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US President Joe Biden Announces Student Debt Cancellation Plan
Facing generally low approval ahead of the midterms, Biden is hoping to get young voters on his side.
Even After a Century, Water Is Still the Marker of India’s Caste Society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a 'caste burden'.
After Two-Year Wait, China to Resume Visas for Indian Students
Due to COVID-19 outbreak in China, over 23,000 Indian students, mostly studying medicine, returned home.
‘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...'