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The acrimonious social media space is not encouraging dialogue but is instead generating new forms of silos

From Lala to Virat — colourful characters have always existed in Indian cricket

His sentences in English were short and sounded dismissive even if he didn’t mean them to be. They sounded authoritative too — and this, he meant them

from the readers’ editor

A fragile ecosystem

A.S. Panneerselvan

To encourage critical enquiry, journalism must constantly remind citizens of the troubled past and difficult battles

Culture Mulch |

A manifesto for torn jeans

Mathangi Krishnamurthy

Distressed jeans becomes both a form of rebellion, a plugging out, and an intimate connection with clothing as continuous with the body

Allegedly

Are you EVM-positive?

G. Sampath

Last Tuesday, our kitchen tested positive. Every time we took the cake out of the oven, it was lotus-shaped

Between Wickets |

We judge by actions, so why force umpires to judge on intent?

Suresh Menon

To expect a human being to get into the head of another to judge intention is both unreasonable and undoable

An inclusive public sphere

From Lala to Virat — colourful characters have always existed in Indian cricket

A fragile ecosystem

A manifesto for torn jeans

Are you EVM-positive?

We judge by actions, so why force umpires to judge on intent?

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