Celebrating vanity

As festivals and weddings make the winter months one mad whirl, every bride and her entourage need no excuse to check out the latest fashions, from ethnic to global brands As a family wedding required us to shop for something that passes for ‘party wear’, we visited the sought-after stores in Delhi, starting with Zara. […]

Are these deaths or murders?

Our drains, sewers and septic tanks need to be cleaned time and again. Some of these tanks have taken 612 lives since 1993, as per official data. In the one particular incident we investigated, four people died on July 15 last year while cleaning a septic tank. The incident proved that manual scavenging very much […]

NEW AGE THEFT

Cybercrime in India has been identified as the most common kind of financial fraud. The victim often remains clueless until it’s too late Imagine waking up one morning to find that your bank balance is several thousand rupees short. Or that you are in massive debt with the bank. Well, this is exactly how it […]

Valley students on edge

A brawl at a private university in Greater Noida in October put the spotlight on the suspicion with which Kashmiri students are treated on campuses A campus fight which escalated into a full-blown mob attack changed one student’s life forever — he dropped out and joined a militant group. This unfortunate incident at Sharda University […]

Masking health hazards

Delhi’s air pollution level is on an all-time high and people are resorting to anti-pollution accessories to keep themselves safe. But are they really able to shield us from the poor air quality? It is that time of the year again when the quality of air in the capital has become poor and is deteriorating […]

Tiny tenants

These microbes have been shown to control, influence and modify important aspects of our bodies and lives Microbes are just about any living organism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye. Bacteria, viruses, protists, fungi are all microbes. Hardly visible, these tiny beings are almost everywhere. Without a microscope, it is […]

Keep extremism at bay

There are lessons we can learn from Pakistan unless we want to end up like them Just as the Pakistani state and society has internalised the ‘good Taliban, bad Taliban’ policy, Indian state and society seem to have embarked on the course of internalising ‘good extremist, bad extremist’ distinction. Over the years, the public discourse […]

The challenger

Rahul Gandhi means business. He’s confronting the prime minister in his own bastion, that of political theatrics Rahul Gandhi, 48, means business. As president of the Indian National Congress, he has been taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly on a host of issues. Last month, he hit the streets, even courted arrest. No wonder, […]