India@75 Har Ghar Tiranga: When civic symbolism becomes more critical than civic actionGautam BhatiaSo great is the mistrust that enforcing a picture-book nationalism becomes a necessity.
PHOTO ESSAY Hooked on tradition: This festival in rural Bengal is both dramatic and bizarreJOYEETA GHOSHA festival in rural Bengal, considered essential to usher in a bountiful harvest, is marked by plenty of rituals, some of them dramatic but bizarre.
Communalism Raj Thackeray's 'loudspeaker' campaign targeting Muslims in Maharashtra backfires Lyla BavadamRaj Thackeray’s attempt to regain political relevance by targeting Muslims through his loudspeaker campaign does not find any takers in Maharashtra.
Hooked on traditionJOYEETA GHOSHA festival in rural Bengal, considered essential to usher in a bountiful harvest, is marked by plenty of rituals, some of them dramatic but bizarre.
Malaria Eradication Is India falling short of its deadline of eradicating malaria by 2030?R. RamachandranA recent paper in The Lancet comprehensively addresses the multiple issues India faces as it works towards meeting the deadline of eradicating malaria
Uniform Civil Code Uniform Civil Code: BJP's proposal raises concerns of anti-minority measuresT.K. RajalakshmiThere are genuine apprehensions that a proposal for a uniform civil code coming from the BJP will ultimately be less about uniformity and equality and
Karnataka What does the Basavaraj Bommai government aim to achieve with changes in SSLC textbooks?Vikhar Ahmed SayeedWith the Karnataka Assembly election less than a year away, the actions of the Basavaraj Bommai government in bringing changes in SSLC textbooks sugge
NFHS-5 Findings NFHS-5 findings: The good, the bad & the uglyT.K. RajalakshmiData from the latest round of the National Family Health Survey make it clear that even as the country records significant progress in various paramet
Gaming addiction Hunger games: Addiction to mobile games on the riseGirish DalviMalay DhameliaGaming apps on mobile phones seem to be the latest craze in India, but on the flip side an increasing number of ‘addicts’, finding themselves saddled
Gyanvapi Mosque Case Push comes to shove: Events leading up to Gyanvapi mosque survey raises questionsPurnima S. TripathiThe events leading up to a local court’s order for a survey of Varanasi’s Gyanvapi mosque premises are of a piece with the Sangh Parivar’s actions so
Gyanvapi Mosque Case ‘We are hopeful of a positive outcome’Divya TrivediInterview with Alok Kumar, international working president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
Gyanvapi Mosque Case ‘Shivling not mentioned in survey report’Divya TrivediInterview with S.M. Yaseen, Anjuman Intezamiya Masjid Managing Committee.
Jammu & Kashmir ‘News today is political propaganda’Anando BhaktoInterview with documentary film-maker Sandeep Ravindranath.
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
