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September 18, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Education, News, Pandemic, Poem, Relationship & Lifestyle

Back to Teeth-Grinding Basics, No Comfort Zone This, Cheap Chinese Subsidies, Hide n’ Seek

Shail weaves news in verse for the week. From Covid-19 to a girl in a gown for exams, Chinese subsidies for babies and lovers hide for 10 years before...

September 11, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
Food, Pandemic, Politics, Religion, Sports, Technology

Red Ant Chutney, Trumping in the Boxing Ring, Rab-Ban Calling & Bishop Warns of Narcotic Jihad

Shail weaves her news in verse, for the week, with red ant chutney as a possible Covid cure. Did the courts accept the claim? A new avatar for Trump,...

September 4, 2021
Shail Raghuvanshi
News, Poem

Charpoy on Sale, Paralympics Shooting, Prized Betrayal & Covid Vaccine

After a sabbatical, Shail returns with the popular weekly column, News in Verse. Our poet-journalist brings to us four pieces of news this week: charpoy on sale in New...

May 10, 2021
Nilakshi Roy
Fiction, Films, Special Feature, Tribute

Tagore, Ray and Basu: The Broken Nest, Charulata, and Stories from Rabindranath Tagore

There are many admirers of Satyajit Ray’s film, Charulata (1964), which is often seen as a retelling of the story of Rabindranath Tagore’s own time spent with his elder brother...

March 31, 2020
Sehar Siddiqi
Health, Relationship & Lifestyle

Coping with Life in the Times of Corona

September 23, 2018
Michele Baron
Cover Story, Special Feature, Travel & Food

tea, salt, and teranga

Not all salt harvesters are held in equal esteem. As in many economically-challenged zones across the world, outside Dakar, in the shallow basin of Senegal’s Lac Rose, salt workers...

July 2, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations, Politics, World

Mexico is Poised for a Regime Change on July 1

Trump denounced Mexican migrants to the U.S. as rapists and murderers and promised to build “a big beautiful wall” at the U.S.-Mexico border – and get Mexico to pay...

June 21, 2018
IPA Service
Cinema, Politics, Sports

Virat and Anushka Smitten by the Modi Bug

Modi was the guest of honour at one of Virushka’s marriage receptions. That seems to have kind of left a halo around the heads of Virushka. Anushka became a...

May 23, 2018
IPA Service
International Relations

Redesigning Indo-Russian Strategic Friendship: Perceptible Change in Tone and Tenor of Modi

Russia had nursed the feeling that India will speak out its mind on the US sanction against Moscow. The US had imposed the sanctions earlier this year under CAATSA...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Politics, World

Red Star Flutters Radiantly in Kathmandu: Union between Two Communist Parties Opens New Era

The PM of Nepal, Khagda Prasad Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal signed an agreement, according to which the new unity party will be named ‘Nepal Communist Party’, whose...

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