With the ongoing pandemic, literary fests are adapting to the changing times while bringing people across borders together in the discussion of challenges faced by today’s world  Literary festivals are a venue where lovers of literature congregate to meet authors whose writings have shaped their world view. They are also an excellent opportunity for the […]

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Environmentalist Vimlendu Jha has established a farm near Alwar and encourages urban people to come and work here The prolonged lockdown and the collapse of normal social life for months together during the pandemic gave some people a lot of time to reflect upon existentialist issues. One of India’s leading environmentalists Vimlendu Jha contemplated on […]

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After marriage, food is now being dragged into the gambit of communal politics A good part of the weekend was spent doing a mini-survey, calls were made to various food chains–MNCs like McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut, even the Indian chains, on the pretext of ordering food. The common inquiry was whether you serve Halal or […]

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Farmers celebrated Lohri, the harvest festival, with the clear intent of not returning till their demands are met. They don’t seem to be in any hurry Thousands of farmers protesting at Singhu border on the night of Lohri lit dozens of bonfires to commemorate Lohri and reaffirm their resolve to insist that the Narendra Modi […]

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Many denizens of NCR take care of strays with no intention to domesticate them allowing the animals to lead a free, natural life  It’s biting cold in Delhi these days and stray animals are out in the open facing the elements without any protection. The affluent are fairly cosy in the confines of warm homes, […]

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Monu Kumar and hundreds like him are doing one of the most dangerous jobs in the world today, collecting samples from people for Covid tests. A dangerous job that has now become normal Monu Kumar, 31, is a very busy man and for a good reason. So much so that it’s even difficult to get […]

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Tarun Nanda has shown the world an ecological way of cleaning urban lakes. Red tape is coming in the way, but he’s not going to knuckle under Tarun Nanda, 38, is an engineer and a unique individual inhabiting Delhi’s landscape. Many, particularly government officials, don’t know how to deal with him. For he’s methodical, scientific […]

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Delhi is a huge metropolis where one part of the city is unaffected by the happenings in the other,  making it a study in contrasts Delhi is a humongous metropolis and it’s possible that one part of the city is completely oblivious even to major happenings in some other parts of the city. There are […]

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