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The stage is set for META 2023

The Mahindra Excellence in Theatre festival returns with 10 plays which promise to provoke and entertain in equal measure

A peer, a pot and a ‘prescription’

The hijab and the embattled white American male: review of The Laughter by Sonora Jha

A cut with the past | Rohit Chawla addresses unequal power dynamics with ‘Hair & Her’

Surya Praphulla Kumar

Chennai startup’s road lounges give travellers access to clean toilets and Wi-Fi-enabled workstations

Akila Kannadasan

Person of interest | Andaleeb Wajid: the story weaver

Satire | We need a Skull India programme

There’s genuine social mixing only at the polling booth: Mukulika Banerjee

A mural on women safety #IItsNotOk campaign in New Delhi.

Feroze Varun Gandhi’s The Indian Metropolis — Deconstructing India’s Urban Spaces: The female force

Feroze Varun Gandhi

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Women from Karnataka’s agricultural communities weave thorans with rice sheaves believed to ring in prosperity

Jayanthi Somasundaram

“Why is it that I can’t be someone at 20, someone else at 30, and someone quite different at 40? Sexuality is exploration.”

The wives who discovered they were gay

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Brothers Arjun Srivatsa (kidney recipient) and Anil Srivatsa (kidney donor) at World Transplant Games 2019 in Newcastle where they won gold in their respective events.

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Indian-American woman judge named first Justice of a district court in US

Priya Chetty-Rajagopal has a solid reputation for getting things done in the area of animal rescue.

The multiple lives of Bengaluru activist Priya Chetty-Rajagopal

When companies could no longer sshhh it and send women away to the medical room each time they needed a pad, they began to look at menstrual leave.

The period leave debate: deserving or not?

Sunalini Mathew

Silhouette of muslim woman in head scarf with Pakistan flag at blue sunset sky. Concept of freedom

Review of Ways of Being — Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women: A space of their own

‘When women come into the workforce, they treat their daughters well, they educate them, their daughters then educate their daughters, and that process begins a virtuous circle of education and smaller families and higher productivity growth,’ says Ashoka Mody.

Bring more women into the workforce: Ashoka Mody

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (right) with Mahatma Gandhi in Bombay, 1945.

Has India forgotten Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the country’s first education minister and a champion of Hindu-Muslim unity?

‘Class’ manages to however address a lot of hot-button issues, from Hindu-Muslim relations, hijab, homosexuality, to caste, social media, drugs and police brutality.

Column | Netflix series Class shows that when it comes to depicting crazy rich Indians, our imagination fails us

File photo of New Delhi World Book Fair in Pragati Maidan.
Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

New Delhi World Book Fair kicks off today after a two year hiatus

‘RRR didn’t need a Europe to be a hit’: Man Booker-winning author Marlon James on the importance of telling non-western stories

Radhika Santhanam

Nigar Kalai Koodam in Coimbatore holds parai classes for people from all walks of life.

Watch | Why is there a new Parai wave in Tamil Nadu?

The Hindu Bureau

P Chandrika, G Srinivas, and Suresh Krishnan, the founders of Nigar

The new ‘parai’ wave: Young Tamils in India and abroad embrace the percussion instrument

Akila Kannadasan

What exactly is a ‘couple’ if not a Western vulgarity?

Satire | Why was Cow Hug Day withdrawn?