Category : Society

Reading Time: 7 minutes It ought to be a universally acknowledged fact that literary creations and controversies are strange bedfellows. On the one hand, questions...

Reading Time: 6 minutes In the early hours of May 8, a goods train crushed 16 migrant labourers to death in Aurangabad as they slept...

Reading Time: 7 minutes The demand first came last year, when a statue honouring Maharaja Ranjit Singh was unfolded at the Lahore Fort. Despite its...

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Odisha high court’s interim order instructing the state government to “ensure that all migrants who are in queue to come...

Reading Time: 9 minutes While several commentators have highlighted the plight of migrants due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, less is known about how low-income...

Reading Time: 15 minutes This series has two parts, this is the second. The first part discussed Sanskrit from having analysed at depth its relative...

Reading Time: 11 minutes Chennai: Lockdown babies were inevitable – the cycle of life continues even in the face of a pandemic. While some new...

Reading Time: 5 minutes It was only late last night when the hospital sent me a short report on Hari Vasudevan’s precarious condition that I...

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Delhi: As an extraordinary step, the central government has granted tax exemption to donors contributing to the construction of the...

Reading Time: 7 minutes This is the first article in a three-part series.  “Please don’t make friends with Muslims.” Lasya Nadimpally remembers being taught this...