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Love or its loss is found among the mundane, everyday things. It speaks through the most ordinary objects about two people very close. Here’s a love poem by Mallika, for...
A Spurious Existence
Two women in denial. One wanted a daughter from her second husband after 11 pregnancies – two deaths and six abortions. Belonging to Tajikistan, she donned a hijab but...
India Wage Report of ILO: Some Hits, Many Misses
The ILO report estimates that the real average daily wages in India almost doubled between 1993–94 and 2011–12 but fails to mention that the Indian GDP quadrupled between 1991...
Oxytocin Ban Would Put Many Patients in Serious Difficulty
Oxytocin is not the only the drug; several medicines which have been used in the past are now banned. Byproducts of opium, which are useful in many cases in...
Challenges in Indian Economy this Fiscal: Corruption Continues to Eat into Vitals
The road ahead is bumpy for India’s growth story. Though India has been in a sweet spot umpteen times in the last couple of decades, its economy never grows...
Biplab Deb Insulting Diana Hayden no Surprise: Tripura CM Betrays Sangh View of Minorities
Biplab Deb is a product of this xenophobic tradition, which gives pride of place to religion over the constitutional rights of every citizen, irrespective of his or her faith. ...
Time has come to Rediscover Karl Marx
Marx sought to question every new socio-economic projection. He rejected dogmatism. Such was his contempt of the dogmatists in his own days that shortly before he died in 1883,...
Bengal Not Responding to Queries of Assam Government: Citizenship Verification Programme Slows Down
The need for Assam Government’s interaction with Bengal on the sensitive issue of citizens’ identification arose as many Bengali-speaking Hindus and Muslims in Assam claimed their Indian ancestry despite...
Dumpster Divers Can Bankrupt You the Easiest Way
A renowned cybersecurity consultant, Reetwika warns us against dumpster divers, who collects discarded items from a garbage bin (dumpster) and makes money by vending them to a reseller. A...
Which way Does Davos take us?
Prime Minister Modi goes on to show that his foreign policy is driven by the need and will to make India into a formidable force to reckon with in...