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A COVID-19 patient receives free oxygen, provided by a Sikh organization at Indirapuram Gurudwara, in Ghaziabad. (Photo: PTI)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Hope in the time of sorrow and C-virus

Despite its no-pussyfooting bravado and stupendous majority, the govt did not declare a lockdown on Holi. The Kumbh...

25 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Until a generation ago, there were two kinds of Muslims in India, the Communists and the conformists, Wahab says. DC Image

Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam's heterodox...

The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with...

11 April 2021 8:15 AM IST

Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)

Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel

It's not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas

28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

A screen capture from virtual Jaiput Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@JaipurLitFest)

The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary...

S. Hareesh's controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

Relatively speaking, compared with her older siblings, Saeeda Bano was definitely the rebel in her family, says Shahana

Even forthright women can be submissive'

Around the time she asked me to translate her book we had grown quite close, without really realising it - Shahana Raza

6 Dec 2020 10:52 AM IST

A puppet show on Hans Christian Andersens fairy tales from the first Rainbow Lit Fest

One of a kind: A humdinger of an LGBT arts fest

Dr Bibek Debroy and Dr Shashi Tharoor are keynote speakers of this one-year-old, two-day, online fest.

18 Nov 2020 7:31 PM IST

Cover of A Burning by Megha Majumdar.

Telling the India story, one dream at a time

'A Burning' is an intimate and clear-eyed rendering of the lives and dreams of three people

18 Oct 2020 7:57 PM IST

Women covers themselves with sheets during rain, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The Women's Party: An opening manifesto

There are three ways of ensuring equality of opportunity between the sexes free access, affirmative action and...

2 Aug 2020 5:03 PM IST

How many women need not state their purpose before leaving the homestead, even to go to the park, especially to go to the park because it is a discretionary destination? AFP Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The almost-stigma' of not breaking quarantine

Being quarantined is, at its very benign, a social fact' in the life of the Bharatiya aurat

31 May 2020 12:30 AM IST

Manoranjan Byapari

Manoranjan Byapari: I haven't written my best story yet'

A conversation with a working class hero and a man of many adventures

14 March 2020 11:14 PM IST

Off the shelf: On books, book people and places, By sridhar balan Speaking Tiger pp.246; Rs 350.

Reluctant writer pens a book about publishing

Dean went on to establish the Mahomed Baths in London and came to be known as the shampooing surgeon .

14 Feb 2020 2:53 AM IST

You want to, but you cannot live in the past

You want to, but you cannot live in the past'

You want to but can't live in the past, so you live with a pain that eats at you constantly.

9 Feb 2020 8:35 AM IST