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Hitesh Kewalya: ‘There is a need to redefine masculinity’




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How Kolkata’s iconic cabin restaurants played a part in the freedom struggle




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Why we must not look down on creatures that clear the mess around us




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Building Blocks: How protests in the streets remind us of what we lost as a nation when we gave up our right to the city




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How silk cotton trees celebrate togetherness of beings




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Anju Dodiya: ‘The creative process is a violent one’




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Inside the fast, furious and sometimes feudal world of kambala




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Mrunmayee Lagoo on co-writing Thappad and the female gaze




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Menopause marks the end of something, but it doesn’t mean your life is over




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Writer and former IPS officer Vibhuti Narain Rai on the anatomy of riots




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When a banking-sector crisis hits, even the most devoted patriots are hurt




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Discovering the cultural wealth of rural West Bengal




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The economic, social and political toll of Covid-19




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The many joys that songbirds bring




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The surprising Bengali connection of a Braj sweet shop in Delhi’s Kamla Nagar




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The quaint charms of Sri Lanka’s Galle Fort




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Why young Marathi director Suraj Parasnis’ plays are drawing the young to the theatre




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The Actual Shafi Shauq




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Geetika Vidya Ohlyan: “How can one not be political in their choices?”




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How the Chinese are coping with being in quarantine




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Isolation Words: Pandemics are the petri-dish for fiction




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On the irresistible charms of chhole bhature




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Social distancing: Time to find enduring ways of being together




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Why the Shaheen Bagh dadis remind me of my grandmothers




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How COVID-19 makes us reimagine our workspaces and the way we work




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How a Bhopal-based publisher is changing the rules of children’s literature in Hindi




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Dibakar Banerjee: ‘You can’t walk into the world of filmmaking with a fragile heart’




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WhatsApp Uncle discovers the downside of social distancing




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Poet of the Fall: The humane verses of Kashmir’s Madhosh Balhami




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Swedish writer Zac O’Yeah, who made India his home decades ago, wonders if this is the end of the road for wanderlust




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Why JBS Haldane was one of the finest biologists of the 20th century




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Bringing home the holidays




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On the joys of room-travel




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Viral Trap: Remembering the human stories behind the coronavirus news




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Love in the Time of Corona




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Hear Them Out




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Why the threat of a virus appears distant and delusional in our interconnected world and how it isn’t




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Why the dove speaks softly?




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Will the lockdown push women back in?




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How windows bring joy in the times of lockdown gloom




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How a virus laid low one of the world’s most formidable athletes




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How an Indian immigrant in the US grieves over a rapidly-changing world




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A list of recommendations for the young ‘uns, this week on illustrated books on COVID-19




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Why the lockdown has heightened our anxieties




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The political and the personal come together inextricably in this debut novel




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How publishing for children in India is coping with the crisis generated by COVID-19




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The mirror crack’d from side to side



  • Books and Literature

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Change will be the only constant in the post-COVID-19 world




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How does the mind change when subjected to extreme solitude?




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How will we tell the story of COVID-19?