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Opinion | From Mahadevi Verma To Shivani: Women Who Challenged Patriarchy With Their Pen

Opinion | From Mahadevi Verma To Shivani: Women Who Challenged Patriarchy With Their Pen

Celebrating women's achievements also means acknowledging these courageous literary voices that helped reshape the conversation on dignity, freedom,...

08.03.2026 10

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Pragati Pandey

Book Review | Ruskin Bond On India's Small Towns: Memory, Change, And What Remains

'The Ghosts of Indian Small Towns' is not just a book to be read but a feeling to be carried, long after the last page is turned

09.02.2026 7

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Book Review | The Sari Eternal: How A Single Drape Wove India’s Civilisational Story

Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri’s book is a lyrical meditation on the sari as history, aesthetics and feminine assertion

19.01.2026 20

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Opinion | Between Promise And Precarity: The Uneven Reality Of India’s Gig Economy

India’s gig economy has become a defining feature of its labour market, employing an estimated 7.7 million platform-based workers in 2020-21

14.01.2026 10

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Opinion | Doordarshan Diaries: Sheila Chaman’s Chronicle Of Times When TV Brought Nation Together

The launch of Doordarshan in 1959 marked the dawn of a new era in India’s communication landscape

05.01.2026 10

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Opinion | Why This Amitava Kumar Book Offers A Kaleidoscopic Retelling Of Indian Railways

The Social Life of Indian Trains: A Journey is filled with moments that echo our own experiences of train travel, but it goes beyond fond anecdotes

01.01.2026 30

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Opinion | What The ‘Vande Mataram’ Debate Reveals About ‘Jana Gana Mana’

Amid the ‘Vande Mataram’ debate, Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s book helps us understand ‘Jana Gana Mana’ better

15.12.2025 10

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Pragati Pandey