By Tarun Basu Aizawl, Oct 22 (IANS) There is something about India’s Northeast that makes it markedly different from the rest of India, and it’s not just the Mongoloid features of its people. At the…
By Nury Vittachi When you see the shocking, outrageous things people do just to get attention on the internet, its impossible not to shake your head and think: Why didnt I think of that? So…
By Sarwar Kashani Kupwara, (Jammu and Kashmir), Oct 18 (IANS) Growing up in a society that stigmatises menstruation, two women social entrepreneurs in this border village of Jammu and Kashmir are battling the taboos attached…
By Anand Singh Udaipur (Rajasthan), Oct 13 (IANS) Kishan Lal Ahir, a farmer in Ummedpura village of this district in southern Rajasthan, is a happy man today as he can sow two crops a year…
By Nury Vittachi A reader said she saw me in her city. “But I’ve never been there,” I said. “I just have a common face.” This happens a lot. I once recognised myself on the…
By Somrita Ghosh Imphal, Oct 11 (IANS) He restrained himself at his home, unable to see daylight for almost three years. But today, fighting what appeared to be insurmountable odds, K. Pradipkumar Singh overcame the…
By Somrita Ghosh Imphal, Oct 11 (IANS) He was once restrained to a hospital bed and condemned to die, unable to see daylight for almost three years. But today, fighting what appeared to be insurmountable…
By Bappaditya Chatterjee Kolkata, Oct 11 (IANS) Upset over his failure to get a suitable teaching job, Atanu Mistry, a 30-year-old from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, allegedly committed suicide recently. According to Mistry’s…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Oct 9 (IANS) Calligraphy may be dying in an increasingly digitalised world, but the sheer love of the art has attracted a Japanese girl to India. At a time when very…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The harmonious raagas of Hindustani classical music rendered by Saniya Patankar and the stories told by S. Karuna Devi through graceful movements of the resplendent Manipuri dance took audiences on…
By Nury Vittachi Author: “You missed my book launch.” Me: “Yeah, I know, sorry, I died, wasn’t resuscitated until afterwards.” This columnist has never been good at excuses. So I was interested to hear from…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) She grew up during India’s fight for freedom under the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi and is among the country’s foremost writers with feminist concerns. But Nayantara Sahgal,…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The lack of sanitary conditions in India has a serious economic consequence too as it causes a loss of 6 per cent of the GDP every year, said Vice President…
By Bhavana Akella Bengaluru, Oct 2 (IANS) From a young age, Aditi Surana could identify people’s behavioural traits from their writing strokes. Honing this special ability, she has emerged as a “graphologist” — with testimonials…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Sep 29 (IANS) They guard the borders and are in the forefront of the battle against the Maoists, at times operating in conditions more adverse than those faced by the army….
By Rachel V. Thomas New Delhi, Sep 29 (IANS) While advancing age increases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD), living a healthy life from your youth may help prevent the disease, which is touted…
By Nury Vittachi How were dogs invented? When someone had the following thought: “I’m being attacked by wolves! I think I will ruffle the fur around the neck of one and say ‘Who’s a good…
London, Sep 28 (IANS) Indo-Australian writer Aravind Adiga, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2008, has been shortlisted along with four other writers for the the $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017….
By Abu Zafar Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh), Sep 27 (IANS) Abu Osama, an alumnus of Madrasatul Islah, one of the oldest Islamic seminaries in this region, believed that after graduating from a madrassa he would not…
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, Sep 27 (IANS) Autumn, Kashmir’s golden-yellow season of plenty, is nature’s gentle reminder to locals that they must make hay while the sun shines. A nip in the morning and evening…