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Migrants back in farms, factories

The factories in Hoshiarpur, Ludhiana and Barnala and farms across Punjab are swinging back into action as workers return from their home towns and vi

Dystopian realities

The threat to India’s pluralist tradition and ethos under the current regime is insightfully discussed in this new book.

Madrasa students who had been left stranded by the sudden announcement of the lockdown on a special train to reach Purnea in Bihar, in Bikaner on May 25.

Madrasa miseries

The madrasas of northern India were left in the lurch by the sudden lockdown, with stranded students and dwindling funds.

A deserted Jama Masjid on April 24.

Friday prayers cancelled at the Jama Masjid as the number of COVID cases soar in Delhi

Delhi’s historic Jama Masjid, which opened after multiple rounds of sanitisation less than a week ago, is closed again. There will be no Friday prayer

Police personnel speaking to migrant workers who blocked the national highway near Amritsar on May 29 demanding speedy arrangements to help them return to their hometowns.

Farming crisis

Faced with acute revenue shortage and the threat of an increase in COVID cases with the return of people who migrated to other States, Punjab is fight

Basu Chatterjee.

Basu Chatterjee: Chronicler of middle-class life

The 1970s were all about extremes. We had Ramesh Sippy with the once-in-a-lifetime

A poster for the web series “Godman”.

A “Godman” controversy erupts in Tamil Nadu

A section of Right-wingers has managed to block producer Elango Raghupathy’s much-awaited web series titled

People being evacuated from the Nizamuddin Centre in New Delhi for COVID-19 testing, on March 31.

Hate in the time of a pandemic

There has been a spike in instances of Islamophobia, unleashed apparently with the tacit support of powers that be, even as the COVID-19 pandemic rage

Yogesh Gaur, the unsung lyricist of Hindi films, is no more

His would have been the archetypal rags-to-riches story if he were a bit poorer at the beginning and a bit richer at the end. As it turned out

Migrant workers in Punjab lining up to board a train to Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Heft of the underdog

The farming sector in Punjab is the first to feel the pinch as lakhs of migrant workers head home, but industry and construction are not far behind.

A wholesale meat market in New Delhi.

Stripped to the bone

With meat shops shut, transportation prohibited, and the maintenance of livestock becoming unviable, the crisis in the Muslim-dominated meat industry

Irrfan , who was adjudged the best actor for his performance in “The Lunchbox”, poses with his trophy during the Asian Film Awards in Macau on March 27, 2014.

Salaam, Irrfan

The remarkable career of Irrfan Khan (1967-2020) in Indian and international cinema was proof of his relentless pursuit of perfection, and saw him pro