In 1947, a line ran through Sylhet, Assam, dividing families and creating new citizens. The burden of that history is still with us.

The work of National Award-winning screenwriter Syam Pushkaran reflects on what it is to be a man. Pushkaran, 35, on masculinity and contemporary Malayalam cinema.

For years, Girish Karnad has used history and ancient myths to examine the fault lines of Indian society, here and now. As he returns with a new historical play, a look at the 80-year-old’s legacy...

In 2013, Hemanth Kappanna was a part of a team of three PhD students at the West Virginia University, Morgantown, whose research into the emissions of nitrogen oxides of two Volkswagen cars uncovered...

It began when the BJP MLA from Bijapur, Basangouda Patil Yatnal, called H S Doreswamy a “fake freedom fighter” and a “Pakistani agent” last month, seeking proof of his involvement in the Independence...

The betrayal of the Babri Masjid demolition is being written out of history in the triumphant run-up to the inauguration of the temple in Ayodhya.

On May 13, when polling took place in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party alleged bogus votes were being cast in Khiri Pamaran village. 

Many claim that the action is politically motivated, targetting Muslims of Bengali origin.

'The Constitution of India defeated the BJP.'

The notion that India is only 100m away from an Olympic sprint gold medal is insulting the dash and the challenges it represents for the athletes.

The baby-faced actor has been morphing into an ensemble cast of characters, who pop up in his immensely popular short videos to chat about lockdown blues.

The poet was arrested Tuesday under Sections 504 and 505(2) of the IPC for the poem that he had read out at the Anegundi district festival, in Koppal district’s Gangavati taluk on January 9.

Tamil Dalit writer Bama on 25 years of Karukku, writing in the language of her people and being a mentor-teacher to first-generation Dalit students.

The betrayal of the Babri Masjid demolition is being written out of history in the triumphant run-up to the inauguration of the temple in Ayodhya.

Starting this month, teachers in 150 government schools in Kannur will be training students of Classes VIII to XII on how to spot false news and information, the lure of sensational news and the idea...

Whether or not Rhea is guilty of something more grievous than possession of a few grams of marijuana is for an investigation to find out, but the demonisation of even her most humane responses — why...

The principal national parties are framing the general election in 2024 as a choice between subaltern Hindutva versus subaltern secularism

Amrita Dutta writes: On Twitter, Surekha was a woman who spread a spendthrift joy by inviting us to share the things she loved — poetry, trees, good food

Indians have demonstrated that they will battle hard for the values of the Constitution.

It is logical to conclude that even if the multiplex is giving way to streaming websites, the ecosystem of writers and producers remains the chummy boys’ club it was.

‘Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.’ —James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room What is a home? Is it a feeling, a habit, a set of relationships or a combination of materials and…

Would domestic violence cease if films such as Kabir Singh or Dabangg or Tere Naam were not made? Of course not. But popular cinema is a powerful way in which a society negotiates its rights and...

Two years after the killing of Gauri Lankesh, sister Kavitha looks back at an intertwined life.

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This fundamental inequality robs women of self-worth, but also stunts men into pre-fabricated social roles. It radiates out of the home into the public sphere.

Despite new government guidelines, medical staff are reluctant to pin heat as cause of death due to lack of awareness and limited access to forensic facilities.

Courage of those who spoke up, commitment of lawyers and women’s movement mark this moment.

Shashi Deshpande on a life spent honing a literary voice, and encounters with male entitlement.

Amrita Dutta writes: Government’s refusal to talk to the Opposition as equals, using ideas of honour and propriety as a smokescreen for a ruthless exercise of power is a dissolution of democracy....

Maharashtra government’s scramble to open new medical colleges, without hiring enough doctors, may have contributed to the tragic deaths of 24 patients.

The demographic profile of the parliamentary constituency has been radically altered. For the first time, no major party had fielded a Muslim candidate.

Anivar Aravind, a public interest technologist, explains why you should be worried about the CoWIN data leak and why the government should take responsibility.

In recent times, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Assamese cinema have surpassed Hindi films in storytelling and craft.

HUL and other brands are not the only ones guilty of colourist bias — from cinema to news television and advertising, there has been little challenge to the upper-caste, North Indian ideal of beauty...

It was not the silent voter that sprang a surprise on the nation on counting day; it was a silenced media Charmy Harikrishnan The 2024 election stripped the ruling BJP of its majority and, possibly…

At 73, Malayalam writer and public intellectual Paul Zacharia has written his first novel in English. A look at his literary journey that was shaped by Christianity, Communism and a modernist’s...

Why did so many fail to detect the disenchantment with the BJP government?

An interview with the Kannada writer, poet, and playwright whose latest book ‘Mithun Number Two’ has been translated into English by Tejaswini Niranjana.

By freezing up the world, the novel coronavirus has made us look at it anew. Like the sudden views of the Himalayas from Saharanpur or Jalandhar, we unfog our eyes and look at the architecture of our...

"Our world is shown as colourless and poverty-stricken. Yes, we are economically poor but not culturally so. Where is the depiction of our vibrant culture, music and food? Why is our world shown...

While the Ramcharitmanas has been at the centre of a complex contest of ideas, can a 16th-century text be seen exclusively through the lens of modern politics?

Amrita Dutta writes: As the pandemic continues, we must write the ‘little histories’, so that a ‘big history’ may also be written along the way

Rodricks’s generosity and memories of his humility now seam a village. His benevolence speaks across the village, in the local gym, and the village schools where toppers receive a scholarships in the...

Till the end, through six decades of public life, Girish Karnad continued to pitch himself — his frail body, his breathless self — into the battles of the present.

‘Inclusivity and tolerance produce better outcomes in practice’

Science can help document a landscape, but actual conservation is possible only by communicating with local communities. A new book of essays reflects naturalist TR Shankar Raman’s experience.

The court observed that if granted bail, Amulya Leona Noronha, 19, a student of journalism and English at a Bengaluru college, “may involve (herself) in similar offence which affects peace at large”.

The factory from where Nodeep Kaur was arrested, Sharan Elecmech Pvt Ltd, is involved in sheet metal fabrication and employs over 50 people. It is located on plot number 349 in Phase IV of Kundli’s...

DDLJ was spot-on in its confidence in post-liberalisation Indian love. Its power lies in the encounter it stages between tradition and disruption

On Saturday, as the Centre allowed interstate travel for stranded workers, workers turned up at the construction site but refused to work.

A ‘partition’ is all-pervasive in the strife-torn state.

The ethnic violence that broke out on May 3 last year has resulted in an unofficial partition of the state.

It was a town that sat on gold, but lost its lustre. A blockbuster Kannada film brings it new fame, but KGF has many more stories to tell.

The disappearance and rescue – after three months – of popular DJ Damini Bhajanka has left many questions about the role of the Assam police.

A new government order asked border police to refer undocumented immigrants who came to India before 2015 to foreigners’ tribunals – only if they are Muslim.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): The report released by a volunteer group has pointed to the scale of the hunger crisis and economic distress among migrant workers stranded in cities.

Two men accused by Hindutva groups of trying to kidnap a minor last year were acquitted in May. The girl told the judge she had been tutored to blame them.

For those exiled from Shillong over the decades by a xenophobic politics, a willful amnesia has been the only way to move on.

Around 200 people were arrested on the India-Bangladesh border earlier this month, while trying to cross over from India. Reports in Bangladesh’s newspapers suggest they were fleeing “harassment” in...

A centuries-old tradition of buffalo racing in coastal Karnataka and parts of Kerala, kambala has new ambitions and a shining new mascot in Srinivasa 'Bolt' Gowda. But some old questions remain.

Shalini Langer writes: Despite the halo built around them, or perhaps because of it, mothers of my mother’s generation were perhaps the easiest to overlook as people in their own rights.