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India

How we are pushing Kashmir to the brink

Omar Abdullah at the news conference in Srinagar on Thursday.

Referring to attacks on Kashmiris in parts of the country, Omar asks: Is it our fault that Jammu and Kashmir is the only Muslim-majority state?

By Muzaffar Raina

Opinion

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attempt to invoke plastic surgery as an example of ancient science confuses science as logos with myth

We need epic storytelling, not banalities

By Shiv Visvanathan

India

Cong: Modi was on picnic in Corbett during Pulwama

By Our Special Correspondent

World

A hunt for Mountbatten family’s missing jewels

By Amit Roy

India

Free J&K flights for jawans of central forces

By Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

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CRPF personnel offer tribute to the soldiers killed in the Pulwama terror attack, in Varanasi, on Monday.

India

Kashmiris say ‘thank you’ to Sikhs

By Muzaffar Raina
The attackers are seen asking the youth where he hails from. When he replies “Kashmir”, one of the attackers slaps him in the face.

India

Kashmiris studying in Maharashtra attacked

By Arnab Ganguly
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
Adequate health services are concentrated mainly in urban areas, with a gross lack of infrastructure in rural India.

Opinion

Health care data reflect social inequality

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
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi on display at Gandhi Ashram
Raghu Rai says cell phone photographers should buy a real camera if they can afford it
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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BJP battles Corbett blaze: Modi was not there for photo shoot

By Our Special Correspondent
World

A hunt for Mountbatten family’s missing jewels

By Amit Roy
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Cocktails with a global flavour

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When Sikkim turned from monarchy to Indian state

By Sudipta Bhattacharjee

The altruist of Naradari

By Swachchhasila Basu

More types of lies than Pinocchio knew

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Chef Ranveer Brar on the taste of nostalgia

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Into the wild at the Tadoba Tiger Reserve

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Art, capitalism and ecocide

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Instagram is a disease: Photographer Raghu Rai

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