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Several hundred demonstrators burned tyres and barricaded streets in the southern part of Karachi with oil drums and vehicles, hurling rocks at the police, who responded with tear gas. One person was…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
Gulzar has called on the new generation of Indians to come up with an anthem for our times. Not a replacement for ‘Jana Gana Mana’, the national anthem, or ‘Vande Mataram’, the…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
The LLMs are hungry and only vast quantities of books can satisfy their appetite. This, according to second-hand booksellers in the UK, is why the sales of pre-owned books are seeing a…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
The removal of an elective paper on the Delhi Sultanate from Delhi University’s newly notified postgraduate History syllabus, along with several long-taught papers on gender, religion and political structures in ancient India,…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
Telugu actor Mahesh Babu, who recently turned 51, once opened up about his diet in an interview that has resurfaced online. When asked to choose between a pastry, a burger, or curd…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
The 60-day window for the US and Iran to agree on a long-term peace framework expired on Monday. On the ground, however, both sides had shut the window in late June and…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
Whenever concerns are raised about the lack of funding for Indian science, a solution often put forward is to tax “unintellectual” industries such as cinema, tourism, apparel, and perfumes. For example, only…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
When the route up the economic ladder in society is limited to an ever-narrowing range of options in the public sector, and the process of gaining entry through entrance examinations becomes tainted,…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
A double-entendre remark made by the Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Udhayanidhi Stalin during a Cauvery-dispute rally in Thanjavur sparked widespread outrage, leading to his brief arrest on grounds…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug
The Prime Minister’s ‘dimagi Naxal’ comment during his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort in New Delhi hogged the headlines on August 15. It drowned out another…
By Sohail Khan · 18 Aug