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A workshop on Art Forms used for Book Illustrations at Apeejay Kolkata Literary Arts Festival 2019

Opinion

Bringing back cultural electricity

The Jaipur Literature Festival and Kochi Biennale are not only defined by the city where they are held, but in turn help define it

By Ruchir Joshi

Opinion

Recent Supreme Court decisions are baffling

By Manini Chatterjee
One reason why many of us are baffled by some of the recent decisions of the Supreme Court is that the venerable judges of the highest court of the land had themselves raised the bar of our expectations rather high just a year ago.

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'Democracy is under threat'

By Paran Balakrishnan
Mamata Banerjee with the NCP's Sharad Pawar (right) and Praful Patel at the rally in Calcutta on Saturday.
A survivor who lost her family and eyesight, attends a rally to mark the 26th year of the Bhopal gas disaster in Bhopal in 2010. The Bhopal Museum, an ode to the creativity of the survivors, does not see resistance terminally but as an invitation to future defiance

Opinion

Memory helps us pluralise identity

By Shiv Visvanathan
This still from the ad shows one example of a man intervening when he sees abusive behaviour

Opinion

The backlash shows why we need the Gillette ad

By Sriparna Ray
Apu working at a printing press

Opinion

The poet of incomplete narratives

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi
With Alok Verma gone and the politicians seemingly fixated on opposing one another for the sake of opposition, the citizens have the CBI and the police they deserve. The Supreme Court has forced everyone to confront this uncomfortable truth

Opinion

Apex court's CBI judgment: Grain of bitter truth

By Arghya Sengupta
India's policies regarding education, health and environment need to be improved

Opinion

A long to-do list for the government

By Ashok V. Desai
Social justice minister Thawar Chand Gehlot speaks in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Opinion

Quota bill: An assault on the Constitution

By Manini Chatterjee
In this year of his 150th birth anniversary celebrations, hopefully, the states of the Union will suitably commemorate and take forward their own understanding of Gandhi.

Opinion

Gandhi's pan-Indian life and legacy

By Ramachandra Guha
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US secretary of state Mike Pompeo arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. on Saturday, January 19, after joining President Donald Trump at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the return of the remains of four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria

Bringers of chaos

By Gwynne Dyer
Bouncers in suits watch as dance bar women and a customer dances with money in hand at Elora Bar, Mumbai

Dance bars: Coconut mein morals milaake

By Upala Sen
Railway minister Piyush Goyal makes it clear that he likes the film 'Uri'

Is reel is the new real under the BJP?

By The Telegraph
FirstEver PradhanSewak with a PradhanSewika not allowed anywhere near the house. FirstEver to go on air with pilla, or puppy, or pappi and, often, all too often, jhappi. And what jhappis; jhappis from the front, jhappis from behind, jhappis from this side and jhappis from that side.

In the land of the FirstEvers

By Sankarshan Thakur
The present dispensation’s attempt to snatch land from farming communities is predatory

Predatory policies enable farm land acquisition

By Nilesh Jain
In recent years, the popularity of five-yearly class reunions has grown enormously

The joy and dread of school reunions

By Devi Kar
Editorials
Neither a sense of history nor signs of the enormity of the challenge were lacking at the Brigade as the rally unfolded against the backdrop of the Victoria Memorial and a curtain of wintry haze on Saturday.
Neither a sense of history nor signs of the enormity of the challenge were lacking at the Brigade as the rally unfolded against the backdrop of the Victoria Memorial and a curtain of wintry haze on Saturday.

Modi's great achievement: Opposition unity

By The Editorial Board
Letters
Singer Asha Bhosle recently shared a picture on social media of herself with other people whom were all busy on their phones, and remarked,
Singer Asha Bhosle recently shared a picture on social media of herself with other people whom were all busy on their phones, and remarked,

Asha Bhosle is right about our phone obsession

By The Telegraph
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