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“In this time of lockdown and instability, it would be ridiculous for me to deny my own blanket of privilege and personal self-absorption...

Simran Puri’s Kangan

Women are equals now by law but back then it was different…

The story unfolds amidst the splendour ...

Fighting Time & Tide

A Better Man is the fifteenth book in the Armand Gamache series by Louise Penny, readable as much for the setting of the novels, as for the cri...

A Muslim in Bollywood

The mainstream Hindi film industry’s template for the community reflects ideological and political shifts in contemporary India.

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Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

Deepa Gahlot writes in her review of Jodi Picoult’s, A Spark of Life, “Women’s reproductive rights have always been under thr...

Why I will invest in the Congress! Rudresh Kaul

Rudresh Kaul writes, “I have always believed that learning and sharing go hand in hand.”

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Poems that celebrate the insect world that is facing extinction

Poet, playwright and freelance writer Carol Ann Duffy was born on 23 December 1955 in Glasgow and read philosophy at Liverpool University. She ...

A CUT above the rest…

My friendship with her is deep.

She's a feminist and the most expressive among most whom I know.

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How do we fight climate change caused by agriculture?

Microsoft founder Bill Gates writes in his blog gatesnotes about the need for each and every sector in the economy to match the global...