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Killing the Hill Stations

Listen to this article: Summer is here, and with that our already run down hill stations and roads are alarmingly over trampled upon by pilgrims,...

yesterday 10

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Mrinal Pande

Cannes, glam, and botox: The beauty industry’s big ‘feminist’ bet

Cannes, glam, and botox: The beauty industry’s big ‘feminist’ bet

The next real wave of liberation will have to be rooted in a collective idea of self-esteem among women of all classes, castes and communities

04.06.2026 20

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

Cannes, glam, and botox: The beauty industry’s big ‘feminist’ bet

Cannes, glam, and botox: The beauty industry’s big ‘feminist’ bet

The next real wave of liberation will have to be rooted in a collective idea of self-esteem among women of all classes, castes and communities

04.06.2026 10

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

Cannes, glam, and botox: The beauty industry’s big ‘feminist’ bet

Cannes, glam, and botox: The beauty industry’s big ‘feminist’ bet

The next real wave of liberation will have to be rooted in a collective idea of self-esteem among women of all classes, castes and communities

04.06.2026 9

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

Of Denials and Cockroaches: Does the Gen Z See Asking Questions As Patriotism, Not Hostility?

Listen to this article: The time has come, the respected Sarsanghchalak said recently, to talk of many things. Yes indeed. The times are changing so...

24.05.2026 20

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Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: Looking, After the Bengal Elections, at Battles Long Ago

Listen to this article: According to popular lore, Confucius once called on the elder statesman and hermit Lao Tze to ask him how to conduct his life....

10.05.2026 20

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Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: Jhaalmurification of Elections

Listen to this article: He na janaave sadharan, anna brahma roop jaan. Thus spake Saint Gyaneshwar of Maharashtra. Food is splayed all over our...

26.04.2026 20

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Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: The Right Deed for the Wrong Reason

Listen to this article: Political packages are emerging in our democracy of late, with unexpected interlinkages between power centres. One such...

19.04.2026 20

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Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: The Era of Mediated Memories

Listen to this article: The family joked whenever she called out to one of her seven daughters, my grandmother would never hit the right name first....

12.04.2026 20

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Mrinal Pande

Rethinking Nitish Kumar

Listen to this article: Election time is prediction time for the cocky know-alls in our media. Some do it standing in studios against a backdrop of...

05.04.2026 30

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Mrinal Pande

As Though There is No War

Listen to this article: In 1935, Evelyn Waugh set out to search the pre-war Georgian era. Two years later in 1937, Graham Greene tried presenting till...

29.03.2026 30

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Mrinal Pande

Memories of Wars

Listen to this article: When we grow up surrounded with stockpiles of information at our finger tips, and an infinite supply of preserved words,...

22.03.2026 40

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Mrinal Pande

An iftar party does not violate Ganga's generous, all-embracing spirit

21.03.2026 40

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

An iftar party does not violate Ganga's generous, all-embracing spirit

21.03.2026 40

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Mrinal Pande

Bra-Burning, Tree Hugging Feminists and the Making of Myths

Listen to this article: Sometimes a casual sensory experience may trigger memories that the mind had tucked deep within. Writer Julian Barnes has a...

15.03.2026 30

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Mrinal Pande

Goddesses of Smaller Folk

Listen to this article: A weird scene is going viral on social media today. The boss is sitting in the White House surrounded by what appears to be a...

08.03.2026 40

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Mrinal Pande

Art in the Age of Chaos

Listen to this article: The world is in a churn, geologically, intellectually, economically. Three forces we are told are converging on the horizon...

01.03.2026 20

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Mrinal Pande

Raisina Hill, the Magic Mountain: Recasting Power in the Age of AI

Listen to this article: Delhi, built, rebuilt (at least nine times, they say), is a large complex of medieval and modern edifices, as the recent AI...

22.02.2026 30

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Saakhi: Amreeka, America, the US

26.01.2026 30

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Saakhi: Who's Laughing at Ageing, Unbelonging and India's New 'Aliens'?

16.11.2025 40

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Ghost Villages and Choking Cities: How Our Countrysides are Falling Silent

26.10.2025 40

The Wire

Mrinal Pande

Bad Diwali gifts, free toll plaza and a lesson

22.10.2025 40

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

With 2030 Commonwealth Games, India’s chance to be a sporting destination

22.10.2025 30

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

The ‘patakha police’ won’t solve Delhi’s pollution problem

22.10.2025 30

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Mrinal Pande

Erratic Trump and emboldened Putin: Why ending Ukraine war is so complex

22.10.2025 30

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Mrinal Pande

The Louvre heist

22.10.2025 30

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Women, in their verse from ancient India

22.10.2025 20

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Mrinal Pande

The ‘patakha police’ won’t solve Delhi’s pollution problem

22.10.2025 30

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Mrinal Pande

Erratic Trump and emboldened Putin: Why ending Ukraine war is so complex

22.10.2025 40

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Mrinal Pande

The Louvre heist

22.10.2025 40

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

Women, in their verse from ancient India

22.10.2025 40

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Mrinal Pande

Nikki Bhati death: Who silences the dowry victim?

30.08.2025 40

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Mrinal Pande

Assam evictions: Himanta Biswa Sarma government must not trade empathy for political expediency

21.07.2025 30

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Mrinal Pande

SC ruling on evidence in matrimonial disputes raises questions about right to privacy

21.07.2025 30

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The story of Indian women: Empowered and powerless

21.07.2025 40

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The bitter public debate over the Jagannath Temple in Digha is pointless

19.05.2025 40

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The world order is in flux. Multipolarity, based on equitable principles, is needed

23.04.2025 40

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Hindi and Urdu, a common tongue

23.04.2025 50

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In a black-and-white world, colour me olo

22.04.2025 30

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Mrinal Pande

A pope who chose empathy

22.04.2025 40

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Mrinal Pande

Dhaka must heed India’s call on minorities

22.04.2025 40

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Mrinal Pande

The world order is in flux. Multipolarity, based on equitable principles, is needed

22.04.2025 40

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

Hindi and Urdu, a common tongue

22.04.2025 40

Indian Express

Mrinal Pande

Express View: Illegal migrants to Phd students, US weaponising visas

19.03.2025 30

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Mrinal Pande

The Third Edit: The IPL turns 18

19.03.2025 40

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Express View: Fadnavis must act firmly and fairly to keep the peace in Nagpur

19.03.2025 20

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Dear Shri Aggarwal, for ‘paharis’, it’s not about ‘revdis’, it's about justice, identity

19.03.2025 30

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