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From teachers to moral police: What’s wrong with Indian classrooms?
If you have studied in India, chances are you had a teacher who inspired you to do better and grow. If you have studied in India, there are also chances that you…
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Bollywood’s teachers: Extra or extraordinary, never ordinary
It is Teachers’ Day in India, and we are reminded of the big space teachers occupy in our lives; whether we acknowledge it or not is another matter. But the teachers we…
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HarperCollins to publish Sonia Gandhi’s memoir in India
A week after the deal with Penguin Random House India to publish Sonia Gandhi’s memoir fell through over alleged differences in editorial changes, HarperCollins India announced that it will be publishing the…
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Tim Cook’s last day as Apple CEO after 15 years
Tim Cook marks his last day as Apple’s chief executive with a short note on X. “Sending lots of love to the Apple community on my last day as CEO. My title…
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What India’s Left and Right have in common: Criticising Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas are contested in India today as rarely before, in the country he led to independence on August 15, 1947, and where he was shot dead on January 30, 1948.…
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Penguin drops book as Sonia refused to delete references to Modi
Hyderabad: Penguin Random House India will no longer publish the much-awaited memoir by Sonia Gandhi over alleged differences in “editorial changes,” which the Congress leader did not agree with, according to The…
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Why Gaza peace deals keep unravelling
Edinburgh: Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body,…
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The story of India through its art, culture and traditions
An evening celebrating India’s rich artistic, cultural, and historical heritage. That, in a nutshell, was the launch of Indian Art and Culture: A Journey Through Time and Tradition, authored by distinguished diplomat,…
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Sonia Gandhi’s memoir: Love, loss and why she declined PM post
New York: Sonia Gandhi has a memoir coming out this fall in which she will reflect on the promise and the tragedy of marrying into the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty and on her…
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A legendary journey will end next year: Ronaldo to retire
For more than two decades, Cristiano Ronaldo has been one of the most recognisable and successful figures in world football. But now, at the age of 41, Ronaldo has announced that his…
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Mecca defence pact: For Modi govt, Op Sindoor 2.0 is impossible
Spin doctors in the Modi establishment are trying hard to play down the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan, signed in Makkah in Saudi Arabia on August 7.…
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Patriotism is to know how broken the country is: Neha Bora
Hyderabad: “To be truly in love with this country is to know how broken it is.” Neha Bora, national president of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), said this on Sunday evening, August…
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Hyderabad’s forgotten year between two independence days
Hyderabad: It is a very easy thing to say or to write: India won independence from the British and became free on August 15, 1947. But it takes only a scratch of the…
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Palestinians trapped as Israeli settlers besiege West Bank village
Jerusalem: Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra have huddled inside their homes for days on end, unable to leave because of the threat posed by Israeli settlers. The Israeli…
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Independence Day: For Telangana’s rebels, azadi was a dual fight
Hyderabad: Nearly eight decades ago, when India was formally declared an independent sovereign nation, Hyderabad was cautiously silent. Not that independence did not matter to Hyderabadis. It was that freedom had not arrived…
