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ART
- Kerala’s royal connection: The luxury ‘uru’
- The wandering minstrel who turned down Peter Brook’s Mahabharat
- In search of Binodini and her peers
- “I want to learn the mainstream language of cinema”
- Losing India's Greta Garbo
- The trail of a disappearing culture
- The fate of Sikkim's sacred river hangs in balance
- The not-so-glittering stars in Parliament
- From one language to another: What’s at stake?
- Tales of the excluded
- When one man stood up against a 35-storey giant
- Fishy, with lots of money
- Inflation: perception and reality
- With a past to honour
- With a past to honour
- What’s in a name, really?
- The many stories that Kargil tells us
- The Telangana prophecy: Will more states mean more conflict?
- A culture of deference and sycophancy
- Srirangapatna: Through prisoners' eyes
- When tribal India too begins to favour its sons
- Remembering Ananthamurthy, the critical insider
- Struggling against the double whammy of caste and gender
- What have the reserved constituencies voted for?
- There’s always one to clear your mess!
OPINION: BAN ON 'INDIA'S DAUGHTER'
Give us the strength!
Give us the strength!
Tara Krishnaswamy takes a brutally honest and incisive look at Indian society to argue why far from being banned, India’s Daughter – the BBC documentary on the infamous 2012 rape and murder in a Delhi bus – should actually be made compulsory viewing for the Indian audience.
 KOLKATA PEOPLE’S FILM FESTIVAL
Spotlighting tales of people’s resistanceThe recently held Kolkata People’s Film Festival – an offshoot of the founding movement called The Cinema of Resistance – screened several powerful documentaries and feature films portraying the struggle and resistance of the marginalised and downtrodden. Shoma Chatterji reports on this festival with a difference. |
 ASTROLOGY SHOWS
Predicting rape on television!Mars missions and scientific innovations notwithstanding, a large section of India still reposes great faith in the future predicted by astrologers. Satellite TV leverages that to offer a plethora of shows, one of which recently defied all limits of decency, as Arpana H S reports. |
 FEATS OF WILL
Ain't no mountain high enough!Nungshi and Tashi Malik from Dehradun have created history as the only twin sisters in the world to have scaled the seven highest peaks across the seven continents. Surekha Kadapa-Bose brings us the story of their feat in the face of myriad odds. |
 ART & INNOVATION
Blending theatre with natureIn Assam, a unique innovation by a passionate tribal theatre enthusiast succeeds in taking the art from the confines of the auditorium into the lap of nature, creating a near-cosmic experience for the performer as well as the audience. Ratna Bharali Talukdar reports. |
 SEX WORKERS' LIVES
Where dignity is the first and most pressing needWhile debates over legalisation of sex work and rehabilitation of women in the trade continue without much tangible impact, sex workers themselves carry on the fight to win legitimacy, safety and social security. Pushpa Achanta brings us some voices from the twilight zone. |
 CYBER CRIME
How to avert the dangers of being an Internet userA recent UGC-sponsored seminar on the incidence of cyber crime, hosted in Kolkata, drew attention to the safeguards to be adopted as also the right procedure to be followed in order to obtain redress. Amrita Mukherjee reports. |
 INDIAN SPIRITUAL GURUS
Devotion and deception in the land of 'Godmen'Baba Rampal is the most recent in a long line of Indian religious gurus who have hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Revathi Siva Kumar looks at a long list of Indian ‘godmen’ over the ages and tries to explain the influence they exert on a mesmerised flock. |
 FAMILY PLANNING POLICY
Sterilisation deaths: What’s new, after all?The death of 14 women in Chhattisgarh following botched sterilisation procedures has rightfully led to furore across the country. But a detailed, historical analysis of family planning as it has evolved, by Shoma A Chatterji, exposes an inherent and sustained gender bias in policy as well as practice. |
 CURRENT AFFAIRS
Kerala: A murky ‘state’ of affairsFrom misguided attempts at prohibition and moral policing to scams in higher education and declining development, things in Kerala have been taking a rather sordid turn and hitting headlines for all the wrong reasons. P N Venugopal recapitulates some of the most recent developments. |
 GOOD SAMARITAN LAW
Can a court order end passive violence?The recent SC order directing the Centre to protect people, who come forward to help accident victims, from legal and other hassles, is a significant step towards reducing road accident fatalities. Shoma A Chatterji examines the broader social psyche and issues to be addressed to make the world more humane. |
 RELIGION & JUSTICE
Muslim women fight patriarchal Sharia lawsSeveral women’s groups are now fighting the age-old gender bias perpetuated by Sharia law and finding ways to help Muslim women who have suffered due to its patriarchal dispensations. Pushpa Achanta reports on some of these, including one which proposes a codification of such law, reinterpreted. |
 CAMPUS VIOLENCE
A trend highlighted in the Jadavpur University momentAn alleged incident of molestation within campus premises at one of Calcutta’s most prestigious universities and the events following it have led to one of the largest student mobilisations that the state has witnessed in recent times. But does the entire episode also signify a continuation of a disturbing trend? Shoma A Chatterji reports. |
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