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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

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 09:45 PM IST
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.

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

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

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?

Published on Nov 27, 2021 08:41 PM IST
Dhiman Sarkar, Kolkata
Snail’s pace of Southeast Asia’s Economic Recovery
Shrabana Barua is assistant professor, department of political science, Hindu College, University of Delhi

Published on Nov 27, 2021 06:48 PM IST
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.

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 04:21 PM IST
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…

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 04:13 PM IST
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.

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 06:18 PM IST
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

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.

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 03:31 PM IST
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.

Published on Nov 27, 2021 03:11 PM IST
‘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.

Updated on Nov 27, 2021 03:08 PM IST
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?

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

Published on Nov 26, 2021 09:47 PM IST
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

Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:37 PM IST
“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

Published on Nov 26, 2021 07:31 PM IST
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

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

Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:20 PM IST
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

Updated on Nov 26, 2021 07:13 PM IST
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.

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

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.

Updated on Nov 26, 2021 06:21 PM IST
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.

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.

Updated on Nov 26, 2021 05:56 PM IST
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

Published on Nov 26, 2021 05:46 PM IST
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.

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

Published on Nov 26, 2021 02:37 PM IST
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.

Updated on Nov 26, 2021 12:26 AM IST
Ashni Dhaor, Ghaziabad
No motivation issues, says Magnus Carlsen ahead of title defence
Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi says he can’t wait for the contest to begin

Published on Nov 25, 2021 11:23 PM IST