Getting a bone marrow match is a one in 20,000 chance for most Indians. This slim margin is further jeopardised by lack of funds, knowledge and donors.
The book’s greatest achievement is that it highlights how ordinary the life of the imprisoned protagonist is – forcing us to rethink our traditional image of a criminal. Anees Salim’s Vanity Bagh starts like most books and movies on prisoners do—with the first glimpse of jail. Imran Jabbari, 27, has just been convicted of aiding a [...]
Dance is my passion, not my profession, says Kavita Golechha, who has been the driving force behind Nritya Kala Academy for over 14 years.
Travel broadens the mind; so does reading. Combine the two to truly escape the crowds, the stress and the hustle-bustle of everyday life.
Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world list is out. Of the 100, 35 are women. The 35 women are a wonderful mix of entrepreneurs, scientists, lawyers, actors, singers, sportswomen and businesswomen. Most are truly inspiring — their stories show strength, brilliance and hard work. With 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai on the cover, people [...]
One might think that storytelling is a dying art in this age of multimedia saturation. But Deepa Kiran, who has been entertaining young and old alike since 2008, has a very different story to tell.
John Montague’s short stories retain a measure of the magic his poetry contains, and are as deeply personal as his poems are. John Montague is better known for his poems — he has even been called one of the greatest Irish poets of his generation. It’s not difficult to see why. His poems, with rich imagery [...]
Fans of Indian classical music have a real treat lined up for them. On April 5-7, Shilpakala Vedika will ring with the sublime sounds of sitars, flutes and drums as part of the Pt Bhimsen Joshi National Festival of Music and Dance. This is the second year that the festival is being organised in Hyderabad [...]
Gayatri Buragohain, founder and executive director of Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), feels that the scarcity of women in scientific fields is not because of lack of ability, but because of the multiple burdens of being a woman. “Girls are told from a young age — your brother will be an engineer and you will [...]
Theatre group Manch brings Tennessee Williams’ memory play The Glass Menagerie to life in a uniquely Indian setting.
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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