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Arunachal's Anju Jamsenpa Scales Mt Everest Twice In Five Days

ITANAGAR -- Arunachalee climber Anshu Jamsenpa today scripted history by scaling Mt Everest twice within five days. Jamsenpa, a mother of two, had conquered the world's highes...

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The Legend Of Baba Ghor

Braving leopard warnings and bumpy rural roads, the writer visits a shrine from another continent and another time Ten kilometres out of Bharuch in southern Gujarat, the air c...

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Gender

James Ivory & The Making Of A Historic Love Story

In an interview for the 2004 Criterion Collection DVD of the first film by Merchant Ivory Productions, “The Householder” (1963), James Ivory and Ismail Merchant, g...

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Health

Making Of A Healthy And Happy India

Private sector and civil society will have to work together to reach the ambitious goal set by Family Planning 2020 Imagine an innovation that could break entrenched cycles of...

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Human Rights

Why Mentally Don't Need An Exorcists Cane

The Mental Healthcare Bill 2016, passed in March by Parliament has been welcomed by many for introducing reforms to the existing Mental Health Act of 1987. Among its several p...

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Sustainable Development

The Wind Beneath India's Renewable Energy Wings

The mood was buoyant at the recently held Windergy India 2017 conference in New Delhi. Industry leaders, regulators and government officials were unanimous in predicting a bri...

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Environment

These Bicycles Eat Smog & Spit Out Clean Air

Bike sharing programs in China are big right now. There are over 30 Chinese start-ups and one of the largest of them all, Ofo, has about 2.2 million bikes in 43 cities. Daan R...

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Festivals

Cannes: Clint Eastwood Says We've Lost Our Sense Of Humour

Clint Eastwood told a rapturous Cannes audience on Sunday that he will return to acting in front of the camera. Eastwood was giving a master class at the Cannes Film Festival ...

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'Augustown', A Novel Of The Sacred & The Profane In Jamaica

The richness and heft that is lost in the making of official accounts of the world is one of Miller’s favorite themes. Another of his poems speculates that a law the Bri...

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Bollywood

Shabana: Long Way From Being Perfect, But A Start Has Been Made

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi is quite impressed with the kind of roles that female actors are portraying in films these days. She says, in the past, heroines were merely adding ...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: LISTENING IS THE NEW LOOKING

For years, we were trained to look, writes Vinta Nanda. Now, we are learning to listen&m...

January 12 2026

THOUGHT FACTORY: PREGNANT RECALLS!

Writer Aparajita Krishna weaves memory, cinema, politics, motherhood and moral courage i...

January 11 2026

TRENDING: AFTER ZUBEEN, A CULTURE REORGANISES ITSELF

Utpal Datta reflects on Assamese culture after Zubeen Garg, tracing legacy, rupture, and...

January 11 2026