Society

Reading Time: 9 minutes Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali short story Shada prithibi (1946) or ‘The White World’ begins on an ominously theatrical note. The scene is

Reading Time: 8 minutes Washington Heights in Northern Manhattan has been our home for more than a decade now. Friends had said that this neighbourhood

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi: The All India Democratic Women’s Association has released a statement demanding the withdrawal of the suspension of rules under

Reading Time: 10 minutes New Delhi: On a usual day in a kotha (brothel) on GB Road, in Delhi, 20-year-old Anita* begins her daily routine

Reading Time: 5 minutes New Delhi: Soon after Jamia Millia Islamia said it was disbanding two departments – the Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies

Reading Time: 15 minutes The project architect selected by the Narendra Modi government for the forthcoming redevelopment of the Central Vista of New Delhi has

Reading Time: 5 minutes If a film can trigger unexpected emotions and sensations that connect us to our surroundings, it would have done its job.

Reading Time: 20 minutes On March 25, 2020, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Ajay Singh Bisht alias Yogi Adityanath, performed a pre-dawn puja to

Reading Time: 10 minutes It is painful to write the obituary of a close friend and colleague whom one has respected and admired for his

Reading Time: 6 minutes Self-isolation. Quaratine. Lockdown. The outbreak of COVID-19 and its subsequent dissemination across the globe has left a shock wave of disbelief