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Indian society

Family Matters

Kaveree Bamzai

Once the site of aspirational perfection, the great Indian middle-class family is becoming less judgmental and more inclusive

The Normality of Evil

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s seventh novel opens with the discovery of a dead body in a park. He speaks to Nandini Nair about creating crafty characters and the villainy principle

Ancient Wisdom

Once divisions get created within humanity, they never cease to multiply

A Yearning Against Efficiency

On the peculiar opposition to 10-minute food delivery

The Lightness of Dissent

Shilpa Gupta’s immersive works interrogate censorship and celebrate language

Nagraj Manjule: The Troubadour of Our Times

Nagraj Manjule’s third feature film is yet another sharp critique of upper-caste oppression, establishing him as the truthteller of Marathi cinema and beyond

Pitch Perfect

A unique contest in the social sector shows the potential of good storytelling in philanthropy

An Inconvenient Truth

The forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits, for long kept out of the national narrative, is finally becoming visible and gaining the attention of the rest of India

The Unexpected Happy Ending

What the career of the new Mumbai police commissioner says about the Indian system

We Were Bereft. As Daughters. And As Citizens

A journalist’s personal, yet universal, grief during the pandemic

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