Specials

Nischai Vats -October 25, 2019

How labourers are mentally caged, alienated and dehumanised in this civilised world Rehan Khan, a labourer from Bihar made news while he jumped inside the lion’s cage in the Delhi zoo. The psychological problem which made him do this was overlooked by the majority and he was dismissed as “mentally ill”. The video which went […]

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Ayush Tiwari -October 25, 2019

Amid oppressive patriarchy in Haryana’s Mewat, a young Dalit woman is fighting to keep her dream alive and striving to get justice for her 12-year-old niece As one travels southwards in Haryana, the green of the Jat belt gives way to the arid landscape of Mewat region. The lower Aravallis begin to ascend in the […]

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Samyak Jain -October 25, 2019

The suicide note left by Professor Alan Stanley mentions ‘depression’ and ‘misinformation campaign spread by media outlets’ as the reasons On October 20, Delhi Police recovered the decapitated body of Alan Stanley from the railway tracks near Sarai Rohilla Railway Station. Startlingly, his mother Lissy was found dead the same night, suffocated by a cloth […]

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Nischai Vats -October 25, 2019

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his team’s footprints can be seen all over Delhi, for their contributions have brought educational and health reform in the national capital With a Nobel Prize in Economics in the kitty, MIT professor and economists Abhijit Banerjee and wife Esther Duflo have been the talk of the town. Their ‘randomised […]

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Harkirat Kaur -October 25, 2019

This festive season says goodbye to buying new clothes. Instead, recycle what you have; or make your own outfit with an old saree The festivity has officially begun and so has this pageant in our heads that we dress up for. This is the time of the year when most of north India goes all […]

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Sashikala VP -October 25, 2019

The Kumaon litfest at Nainital proved to be a perfect setting to turn a childhood love for fiction into a more mature engagement with non-fiction If there were ever a perfect location to revive or arouse a passion for reading, it would be the hills. There might be some who count on the sound of […]

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Shubham Bhatia -October 25, 2019

Great décor, a spread of regional cuisines and soothing music make this new restaurant in Gurugram’s Ardee Mall a treat to visit What’s music got to do with food? How much does a playlist matter in a restaurant? Well, a lot if the food is not good. In the case of Maachis — Houseful of […]

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Mihir Srivastava -October 25, 2019

Two couples residing between Delhi and Paris swap partners to stay happy Life presents strange situations. And some responses are even stranger. People find a way to exist in their own peculiar ways. Personal life is different from the one professed in public. Probity could just be a projection. Modern love stories have imbibed technology […]

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