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Thought Factory

All that’s wrong with the discourse surrounding Rape

In the aftermath of the brutal rape and murder of a Hyderabad Vet and the encounter of the accused that followed, there has come to the fore an...

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Kaleidoscope

Witchy Brew

In common usage, the word chudail describes an aggressive or quarrelsome woman—could be said to be the Indian equivalent of bitch.  ...

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Kaleidoscope

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...

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Festivals

10th Edition of Jagran Film Festival to start in Mumbai

~ Monumental inauguration by ‘Devendra Fadnavis’, Chief Minister Maharashtra  Read More

Gender

When the necktie was described in Hindi as Kant-Lungoth

“They were there

You thought- always in your care

But they grew...

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Kaleidoscope

Wild Child

Where the Crawdads Sing, the debut novel by Delia Owens, a wildlife scientist, has been on the bestseller lists for over a year. Reportedly, Re...

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Kaleidoscope

Shock And Aargh

This is the kind of thing that one could imagine happening in Mumbai.  A woman returns from a holiday to find strangers moving into her ho...

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Kaleidoscope

Father Of The Groom

Makrand Deshpande’s new play Pitaji Please—should count among his best so far—deals with parental anxiety caused by an offspr...

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Thought Factory

Of Optics and Opportunism

“We are not to empathise anymore with human pain if it inconveniences entrenched power structures and the politics of privilege. Ever...

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Retroscope

We were the Cathedral School boys, the Cats

What it meant to be a ‘Cat’ during the swinging 1960s at the premier school of Mumbai, India? Take that, Campionites!

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