Issue 6

Time madrassas give children their right to education

RTE will ensure a modern curriculum and children will not feel left out once they leave madrassas

Second fiddle is the only place left. Take it

The toughest part to play in the orchestra of life is second fiddle. For most of us, the 40-odd years we work never go beyond the back row or the support role or the subordinate staff level, our lives spent seguing to other people's tunes, responding to their moods, their calls, their signals, their priorities and their orders.

The day after the dreams

From Uttar Pradesh to Kerala, the jihadist tides which led Alam to Iraq has left behind a detritus of grieving parents and shattered homes.

Nothing Naya about Pakistan but India will never be the same

The Balakot air strike shows that India has moved away from the policy of strategic restraint, a shift that will have enormous impact on the region and beyond.

A dazzling show of ‘rock stars’

This is the third time that the Nizam’s jewels have been exhibited following their purchase by the Government of India in 1995 for a relatively paltry sum of Rs 210 crore.

Content killed the Superstar

The rise of a new order of actors that banks on content-driven cinema threatens to overhaul Bollywood’s conventional notion of superstardom

A deep dive into the gene pool to understand epigenetics and epigenomics

This plot line of the 1997 American science fiction film Gattaca may or may not become reality, but it brings into focus a tiny double-stranded particle that knows our most intimate secrets

The odd case of the Akhtars

A constant inner clash between creativity and the urge to conform to industry pattern invariably seems to bog down the works of Zoya and Farhan Akhtar every time

The Heroine gets Real, No Strings attached

Hindi mainstream cinema is seeing a surge in heroines who do not fit in a box, and audaciously defy societal norms even at the risk of appearing less affable on screen. Bollywood is learning how to make the heroine authentic

Treading softly on the thin red line

There are two routes that India and Pakistan could take: they could either escalate prevailing tensions further and push the region towards greater possibility of a nuclear encounter, or cease further military operations and fight the battle diplomatically