It's been 40 years since over 2,000 Muslims were slaughtered in Assam's Nellie town. The ghosts of Nellie continue to haunt India even today every time we overlook an …
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Are Indian Kids Getting Enough Opportunities to Realise Their Capabilities?
We asked students in Bihar and Delhi about their access to eight different activities including painting, athletics, singing, theatre, chess, coding and mental mathematics.
Are Mohalla Clinics Really That Aam in Delhi’s ‘Urban Villages’?
Many women spoke about the lack of essential medical services related to their menstrual and reproductive health.
The Ever-Evolving Journey of a Small-Town Reader
What it is like to develop a reading habit when you have spent your childhood in a small-town.
Harry Styles Is Winning Big Because His Music Is a Breezy Pop Antidote to Our Post-Pandemic Blues
Easy pop delights and it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.
Moral OCD, a Lesser-Known Form of Obsessive-Compulsions
At the heart of moral OCD is a longing to be morally right all the time. But being right all the time is impossible.
My Mother Language
A poem on International Mother Language Day, and the author's relationship with Kamtapuri.
A Different Lesson
'She does not care for balloons or toys / Life has taught her differently.'
A Return to Goa
I combat the heat that buffets me as soon as the train enters the Konkan coast and floats past me as a phantom would.
Pakistani Student Who Had Travelled to India For Love Repatriated, Returns Home With Family
Iqra Jewani's is perhaps one of the very few cases where an illegal entrant from Pakistan has been repatriated in less than a month. The teenager had travelled through …