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Omkar Khandekar

Anupam Kher: Loser, Fighter, Winner
Cinema
Anupam Kher: Loser, Fighter, Winner

Anupam Kher, the actor with a political conscience, talks about his life and art

06 September 2019
Rescue operations underway at the Ksan coal mine in Lumthari where 15 workers have been trapped 113 metres underground for a month
Dispatch
Meghalaya: The Depth of A Tragedy

They wait for a miracle to save the workers trapped in a coal mine in Meghalaya

17 January 2019
Bramhachari Atmabodhanand
Dispatch
Bramhachari Atmabodhanand: The River Warrior

One man’s struggle to save the Ganga

09 January 2019
A scene from The Sweet Requiem
Cinema
Exile and the Kingdom

Filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin give the Tibetan cause a dramatic 91 minutes of exposure

09 January 2019
Seized alcohol bottles at an excise department warehouse in Kaimur
Dispatch
The Drunken Rats of Bihar

Or: the other side of prohibition

24 October 2018
Maldive’s President-Elect Ibrahim Solih (centre), the opposition candidate who beat President Abdulla Yameen by 38,000 votes, in Malé on 22 September
World
Maldives: Leap of Freedom

As democracy returns to the Maldives, fresh hope has arisen in a country that had lapsed into dictatorship. Omkar Khandekar reports from the victor’s exile camp in Colombo

03 October 2018
A scene from An Insignificant Man
Cinema
An Unlikely Hero

Kejriwal was not even their first choice. The documentary makers of the AAP moment tell Omkar Khandekar what made them zero in on the Insignificant Man

22 November 2017
The Curious Case of Children Bank of India
Cover Stories
The Curious Case of Children Bank of India

Play notes at play

01 November 2017
Ghanshyamdas Gupta (centre, with flag), head of the VHP in Bisauli, leads a procession calling for Babloo’s arrest
Dispatch
Bisauli: A Place for Sedition

In this town, they support Pakistan and their numbers worry Hindu activists

23 August 2017
Revolver Rani With a Difference
Dispatch
Revolver Rani With a Difference

It was reported as a shotgun wedding in an Uttar Pradesh village. Omkar Khandekar searches for the truth

31 May 2017

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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