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Gurukuls, Nalanda, madrasas: India’s ‘traditional’ education was never for everyone

India’s precolonial schools were more diverse than our traditional image suggests. Colonial rule helped turn the Brahmin teacher into the archetype of the Indian classroom.

50 days of cruelty: Twisha Sharma’s final distress messages revealed

Twisha's WhatsApp SOSes to her family in the days leading up to her alleged suicide, documented by CBI, paint terrifying picture of her final days in her matrimonial home.

A Mumbai teen’s mission is helping workers register on e-Shram. Govt site is daunting

The e-Shram portal may appear to be a simple website, but for workers with limited digital literacy, the registration process is a maze of inaccessible design and unfamiliar questions.

Two funerals, one word: How ‘encounter’ is Haryana’s new currency of grief and justice

Hisar and Karnal: Two families, two funerals, one uncomfortable question—has the encounter become Haryana's template for justice?

Own a flat, but have no say. Gurugram residents are fighting for RWA membership

On the ground, disputes among builders, existing RWAs and residents have made the process for membership complicated and tedious.

Modi’s welfare strategy has reached a dead end. India’s youth want jobs, not food handouts

It is quite understandable why the BJP would go for ambivalence as a response to the CJP protests, not downright condemnation. The voting statistics contain the strategic rationale.

A day in the life of Haryana’s gau rakshaks: Highway patrols, ambushing ‘smugglers’ & web of informants

ThePrint follows gau rakshaks across Faridabad to document how cow protection has expanded into policing meat shops, tracking alleged ‘love jihad’ cases & enforcing religious norms.

How sewer deaths scar families for years

Safai Karamchari Andolan estimates that more than 1,726 workers have died cleaning sewers and septic tanks since the anti-manual scavenging law came into force in 2013.

Jharkhand’s govt recruitment is stuck in a loop—aspirants pay with years of their lives

From JPSC and JSSC examinations to teacher eligibility tests and police recruitment, aspirants have spent years moving from one hurdle to the next.

The unputdownable Sunidhi Chauhan. From playback to live stage show star

Sunidhi Chauhan has redefined female playback singing as a faceless, second-tier role. She is now front and centre on stage with her unapologetic persona and performance.

On Camera

Why Asim Munir may be softening on Imran Khan

Asim Munir's biggest gripe since the conflict with India in 2025 is that while he has made geo-political gains, there is no comfort for the general at home.

NITI Aayog wants India to reimagine skilling, pitches ‘skills not degree’, training from Class 6

Federal think tank in its latest report maps India’s workforce and learners across five segments, reveals that fewer than one in 12 secondary schools currently offer vocational subjects.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman