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New Delhi: There are years in which decades happen and 2024 was one such year – full of small, big, seemingly insignificant but in fact enormous...
Books hurtle through the world these days in craze-fuelled rushes. There is, for a given time, only one or two books that are allowed to dominate...
In all, South Korea was under martial law for six hours. At 10.23 pm on December 3, the country’s president Yoon Sukyeol declared martial law –...
Two weeks ago, one of the world’s foremost scholars on caste and gender, Shailaja Paik, was named a recipient of the prestigious ‘genius’ grant...
I came upon the Korean author Han Kang through a friend who came upon her through the music act BTS. We came upon both Han Kang and BTS thanks to...
Thanks to a combination of shrewdly engineered circumstances, a vast number of children in India today will soon grow into adults without learning...
This is the first in a three-part series on Bhutan’s young, its old, and the efforts to bridge the gap between the two, seen through the the...
Kolkata: Several protests are afoot in Kolkata and Bengal against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at a city hospital. Her body was...
Last Sunday’s joint protest for the murdered R.G. Kar doctor by supporters of three perpetually warring football clubs in Kolkata was called...
Every Thursday, Kolkata’s cultural arbiter The Telegraph ran a column in its children’s special Telekids where prominent adults would recount their...
New Delhi: Manu Bhaker has become the first athlete of independent India to win two medals at a single edition of the Olympic games. Days ago,...