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A day after I submitted an article pitch on the rise of caesarean sections and premature births in India, I found myself lying in a hospital bed 28 weeks pregnant, tethered to monitors as doctors rushed in and out. I had come in for a routine prenatal check-up
There is a peculiar figure summoned repeatedly in sexual violence cases the perfect victim . She should be frightened but not hysterical, traumatised but coherent, angry but not vindictive
The chilling incident in Haldwani reminds us that caste prejudice will not die until the system itself is throttled. It will show up again and again, like a shapeshifting virus, not just in the meetings of Dalit leaders but in the everyday lives of millions in
When I look at our country today, I feel we have not truly achieved freedom. To me, freedom means a person can breathe freely
India s journey towards Viksit Bharat is a reform story that matches the potential as well as the aspirations of We the People of India . It is not only a story of economic growth, infrastructure and technology
The Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, said that terrorism could be tackled through political means and by gearing up the police and other law-and-order machinery. Gandhi was asked whether terrorism, which was spreading to other parts of the country, could be resol
Not all that long ago, arranging a marriage involved merely matching janampatris and horoscopes, gotras and castes. Families depended on relatives and chitchat from their communities to veto a prospective spouse
Four defeats in four completed matches since winning the T20 World Cup ought to prompt a harder question than the one India s team management keeps answering. Asked about the collapse at Trent Bridge, bowled out for 76, the second-lowest total in India s T20 h
There is a particular kind of cultural conditioning that operates invisibly so embedded in entertainment habits that we mistake it for taste. Viewers arrive at films primed by years of storytelling, by algorithms, and by the ambient noise of social media to re
In 2003, when a record-breaking heatwave hit Europe, several countries rushed to create national and city-level action plans. These were meant to be emergency responses to once-in-a-generation extreme weather events
What Karen Carpenter sang about in 1972, Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus embodied this week: Being so in love that they were on top of the world, looking down on creation . The Russian daredevil duo has gone viral for scaling the Empire State Building in New Y
As global music listening trends continue to blur boundaries of language and genre, with artistes from Seoul to San Juan and Jalandhar to Tokyo commanding a global fan base through streaming platforms, the Recording Academy, the Grammys governing body, has dec
Last month s marathon four-and-a-half hour meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his Cabinet ministers and secretaries concerned at the Seva Teerth was not merely an assessment of the performance of the different ministries; it was also an unspoken tes
A 13-member, two-tier ministry headed by Bansi Lal was sworn in at Haryana Raj Bhavan. After taking office, the new chief minister declared that Chandigarh would continue to serve as Haryana s...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants Indian farmers to cut consumption of chemical fertilisers by 25-50 per cent, in order to conserve precious foreign exchange as well as protect the long-term fertility of Indian soils. However, the governments in Uttar Pradesh...