1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (763+ words) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed it is introducing a controversial new policy that will ban transgender athletes from competing in women's events. The IOC stated eligibility for women's events will be determined by a "once-in-a-lifetime" sex test, which…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1791+ words) Coffee farmer Vanthala Raju was 21 when he applied to get his rights over forest land recognised in 2014. It took two years for an official to acknowledge his application, four more for processing. Throughout this period, he faced harassment from authorities....

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (929+ words) In the streets of Bhalaswa, a neighbourhood in north-west Delhi, Rama is known as "cylinder wali madam. For years, she has facilitated liquefied petroleum gas connections for low-income residents, persuading them to put away their wood and coal-fired stoves and…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (727+ words) You're beautiful," Serenity Ko said, her long billowing dress clinging to her hips. Thank you. You look great, too," I said. My cheeks felt warm, and I busied myself by ducking behind the counter and opening one of the chillers....

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (267+ words) In Ryan Gosling's latest hit Project Hail Mary, he plays an astronaut who finds himself alone in space, until he runs into a similarly isolated extra-terrestrial. There's no such respite for the character in Duncan Jones's Moon (2009). In Moon, Sam…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (954+ words) When Winnie-the-Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's doorway after eating too much for elevenses, he is anxious and gloomy at the thought of having to forgo food for a whole week to get out. He asks Christopher Robin to read him…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (492+ words) In the recently published book Speaking of History, a conversation between historian Romila Thapar and Namit Arora, the writer and social critic who also practises public history, the participants touch upon many interesting matters of cultural and social history that…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (379+ words) Truth be told, there was no greater adventure in my life than Everest, no lesson more deeply felt than the one I learnt the day I overcame my fears and successfully crossed the Icefall of my dread forebodings. It carried…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (461+ words) His parents named him Shahjehan, ruler of the world, but he barely has control over the ground on which he is standing. Shahjehan Latif, or Shah, has been auditioning for the roles of no less a pop culture icon than…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (873+ words) The noise around English and its role in India's cultural disintegration has not subsided after 78 years of independence. Whenever someone discusses language extinction, English is invariably the villain of the story. This characterisation of English is incongruent with lived reality....