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Centre to leverage northeast to boost pulses output

New Delhi, May 31 -- The government is turning to the northeast to help remedy a shortfall in the production of pulses and thereby tame food inflation. The Centre plans to launch a dedicated programme... Read More


Foreign nationals being sent to B'desh as per SC order: Sarma

Guwahati, May 31 -- People with origins in Bangladesh, who have been declared foreign nationals by state tribunals are being sent to the neighbouring country following the directives of the Supreme Co... Read More


Tourism sector's share of GDP to be 10% by '30: Min

New Delhi, May 31 -- Union minister for tourism and culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday said the tourism sector's share of the country's GDP would rise to 10% by 2030, in line with global bench... Read More


All about Soumitra's sansar

India, May 31 -- A few weeks before the release of Apur Sansar (The World of Apu; 1959), directed by Satyajit Ray, Charlie Chaplin's Limelight was re-released in Calcutta. A large hoarding in the city... Read More


rendered Invisible in an unequal society

India, May 31 -- A village barber's son who migrated with his family from erstwhile East Pakistan to India in 1967 revisits his childhood. When his father set up a hair salon in the local weekly marke... Read More


a Memoir of one of the Red Fort Three

India, May 31 -- During World War 2, Shahnawaz Khan, who was in the 14th Punjab Regiment, was captured by the Japanese in 1942. Deeply influenced by Subhas Chandra Bose, he decided to join the INA in ... Read More


odes to urban india

India, May 31 -- From Mirza Ghalib's Delhi and Nissim Ezekiel's Bombay to Agha Shahid Ali's Srinagar and Kamala Das's Calcutta, The Penguin Book of Poems on the Indian City takes the reader on a poeti... Read More


'Eileen was cleverer, helped write his books'

India, May 31 -- 1How does your experience as an international human rights lawyer help you as an author? I was a lawyer briefly, and a bad one. I was very young when I stopped. What has stayed with m... Read More


The interpreter of woke struggles

India, May 31 -- It is clear that we live in uncertain times, what with the climate crisis, an ongoing genocide, and expansionist warfare. And that's just the daily news cycle. This note of utter unce... Read More


You want to break free?

India, May 31 -- Good bye, appraisal season. It made us question the 9-to-5. It made us reassess the possibility of another year of spreadsheets, Microsoft Teams pings, and a micromanaging boss. We're... Read More