Sunday 5 July '09
Boot-cut, flared, knee-length or low-rise—for small-town India’s rebels, denim’s the weapon of choiceFriday 3 July '09
They lived in the shadow of Section 377, always careful, ever watchful, and only danced with abandon at a couple of “gay-friendly” nightclubs that would let the two men enter as a couple on some nights.Friday
26 June '09Sara Alvi let out a sigh of relief as she watched Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal announce on television that Board examinations for Class X need to be scrapped.Tuesday
23 June '09When the Municipal Corporation of Delhi launched summer camps to reach out to the city’s out-of-school children earlier this year, officials had hailed the project saying it would find favour with disadvantaged groups.Friday
19 June '09Akshay Valmiki, a Dalit boy, runs his fingers through the coarse white janeyu or sacred thread, an upper-caste symbol.Thursday
18 June '09Eighteen years ago, when German language teacher Papia Dutta studied German, she used a text-heavy book that was printed in the 1950s...Wednesday
10 June '09Anmol Sodhi stared at the plasma screen television, his eyes glued on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was explaining to the 13 children from Indian Heights School how they can make the world a better place for the future...Monday
8 June '09Fourteen-year-old Chandni Abid, in a chic haircut and kohl-lined eyes, rushed to the centre of the room, unabashed, her face turned towards the drama teacher, looking every bit the irritable woman whose character she was enacting in the play.Saturday
6 June '09After public schools, now government schools will also offer foreign language courses.Sunday
31 May '09On most evenings last year, Deputy Director of Education (Northeast zone) R P Yadav would walk into homes of students enrolled in Urdu-medium schools in Jafrabad area and convince them...Sunday
31 May '09The grass grows tall in the front lawn and inside the house a table in the hallway is full of photographs of people who no longer live here.Friday
29 May '09Munshiram’s phone rang often. As he sat outside Congress Leader Krishna Tirath’s house on Thursday evening, the day she took oath as Minister of State, the 86-year-old remembered a day in 1984.Tuesday
26 May '09Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Monday dissolved all state committees of the party in Delhi after the BSP candidates got a drubbing in the Lok Sabha elections.Monday
25 May '09It has been the year of the underdog in the CBSE Class XII results. Government schools performed better than private schools...Monday
25 May '09With an increase of almost 10 per cent in Class XII results, Urdu medium schools have taken a big leap. With 88.7 per cent pass percentage this year...Saturday
23 May '09Anuj Goel’s eyes hurt. But he kept pushing himself, trying to prove that he could do it. It wasn’t easy sitting in the front row for the visually impaired student...Saturday
23 May '09It had been a struggle for Daniya Alvi, a Class XII student at the Jama Masjid Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya No. 2. But on Friday, when the results were announced, she had scored about 60 per cent, and life was about to change.Friday
22 May '09With temperatures soaring, Thursday too proved unlucky for Kuldeep Sharma, an auto rickshaw driver.Sunday
17 May '09Outside the counting centre in Ashok Vihar, sisters Sidya and Sheela Devi, danced in a frenzy, while others from the slums in Kaushalpuri clapped and sang Bhojpuri songs.Sunday
17 May '09A lone stray dog wanders outside the pink-and-peach mansion that Mayawati is building at the posh SP Marg....Thursday
14 May '09On wednesday, the two warring ladies of Rampur never crossed each other’s paths....Thursday
14 May '09On voting day, Azam Khan called the shots in Rampur. As he sat in his office giving interviews to the media....Monday
11 May '09They pushed their way through the crowds on a Sunday at a Mayawati rally at Ramlila Ground, cameras in hand, clutching their notebooks tightly, sweating in their Fabindia kurtas, and smiling at everyone.Thursday
7 May '09Several leaders have hopped party lines in the run-up to the polls for varied reasons this season: from pressure to the love of secularism.Wednesday
6 May '09A day after defecting to the Congress, while Haji Dilshad Ali, the erstwhile BSP candidate from Northeast Delhi, hogged the limelight for a brief while by sharing the stage with Rahul Gandhi during a rally here on Tuesday...
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