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Rethink the functioning of India’s Parliament

To do justice to the vision of the Constitution’s drafters, and encourage greater deliberation, Parliament needs a set of structural changes

Parliamentary disruptions are a symptom of the critical problems afflicting our legislatures. An effective Parliament requires rethinking of two fundamental areas of our legislative functioning. One — who should convene Parliament and what should it discuss? Two — what changes are required to encourage deliberation and ensure scrutiny in Parliament? (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 09:45 PM IST
ByChakshu Roy

In the United Nations, the battle of 2006

Shashi tharoor believes Ban ki-moon won the battle to become UN secretary-general because the US did not want a strong secretary-general. But would Shashi have been stronger? Alas, we’ll never know.

Why did India put up Shashi? He was never likely to win. Nor – despite his inexplicable claim to the contrary – did this “capture the Indian imagination”. It was folie de grandeur. (Amal KS/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 09:40 PM IST

The plight of acid attack victims in India

Many of the survivors suffer from severe mental trauma as they are shunned due to their disfigurement. Jobs are not easy to get as appearances matter to many employers. Even homes on rent are denied to survivors

Rehabilitation of the victims and providing them education and life skills are crucial to their being able to reclaim their lives (Sanjeev Verma//HT)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 09:36 PM IST

Policies and People | India needs a climate crisis curriculum

Include the climate crisis as a separate subject. Or better still, integrate it with existing subjects. Also, recognise children as key agents of change in addressing the climate and environmental crisis, and make the curriculum more practical

Unfortunately, climate education is still to enter most classrooms across the world (REUTERS)
Updated on Dec 31, 2021 11:46 AM IST

Ralf Rangnick, the modern master tasked with re-igniting Man United’s dreams

What better for the Red Devils to be taught the press by the man who birthed it in the nether regions of the German league?

Ralf Rangnick, the modern master tasked with re-igniting Man United’s dreams(AP)
Published on Nov 27, 2021 08:41 PM IST
By, Kolkata

Snail’s pace of Southeast Asia’s Economic Recovery 

Shrabana Barua is assistant professor, department of political science, Hindu College, University of Delhi

By mid-year 2021, it was noted that the economic recovery stories were more optimistic than reality depicted.
Published on Nov 27, 2021 06:48 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

South Indian films you can also watch in their Bollywood remakes

Want to engage but don’t know where to begin? Check out five mainstream south Indian hits that you can watch in their original, or in their Hindi remakes.

Thevar Magan (1992), written by Kamal Haasan and starring Haasan and Sivaji Ganesan, was remade as Virasat (1997), with Anil Kapoor and Amrish Puri in the lead roles.
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 04:21 PM IST
ByNatasha Rego

Meet the stars of south India’s first ‘new wave’

As language barriers ease and films from the south begin to feel more accessible, via subtitles and streaming, viewers across India have been held in thrall by movies such as Kumbalangi Nights (2019), Jallikattu (2019), The Great Indian Kitchen (2021). If you’d like to sample non-mainstream southern gems that came before, turn to the first “new wave”, the parallel cinema of the 1970s and ’80s, and the works of…

Films like Girish Kasaravalli’s Ghatashraddha (1977), about the excommunication of a Brahmin woman who gets pregnant out of wedlock, were part of the new wave that swept through the south in the ’70s and ’80s.
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 04:13 PM IST
ByNatasha Rego

Heading south for the winners: The changing face of superstardom

The landscape of superstardom is changing, even in south India. Take a trip through the peaks of fan frenzy, and see how new ideas of identity are shaping who becomes a star, and how they’re seen.

(Clockwise from top) Rajkumar ruled the roost in Karnataka; MGR swayed the masses and eventually became Tamil Nadu CM; the reigning mega superstar Rajinikanth is a hero far beyond Tamil Nadu; in Andhra Pradesh, NTR ruled for decades as mega superstar, and served three terms as chief minister; Mohanlal and Mammootty, now 61 and 70, remain the darlings of Kerala. (Imaging: Puneet Kumar)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 06:18 PM IST
ByNatasha Rego

Metro Matters | To defeat dengue, Delhi needs a multipronged approach

The disease burden can be reduced with disciplined urbanisation, provision of basic amenities, public participation and sustained prevention mechanisms

Rainfall, humidity and temperature determine dengue transmission dynamics not just in Delhi but all across the world where the disease is endemic (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 04:13 PM IST

A self-taught filmmaker captures rare scenes from life at Kerala’s rockpools

Jayesh Padichal, a nature lover who sold his autorickshaw to buy his first camera, went on to make a stunning documentary and is now working to protect the delicate ecosystems he has captured. See snapshots from the film, and meet the man behind them.

Two chameleons mid-battle in Padichal’s film, Pallom: An Ark of Life. (Photo: Jayesh Padichal)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 03:31 PM IST
ByMelissa D’Costa

Shreyas Iyer deserves to be in every India XI, says Rudraneil Sengupta

A century on Test debut puts the Mumbai batter on an illustrious list that includes Rohit Sharma, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag and G Viswanath. It’s exactly the start that Iyer, who has been overlooked time and again, needed.

Ease, confidence and skill: Shreyas Iyer on Day 1 of the first Test between India and New Zealand, in Kanpur on Thursday. (PTI)
Published on Nov 27, 2021 03:11 PM IST
ByRudraneil Sengupta

‘India Art Fair shouldn’t be this huge thing we do once a year, then disappear’

As the four-day event gets set to return in February, after a pandemic-induced break, Dhamini Ratnam talks to IAF director Jaya Asokan.

‘We want to access as wide an audience as possible,’ says Asokan, seen here during a recent visit to Mumbai. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 03:08 PM IST
ByDhamini Ratnam

Pulp-it | Should you lose sleep over Omicron?

Is the new variant more transmissible or infective? Does it cause more severe disease? Is it resistant to existing Covid-19 vaccines?

It’s safe to assume that full vaccination provides more protection than partial vaccination (REUTERS)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 10:09 AM IST

World Athletics study reveals vicious online abuse faced by Olympians

Track & Field's governing body scanned twitter handles of 123 athletes through the Tokyo Games to find a flood of abusive posts targeting them

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Published on Nov 26, 2021 09:47 PM IST
ByAvishek Roy

Has Sars-CoV-2 got worse?

A new variant has emerged in South Africa. India must prepare; focus on full vaccination, which is vital for protection

It is still early days, but there is a growing consensus among the scientific community that the variant is bad news (Satish Bate/HT Photo)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:37 PM IST
ByHT Editorial

“Our way” vs “their way”: Azeem Rafiq and diversity in cricket

Promoting a multicultural environment seemed to be the norm for the sport in England and Australia. Then came the testimonies of Ebony Rainford-Brent and Rafiq

Azeem Rafiq (TWITTER)
Published on Nov 26, 2021 07:31 PM IST
BySharda Ugra

The drastic rise in online child sexual abuse

Online child sexual abuse is worse than the pandemic that has resulted in its horrific rise. Increasing economic vulnerability and kids out of school have contributed to a 400% increase in the sexual exploitation of children in videos in 2020

On November 14, news of a raid in 76 cities by the CBI led to 83 arrests for making “obscene videos of children” (AFP)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:37 PM IST

Climate action will affect trade, investment, security

If trade measures have gained visibility recently and investment rethinking is in its incipient stage, the climate-security nexus has been in the making for more than a decade

New thinking, new institutions, new actions and new messaging will be required to address the new situations that will inevitably arise. New India needs to be ready for all this (AFP)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:20 PM IST
BySyed Akbaruddin

The farm laws: Why this is not a 1991 moment

Beyond their political significance, the story of the farm laws, from their conception to repeal, raises critical questions about India’s economic policymaking frameworks and pathways to reform factor markets

These farmers need the State to invest — in market infrastructure, in accessible agricultural credit, in risk management — for markets to work. The real bottleneck to better markets, ironically, in much of India is the absence of the State (PTI)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:13 PM IST
ByYamini Aiyar and Mekhala Krishnamurthy

We were lucky to have skinned knees and pakdan-pakdai, says Poonam Saxena

Between pollution, the pandemic and the lure of too many screens, children are no longer playing the kinds of unstructured outdoor games where the aim was just to get together and have fun. What a pity.

Games like pithu and stapoo were fun despite (or perhaps because of) all the squabbles, scabs and muddied clothes. Cricket and football are all very well, but they’re not the same thing. (Shutterstock)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 06:56 PM IST

If it's the morning session, it's Southee on the hunt

In India's northern and eastern Test venues, the first hour of the morning is the finest hour for pacers. Tim Southee showed just why

New Zealand's Tim Southee celebrates the dismissal of India's Wriddhiman Saha during the Day-2 of the 1st Test match between India and New Zealand, at Green Park International Stadium, in Kanpur on Friday.(ANI)
Published on Nov 26, 2021 06:50 PM IST

The great migration: A sky full of Amur falcons in Nagaland

Every year, the small but majestic Amur falcon heads from Siberia and Mongolia all the way to South Africa, via Nagaland. Here’s what it was like to cross paths, for one day, with the largest migration of winged raptors on Earth.

 (Sandesh Kadur / Felis Images)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 06:21 PM IST
ByRohini Nilekani

Unusual flight path: Conversations with a great Indian twitcher

Atul Jain lives to spot rare birds. If news of a sighting comes his way, he drops what he’s doing and hops on a plane. Last week, he flew from Delhi to Munnar for the day, to see the rarer-than-rare Eurasian blackcap, never seen in India before.

The Eurasian blackcap is a common warbler in Europe, sometimes seen in Kenya, but never in India before. ‘The furthest east it had been seen was Iran,’ Jain says. (Kuttettan Munnar)
Updated on Nov 27, 2021 03:10 PM IST

Intermission’s over: Indian art takes Turin by storm

Themes of protest, migration, memory and life on the margins take centre-stage in Turin, Italy, at the first major showing of Indian art abroad since the start of the pandemic.

A wedding scene in modern-day miniature style by The Singh Twins. (Image courtesy Hub India)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 05:56 PM IST
ByRiddhi Doshi

Why New Zealand's rise is great for cricket

The sport is no longer ruled by the "Big 3" of India, Australia and England, at least on the field. No team has improved as much as New Zealand in the last decade and it started with a crisis

New Zealand players celebrate after winning the WTC final against India.(ICC/TWITTER)
Published on Nov 26, 2021 05:46 PM IST
ByCricketwallah/Ayaz Memon

Code read: Smriti Irani on her first novel, a thriller called Lal Salaam

A murder mystery set in Chhattisgarh, the book is inescapably political. But the union minister and former TV star knows how to script a twist in the tale.

‘Nobody looks for a message in a work of fiction... If people look for a message, it is that you need to continue to believe in the supremacy of your Constitution,’ Irani says. (Photo courtesy Tarun Vishwa)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 05:39 PM IST

Is there really a tech boom in Southeast Asia?

Ananya Raj Kakoti is a field campaign associate with Indian Political Action Committee and a scholar of international relations, Gunwant Singh is a scholar of international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University 

The merging of ride-hailing giant Gojek with the online marketplace Tokopedia in a deal valued at $7.6 billion was another significant investment in the SEA tech space.
Published on Nov 26, 2021 02:37 PM IST
ByHindustan Times

Success, despair, victory: Prince’s long road to IIT

Prince is a boy who melted the Supreme Court’s heart and saved his IIT dream.

Prince passed the JEE Advanced 2021, scoring an all-India (general) rank of 25,894, and a Scheduled Caste (SC) rank 864. He was allotted a seat at IIT Bombay on the JoSAA portal. (HT FILE)
Updated on Nov 26, 2021 12:26 AM IST
By, Ghaziabad

No motivation issues, says Magnus Carlsen ahead of title defence 

Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi says he can’t wait for the contest to begin 

File image of Magnus Carlsen(REUTERS)
Published on Nov 25, 2021 11:23 PM IST
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