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Parwati Tirkey is the first tribal woman from Jharkhand to be selected for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2025 for her poetry collection Phir Ugna. In an interview to Md Asghar Khan, she talks about what motivates her to write powerful poems about nature and environment
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The June 30 explosion in the chemical plant in Telegana has brought to light, once again, the lax safety norms and laws that lead to industrial tragedies in India.
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This isn’t to say these regimes aren’t oppressive and have not tortured their people, especially women, but to impose a war on their country invoking the brutal regime and making a case for bombings is to undermine people’s ability to question and collectivise on their own. We know from history how many countries have been abandoned, like Afghanistan
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As missiles fall silent—for now—it’s time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
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Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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Not the conservative ‘red’ as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
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Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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As children, we didn’t quite understand what was happening but we knew something was amiss.Only later did I understand what not seeing eye to eye meant.
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West Bengal Commission for Women chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay on Wednesday said that the law student, who was allegedly gang-raped inside her college in Kolkata, is still "traumatised".
The Alwaites, who primarily live in Syria's coastal regions, particularly in the provinces of Latakia and Tartus, are supporters of former President Bashar al Assad.
Here's all you need to know about the fourth day of Wimbledon 2025 - all the matches, key battles to watch out, today's weather report, and where to watch the grass court matches
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Squid Game 3 is not a mere thriller or an engaging cinematic experience—it sheds light on socio-economic dynamics, moral decay, social realism, human psychology, and the unrelenting penetration of capital.
As Devdas turns 23 this July, here’s looking at the enduring intrigue of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who reigned over the global stage since the film’s release, despite an intermittent career back home.
Kareena’s career unfolds in distinct phases: teen idol, glamorous heroine, serious actor, mainstream lead, ensemble player, and mother figure. Her journey is a witness to a woman who’s grown over the years.
Making room for the personal alongside the political, Guru Dutt’s films ask difficult questions that continue to make us queasy.
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Social media has allowed South Asian designers and the public to resist cultural appropriation by mega brands.
Is FOMO Driving Interest in Lab-Grown Diamond Start-Ups?
Loneliness Has A Serious Impact On Health: What Individuals, Societies And Countries Can Do—WHO Report
Mumbai-Bound Ethiopian Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing Due To Cabin Depressurisation; Here's Why It's Alarming
The Labubu craze is a prime example of the kidulting phenonmenon, and a capitalist spin on what’s ‘cool’