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An eye doctor’s battle to save snakebite victims (July 1 is Doctor’s Day)
By Pradipta Tapadar Kolkata, July 1 Meet Dayal Majumdar, a 50-year-old eye specialist, who travels to remote villages in West Bengal on a mission to save people who fall unwitting… Read more
Honour killings: Chickens of identity politics come home to roost
By Amulya Ganguli Even a decade ago, khap panchayats – the caste-based village councils with their kangaroo courts functioning mainly in Haryana – were virtually unknown, and sporadic “honour killings”… Read more
Obama lauds Indian woman who came to build her dreams
By Arun Kumar Washington, June 12 US President Barack Obama has lauded an Indian woman entrepreneur who came to America “to build your own dreams and be your own boss”… Read more
Headley questioned by Indian investigators
By Mayank Chhaya Chicago, June 11 A team of Indian investigators completed week-long interviews with key Mumbai terror plotter David Coleman Headley without revealing any details about their contents under… Read more
Growers oppose natural rubber import duty cuts
By Lakshmi Krishnakumar New Delhi, June 6 Young farmers in northeast India are a concerned lot after the Delhi High Court asked the government to “consider carefully” the user industry’s… Read more
Grand diplomacy vs India’s struggles to gain access to Headley
By Mayank Chhaya Chicago, June 4 Nothing illustrates more tellingly how diplomatic grandiosity does not always work at the ground level than the matter of India’s struggle to gain access… Read more
My image has changed after two directorial hits: Sajid Khan
By Ruchika Kher Mumbai, June 4 With both his films, “Heyy Babyy” and “Housefull”, declared super hits, anchor-turned-director Sajid Khan feels he might have outgrown his image of the funny-guy-next-door… Read more
Art on paper is back with a bang
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, May 29 For nearly three decades, art paper had been pushed to the background with the arrival of canvas. But the medium has evolved in… Read more
Has right to education fallen victim in Maoist-hit Bastar?
By Sujeet Kumar Raipur, May 26 It is a zone where government officials fear to enter. In the thickly forested interiors of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region, a heavily-mined Maoist hotbed, authorities… Read more
Government’s anti-Maoist policy mired in confusion
By Amulya Ganguli Notwithstanding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s description of the Maoist insurgency as the gravest internal threat faced by India, the government seems unsure about how to proceed against… Read more
