship Chai, With Ilaichi
Denial of the right to love still kills young people in India. For LGBT couples, not even the law is on their side.
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August 24, 2020
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Muslims and the MIRAJ
The Hindutva upswing since 2014 has catalysed a new Muslim identity. Will it unveil another paradigm of Indian politics?
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August 24, 2020
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Harry Them Not
From food to dialect, the jibes, sneers and bias directed at Biharis all over India aim to reduce them culturally
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August 24, 2020
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A Quarter Renaissance
Even with its self-deprecating tropes, the acme of ‘the modern Indian’—as seen by the Bengali in the mirror—was built around exclusions of ‘non-Bengalis’ and other marginalised groups
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August 24, 2020
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New Flint Knapping
From PPE kits to diagnostics, informatics and ventilators, tech start-ups have repurposed their expertise and preferences for the fight against COVID-19.
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August 17, 2020
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‘Our education must be culturally rooted and suit 21st century needs'
Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ tells Prakash Kumar that the National Education Policy 2020 aims to “transform India into a ledge society and global knowledge superpower”. Excerpts from the interview:
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August 17, 2020
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Ethnicity Leaking Red
A real-life Bollywood drama is stoking the dormant antipathy between Bengalis and North Indians in West Bengal. Sensing opportunity, politicians are jumping into the fray.
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August 17, 2020
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‘An actor is bound to shine under Mira Nair's guidance'
In Mira Nair’s latest offering, A Suitable Boy, based on the novel by Vikram Seth, Ishaan Khatter plays Maan, a prominent politician’s son. He talks to Lachmi Deb Roy about working with Mira Nair, the chemistry between Tabu and him in the show and his choices as an actor.
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August 17, 2020
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TURN TO CHAPTER THREE
The national education policy promises ‘large-scale’ changes, but can it complete unfinished lessons
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August 17, 2020
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Singam On long leave?
The Sattankulam police violence has cast a shadow on super cop movies in Tamil cinema
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August 17, 2020
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Eye from the Shikhara
An SC petition against the Place of Worship Act 1991 sparks fears of a replay of the Ayodhya saga in the temple towns of Kashi and Mathura
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August 17, 2020
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Dramatis persona
Ebrahim AlkAzi 1925-2020
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August 17, 2020
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Cost of Distrust
How political decisions by two countries hit a livelihood system based on cross-border business
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August 17, 2020
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Angels & Demons
Characters from India’s mythological cosmos are the new inspiration for writers in different languages
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August 17, 2020
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Shadow Of The Gun
A muscular policy that bulldozed a state and its people
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August 10, 2020
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‘Abrogation of Article 370 has strengthened voices of India in the Union Territory'
“Pandits have a right to return to the Valley. We are committed to bring them back with dignity, honour and safety.”
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August 10, 2020
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Twilight of the separatists?
Geelani says goodbye to the Hurriyat. Did India prompt it, or is Pakistan shifting its strategy? Either way, it’s a season of bitter goodbyes in Kashmir.
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August 10, 2020
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The Cashmere Game
With Kashmir nestled within, Britain and Russia were engaged in an all-terrain, high-stakes tussle over land, empire and perceived threats along the immense arc of India’s northern frontiers
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August 10, 2020
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Indefinite ARTICLE
The severe rupture in daily lives, professions and political hopes in Jammu & Kashmir can only be repaired by a democratic engagement with its people
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August 10, 2020
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Smoke & Mirrors
In the process of slaying a shadow, the silhouette has been sharpened
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August 10, 2020
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Jump The Gun
India must acknowledge the untenability of rule by military might
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August 10, 2020
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In Valley's Shadow
Why all Jammuites aren’t celebrating life without Article 370
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August 10, 2020
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Elegy of Sepia Memories
Kashmiri Pandits’ loss and longing for home find poignant expression in their literature
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August 10, 2020
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A Carpet Woven Over A Century
If the political history of Kashmir is a muffled tragedy, the cry for self-determination punctuates it at every step like a balladic refrain
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August 10, 2020
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Square Meals In Round Plates
The Centre’s flagship scheme for free ration to the needy has been extended by five months, but distribution remains blighted due to several reasons
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July 27, 2020 Vol.ll
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Desert Fox Vs Desert Rats
Sachin Pilot’s open defiance of the Congress leadership and his vitriolic relations with Ashok Gehlot, taken with his declaration that he’s not joining the BJP, points to an intriguing finale
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