‘We are used to Khushwant Singh type of stories. I wanted to collect first person accounts of those who lived their daily lives in Delhi’, said Rakhshanda Jalil at the launch of Basti & Durbar, an anthology of 32 stories she has edited.
In ‘The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal’, Gurcharan Das recounts his own personal and intellectual journey to elucidate the struggles of being liberal in India.
Swami Vivekananda had a firm conviction that salvation did not depend on the grace of God—because ‘freedom always is,’ writes Rajni Bakshi in her book, Vivekananda and Our Times.
Co-author Enakshi Ganguly and other panellists appeared to have lost all control over their audience, which seemed adamant about escalating the situation to a shouting match.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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