Sunday Stories
A toothless gypsy and the Silver Bear
AIDA CERKEZ People in Poljice, a Gypsy village in Bosnia-Herzegovina, say they will never forget the night they almost fell off their chairs two months ago. Did they really hear the elegant woman on ......read moreMuggling Quidditch
Corey Kilgannon Not many people have heard of Macaulay Honors College, a school in New York City with 1,770 students and just one athletic team: the Marauders. It qualified for a recent World Cup. “......read more
The Big Picture
As coming-of-age rituals go, the Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC) couldn’t have planned it better. Acting on intelligence by its cadre, it moved in on a group of Maoists in Chatra district’s......read more
With police help, banned Naxal group takes on Maoists in Jharkhand
As coming-of-age rituals go, the Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC) couldn’t have planned it better. Acting on intelligence by its cadre, it moved in on a group of Maoists in Chatra district’s......read more
Living with cancer, and laughing with it
Looking at the computer printout of her family tree, 65-year-old Dr Nirmala Vaze points to her 40-year-old daughter Sampada Peshve. “In all, seven of our 10 affected kin have died of cancer. Only the ......read more
The Sunday Story
For more than 70 years and over four generations, a Pune-based family had been struggling with cancer, losing at least six members to it. The coincidence was heart-breaking, but they never thought it ......read more
The inheritance of a disease
For more than 70 years and over four generations, a Pune-based family had been struggling with cancer, losing at least six members to it. The coincidence was heart-breaking, but they never thought it ......read more
North East West South
11.30 a.m. Four Eicher buses pull into the headquarters of the Narmada Battalion at Kevadia Colony in Narmada district of Gujarat. Around 100 jawans file out of the building and wait for their roll ca......read more
The water patrol
11.30 a.m. Four Eicher buses pull into the headquarters of the Narmada Battalion at Kevadia Colony in Narmada district of Gujarat. Around 100 jawans file out of the building and wait for their roll ca......read more
North East West South
An old hand at new things
Annasaheb Udgavi does not have the shuffling gait of most octogenarians. Instead, he rides a motorcycle and flaunts the Ray Ban that he pairs with his Gandhi topi. Always dressed in a spotless white d......read more
The Sunday Story
As the story of the boy from Chetiya Oliya who became the ‘richest Lok Sabha candidate’ unfolds in the wake of his murder, questions are being raised about the money “crorepati” Deepak Bhardwaj actual......read more
The making of a tycoon
As the story of the boy from Chetiya Oliya who became the ‘richest Lok Sabha candidate’ unfolds in the wake of his murder, questions are being raised about the money “crorepati” Deepak Bhardwaj actual......read more
THE BIG PICTURE
Why did a group of policemen shoot down their own officer, DSP K P Singh, and 12 villagers in Gonda in the intervening hours of March 12-13, 1982? Manish Sahu tells the story of a scheming policeman, ......read more
The long story of one night
Why did a group of policemen shoot down their own officer, DSP K P Singh, and 12 villagers in Gonda in the intervening hours of March 12-13, 1982? Manish Sahu tells the story of a scheming policeman, ......read more
Footloose Foreign
Will they ever stop hating Anne Hathaway? “There’s something about her that rubs me the wrong way,” Alexis Rhiannon wrote in a screed against the Oscar-winning actress in Crushable, the celebrity blog......read more
Anne cast away
Will they ever stop hating Anne Hathaway? “There’s something about her that rubs me the wrong way,” Alexis Rhiannon wrote in a screed against the Oscar-winning actress in Crushable, the celebrity blog......read more
Footloose Foreign
LiveWire: Fans queue up for new Murakami
Fans queue up for new Murakami Fans lined up at midnight in Tokyo, eager to get their hands on the latest Haruki Murakami novel, the first in three years by the Nobel Prize favourite. The publisher is......read more
Footloose Foreign
Vaguely indicating the lower torso, the word “core” has been rippling (as it were) through American fitness programmes for about a decade. But yogini Colleen Saidman Yee likes to be more specific.
“Dr......read more
The first lady of yoga
Vaguely indicating the lower torso, the word “core” has been rippling (as it were) through American fitness programmes for about a decade. But yogini Colleen Saidman Yee likes to be more specific.
“Dr......read more
Footloose Foreign
Maggie’s wardrobe a shield and a statement
“The lips of Marilyn Monroe and the eyes of Caligula” was a neat summing up of the “power woman” presented by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The mix of admiration and fear at the smashing of the gl......read more
Knowledge
A spectre is haunting university history departments: the spectre of capitalism.
After decades of “history from below”, focusing on women, minorities and other marginalised people seizing their destin......read more
Capitalism invades classrooms
A spectre is haunting university history departments: the spectre of capitalism.
After decades of “history from below”, focusing on women, minorities and other marginalised people seizing their destin......read more
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