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No mosquito nets, no medicine—Teltumbde recounts life in prison in ‘The Cell and the Soul’

The Bombay High Court granted him bail in November 2022, finding insufficient evidence of Teltumbde's involvement; the Supreme Court upheld this decision, and he was released on November 26, 2022.

West Bengal is a puzzle for this political scientist—’It was failed by its intellectuals’

Speaking at the launch of 'A Sixth of Humanity' by economist Arvind Subramanian and political scientist Devesh Kapur, Subramanian said the book has a theme of ‘precociousness’.

When Kashmere Gate was Delhi’s campus & chaat hub. ‘There was nothing in CP then’

At Delhi’s Partition Museum in Delhi, Vinod Nagpal, Sohail Hashmi, Kamlesh Jacob, and Satish Jacob recounted memories of the vibrant mohallas and forgotten flavours of 1950s Kashmere Gate.

At elite Doon summit, old boys grapple with ‘egalitarianism’ and ‘aristocracy of service’

DOSCOs like Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, FSSAI CEO Rajit Punhani, and Goldman Sachs chairman of global banking Raghav Maliah gathered at the first Doon School Old Boys’ Society summit.

One statement united politicians from SP, AAP, BJP. ‘It’s a war for women to be in politics’

BJP’s Aparajita Sarangi, AAP’s Atishi Marlena and SP’s Iqra Hasan were speaking at a panel discussion of the role of women in Indian politics at IIC, Delhi.

‘Delhi’s declining sex ratio shows women’s fight is far from over,’ says Mrinal Pande

Mrinal Pande was the keynote speaker for the Festival of Arts at Delhi's India International Centre. Her address, titled ‘Depth Sounding Our Unseen Histories’, unravelled the history of inequality.

SEWA is still fighting for women’s ‘dusri azadi’ — freedom that’s economic and mental

SEWA’s role in organising women in the informal economy was celebrated at an event at Delhi’s IIC this week. ‘Registrar told us illiterate women can’t run a bank, it would be suicidal.’

Daastan-e-Guru Dutt starts with songs, claps, wah-wahs. Ends with ‘aise bhi jaata nahin koi’

New Delhi: The story of the multitalented yet tragic filmmaker and actor Guru Dutt was retold through an emotive dastangoi by Fouzia Dastango at...

Identity and belonging were centre stage at Delhi Art Weekend exhibition by Usual Suspects

‘Nothing feels like home except the colour black,’ said Sushant Sharma, one of the artists featured in Raihan Vadra’s ‘Usual Suspects’.

The Dibakar Banerjee film Netflix didn’t want to show. ‘I see my past, present, future in it’

The screening of Tees, which was shelved by Netflix in 2022, saw a turnout that exceeded the seating capacity of Niv Art Centre’s terrace in Delhi.

On Camera

IndiGo cancellations made TV news do the unexpected — question the Modi government

Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami.

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.