CM Uddhav Thackeray flags off Maharashtra’s first-of-its-kind “Jail Yatra” on Republic DayABHINAV CHAKRABORTYIn a first-of-its-kind project in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray launched the State’s jail tourism initiative on Tuesday. The ‘Jail
World’s richest recouped wealth lost due to COVID-19 in 9 months but poorest will take over a decade: Oxfam inequality reportABHINAV CHAKRABORTY The wealth of the world’s top 1,000 billionaires returned to pre-COVID levels in nine months but it could take 14 times longer – more than
Police grant permission for Elgar Parishad event to be held on January 30Abhinav ChakrabortyBooker Prize winning author Arundhati Roy and former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan will be among the keynote speakers at the Elgar Parishad event to b
Mumbai, Bengaluru and New Delhi among world’s worst for traffic congestion in 2020: reportABHINAV CHAKRABORTYMumbai, Bengaluru and New Delhi were among the top 10 cities worldwide in terms of traffic congestion in 2020 despite congestion levels witnessing an
Brazilian sculptor Arlindo Armacollo’s quirky waxworks of famous persons are receiving global attentionAbhinav Chakraborty Images of a 2015 exhibition of quirky wax statues in southern Brazil resurfaced on social media recently, throwing their sculptor, Arlindo Arm
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.