The ABVP, however, has claimed that the clashes began after Left-wing students tried to stop a Ram Navami pooja.
Rediscovering the Past: Sone, the Golden-armed River
The author contemplates on the fact that if he forgot reading about the historical significance of Sone's confluence with the Ganges, it made sense that we had forgotten much …
Despite Its Oscar Win, ‘CODA’ Is Still a Film That Depicts Deafness as a Burden
It’s refreshing to see disabled actors in disabled roles, but can’t the academy acknowledge films that highlight disability without falling into stereotypical representations?
Lockdown Readings on Nature
For all its ills, the lockdown was a time to make a connection with the non-human lives around us. The author reconnects with nature by delving into four rejuvenating …
The Most Bizarre Stories From 35 Years of ‘Bold and the Beautiful’
The long-running queen of the soap-operas, the 'Bold and the Beautiful' turns 35 this year. We’ve collected some of the strangest storylines from its many hundreds of episodes.
How r/place – A Chaotic Collaborative Art Project on Reddit – Showcased the Best and Worst of Online Spaces
Users can place one pixel every five minutes: it’s collaboration at its best, destructive chaos at its worst.
Complexity and Uncertainty Theory: The Folly of Specialists
Why is it wrong to draw a general lesson from a specific event?
‘Safe Spaces’
A poem on the hypocritical nature of growing up in liberal educational institutions.
‘Kafkaesque’ True Stories of Ordinary People: Inside the First Days of COVID-19 in Wuhan
Chinese novelist Murong Xuecun infiltrated Wuhan in April 2020 to gather its citizens’ stories from the first days of coronavirus: from the doctor who first warned of a new …