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Meaning, originality, ease of pronunciation — what's dictating baby names for Indians
Kirubhakar Purushothaman
12 May 2026 11:47 AM IST
The Rajasthan govt last month shelved its plan to rename school kids if they were found to have confusing or embarrassing names. While that exercise failed, Indian parents have in recent years been...
The Eighth Column
The Eighth Column
Heat waves to hazardous air — why Delhi’s school system seems ill-equipped for the climate crisis
11 May 2026 1:22 PM IST
The Eighth Column
Academic disruption, financial crisis — the human cost of Kashmir's Jamia Siraj-ul-Uloom’s UAPA ban
8 May 2026 9:33 AM IST
The Eighth Column
Why for AAP Kejriwal's anarchist leadership has been its greatest asset & most significant liability
6 May 2026 11:23 PM IST
How Jitu Munda — Odisha man who carried dead sister’s skeletal remains to bank — became ‘a VIP’
5 May 2026 4:26 PM IST
Padayatras, weather extremes and packed schedules — how our politicians stay fit for the poll battle
4 May 2026 6:30 AM IST
Why a growing number of urban Indians are choosing treks to a relaxed resort holiday
1 May 2026 3:56 PM IST
How some of Delhi’s erstwhile ‘refugee colonies’ evolved into upscale neighbourhoods
30 April 2026 1:45 PM IST
Why Bengal's iconic jhalmuri and telebhaja may be seeing a change in fortunes in Kolkata
29 April 2026 5:02 PM IST
Why Vaishali’s Candidates win is an opportunity to further boost interest in women’s chess in India
28 April 2026 10:44 AM IST
How ‘Khela Hobe’ went from an election slogan to one of India's most defining political battle cries
27 April 2026 2:34 PM IST
How 'Madras Time' played a crucial role in the evolution of Indian Standard Time
25 April 2026 9:35 AM IST
The chimera called ‘Mahakal Time’ and why it is merely empty rhetoric
24 April 2026 12:22 PM IST
Why in Karnataka, 'Devadasis' and their families continue to suffer the damages of a banned practice
23 April 2026 4:25 PM IST
Why, despite laws and court orders, sanitary workers continue to die in toxic fumes-filled manholes
22 April 2026 1:25 PM IST
In Andhra, a school bears testimony to the toil of mothers who wanted education for their kids
21 April 2026 3:30 PM IST
Why residents of Kerala's Thasarak village have been 'living' with fictitious characters for decades
MT Saju
20 April 2026 2:55 PM IST
When OV Vijayan published Khasakkinte Ithihasam (The Legends of Khasak) in 1969, 'inspired by his time in Thasarak', located 10 kilometres from...
World Heritage Day: How restricted focus on 'sites of national importance’ is impacting our legacy
18 April 2026 11:57 AM IST
Why ‘Kalinga Bull' Biju Patnaik came riding a donkey to an award ceremony in the ‘90s
17 April 2026 9:32 AM IST
Why Delhi’s roomali rolls, a variant of Kolkata’s kathi classics, remain a mostly-local legend
16 April 2026 2:18 PM IST
Why Karnataka's new ‘Eva Nammava’ law alone may not be enough to curb 'honour killings' in the state
15 April 2026 3:00 PM IST
Why a 31-year-old's death has revived talks of ‘extrajudicial killings’, ‘fake encounters’ in Kashmir
14 April 2026 2:56 PM IST
How ‘baithakis’ — intimate gatherings over conversation, culture and cuisine — are making a comeback
13 April 2026 1:44 PM IST
Why an upcoming nine-hour-long Kannada play has a lesson to offer on the current geopolitical crisis
10 April 2026 2:04 PM IST
Why ‘coming alive’ of its first commercial prototype fast breeder reactor is a nuclear milestone for India
9 April 2026 9:40 AM IST
Why in Tamil Nadu, elections are busy, happy times for look-alikes of actors-turned-politicians
8 April 2026 2:43 PM IST
Why India’s digital regulations have raised concerns of centralised control over online speech, data
7 April 2026 1:02 PM IST
Why global success for Indian indie music may look nothing like the reign of K-Pop icon BTS
6 April 2026 2:21 PM IST
Why a Chennai professor has made it his mission to search for a ‘missing’ singer in Gaza
3 April 2026 1:15 PM IST
Why life today is a struggle of a different kind for former Sri Lankan LTTE fighters
2 April 2026 12:01 PM IST
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