Diary

Dutee Chand is an Indian sprinter and current national champion of the women's 100m event

It Takes a Hundred Years to Love

This creative non-fiction essay is about creating memories throughout our lives so that after we die, it becomes less heavy, difficult and empty for the ones whom we are leaving behind. Filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh has written a very simple, beautiful and profound line in the screenplay of the film Memories in March in which he has acted too). He said: If have to go away, can leave a bit of me with you?” This short essay centres around creating memories, many of them

Archiving Loving Memories

Two senior photographers-Prashant Nadkar and Mahendra Parikh-passed away recently. Their memories and archives are never going to die

A Museum of Memories

Since their inception, museums have acted as the guardians of history and antiquity. But can a museum be more than just a repository of artefacts?

In The Shadow of Mann Ki Baat

Artists of global acclaim put together an exhibition to celebrate 100 episodes of a government-run radio show

"It is the Players' Movement"

Dressed in all-white and a saffron headscarf, Rakesh Tikait sits against large photographs of Chaudhary Charan Singh, Mahendra Singh Tikait, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Sardar Patel, and a farmer's plough. There is a collage resting on a corner table. There are photographs of Uttar Pradesh's revolutionary kisan movement from 1986-1989, helmed by the \"kisan messiah\" Mahendra Singh Tikait. The office traces Bharatiya Kisan Union's (BKU) rich history of protests and the participation of farmers and women in popular movements.

It's Time to Reflect...

What does the wrestlers’ protest tell us about the reality of violence against women in India?

A Story From Sakshi's Village

Young pehelwans in Mokhra village are disappointed at the way their poster girl Sakshi Malik and the other wrestlers are being treated

It Is Time To Speak Up

Sexual harassment and gender bias continue to exist in Indian sport

In a Culture of Fear

Human interest stories are important when tragedy strikes

Twisting Facts and Narratives

Immediately after the Odisha train tragedy, when the minds were the most vulnerable, why was an attempt made to feed the conspiracy theory angle?

Out of The Loop

Why did three trains collide in Balasore? Were the railway systems in place and working? Or was there any meddling at the signalling and interlocking points?

TRACKS OF TRAGEDY

The Balasore train accident is a grim reminder of shattered hopes and separated families. But what has made it worse is the politicisation of a catastrophe

A REQUIEM FOR VICTIMS

Photographs captured at the site of the recent train accident in Odisha's Balasore district tell multiple tales of tragedy. A trigger warning.

A Timeless Video Loop of Disaster

A temple was touted as a mosque; a process of 'othering' began soon after; and, sabotage permeated the media, WhatsApp and everything else. But for now, we must give dignity to the dead

Mewat In The Mirror

Jasraj was one of the early popularisers of Hindustani classical, his voice timbrally pleasing and rich, but ductile enough to be drawn into thin filigree

Kamala, Here She Comes

First Indian-American to run for US vice president

A Covid-Era How-To For The Money-Wise

Lessons on investor behaviour during the unprecedented pandemic

Towering Inferno

The draft Environment Impact Assesment has triggered outrage for watering down earlier provisions to protect the fragile ecology

Turncoats: An Open Season

As Trinamool embarks on an aggressive rehabilitation and induction drive, BJP keeps looking for poaching opportunities

‘I am happy about the new phase in my life'

Bobby Deol made a grand entry into Bollywood with Barsaat way back in 1995 and followed it up with major hits like Gupt (1997) and Soldier (1998). The youngest son of Dharmendra, however, failed to hold onto his early successes and had to sit at home without any work for three years in the new millennium. The 51-year-old, who makes his digital debut with Class of ’83, a Shah Rukh Khan-Netflix production on August 21, speaks to Giridhar Jha about his latest film, his 25 years in movies and how he handled his failure. Excepts:

Styled Yours, Mahi

Seen from the perch of his great brand appeal, Dhoni is in the sublime present, and as grounded and undemonstrative as ever .

Bharat Cadre

The IAS isn’t a preserve of the elite any longer. Candidates from the hinterland, often with disadvantaged backgrounds, are laying claim to its hallowed ranks.

Language of politics

More voices from the state demand learning of Hindi

A Rotor Blade

MSD impressed as rookie, champ, skipper in the quest to excel for India

THE GLOBAL DALIT, THE INDIAN BLACK

“We come together as voices, as figures, as persons who are willing to live and to die for that quest for truth, beauty, goodness, and justice.”

Parity in Disparity

Despite differences on how to get there, Ambedkar and the Congress shared a common goal: an egalitarian society

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.

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.

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