The legislation ‘directly violates the secular ideals enshrined in our Constitution’, the protesters say On Monday night, the Lok Sabha passed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019. The Bill, a promise made by the incumbent BJP in its election manifesto for last May’s general election, is an updated version of a similar legislation that was […]

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Actor Jatin Sarna talks about Sacred Games and his upcoming film ‘83 where he will play cricketer Yashpal Sharma The Netflix original series Sacred Games has brought many young and talented actors into limelight. One character that has captured everyone’s attention other than the series’ protagonist Ganesh Gaitonde (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is Bunty. Essayed […]

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MJ Akbar’s lawyer complained about ‘personal comments’ in the news website’s dispatch on Tuesday’s hearing, prompting the judge to issue an advisory The latest hearing on the Bharatiya Janata Party leader MJ Akbar’s defamation suit against the journalist Priya Ramani on Wednesday was marked by courtroom drama. In her testimony before Additional Metropolitan Magistrate, Delhi, […]

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Katha, led by Geeta Dharmarajan, is playing a stellar role in spreading the joy of reading not only in schools but to women in rural areas I visited Geeta Dharmarajan for the first time during a bitingly cold winter. The first thing that caught my attention was the basic yet organic architecture of the building […]

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With the ongoing air pollution crisis in Delhi, many have opted for air purifiers. But can it be of any help? Delhi’s air quality has worsened again with the Air Quality Index (AQI) falling to 328. The pollution level of the capital has been shuffling between ‘very poor’ and ‘severe’ categories of AQI. With no […]

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Indian media pounce on stories of crime against women that sell, then almost invariably do a shoddy job of reporting them Does the media contribute directly, or indirectly, to distorting our understanding of the reasons for the increasing violence against women? I ask this question against the background of the horrific rape and murder of […]

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AAP says Delhi’s healthcare scheme is better than Ayushman Bharat. But the Centre claims Delhi’s programme doesn’t cover ‘catastrophic expenditure’ of the poor on secondary and tertiary healthcare On the afternoon of November 15, 2018, Emmanuel James, a resident of Delhi, received a phone call from his wife. She told him their daughter, Anna, had […]

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Ek betuke aadmi ki afrah raatein attempts to locate communal riots in a wider historical legacy of the nation state, while investigating individual stories of caste and subjugation through gender Fyodor Dostoevsky is on a slow and laborious walk in Muzaffarnagar and Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He notices another gentleman, Munshi Premchand, savouring the lives and […]

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