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Shame on you, anti-nationals!

Narendra Modi receives the Seoul Peace Prize on Friday, February 22, 2019.

How can you question the PM's sense of grief since February 14? Almost every single day since then, he has been wearing black

By The Telegraph

Hollywood

No hosts needed: An Oscars overhaul

By Peter Mehlman/NYTNS

India

Hunt worthy of Jim Corbett

By Piyush Srivastava and J.P. Yadav

Opinion

Kashmir is the greatest test for Modi’s realism

By Sunanda K. Datta-Ray

India

Assam Rifles' arrest-without-warrant powers on hold

By Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

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Breakdancing is unlikely to be a cakewalk for India, its expertise in the matter notwithstanding.

Opinion

Let the hip Games begin

By The Editorial Board
Representative image: The Delhi Commission for Women said it had recently rescued 12 couples from an “unlicensed, unauthorised lodging illegally run by an NGO called ‘Love Commando’ who were extorting money by blackmailing (them)”.

India

Shelter plea for on-the-run couples

By Our Legal Correspondent
This undated photo issued by the Metropolitan Police shows Shamima Begum, who had left the UK to join the Islamic State.

World

Plan to bring Shamima’s baby to Britain

By Amit Roy
Raj Bhawan, Jammu

India

Govt ad squeeze on Kashmir dailies

By Muzaffar Raina
Protesters shout slogans against Pakistan during the second day of curfew in Jammu on Saturday, February 16. The army staged flag marches in sensitive localities after violence was reported during protests against the Pulwama attack

Opinion

Modi's speeches are whipping up rage

By The Editorial Board
The cover of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, illustrated by Quentin Gréban

Books

More types of lies than Pinocchio knew

By Srimoyee Bagchi
Features
Kanthi Almas Kanval -- Gold necklace set with diamonds
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi on display at Gandhi Ashram
Comment
Aung San Suu Kyi may try pushing the army hard, partly to revive her drooping image as a crusader for democracy and partly to gain real control over a country her father led to independence
Students of Jadavpur University participate demand that the student elections be conducted immediately, among other things, in Calcutta on Wednesday, February 20. The vice-chancellor is reportedly physically and mentally broken after students allegedly assaulted him
Large public platforms like Facebook function like public notice boards
People gather in Faridabad on Wednesday, February 20, to pay their last tributes to army jawan Naik Sandeep Kaliraman, who died after succumbing to injuries sustained during the encounter with militants following the Pulwama terror attack
A view of the Kangla Palace in Imphal. Manipur’s predicament is closely linked to the march of the republic. The erstwhile princely state signed the Instrument of Accession but not the Merger Agreement until 1949, that too under duress.
An installation by Marzia Farhana at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
India has a limited framework for the protection of intellectual property in the life sciences
Love has nothing to do with roses and hearts, often made of plastic
Not a safe time to be outside under the open skies. Not a nice feeling to be impacted by one of those pig projectiles, it can quite assuredly be said
Amol Palekar had made some pointed remarks about moral policing, institutional lapses as well as the proliferation of certain kinds of ideology in the guise of artwork when he was asked, rudely, to stick to the script, as it were.
Panorama of Rohtas fortress in Punjab, Pakistan.
Mrinal Sen’s words provided food for thought to the restless young souls of the time when both the city and the countryside were plunged in the turmoil of internal contradictions and external fears generated by growing State repression.

An aversion innocent storytelling

By Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Politicians, when they are in power, feel that they can and ought to govern and rectify everything under their control, from institutions and laws to people’s behaviour and beliefs. It is like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times who goes berserk with a spanner in his hand.
Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur composes qawwalis in Hebrew and has a large following. Shye studied in India and performs instrumental and devotional music in Hebrew, Urdu and Hindi.
The skewed sex ratio in many of India's northern states means that there is an acute shortage of eligible brides, fuelling the demand for underage girls. Child brides are also more common among segments of the population who have migrated to cities due to rural economic distress
Central Berlin: More recently, various Calcutta and Indian non-fiction and feature film-makers have been invited to show their work at the Berlinale.

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Nizam's jewellery worth billions on display

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Cocktails with a global flavour

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When Sikkim turned from monarchy to Indian state

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