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By Ali Ahmed Here on, end-September will likely figure as the annual culmination of the India-Pakistan summer campaign over Kashmir. Thus far the arena has been the General Assembly’s chamber in New…

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi With the Election Commission having announced the schedule for elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana in November-December, the stage has been set…

By Dr. Arif Maghribi Khan. World Mental Health day is observed on 10th October every year. This year’s theme is “Youngsters and Mental Health Disorders”. So let’s simplify mental health disorders. Psychiatry…

By Vartika Rrastogi A year since the beginning of the #MeToo movement on social media which sought to expose incidents of sexual harassment and assault committed by those in positions of power,…

By Rituparna Chatterjee September 14 — a routine day after a prenatal check-up at a doctor’s clinic in Telangana’s Nalgonda district — turned into a nightmare for 21-year-old Amrutha Varshini. A group…

By Mosharraf Zaidi Yes, it has only been fifty days or so. Transformational change always takes much longer. But some of the challenges the new PTI government faces don’t look like they…

By Nasir Abbas Nayyar History can sometimes be callous, brushing aside the services of those considered ‘great’ in their times. But, in a few cases, it might even be blind, when it…

By Sara Zubair Imagine, if you will, that a story is a creature. Human, animal, or something else, it doesn’t matter. Just a creature that is being asked to do the author’s…

By Rizwan Ahmad In Karan Johar’s 2010 Bollywood film My name is Khan, the main protagonist Rizwan Khan (played by Shah Rukh Khan) a young man suffering from Asperger syndrome, insists that…