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Gender and Geography

Sharanya Manivannan

Being feminine is so natural in this celebration of the Northeast

National Portrait

Meghnad Desai holds a mirror to the oneness of India’s multiple identities

Jallikattu: A Red Rag to a Bull

A year after unprecedented protests over banning jallikattu that pitted cultural traditionalists against animal rights activists, the rural sport has become a youthful rebellion

Scientific Temper

A visual history of innovation and imagery

The Aura of Excess

The other side of luxury

Mumbai Notebook

The sound of music by the bay

Intimately Joan Didion

A documentary shows why her views on cultural and moral chaos hold valuable lessons even today

Woven Winds

The revival of the jamdani weaving tradition

America First

A family drama resonant with moral ambiguities of the time

Bengali Exceptionalism

What’s it that makes the Bengalis Bengali?

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