Unrecognised and illegal, budget schools run by slumlords fleece and fool working-class parents

When a probe seems lax on taking up clues, the bereaved suspect cover-up by the school

How private schools work around the bar on profiteering and rake in the moolah

Do private schools outdo government schools? No proof exists for that.

Underpaid, overworked—teachers are in a bad way. And schools are reluctant to comply with strict CBSE rules.

As private schools come under a sharp focus following the brutal Ryan International murder, Delhi’s deputy CM and education minister Manish Sisodia talks on various measures for improving the quality of government schools and the lot of the teachers.

It's all a perception game when it comes to private schools, says Anil Swarup, secretary in the Department of Sch­ool Education and Literacy of the Union HRD ministry.

BHU's student, who was part of the entire sequence, describes her ordeal ever since they raised demands for greater security against sexual harassment.

Kamalahaasan speaks politics. A fading star’s resort or move to fill in a vacuum?

Manik Sarkar on what his government in Tripura is doing to nab Shantanu Bhowmick's assailants and the strategies the Left has chalked out to prevent the rise of the BJP in the state ahead of elections...

Apple orchards are taking over the paddy fields of Kashmir. There’s promise and a fear.

In the land of drunkards, women who drink are slowly getting accepted, but still face stiff resistance from the patriarchal Malayali male

These BHU administrators sound more like some mullahs of the Muslim Personal Law Board holding on to their triple talaq. Misogyny seems to be their only sanskar.

Angela Merkel’s smaller victory means sterner challenges. Then there’s the AfD threat.

Indian publishers are fertile ground for most ­Pakistani writers who have few options back home

National award-winning director Hansal Mehta talks about this happy, hectic time, the joys of film-ma­king and working with actors such as Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao.

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"Essentially, I translate for a reader to whom the text is not accessible in the language in which it is originally written," says award-winning translator Gita Krishnakutty.

Meteorology is a passe, only divine intervention is the way out in MP; while it now takes only six minutes for a newborn's Aadhar in Maharashtra. Read all the juicy gossip from the neighbourhood...

An old spy is called up, and an almost cold case dug up. It’s back behind the dreaded curtain in central Europe, against the cold steel of the Stasi.

For a book set during the times of Rajendra Chola, Empire teems with the most ghastly anachronisms. Yet it tells an engaging story with some verve.

Rushdie’s layered peek into a New York crime family includes half a universe—from Bombay to Brecht, from Kangana to Borges and from jazz to Aadhaar

Thin on patient detail and emotional heft, Pamuk’s hero rushes from scene to scene. Major questions are asked, but they don’t illuminate our readerly selves.

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