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    How castration among hijras forces India to rethink mental health, gender identity

    Ina Goel
    22 Aug 2025 5:10 PM IST

    Nirvana, the ritual of castration in the hijra community, is a rite of passage that turns harm into kinship, trauma into collective healing, and redesigns mental health by turning marginality into...

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    Madras Day Special: How an American made Chennai ‘cool’ in the 1800s
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    Madras Day Special: How an American made Chennai ‘cool’ in the 1800s

    22 Aug 2025 1:51 PM IST
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    Rajinikanth’s friend Raj Bahadur: The bus driver who gave Tamil cinema its superstar

    22 Aug 2025 9:35 AM IST
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    Caste: A Global Story review: How the hierarchy-driven social order spans the globe

    20 Aug 2025 6:24 AM IST
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    Chained by debt: How migrant workers’ distress shadows Nuakhai in Odisha

    19 Aug 2025 9:36 AM IST
    Aatish Taseer

    Aatish Taseer interview: ‘India is a difficult country to belong to, or even care about’

    17 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Varun Grover

    How Varun Grover perfected the art of tragicomic subversion to speak truth to power

    16 Aug 2025 12:20 PM IST
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    Book excerpt: US tariffs and why Donald Trump’s economics don’t add up

    15 Aug 2025 1:20 PM IST
    Evolution of Indian rupee since 1947

    From King’s face to Mahatma Gandhi: Tracing 78 years of the rupee

    15 Aug 2025 11:58 AM IST
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    How Hindi cinema’s patriotic songs have stirred India’s heart since Independence

    14 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
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    How Mauritius keeps Indian imprints alive in its culture, heritage and cuisine

    13 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    The Dark Hours of the Night

    Salma interview: ‘Tamil Nadu a mature state, BJP will never win it’ | Culture Vibes

    10 Aug 2025 12:00 PM IST
    Conserving Deen Dayal’s works opens a window to India’s past

    Conserving Deen Dayal’s works opens a window to India’s past

    10 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Kashmir books

    How banning 25 books in Kashmir is far more dangerous than we could imagine

    9 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Pamela Anderson

    How Pamela Anderson’s makeup-free look is challenging beauty standards

    Ektaa Malik
    7 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST

    Pamela Anderson’s move to go makeup-free is a conscious lifestyle shift. It can serve as a clarion call for millions of women, who fight the battle...

    Greater Flamingo, Varthur Lake, Flamingo in Bangalore

    Rare flamingo spotting in Bengaluru has birders thrilled

    4 Aug 2025 5:02 PM IST
    Ranveer Brar

    Ranveer Brar interview: ‘None of my restaurants worked the way I wanted’

    3 Aug 2025 1:42 PM IST
    Mehak Jamal on love and longing in Kashmir

    Love in a land of silence: Mehak Jamal’s Kashmir through ‘loal’

    3 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
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    Adultery in the times of social media: How we’re all complicit voyeurs

    1 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    ISRO-NASA-NISAR

    How ISRO-NASA’s NISAR satellite will revolutionise earth monitoring from space

    31 July 2025 1:25 PM IST
    Subhash Chandra Garg

    Book excerpt: ‘The most serious differences arose with Nirmala Sitharaman’

    31 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Gokarna-Karnataka-travel

    How Gokarna, Karnataka’s temple-beach town, is a quieter alternative to Goa

    30 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Arthur Conan Doyle-Sherlock Holmes

    How cricket influenced Arthur Conan Doyle and the creation of Sherlock Holmes

    27 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Tyeb Mehta

    Tyeb Mehta at 100: The artist who took Indian art into the million-dollar club

    26 July 2025 2:25 PM IST
    With Modis TN visit, why Rajendra Chola will get the spotlight back

    With Modi's TN visit, why Rajendra Chola will get the spotlight back

    26 July 2025 1:10 PM IST
    Friends of Bandipur: Karnataka wildlife camp packs tigers, birds and all thats beautiful

    Friends of Bandipur: Karnataka wildlife camp packs tigers, birds and all that's beautiful

    25 July 2025 6:05 PM IST
    Thalaivan Thalaivii review

    Thalaivan Thalaivii review: Vijay Sethupathi returns in hilarious, emotional avatar

    25 July 2025 5:38 PM IST
    Jim Corbets 150th birth anniversary: The tiger still owes a lot to Carpet Sahib

    Jim Corbett's 150th birth anniversary: The tiger still owes a lot to 'Carpet Sahib'

    25 July 2025 10:05 AM IST
    Ahmedabad Boeing Air India plane crash

    A ‘Departure’ from truth: When Canadian fiction mirrors Ahmedabad crash reality

    20 July 2025 10:36 AM IST
    Varanasi

    From Varanasi to Mecca, how pilgrimages changed 19 cities around the world

    20 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
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