Hope lives in the town where the daughter of an autorickshaw driver grows up playing in the paddy fields of Wayanad, Kerala. At a school for tribal children, a sports teacher senses promise. And so begins S Sajana’s cricket journey, her ₹150 daily allowance enough to keep her going. Earlier this year, when she was picked […]
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What can we learn from the tragic death by suicide of a Bengaluru techie tormented by demands he said his estranged wife and her family were making on him? In a 24-page note and 80-minute video, Atul Subhash details instances of ugly marital strife including what he describes as extortionist demands: ₹3 crore to settle cases filed
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There is much to be concerned about the year gone by. The politics was the most divisive that I can remember. Wars and genocide raging and women’s rights from Afghanistan to the US under attack. Unabated crime and violence against women and the sobering reality that for too many of us the home is the
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In his concern over declining fertility and prescription for women to have more children—three please—RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat joins the chief ministers of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. If Bhagwat’s stated apprehension is the fading away of languages and culture with dwindling populations, the chief ministers know a smaller population could impact both budgetary allocations
Lack of empathy, a misplaced sense of entitlement, an exaggerated tendency to complain at the drop of a hat—and more. A three-star general’s letter in the name of a “pragmatic performance analysis” is a damning indictment of the leadership of eight women commanding officers who were then a part of corps headquarters. The five-page letter
They met in 2017 over a phone conversation. She was then working at a call centre. They met a few times and in January 2019 began a sexual relationship. She now says it was forced and he had threatened her. In September she filed a police complaint accusing him of rape. He filed a petition
Sabeela, 50-ish with an easy smile, might not know what the AQI is or even what the letters stand for, but she does know this much: There are no off days for her. The math is simple. No work equals no earnings. “Everyone has to eat, whether the air is clean or not,” the vegetable
In a ruling that will have an impact across the country, the Gujarat high court has said anganwadi workers and helpers in the state are entitled to be absorbed as permanent employees with all the benefits of government employees. Justice Nikhil S Kareil has asked the Gujarat government to prepare plans to induct these women
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Less than 24 hours before American voters cast their ballot, pundits and pollsters were dead sure of a close verdict. “National polling is neck and neck but even swing states are so,” conservative historian Niall Ferguson said in an interview. We know now that Donald Trump won, and decisively, 301 to Harris’s 226. It’s a victory that
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After the mob set Darshan Kaur’s husband ablaze, she gathered her three children, the youngest just 15 days old, and bolted. In the frenzy, the baby slipped from 19-year-old Darshan’s hands. But there was no time to stop. For the next three days, she and the remaining two children ran from the police station to gurudwara searching
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With just days to go before voting day on November 5, both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris made an open pitch to women. On Wednesday in Wisconsin, one of the key swing states, Trump made a Hail Mary promise to protect women, “whether women like it or not”. Kamala Harris immediately seized on the comment
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In July 2016, Sakshi Malik got on to a 14-hour flight to New York City. From there she connected to another four-hour haul to Rio de Janeiro. When she would return home a few days later, she would be carrying in her bag the additional weight of a small circular disc: A bronze Olympic medal,