Due to COVID-19 outbreak in China, over 23,000 Indian students, mostly studying medicine, returned home.
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‘24 Hours, No FIR, No Raid’: How a Ugandan Woman Fought Her Way Out of a Delhi Sex Racket
A Ugandan woman, who was tricked into travelling to Delhi for a sales job, found herself entangled in a sex racket. She was rescued after a month. But what …
Letter to a Freedom Fighter
'Please know that your life continues to inspire those who believe in the idea of genuine azadi.'
Why Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ Remains So Controversial Decades After Publication
The novel goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of its most sensitive tenets.
Salman Rushdie and the Story of India
‘Midnight’s Children,’ a chronicle of a stabbing foretold.
Book Review: ‘Black Magic Women’ Delves into Little-Known Diverse Realities of Assam
The collection of stories brings to life the immensities of a multi-layered offering, covering societies from Assam’s varied locational space, which do not always find representation in contemporary fiction.
Freedom, the Shackled Architecture of Life
'The refurbished facade of freedom by periodic celebrations / sentinels the little nascent life / from the darkness...'
How Salman Rushdie Has Been a Scapegoat for Complex Historical Differences
Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing …
Hearing My Grandmother’s Stories of Partition Gave Me a New Lease on Life
A Gen-Z writer narrates how he grew up listening to stories of Partition from his grandparents about the chaos of the border crossing from a newly-minted Pakistan and the …
‘We Students Are With You’: Xavier’s University Students Reach Out to Ex-Prof, Protest on Campus
After a professor was forced to resign due to Instagram posts, SXU-Kolkata's administration draws flak; the authenticity of the complainant's letter comes under question.