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The sinking island
BY SWASTIK PAL What would you do if you see all that you have in life sinking right in front of you? Ghoramara, an island 150 km south of Kolkata, in the sensitive Sunderbans delta complex of the Bay...
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The fire in Haryana
BY ARPIT PARASHAR On March 18, senior leaders of the Jat community met a Haryana delegation led by chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Chandigarh on reservations for Jats in state government jobs and...
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BY ARPIT PARASHAR The Hindi news channel NDTV India on April 18 ran a long programme on the way two of its journalists had been treated by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi, criticising it...
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The men of the mob
BY HARSHA VADLAMANI Mangaluru, a port city by the Arabian Sea in southern Karnataka, is home to about six lakh people. It has three malls, two parks and two beaches where the young and not-so-rich can...
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The war he saw
BY ALIA ALLANA Areeb Majeed and three other young men from Doodh Naka in Kalyan at the north-eastern edge of Mumbai, the nowhere land that is part of the extended suburb of the metropolis but far from...
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The pastoral decay
BY SUBRATA BISWAS For a bureaucrat sitting in Delhi, Purulia, located in the eastern part of Chotanagpur plateau is yet another backward place. The region, which was earlier known as Junglemahal...
View ArticleThe mat that matters
BY ARPIT PARASHAR Suman Lata and Sonia are in their mid-twenties and their parents are worried for their future in their chosen sport, kabaddi. Their anxieties revolve around marriage proposals, which...
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Mayapuri, the end of the road
BY SAUMYA KHANDELWAL A truck perched on a terrace, a Maruti 800 sitting on top of a Tata Sumo; terrace after terrace covered with vehicle doors and bonnets, roads and invisible pavements encroached...
View ArticleWalking to the Kaaba
BY ALIA ALLANA Mecca is a promise, a metaphysical destination etched into the consciousness of all Muslims; home to the Kaaba, the direction in which every Muslim prays. It is also a city, a constantly...
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Lost world
BY AMIRTHARAJ STEPHEN The Fukushima-Daiichi plant on Japan’s main island of Honshu went into meltdown in 2011 after the devastating Tohoku earthquake and the resulting tsunami that flattened it and...
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End of the yarn
BY VISHANK SINGH Vikas Kumar (32), a supervisor in Tegh Knitting Private Limited in Sonepat, migrated from Kanpur 15 years ago. Unable to afford higher education himself, he wanted to provide the best...
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The Gorakhpur mystery
BY PRIYANKA PULLA PHOTOGRAPHS BY PRABHAT SINGH Each year as monsoon-bearing clouds arrive over eastern Uttar Pradesh, so does a pestilence. Hundreds, mostly children, fall ill with fever, convulsions,...
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True colours of India
BY MAHESH SHANTARAM In early February, I woke up to news of a mob attack on a Tanzanian student in Bengaluru. It wasn’t the first case of violence against Africans in India, but this particular...
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Bringing life to a necropolis
BY GOVIND KRISHNAN V PHOTOGRAPHS BY HARSHA VADLAMANI A kilometre to the northwest of Hyderabad’s iconic Golconda Fort, which once held the Kohinoor and Hope diamonds, is a vast necropolis few tourists...
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The shrinking forest
BY SUBRATA BISWAS Rampant deforestation and loss of habitat in Odisha and Jharkhand forced elephants to migrate to the forests of Chhattisgarh in the 1980s. In Raigarh, Korba, Jashpur and Surguja...
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The India connection
BY ALIA ALLANA On May 10, a Libya-bound ship with 26 million pills of Tramadol, an opioid painkiller presented in doses of 225 mg, way higher than standard prescriptions, and hidden among towels and...
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Lurking in the shadows
BY NANDINI KRISHNAN The term love failure has a tragicomic resonance unmatched by any other phrase bequeathed by cinema to language. Growing up in Madras in the Nineties and watching whatever...
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The fields of war
BY JOST FRANKO “Remember where there used to be trees full of clementines, and peaches, and olives here, remember?” asked five-year-old Zain upon my return to Rafah, after the last war in 2014. “The...
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Sahib, biwi aur gigolo
BY ARPIT PARASHAR “Mahaul bhi toh banna chahiye (The mood needs to be set),” Sidharth says, enthused by the dark clouds visible from the balcony of his small apartment. After weeks of hot, dry weather,...
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You can’t step into the same river twice
BY HARIKRISHNA KATRAGADDA The river Ganga is both a conceptual and a real figure, occupying a space that is epic and monumental in Indian imagination. It is worshipped as a goddess by millions, but it...
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