The effect of the #MeToo movement can be seen percolating into India’s vast rural hinterlands. But a lot still remains to be done.
While the number of homeless women in Delhi is in the thousands, there are just 19-night shelters for women in Delhi and the majority of the existing centers fail to provide more than the bare minimum.
Over 50 artists brought the Mahabharata to life on stage, encompassing various classical dance forms like Bharatanatyam, Kathak, and martial arts, and contemporary art forms. They took inspiration from Sage Bharat Muni’s musical treatise Natyashastra to make their performance appealing and to strike a chord with viewers of all age groups.
Does nature or nurture make a killer? Does the outdated yet still overused category ‘psychopath’ hold any water at all?
Shunned by both the BJP and the Congress, the Muslims of Gujarat feel a division of their votes would ultimately help the BJP to retain the power again in the state
The Baigas remain one of the most vulnerable Adivasi groups in India
The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ gains significance in the sense that it offers ideological clarity to the party and may help it to energise the cadre and emerge as a challenge to the BJP
The literary biography of Hindi author Nirmal Verma, written by writer-journalist Vineet Gill, is an ode to the master
Political parties, barring no exceptions, have taken upon themselves to forsake secularism for electoral gains
There is widespread disenchantment with and disdain for government schools not only among affluent or middle-class people but also among poorer people, who feel an English-medium education would help their children’s career prospects. But English-medium schools fail to provide quality education.
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