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June 12, 2025, 12:36 AM IST
Sindoor is amorphous! When a married woman scales it from the top of the forehead to the middle of the skull along the tiny hair parting, it becomes a valley; flowing through it an impassioned…
June 12, 2025, 12:36 AM IST
June 11, 2025, 9:05 PM IST
The Uttar Pradesh government plan to construct a corridor for the famous Shri Banke Bihari Mandir in Vrindavan has run into rough weather with the review petition put before the Supreme Court for its earlier…
June 11, 2025, 9:05 PM IST
June 11, 2025, 2:52 PM IST
Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. First off, we would like to thank all our readers, all 210,105 of them for spending time reading this weekly offering. When writing is one’s…
June 11, 2025, 2:52 PM IST
June 11, 2025, 2:40 PM IST
Essence of being a Bhartiya: Modern education has created a new English-speaking elite ruling ‘caste’, to replace the erstwhile ‘Brahmins’. This new ruling elite ‘caste’ is taught to focus more and more on ‘earning and enjoying’…
June 11, 2025, 2:40 PM IST
June 11, 2025, 2:13 PM IST
India’s land acquisition story is not just about transferring ownership; it’s a reflection of shifting power equations—between the State and citizen, development and displacement, past and progress. The evolution of land acquisition laws from colonial-era…
June 11, 2025, 2:13 PM IST
June 11, 2025, 2:00 PM IST
New York, the sleepless marvel, the ceaseless engine of ambition and artistry, thrives in perpetual motion. Its grid of intersecting streets and avenues pulses with the choreography of humanity: a place where time walks briskly…
June 11, 2025, 2:00 PM IST
June 11, 2025, 1:53 PM IST
If one-third of men worldwide were being assaulted, it would be declared a global emergency. So why isn’t it – when that’s the reality for women? Violence against women and girls is not a sidebar…
June 11, 2025, 1:53 PM IST
June 11, 2025, 11:51 AM IST
A nation’s character is shaped not only by its loss, but by what its people do when no one is watching. For NextGen India to value dignity, duty, and shared space, we must start teaching…
June 11, 2025, 11:51 AM IST
June 11, 2025, 8:01 AM IST
India’s experiencing its annual summer crucible. This means scorching heat and thirsty longing for the monsoon, and constant threat of the two tipping over into awful social friction. Not surprisingly, WEF has identified water shortage…
June 11, 2025, 8:01 AM IST
June 11, 2025, 7:54 AM IST
BJP’s celebration of Modi’s completion of its 11th year in power at Centre is a good time to take stock of what has changed in our polity and politics. At no one other time post-1947…
June 11, 2025, 7:54 AM IST
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