Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chak­rabarty’s Republic Day comment that people would be sent from here to the satellite campus in Uttarakhand’s Ra­mgarh has left teachers and...

You are standing on a plank protruding from the 20th floor of a building. You are being asked to walk up right to the edge. But you are scared to look down to the street far below. But you feel sick, ...

In today’s world of uncertainty, people seek secure and predictable lives. This is not easy to achieve since change comes rapidly and unexpectedly, and all are supposed to adapt. One implication of ...

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Rajat Gupta had been moved to a larger part of the prison when he came face to face with his nemesis, Raj Rajaratnam.Rajaratnam, a disgraced hedge fund manager, had not always been Gupta’s nemesis. ...

Rohit Shetty is set for a March release with Sooryavanshi starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif but before that he’s excited about the new season of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi.For the 10th sea...

Kim A. Wagner’s recently-published Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre was hailed as “the best book I have ever read on the Empire” by the journalist, Sathnam Sanghera,...

In the relationship of history with the past, it is generally believed that the total volume of the past, both remembered and not remembered, is much larger than history and that no amount of historic...

Among the likely triggers prompting people to spread rumours and falsehoods online are “social media fatigue” and the fear of missing out on rewarding experiences with peer groups, a study based o...

And so we are. Indeed. Where else would we be? These are our fences. We made them. But we choose not to see them. At the best of times. At the worst of times. Our fences are what we choose not to see....