A fridge filled with thousands of insects would be the stuff of nightmares. But Jharna Chakravorty and her team have a dream to take traditional practice of eating insects out of the inaccessible villages of Arunachal.
The ethnic conflict that’s ripping Manipur apart is changing the rules of the tight-knit patriarchal Kuki-Zomi society. Now, the women are protectors, protesters and planners.
The so-called ‘middle class’ is not the fat middle but a thin crust in Indian society. Politics of the margins is mainstream politics as the mainstream flows through the margins.
US campuses are not just seeing a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They're in the middle of a cultural war, where a broader political attack is aimed at ‘woke’ ideology.
Nobody is calling for haste in the disinvestment process, but there’s no reason for the current pace. Perhaps for political reasons, govt can’t take back the policy—it's admitting defeat.
Most of the 3,000 flats in Mumbai’s Air India Colony have been emptied since the airline was privatised, but some residents are clinging to their homes, stopping bulldozers.
INDIA coalition breaking up is good for Congress, it must stop looking for survival by tying up with regional parties. They ate into the Congress vote bank to become what they have.
One visitor to Ayodhya has moved from his native Tamil Nadu to Uttar Pradesh. Not because of the lifestyle, weather, or job opportunities; he says it’s a better place for Hindus.
Border fencing is perhaps justified for Pakistan and Bangladesh. But on the Myanmar border, where the population is sparse and the threat of terrorism low, the proposal should be revisited.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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