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2024: The Year With The Wire

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...

31.12.2024 2

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Soumashree Sarkar

Is it Possible to Read Sally Rooney in a Burning Room?

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...

15.12.2024 4

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Soumashree Sarkar

South Korea’s ‘6 Hours of Martial Law’ Is a Testament to the Will of the People

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 –...

04.12.2024 40

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Interview | 'I Have Worked My Way Up': Shailaja Paik on Dalit Women's Ideas, Elite Pretensions and Embracing the 'Genius'

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...

19.10.2024 2

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Han Kang's Nobel Is a Testament to The Power of Translators

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...

14.10.2024 10

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Were Mughals Humans? (And Other Allied Questions)

Thanks to a combination of shrewdly engineered circumstances, a vast number of children in India today will soon grow into adults without learning...

05.10.2024 40

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Bhutan's Echoes, Lost Youth and a Vote on Ghosts by Royal Dictum

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...

14.09.2024 2

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Soumashree Sarkar

Justice, a Gender Audit, Mamata's Resignation: Who Is Asking for What in the R.G. Kar Protests

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...

13.09.2024 4

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An R.G. Kar Protest Is a Glimpse of What Bengal Has to Lose

Last Sunday’s joint protest for the murdered R.G. Kar doctor by supporters of three perpetually warring football clubs in Kolkata was called...

25.08.2024 3

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Was the Last Time Bengal’s Young Had Hope

Every Thursday, Kolkata’s cultural arbiter The Telegraph ran a column in its children’s special Telekids where prominent adults would recount their...

11.08.2024 10

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Along With Shooting Bronze for Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh, Many Olympic Firsts

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,...

30.07.2024 1

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