Grandmothers and old family retainers were champion story-tellers, now often replaced by digital or interactive tools in many urban nuclear families
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Supreme Court needs to enlarge scope of the National Task Force, set up to suggest safety norms for healthcare staff
Imagine being a species so old as to be called a ‘living fossil’, which has outlived dinosaurs only to be imperiled in anthropocene because of plastic and beautified stone-pitched water bodies. The species under discussion here is the turtle, which...
In the mid-1970s, I was posted along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Chhamb sector of Jammu and Kashmir. Bunkers and tents were our abode and also the place to secure weapons and other warlike materials. During the monsoon,...
In translating, we are not merely bridging gaps; we are acknowledging them, respecting them, and allowing them to exist
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I was about to go meet my nephew, Balu, when my father told me that a leopard — perhaps the same one that I had photographed — had killed one of Balu’s cows the previous night. I left home but...
She used to watch her father return from playing golf. He was posted in Delhi then. The year was 2006. The golf bag and the gleaming irons used to be laid out for cleaning, and both the kids would observe...
It’s her crusade for justice against powerful men in positions of power that makes Vinesh even more important as a role model
High-minded slokas and mantras are a shortcut we have adopted to replace moral science
Intesar Suhail In the spring of 2016, I embarked upon a trek in the mountains of Drass to look for and, if possible, photograph the elusive brown bear. As the Wildlife Warden of Kargil district in Jammu and Kashmir (now...
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