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Abandoned by her adoptive family, betrayed by the state

Four decades ago, Mallika was adopted by a Danish family from a children’s home in Coimbatore, only to be abandoned a few years later. Personal misfortunes and state apathy...

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SIKHISM: See beyond the perishable

This particular incident from the travels of Guru Nanak Dev alludes to the practice...

Sacred Texts DAVINDER P.S. SANDHU

ISLAM: Miraculous nine days

According to researchers at University of California, Berkeley, a rapid succession of coronal mass...

Sacred Texts Late Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

HINDUISM: The worship of idols

Idol worship helps the mind to ideal worship. An idol is a symbol for...

Sacred Texts Prarthna Saran

Return the ASEAN Sea to Southeast Asia

Geographically, the nomenclature ‘South China Sea’ makes no sense, as the territories comprising South...

opinion M.D. Nalapat

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Inner compass: A writer who urged us to look at the margins

For writer Mahasweta Devi, who died on 28 July, the universe was a constellation of stars, but many of these stars were covered by...

Dalit Foods, an e-commerce enterprise that links the culinary with the political

One man's food can understandably be another man's haram but consequences can be fatal when the choice of food is deemed sacred. Food habits...

Documenting the plight and strangled hopes of Meghalaya’s coal miners

Tagore’s fireflies were his fancies, “specks of living light twinkling in the dark”. In the hostile “rat-hole” mines of Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills, where each...

DU admissions: Lakhs of aspirants compete for a handful of college seats

The race to secure a seat in what is arguably the most sought-after university in India, Delhi University (DU), begins with the first cut-off...

How a community from East Africa dreams of playing for India one day

India is a land of diversity due to its rich cultural heritage, multitude of religions and languages. Its diverse nature makes it a migration...

Life and legend of the greatest boxer of all time who never stopped fighting

It all began in 1954, when a 12-year-old boy named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr went to report the theft of his bicycle to a...

UNICEF campaign aims to give a fair start in life to underprivileged kids

Quite a common sight on road is a little boy/girl in tattered clothes approaching your vehicle with a bouquet of roses at traffic signals....

The plight of world football’s scapegoat managers

It was a strange and stupefying season of football in England. The English Premier League, for the first time in its history, saw a...

A boarding school experience is rewarding in the long run

As schools break for summer vacations, this is a good time for parents to ponder about their child’s future as to whether they want...

Coming of age: Weighing the pros and cons of boarding school education

I got educated at a boarding school and what ever I am today I owe it to those formative years I spent at St....

Menace of domestic violence in India

Violence against women continues to be a major concern in India. In light of the recent case where a women committed suicide and the...

In reply to Guardian 20’s cover story, ‘The Colour of Prejudice’

What colour is prejudice? Swati Singh’s indictment of the “Fair and Lovely” culture club in India is alien to so many Europeans with pasty...

Kohli bats for deprived kids with charity gala

Virat Kohli Foundation has joined hands with Smile Foundation, a national level development organization, to support the cause of empowerment of underprivileged Children and...

An ordeal of loneliness and extensive study is what it takes to be a topper

With a brimming smile, Tina Dabi welcomed me to her Gole Market home. On a hot Thursday afternoon, here I was in central Delhi,...

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