A Poetry of Human Hands
Academic APARNA SHARMA unraveled disparate ways through which devotees evoke Goddess Kamakhya
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Nipped in the Womb
Gita Aravamudan, the author of Disappearing Daughters unravels many lesser known facts of female foeticide while she was investigating the issue for her book
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North by North-East
Young men and women from the Northeast are already winning coveted jobs, especially in the service sector, in Delhi and Mumbai and other major cities, because they are often much better-educated, better behaved, better groomed
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August 14 means Independence, not freedom
What August 14 means to a Pakistani citizen. A minority citizen at that. Read this compelling piece by senior journalist Shehar Bano Khan
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Passion for the Wild
A veteran involved in the conservation of tigers urges the tiger to be protected together with its ecosystem, which means everything from termites and turtles, to butterflies and orchids are saved.
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Jadav Payeng: the man who made a forest
Filmmaker Nassif Ahmed delves into the life of this extraordinary man who has been creating and looking after a forest all by himself.
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Its Never Just a Film
Anna M.M. Vetticad deconstructs her new book which is an overview of Bollywood through the eyes of a film reviewer
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The other name of passion
Kapoor clan’s theatre torch-bearer shocked everyone this year when she quit Prithvi theatre, the Mumbai heaven she nurtured for two decades. Sanjna Kapoor speaks to The Thumb Print about Junoon, her ambitious new theatre venture, growing up with stro
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Wizard of words on life and more
Journalism is about the here and the now and fiction is about the universal and the timeless. The skills demanded of both the crafts ultimately help one to be a good writer and a committed journalist. Woman of the written word Indrani Raimedhi on sto
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Mission Potholes
Tired of complaining of bad roads, the educated youth of Nagaland took up this unique protest “Mission Potholes”. Using social media tools, they formed The Naga Blog and this sparked off an online protest which gradually poured down to the streets. Y
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