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Kesari 2 director Karan Singh Tyagi: 'The youth must know they can’t take their freedom for granted'

May 11, 2025 8:37 am

Writer-director Karan Singh Tyagi speaks about the making of Kesari 2 based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and why young people should watch it.

Scars are stories in the language of skin, markers of survival and growth (Credit: Suvir Saran)

Why the art of forgetting is a good way to live

January 12, 2025 5:01 pm

Life is an echo chamber, what we send out returns to us amplified. We can cling to the bad or make space for the good

Exploring the many Mahabharatas

January 12, 2025 4:00 pm

From Bhasa to KN Panikkar, Ratan Thiyam, Dharamvir Bharti, Mahasweta Devi and Girish Karnad playwrights and theatre directors have, over generations, revisited the Mahabharata

The cheetah, with a 110 kph top speed, has quicker acceleration than a Ferrari (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

How most animals can give any 4WD a run for its money

January 08, 2025 5:54 pm

Our wheels may speed us over specialised roads but over natural, rugged terrain, animals will beat our vehicles hands down

This blow-by-blow account of how the case unfolded is also an opportunity to occupy the courtroom space corporeally

Lawyer-author Rohin Bhatt’s book offers an eyewitness account of the fight for queer marriage rights in India

January 05, 2025 4:59 pm

That the separation of law and emotions has never held true is something that has guided social science and humanities writing on law for some time, but lawyers still seem to find this demarcation useful. This book, however, recognises that a conversation on who you are, whom you love, and with whom you want to establish one of the most important relationships of your life should not shy away from emotions

Jha traces how Golwalkar’s philosophical framework provided legitimacy to a narrow understanding of nationhood

Dhirendra K Jha explores the rise of the RSS under MS Golwalkar in his new book

November 13, 2025 8:09 pm

Jha argues that Golwalkar’s ideology was rooted in a deeply exclusionary conception of national identity, where religious minorities, particularly Muslims, were viewed as potential threats to Hindu cultural supremacy

Life isn’t meant to be wiped clean; it’s meant to be layered, like that burnt chutney, with flavours born from our mistakes and triumphs alike. (Credit: Suvir Saran)

This new year, let’s live fully, messily and beautifully

December 29, 2024 10:22 pm

Resolutions demand that we start anew each January, erasing the months before. But life isn’t meant to be wiped clean; it’s meant to be layered, like that burnt chutney, with flavours born from our mistakes and triumphs alike

Winter travel special: Jerry Pinto sees life in the white and quiet world of Wellesley

December 29, 2024 10:24 pm

When I walked through the campus designed by the same man who landscaped Central Park, New York, I could enjoy a host of young women acting winter: they stamped their shoes, they flicked snowflakes off their hair, they wrapped and unwrapped themselves with the care that we would give birthday gifts back home.

Winter travel special: How a Corbett safari ended in an encounter with a wild elephant overdosed on testosterone

December 28, 2024 7:29 pm

I must have been in the middle or towards the end of the ‘queue’ when I was suddenly confronted by all the pioneering leaders rushing pell-mell back urgently whispering ‘Pagal haathi! Pagal haathi!’