Long lines of pilgrims were witnessed outside the transit camp for the Amarnath yatra in Srinagar, a day before the 38-day pilgrimage was scheduled to begin from Kashmir.
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The Dalai Lama is the highest priest in Tibetan Buddhism, followed by Panchen Lama, the second-high priest and they have to go through the centuries-old tradition of the Golden Urn law procedure started by the 18th century Qing dynasty in order to be chosen as one.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party's "Jaha Jhuggi Waha Makaan" manifesto promised affordable housing to Delhi's slum dwellers, but for many, that promise remains unfulfilled.
Parwati Tirkey is the first tribal woman from Jharkhand to be selected for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2025 for her poetry collection Phir Ugna. In an interview to Md Asghar Khan, she talks about what motivates her to write powerful poems about nature and environment
In the last week of June, a group of visually impaired persons visited the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. They share their experience of viewing the temple through the power of their senses and feelings
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The June 30 explosion in the chemical plant in Telegana has brought to light, once again, the lax safety norms and laws that lead to industrial tragedies in India.
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This isn’t to say these regimes aren’t oppressive and have not tortured their people, especially women, but to impose a war on their country invoking the brutal regime and making a case for bombings is to undermine people’s ability to question and collectivise on their own. We know from history how many countries have been abandoned, like Afghanistan
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As missiles fall silent—for now—it’s time to explore whether the heart of the Iran-Israel conflict lies in a deeper battle over culture and values
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Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu now seems out of control. The 12-day Iran-Israel war, backed by Big Daddy US, proves that
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Where do Israel, Iran and the US go from here? Will there be permanent peace or is this just a lull before a storm?
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Policies—whether in the West or in the Muslim world—are imposed on women, not developed with them or for them. How they dress becomes shorthand for community honour, nationalism or piety
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The US has zero moral authority to want to tell the Tehran regime to behave itself or be nice to its own people
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The Iranian constitution is instrumental in giving an ideological and political base for the theocratic state, notwithstanding recurrent internal unrest, economic hardships and wars fought over the last four-and-a-half decades
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Iranian dissidents—who once defied the Shah and then the clerics—have united against foreign attacks and have called for a new vision of freedom and unity
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Modern warfare is a shape-shifting entity and the information explosion has expanded the battlespace far beyond the battlefield
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Not the conservative ‘red’ as Zohran Mamdani is a democratic socialist
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Political parties in Bihar are looking to woo women voters—who constitute almost half of the vote bank—ahead of the state Assembly election
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Mahesh Raut, a TISS alumnus and rights activist working for Adivasis and marginalised communities, was arrested in June 2018 in the Bhima-Koregaon Maoist conspiracy case and has since been incarcerated in jail
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Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination
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Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
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This novel is a flawed, luminous, maximalist love letter to Kolkata’s layered soul
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Our worst algorithms have come home to haunt us. The nightmare is no longer something we dream up. It is dreamt on our behalf
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As children, we didn’t quite understand what was happening but we knew something was amiss.Only later did I understand what not seeing eye to eye meant.
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West Bengal Commission for Women chairperson Leena Gangopadhyay on Wednesday said that the law student, who was allegedly gang-raped inside her college in Kolkata, is still "traumatised".
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Suspension move follows escalating hostilities that began on June 13 when Israel launched operation rising lion targeting Iran’s nuclear sites and military leadership
Mexico vs Honduras Highlights, CONCACAF Gold Cup 2025: Catch the play-by-play updates from the semi-final match at Levi’s Stadium on 3 July, here
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Squid Game 3 is not a mere thriller or an engaging cinematic experience—it sheds light on socio-economic dynamics, moral decay, social realism, human psychology, and the unrelenting penetration of capital.
As Devdas turns 23 this July, here’s looking at the enduring intrigue of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who reigned over the global stage since the film’s release, despite an intermittent career back home.
Kareena’s career unfolds in distinct phases: teen idol, glamorous heroine, serious actor, mainstream lead, ensemble player, and mother figure. Her journey is a witness to a woman who’s grown over the years.
Making room for the personal alongside the political, Guru Dutt’s films ask difficult questions that continue to make us queasy.
As Devdas turns 23 this July, here’s looking at the enduring intrigue of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who reigned over the global stage since the film’s release, despite an intermittent career back home.
Kareena’s career unfolds in distinct phases: teen idol, glamorous heroine, serious actor, mainstream lead, ensemble player, and mother figure. Her journey is a witness to a woman who’s grown over the years.
Making room for the personal alongside the political, Guru Dutt’s films ask difficult questions that continue to make us queasy.
Pride Month Special | Queer films currently emerging in India aren’t love-conquers-all stories, but grounded ones—closer to what is, rather than what should be. They reflect a world where “love is love” still feels more like an aspiration than a reality.
The first South Indian Hindi film of Guru Dutt where he played the male lead was 1963 film Bahurani, directed by T Prakash Rao.
Pride Month Special | Little happened in Rituparno Ghosh’s films that the director hadn’t already lived through—or at the very least, felt in his bones—as is so often the case with the most honest art.
Despite the many examples before Aamir Khan, his gaze towards differently-abled actors in his latest film is myopic, disingenuous and borderline utilitarian.
Guru Dutt, whose birth centenary falls this July, created cinematic masterpieces amid the fog of his own uncertainty
Bollywood routinely profits from hypernationalist military narratives that demonise entire communities in the name of storytelling, but scrutiny of such films is often met with resentment instead of critical thinking. The 'Sardaar ji 3' controversy exemplifies that outrage only erupts when someone dares to imagine a version of India that doesn’t include perpetual hostility.
Lost in a pointless loop, the once-exhilarating series no longer knows what to say
The allure of Umrao Jaan is not just in its characters’ recitals; the film embodies poetry in its form. It is no wonder then, that its digitally restored re-release in the theatres has brought so much delight to audiences old and young.
'Mumbai Star: The Dance Musical' is an entertaining celebration of everything that is Mumbai
Vishal Furia's latest treads an overfamiliar path with its generic gender-horror and supernatural tropes, offering little that hasn’t already been said.
Joseph Kosinski’s Formula One stint surges forth only in fits
On the surface, this Dhanush starrer reads as a socio-political and class-divide commentary. Yet, its true aim is to actually reach those caught in the middle—neither too powerful nor utterly discarded—and explore who they choose to be each day.
Kanwar’s 1997 documentary maps national violence onto a daily canvas.
Ninawe's debut feature recently released on Amazon Prime, demonstrating how streaming platforms are offering new ways for indie films to be discovered. While remaining cautious about Indian cinema’s current state, Ninawe discusses the optimistic possibilities for its revival.
Himesh Reshammiya's 'Badass Ravi Kumar' and the ‘Cap Mania Tour’ don’t just embrace cringe. They weaponise it. They detonate it. And in doing so, they expose the classist, elitist, and algorithmic machinery that undergirds our definitions of taste.
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Social media has allowed South Asian designers and the public to resist cultural appropriation by mega brands.
Is FOMO Driving Interest in Lab-Grown Diamond Start-Ups?
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Mumbai-Bound Ethiopian Aircraft Makes Emergency Landing Due To Cabin Depressurisation; Here's Why It's Alarming
From Kim Kardashian in vintage couture to Leonardo DiCaprio’s signature suave, here’s a rundown of the A-listers who lit up Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s grand Italian nuptials
