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They Don't Have Wings

Odisha faces an unprecedented surge in child sexual assault

A Hospital Forged In Fire

Kashmir’s Government Medical College has improved drastically since the tumultous 1990s through sheer will.

Time To Get Skilled

Developing vocational courses, and integrating them with higher education, is improving career prospects.

Best of India is Medal Drought

Still, Tokyo 2020 could be a launchpad for us to transition to a sporting nation

Their K-Pop Is Outta Tune

A flailing Pakistan fails to force Kashmir on the UN Security Council, and China reads a stern Indian message

Make No Mstake

Meet Shakti and Badshah, the drag kings who morphed from Durga and Bidisha, giving sexuality a fresh take in a not-so-liberal country

Bearer Of The Cross

BJP wooing Christian Mizoram with missionary cell

The Hint Of A Forked Tongue

The Dalai Lama’s proposed visit to Tawang elicits a warning and tough talk on the border issue from China

Cash-for-votes That Marred An Election

RK Nagar leaves a dirty spot on Tamil Nadu’s poll scene, signalling it’s all about power to the moneybags.

All Red in the Rear View Mirror

Former Naxalite Ashim Chatterjee looks back at the rebellion that made him.

New Maoist Revolts Didn't Identify Enemy, Have Plan for Land Capture

Santosh Rana was a 23-year-old student at Calcutta’s Presidency College in 1967 when the Naxalbari rebellion erupted. Having immediately plunged into the movement, he later went on to question a few of its methodologies and tactics. As the movement turns 50 in May this year, the 74-year-old, who is a cancer-survivor, reminisces in an interview with Dola Mitra.

The Balladeer's Mutiny

For decades, the shirtless bard’s stirring songs lent punch to a class struggle. Gaddar may carry on singing, but his opting to be a voter implies the mutation of a rebel note.

Rubble of Heritage

Shoddy clean-up of a 12th-C shrine digs up artefacts. Some have been damaged.

Few Biopics Stand the Test of Time...you Have to Get It Right

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who recently stirred the social media with his picture as Saadat Hasan Manto, continues to do interesting projects that have him making characters come alive in a way that only he can. At his work-cum-house space at Yari Road in Mumbai, he speaks to Prachi Pinglay-Plumber about the processes that an actor must go through, his choices ranging from small films like Haramkhor to a lavish series with BBC, the Hindi film ind ustry and his brother’s short film on triple talaq. Excerpts:

Has The Start-up Story Ended?

The much-touted start-up scene is cracking up. Is the boom over then? No, say experts. It’s necessary course-correction.

A Riddle of Hill and Valley

As two national parties battle it out, the faultlines that run through the north-eastern state only come out sharper.

Winning By A Bye

A US policy waffle in Asia, fed by a paucity of diplomats, will allow China to gain ground.

Comprehensive National Power

India needs a strategic effort to understand that it is no longer competing with China, but seeking to cope with an increasing asymmetry of power

'Kashmir Could Lead To A Nuclear Accident If There Are No Talks'

In Kashmir, the students are protesting in the streets demanding azadi, while the Election Commission of India has cancelled the Lok Sabha bypolls in Anantnag. Mirwaiz Umer Farooq of the All Parties’ Hurriyat Conference, who is under “house arrest”, tells Naseer Ganai in a telephonic interview that New Delhi knows whom to talk to in Jammu and Kashmir, but wants to avoid dialogue. “It is not a question of whom to talk to, but what to talk about,” says Mirwaiz. 

Kabuliwala's Bag Of Tricks

With the googly and a disarming smile, Rashid Khan confounds batsmen and raises high his national flag 

Thinking Out Of The Witness Box

Mahmood Farooqui’s rape conviction for forced oral sex opens a hectic debate about the ‘lacunae’ in the amended criminal law

What He said Was In The Past

Trump’s volte face on Pakistan startles India. But impetuosity apart, harder realities may have forced the presidential tweet.

No Curl Yet Over The Wall

Federational bungling for decades and lack of structure turned India, a proud footballing nation, into perpetual minnows. To harness the positive charge of the U-17 World Cup, Indian football needs a determined, tactical overhaul.

Another 1983, For Football

The tricolour flew high in Asian football. Early stirrings of a recovery can be felt now.

Populism To Kill The Best

The fuss over Delhi Metro’s fare hike is a test case of how to run such fast-spreading networks

Scripting A Good Ending

To the PDP, ‘permanent solution’ means dialogue and the opposite to its ally, the BJP.

A Bird's Past, and Future...

The Praful Patel years, which all but grounded AI, come under the lens just as privatisation looms.

Doctors And Their Devices

Imported medical devices are often indispensable. But 1,000 % mark-ups in prices? Hospitals, traders and doctors are playing a fast, smooth game, pushing patients towards financial ruin. Will the government ever wake up to these immoral medical practices?

Vaccine Vendors' Greed Gone Viral

Immunisation is a nexus controlled by big private vaccine makers, mostly foreign, that decides your baby gets 15 shots more for the doctor to make money. Even if the vaccine is useless—not to talk of the huge mark-ups.

Shompa Sengupta

Tales of women who fought against taboos and gender bia­ses, not to mention poverty and illiteracy, to emerge successful businesswomen abound in Calcutta, women who, without so much as the rudiments of training, have beaten competitors by dint of innate intelligence and hard work.